james clayton there. this is not just a james clayton there.ted just to the us. the pandemic has played havoc with erections around the world and the arguments for and against online voting systems have been given new life. but in one country, it has been a reality now for well over a decade. way backin now for well over a decade. way back in 2005, digitally savvy estonia became the first country to allow online voting in elections. skip forward to their 2019 general election and 44% of voters filled out their ballots online. and there have been other examples of positive engagement with internet voting across the world. back in april, the labour party elected their leader in an online ballot in which a 70% of its 550,000 members voted. this way of voting makes a lot of sense, it is less expensive than the traditional in person system and for many it is just easy. and could internet voting be the way to engage a younger generation? as time goes on, online voting will become more and more important for young people. because society will become i

james clayton there. this is notjust a debate limited just to the us.h erections around — — elections around the world. the arguments for and against online voting systems have been given new life. but in one country, it has been a reality now for well over a decade. way back in 2005, digitally savvy estonia became the first country to allow online voting in elections. skip forward to their 2019 general election and 44% of voters filled out their ballots online. and there have been other examples of positive engagement with internet voting across the world. back in april, the labour party elected their leader in an online ballot in which a 70% of its 550,000 members voted. this way of voting makes a lot of sense, it is less expensive than the traditional in person system and for many it is just easy. and could internet voting be the way to engage a younger generation? as time goes on, online voting will become more and more important for young people. because society will become increasingly online. also at the same time our voting system will look exac

joining me now from san francisco is our north american technology reporter james clayton. s is a pretty dramatic move. what prompted it was the department ofjustice things google is monopolistic. the lawsuit strikes at the heart of google because my grip over the internet for millions of businesses and advertisers, into an unlawful monopoly. it sang clearly, google is a monopolist. the key thing is 90% of all the searches in america are google searches —— it said clearly. if they get there fairly, and this is what the lawsuit says, it says on android phone, google search is something that is preinstalled. google had a deal with apple where it was preinstalled. it's saying it's not fair, essentially. it actually concludes, google‘s practices have had harmful effect on consumers, and this is where it gets difficult because google says how can this possibly be anti—consumer when google search is free? and you don't need to pay to use it. so i think this is going to be very difficult for the doj, because they have to prove that its anti—consumer while at the same time, acknowle

that was james clayton. it will be all over our website.ding goes to black entrepreneurs. in the us, 13% of the workforce is black, but at big tech firms such as google and facebook, black employees make up less than 4% of workers. we're nowjoined by dion mckenzie, who's the co—founder & chairman of color—in—tech and black tech fest. why the black tech fest is important? hi, sally, good morning. i think that this has been the case because we have seen, and this year has proven more like any other, that there is a real lack of diversity to the tech industry and i think it comes round to there being access, awareness, lack of awareness, and lack of a network for black individuals and tech companies have scales, primarily using techniques and processes that have been probably not as conducive to building inclusive teams. also, when it comes to young people, are they inspired, excited to get into the tech sector at all, in the black community was yellow yeah, what i think we are seeing is there is definitely an interest from a user point of vie

james clayton there.nology reporter at the telegraph. welcome and thank you for being with us. what is the mood among america's legislators? might they actually change section 230 ? speaking to people, it seems like there really is a fear that section 230 will be reformed at the very least. there has been this growing backlash against technology companies for various reasons. section 230 has kind of become this proxy, a way for all sides of the political spectrum, all different types of politicians to come forward and use it almost as a threat to say, you need to stop doing this, otherwise we might repeal the one law that your whole business pivots on because they know how important section 230 is to google, facebook and twitter. and so it is very interesting. is something that was just a interesting. is something that wasjust a small interesting. is something that was just a small law written backin was just a small law written back in the 1990s, has become a huge part of the political debate and we are

james clayton reports.emselves, they decide what content is promoted, taken down or left up. the question at the senate today in washington — is that too much power? but first it was good to know that even tech bosses have moments when the computer says no. we are unable to make contact with mr mark zuckerberg. thank you, chairman. i was able to hear the other opening statements, i was just having a hard time connecting myself. the line fixed and the hearing quickly moved to the subject of bias. do these social media companies use their power to unfairly pick on republicans? trump certainly thinks so. i'm running against the left—wing corrupt media and big tech. what does he mean by that? it all comes down to moderation. here's an example. during the protest in minneapolis after the death of george floyd, donald trump posted on facebook and twitter saying, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." facebook allows this, twitter said it violated rