. >> we've seen these five companies, apple, google, amazon, twitter and facebook target conservatives. viewpoint discrimination is dangerous and while they may have the right to do it legally we also have the right to choose who we do business with. reporter: that includes the permanent banning of president trump's suspensions and other gop members. also listing deplatform of parler as another example. parler, the subject after house congressional push to be investigated by the fbi over its role in the planning of the capitol riots. republican lawmakers pushing back, they have asked for twitter and facebook to also be investigated as well. despite the threats from d.c., we have big tech getting richer and richer, trading at record levels and a sign of wall street confidence that big tech will not be broken up or severely punished. >> when you tell half of your customers to pound sand, they tend to believe you.

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the other 2 companies you mentioned at the beginning but this stand to benefit from this are google and amazon right so you think about google and amazon have a remarkable amount of data about us as well they get it in different ways and they're gonna not going to be affected by apple's changes nearly to the degree that facebook is but that's another thing facebook you know is going to be harmed google and amazon implicitly are going to be helped and of course apple is going to be helped itself as mark was just saying joyner is there may be a bigger fight coming not involving google and amazon per se but involving the little guys i mean both facebook and apple maybe have this bigger fight because there is now this thing called the coalition of up fairness and basically the likes of spotify and a company called match group match group is the umbrella company that owns globally an awful lot of dating apps now that's the that's the ultimate form of advertising i guess but if you've got spotify with old they're quite freaky scary algorithms getting into bed no pun intended with dating apps around

plans companies are no longer storing them on service in basements they're using providers like google amazon and microsoft has no unified standard to speak of for these cloud services but since last year a german french initiative has promised a european alternative guy at x. it aims to stand out against the competition by being quick secure and using a standard set of rules that everyone at dia's to more than $300.00 organizations are already involved in gaia x. that includes major non europeans such as amazon microsoft and china's far away so what are the europeans behind it hoping to achieve well it speak to seize on a day move from bit to come which represents thousands of companies in germany's digital sector welcome to g.w. business it's great to have it so what are the advantages supposed to be for european companies of geir xx. well the general idea of off guy x. is to create a cloud data infrastructure in europe that complies with the needs of technology users and doing so by actually creating a consistent set of rules are not protected is that provides the needed. data protection i

they are not just looking at facebook but apple, google, amazon.id: these companies are getting together and a very powerful. when they act with a similar mindset, -- i think busting them up should be on the table. emily: what is your outlook for silicon valley and the markets in general under new administration? i know you have been investing for a long time. you have been placing your bets on trends you think are taking off. what do you see in the future? david: i think the outlook for tech is great. i think the innovation continues the matter which party is in power. i got into the tech industry in 1999, it has been over 20 years. there is always ups and downs along the way but they're not really coordinating with the political cycle. it is the rest of the country that i am worried about, not the tech ecosystem. emily: what are you worried about? david: what we have seen with covid is that you have some disparities that have gotten widened. let's face it, big tech companies ament -- companies and even some smaller tech companies -- if you are a

there is a set of practices bind facebook, google, amazon that describes what is happening in all of the consumer internet industry that is focused on an uninhibited basis to develop on an uninhibited basis, using our profiles to curate social content and target a profit maximizing way. it has become the fact that companies like facebook you could see it as a machine. with algorithms sitting on top, you have a set of circumstances where these companies do that without any restriction or consideration for democratic interest, that is when we start to recognize over time this is harming our election, this is timing disadvantaged population and we need to restrict the possibility of data on an uninhibited basis, the company is as a general matter, what they want to see with interest in the problem and restrict the way they engage in corporate development to the extent that the ways they engage mergers and acquisition and strategic arrangements to the extent those and able monopolization, we need to set some boundaries in the interest of the public. >> in detail you talk about what the s

there is a set of practices behind facebook, google, amazon and it's focused on collecting using that data to develop the behavioral profiles using the profiles to curate our social content and targeting ads at us with profit maximizing and really it's become the fact that companies like facebook you can see it as one big machine. servers with algorithms on top and the data collection powering that whole system. when you have this set of circumstances where the companies are able to do that without any sort of restriction or consideration for democratic interest that's when we start to recognize and understand over time that actually this is harming our consumers and we need to do something about it. we need to restrict the possibility of collecting data on an uninhabited basis and restrict the way that companies as a general matter can just show us what they want to see in the interest of their profit. to the extent the mergers and acquisitions and strategic arrangements across the industry and to the extent that those monopolized we need to set up some boundaries for the interest of

oracle and others and these are just some of the massive contracts that link google amazon et cetera with our military so let me see if i have this straight when corporations aligned with the largest mass murder machine that ever a created their do an awesome raking in billions while doing their patriotic duty but one of corporations founder is former military and china he's a james bond villain whose roots children in their age surely and as gold plated teeth and probably a villainous catchphrase like we wouldn't want that snow. so the true reason why our way. to the american corporatocracy is because it is more of her own and it is the threat of the good example if american workers suddenly realize that one of the most successful companies in the world is worker own and then they may want the same they may not want to be on the bottom rung of a totalitarian ladder of abuse you see we'll talk about it that much but us corporations are set up in a fully totalitarian structure there is no election by the workers there is no control to the workers and as economists richard wolfe has sa

the biggest tech companies set to report earnings this week, including apple, amazon, google and facebookpresident biden's team continues to shape up. how could a biden administration shape the internet? we have some early clues. we will discuss. google is stubbing its massive resources behind the mass vaccination effort, opening google offices for shots. search engine's chief health officer joins us on the $250 million effort. ransomware was the number one cyber security threat in 20. what will it be in 2021? what agencies are most vulnerable? we will hear from an official. although stories and more. but first, u.s. stocks gaining, led by tech shares. some of the biggest tech companies this week. walk us through the day. >> we saw the defense of trade take place in the market today. nervousness around the 1.9 trillion dollars deal biden has promised. maybe that deal could not come as soon as possible. it's take a look at some of the indexes. the s&p 500 underperforming the likes of the nasdaq and new york faang index. those big tech really outperforming permitted notable performer, the r

yep, apple then brian would text me google too yeah broorks brian, google amazon too?o you know what? they whop. to all the geniuses out there too saying this is a private company. it's not a first amendment fight. really? it's not? read the "wall street journal" op-ed today about marsh vs. alabama where a so-called private town tried to restrict access to religious material and lost because they were a de facto government? diviewn what? these companies are more powerful than a de facto government. do you know why? at least with the government if they put you in jail or fine you there is a process to fight back. apple and amazon have given us no legitimate process whatsoever to fight back. they wiped a company from the face of the earth this morning. and liberals and the media are celebrating it. brian: dan, if you are thinking to yourself well, i'm not a conservative, i'm not a republican. it doesn't really conservative me. little interest. if you think for a second it's not going to effect your lives, now as conservatives they are going to start honing and shaping ex

the oed has been leading stalled talks on a global framework to tax giants such as google, amazon, apple, and facebook. the idea is to prevent them from establishing headquarters in countries with low corporate rates as a way to avoid paying taxes. countries like france are pushing ahead with their own rules, while the eu for its part has outlined a two prong approach to police online content and target market monopolies. >> we want to clearly lay down that internet companies take responsibility for the manner in which they disseminate, promote, and approve content. there needs to be a framework because there are far-reaching decisions. >> the eu called for increased scrutiny across the globe, including in the u.s. where google and facebook are facing antitrust suits. kate: champagne exports tumbled 18% last year as the pandemic hit french for. total sales fell to 240 5 million bottles in 2020 down from almost 300 million in 2019. sas are expected to remain flat for the first half of the year. producers are hoping to have reason to celebrate in the second half of the year -- as well as t

the biggest tech companies set to report earnings this week, including apple, amazon, google, and facebook. this as president biden's team continues to shape up. how could a biden administration shape the internet? we have early clues and we will discuss. plus, google is throwing its massive resources behind the mass vaccination effort, opening google offices for shots. and flagging vaccine sites on google maps. the chief health officer joins us on the new $150 million effort. ransomware was the number one cybersecurity threat in 2020. what will it be in 2021? what sectors and government agencies are most vulnerable? we will hear from an official. all of those stories in a moment, but first u.s. stocks gaining, led by tech shares. some of the biggest tech companies this week. kriti gupta, walk us through the day. kriti: we saw the defense of trade take place in the market today. a lot of nervousness around the $1.9 trillion deal biden has promised. this idea that maybe that deal couldn't come as soon as it was promised. you look at some of the indexes. the s&p 500 underperforming the likes

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google. people looking for a place they can speak freely. we reported yesterday amazonexcuse me that google was already dropping parler. we knew that apple might be dropping parler. we hadn't heard about amazon. apple dropped participate letter. you can't download parler on a iphone. you can't do it. amazon said at the end of the night tonight they we remove the servers that parler relies upon in order to run the app that people use. you've got google, apple and amazon all effectively trying to cancel parler as people try to go there to speak freely. here is a portion what apple said now that they banned the app from their store. we always supported diverse points of view represented on the app store. there is no place on the app store for violence and illegal activity. we've suspended parler from the app store until they resolve these issues. ironic they're talking about threats of violence when things like that you look what is trending on twitter last 24 hours, it has been hang mike pence trending on twitter. there are apps with violence that don't seem to be address

i'm going to -- twitter is kind of teeny-weeny tech, it is amazon, facebook, google, that control 90%internet and all activity. if you are talking about your day-to-day life, not just a private citizen, but as an elected official, you can't get away from them. even if you were walking around with an old dell laptop and using a microsoft internet explorer, you would still be encountering the services of the google. they are so big, so monopolistic, you can't avoid them. >> companies grow and do shrink. and i think that they have made a terrible business decision. but to be clear our goal in advancing this is to get these companies to write their wrong. it's not to hurt them, it is to get them to realize they have made a mistake. this is not about conservative or liberal, it is not about president trump. when half of the country is told they can't voice their opinions, that is bad for the entire country. >> dagen: it goes beyond voicing opinions, it goes to the fact that they have pulled the plug with apple, google, and amazon pulling the plug on a competitor acting with what seems like

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just 24ta hours after twitter pm permanently suspended president trump, google, apple and amazon havened parler from app stores which experts say could destroy the company financially. before the removal, parler surged to number one in apple's app store with 1.5 million downloads on saturday alone. joining me now in this exclusive interview on the telephone with reaction is ceo of parler, john mace. john, it's good to have you this

shares of twitter down sharply on the news of the trump ban and apple, google and amazon all taking varioussh alternative social network p parler off their platform saying they weren't doing enough to curb violence. it is quite a setup to this week >> that's where we're going to start with our next guest, co-founder cara swisher. good morning it's good to have you. welcome. >> thank you >> i guess let's zero in on twitter because there's been so much chewed on over the weekend at-large about social media. >> sure. >> what is twitter's future without the president? >> that's a big question a lot of these companies have spent time tolerating this kind of behavior and also helps, as i have said many times, enragement -- engagement equals enragement it's a great way to get news i recently -- my son who is 19 years old, use it is to consume news and things like that. there's lots of businesses for twitter. it shouldn't be about this bickering and they shouldn't rely on that for growth to see what the latest ridiculous tweet or dangerous tweet someone like donald trump is doing. that can't be a b

amazon suspended parler from its web hosting services. apple and googleres over the weekend. i spoke with parler ceo john mace on sunday morning futures yesterday about the censorship. here's what he had to say. >> well, it's devastating is what it is. it's an assault on everybody. i mean, they all worked together to make sure at the same time we would lose access to not only our apps but they're actually shutting all of our servers off tonight, off the internet. so they made an attempt to not only kill the apps, but to actually destroy the entire company and it's not just these three companies. every vendor from text message services to e-mail providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day. and they're trying to falsely claim that we were somehow responsible for the events that occurred on the sixth. maria: john mace will join me once again in the next hour to talk more about the impact on parler but first let's get some -- his take from me wee founder and ceo, mark weinstein. you've got your own company, me wee and you can understand what j

should censor what to avoid it and i am j very concerned about big technologies company, apple, google, amazonl not accept the promotion of violence but twitter has . long hosted violent hashtags, kill trump, assassinate trump. only a few weeks ago - the published a supremely leader's threat to israel- and in 2018 described israel on twitter as a malignant - cancerous tumour that has to be removed and eradicatedj and he was not blocked. the are fine with over and specific threats . of violence like that _ and however much some people dislike donald trump - it is worth remembering that when censorious and - illegitimate actions are taken to counter bad people it sets a precedent for them to be l taken against good people . and we do not need to agree who is good and bad to accept| that is worrying for technology companies run by unelected wealthy people and - unchallengeable by ordinary citizens to make those - decisions about what type of legally expressed news and opinions we can read. it is dangerous and wrong. i don't like how donald trump has reacted to losing - the election and the violen

what you look at with parlor is you have the three biggest tech companies in the world, apple, amazon and googlea decision that they are not going to allow this dissemination of these views do exist at all. what amazon did is the largest book burning we have seen in a technological era which is amazing to think about because when jeff bezos started amazon he wanted to bring as much into the world, what google was trying to do, what everyone claimed they were trying to do, they are doing the equivalent of digital book burning by not allowing parlor to reach its audience. it is troubling and not sure who will be the next target but it will not stop here in the argument that there are so negative things being said on parlor you can find it anywhere. people saying awful things to us, that is what the internet is. it is a shame. shannon: when you see authoritarian leaders in china it raises a lot of questions. great to have you both, come back soon. activists in portland, seattle and beyond taking over private homes and hotels. what are authorities doing about those occupations tonight? we will tell

that kind of behavior going on you need to take action but we do have a very few companies apple google amazon you know the 3 of the largest companies the world they make a decision about your company your platform or maybe you as an individual there's very little recourse and so in the case of carter is in many ways a good example is going to be very difficult for them to continue as an ongoing business certainly at the level of success that they had been adding in the level of growth and it ultimately i think ends up being an antitrust conversation as much as anything do we want as a society you know in the u.s. in the u.k. different you know geographic sort of entities have their own regulations there but i think there's a very definite conversation about how big is too big you also have something in the united states called section 230 this is of the communications decency act in front of our viewers who don't know this a decides how. allows the companies to decide how they moderate the content and b. protect them from liability from what users post jim donald trump is railed against that

done to halt the inexorable rise of the western world's global technology giants — the likes of amazon, googleacebook? over the past decade, we have seen these tech titans come to dominate data collection, cloud computing, retail, social media, publishing — the list goes on. but now, there is pushback from anti—monopoly lawyers and sceptical politicians. my guest, american lawyer lina khan, is in the vanguard of the movement to tame big tech. but whose interest is she serving? lina khan in dallas, texas, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. do you believe there is a new momentum behind the push to tame the big, the giant technology companies in the western world? yes, i think there absolutely is. i think we have seen a transformation in public opinion over the last few years and the public case for how these firms have so much power and how they are wielding it in ways that harm our economy and our society i think have only become more apparent, such that now we see a wave of lawsuits — anti—trust lawsuits as well as new regulatory proposals — that would curb their power. but in a funny

very briefly, lina khan, will these giants — thinking of amazon, google, facebook — will they be withd on the courage of public governments to take on these firms and ensure that their core infrastructure is really working for the public and notjust a small number of private executives. and you think, therefore, the answer is they will be brought down, they will be tamed, or not? i think we are at a point where it seems like the us, at least, is finally interested in doing so and we have a strong history of doing so — you know, in the first gilded age where we dealt with the first era of big monopolies. so i am hopeful that we'll be able to draw on that tradition and do so again. lina khan, thank you very much forjoining me on hardtalk. thanks for having me. hello there. some of us have seen our first significant snow of the winter today, but it has been causing treacherous conditions out and about on the roads because it has been settling as you can see here in gloucestershire but, even on the faster routes, it settled. it cleared away, but showers followed on, but the snow is still

amazon, and snapchat also disabled trump's accounts. other platforms that have now banned or restricted trump include tiktok, reddit, snapchat, and shopify. meanwhile, apple, googlemazon web services ended their support for the social media network parler over the weekend, which bills itself as twitter without rules. the companies say parler's managers have consistently failed to halt threats of violence and calls for armed insurrection on the site. parler was co-founded by the republican mega donor, trump supporter rebekah mercer, daughter of hedge fund billionaire robert mercer. all this comes as critics argue facebook, google, and twitter have peddled extremism for profit for years. now the payment processing company stripe has cut ties with the trump campaign, which continues to fundraise, saying it violated policies against encouraging violence after the pro-trump mob stormed the capitol last wednesday. for more on big tech's response to the capital insurrection, we began with ramesh srinivasan, professor of information studies at the university of california los angeles, ucla, where he also directs the digital cultures lab. professor srinivasan is the autho

parler was suspended from apple, google pay and amazon.ember, without these big behemoths behind at that app is essentially got itself kicked off the internet. twitter was starting to see a tapering off in users. that is when it began flagging president trump's tweets initially. the central issue of course is a question, does twitter or any other big tech platform have the authority to block content? is it too much control? is it too much power? is it actually considered censorship? remember you had the president's tweets censored but then you have somebody like the supreme leader of iran and nobody was saying a word about his tweets. on the issue of losing followers sarah huckabee sanders tweeted this, i lost 50,000 followers this week. the radical left and their big tech allies cannot marginalize, censor, or silence the american people this is not china. this is the united states of america and we are a free country. now we reached out to twitter to follow up on this issue and a spokesperson told us this, changes in follower counts can b

i'm thinking of the likes of amazon, apple, google.s rely on them more now in this very restricted world of lockdowns than we've ever relied upon them before. i think that's absolutely right, and i think what the pandemic has underscored for us is the degree to which these firms essentially provide infrastructure for the digital age. these firms control the core infrastructure for both commerce and communications, and they are providing very valuable services. but it also means that you have a small group of private executives that are ultimately setting the rules of who gets to use the infrastructure and on what terms. and that approach is historically at odds with how we treated infrastructure, which has always been accountable to public rules and has had to meet a higher set of regulations. but in your daily life, as you are right now, at home in dallas, texas, are you thinking to yourself as you use your laptop and your smartphone, are you thinking to yourself, "oh, my god, these services that i'm getting "really don't work, they'r

like it you can just create a competing social media platform parlor tried and in 24 hours google apple and amazon united to destroy it that's what monopoly power means it's not just the internet that's become a no go zone so these new enemies of the state big time political donors from car in oil companies to big banks have turned off the money tap to lawmakers who backed trump in questioning the election results when a few are trump paid well good luck finding a job or any of trump's fellow fabulous suburban forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie i mean what's next informing on people oh wait let's name and shame them off to some amazing work by j.s. railton and friends here easy. and i guess his moms pay attention to the shirts and hats and glasses well. they have a star direct market and in maryland you've got an employee to investigate. no not a tapped out of all whiles $984.00 just america the land of the free in 2021 so than part of the social networking site popular with trump supporters is no suing amazon for being removed from its web hosting service

thought in influx of people angry a twit to censorship story policy pano was dropped by apple google and amazon this is obviously a collusive action on the part of these incredibly powerful entities who are seeking to not just destroy their competition but effectively to silence people who are supporters of the president online for years i heard it invalid to object to political censorship by facebook and twitter because if you don't like it you can just create a competing social media platform parlor tried and in 24 hours google apple and amazon united to destroy it that's what monopoly power means it's not just the internet that's become a no go zone so these new enemies of the state big time political donors from coal and oil companies to big banks have turned off the money tap to lawmakers who backed trump in questioning the election results in a fewer trump paid well good luck finding a job or any of trump's fellow fabulous suburban forbes will assume that everything your company your firm talks about is a lie i mean what's next informing on people oh wait let's name and shame them off to

emily: apple and google also cut off the up parler, then amazon did it via aws.ke to the ceo of parler a a few weeks ago about the conservative nature of the site. he talked about the company's objectives at the time. did he had to say. >> there is a lot of people on the left on the platform. they are outnumbered greatly by conservatives right now, which is fine. we are unbiased in that we are not identified by who is on our platform. bring us backto to a people's place online, not a place for big tech oligarchs. rick: john mckay's to me all the time -- --[crosstalk] emily: parler's ceo said they will not be able to provide anyone a service. they will be able to find another web hosting platform. do you think if the president joins that, does he start his own thing? rick: what is outrageous about that statement as it is not the people who are on it, it is what they are doing. if you are inciting violent overthrow of your government regardless of whether you are a liberal or conservative, you should be banned from that kind of vehicle. that is what extremism is de

the likes of amazon, google and facebook? 0ver giant? the likes of amazon, google and facebook?r the past decade we have seen these tech titans come to dominate data collection, cloud computing, retail, social media, publishing — the list goes on. but now, there is pushback from antimonopoly lawyers and sceptical politicians. my guest, american lawyer lina khan, is in the vanguard of the movement to tame big tech. but whose interest is she serving? lina khan in dallas, texas, welcome to hardtalk. khan in dallas, texas, welcome to hardtalk— to hardtalk. thank you for havin: to hardtalk. thank you for having me- _ to hardtalk. thank you for having me. do _ to hardtalk. thank you for having me. do you - to hardtalk. thank you for| having me. do you believe to hardtalk. thank you for - having me. do you believe there is a new momentum _ having me. do you believe there is a new momentum behind - is a new momentum behind the push to tame the big, the giant technology companies in the western world?— western world? yes, i think there absolutely is. - western world? yes, i think there a

we've had presidents before that. >> now you have apple, google, amazon.d far right chat group parler from their platforms leaving trump extremists without a place to gather. they are already saying this is an attack on their freedom of speech. fox is doing a whole bunch of stories about this. this is what they're running on. will they be successful in flipping some attention away from the riots? >> you know, i think in the right-wing ecochamber, there will be because it's a disingenuous and dishonest area. it's a place where facts don't matter. we all know that the first amendment gives the right to free speech, but what it doesn't do is force private companies to recognize free speech. especially not when you sign a user agreement like everyone does when they use twitter. there's so much bad faith acting going on right now that it really is kind of the precipice for how we have ended up here, whether it's politicians or companies, they're lying. they're saying things they know aren't true because it's politically expedient or economically expedient. it d

at the same time apple, google, amazon taking action against the social media app parler.patricof. he is the founder and managing director at greycroft and early investor in apple. alan, let's walk through how you're thinking about this right now. there are conservatives right now who are saying they are being muzzled, this is their free speech being taken away as a tech investor you think those companies have the right to go ahead with that. why don't you explain. >> certainly i think we're blending different issues they have a right to do whatever they want. i think it's their responsibility to police what's going on over their network. this gets to the whole question of section 230 and how much responsibility they have for carrying other people's content, but when you're letting social media take over and letting indiscriminate comments appear on your network and have access to the number of people that these social media sites have today, it's a concept. overthrow the government the regulations and getting the media there. we have a major source of news and we see evid

and google, apple and amazon also cutting off the conservative app parler.nd bloomberg has confirmed an internal memo from the fbi pointing to more armed protest nationwide in the days leading up to president-elect biden's inauguration. are we in a merit -- are we in imminent danger? we will speak to a guest who has been tracking threats online. and at coin falls the most since march, as much as 26% at one point. it's a meteor cannot hundred percent advance the last two years had even bank of america saying is this the mother of all bubbles? that story in a moment, but first around up on the big stories of the day. of course, big tech under pressure, we saw shares of facebook, twitter and amazon sliding on the back of the preventative measures they have taken to silencing cut off president trump. twitter ban to trump from the platform permanently and facebook has banned the president indefinitely. guest,to bring in our who will give us around up on markets for the day. where did we end up? >> a major pullback led to the downside for big tech names. s&p 500,

facebook, google, amazon are feeling the squeeze.resident trump regains control on his twitter handle. $2 million where the e-commerce giant is expanding. we will talk to amazon representative it was also the former press secretary of president obama. we will talk about the incoming administration amid tech scrutiny. shiny objects. do you need a distraction? what is coming up on next week's consumer show which will kick off virtually for the first time ever on monday. stocks are hitting a record today as president-elect biden calls for more stimulus. i went to get straight to ed who has been following the action. ed: ending the week on a high. technology is the outer performer and that has been the story of the week. you can see the nasdaq 100 index up around 1.3% and the new york thank has come back. performers,t out tesla, and another one in the world of electric vehicles. they will be one made for the chinese market. tesla continues to dominate the new slope rating 11 straight days of gain. up 8% on friday. the question comes when

these companies, apple, google, amazon and facebook have too much power and that power must be reinedht and enforce that. our economy and democracy are at stake. that is from a 450 page report from democrats in the house led by jerry nadler that came out just three months ago. that gets to the root of the problem. it's not just the suppression of speech, a violation of the first amendment. it is actually harmful, the behavior of these monopolies come into our overall economy. to every america, because you stifle growth, you prevent other companies from forming, you put them out of business, and with the app store, would we be a healthier economy, a more profitable one if you didn't charge so much money? but they can charge whatever they want because these are monopolies. silva goes to the heart, not just of our nation and the constitution, but also our economy and the financial health of it. >> kennedy: that's a great point, and it is, it should be about the health of an economy, you would think, if you had a more intelligent ceo at twitter you would be taking about the bottom line. r

i would guess that at least some people inside amazon, apple, and google experience and "oh, crap," momentplugging of parler, this all-powerful trinity revealed to the world that just a sliver, a peek at the havoc they can wreak on businesses. these are unchecked threats to speech and competition, and they stupidly let us see. >> kennedy: that's a really good analysis, because it was incredibly clumsy, but also it casts parler as a victim. people who kind of thought that perhaps conservative speech was being silenced on these varied social media platforms now hear about parler and they wonder, "oh, my gosh, is this going to come back?" parler might be placing a new trail and might figure out a way to circumvent that trifecta, that stranglehold, and if they do, that could again be a road map for other companies in the future. we do need a proliferation of choices. we do need people's ideas in order to give voice to different points of view. because we are on a fast track to what has been called monoculture, and it's this cultural other half of a 1-party state. that is incredibly dangerous a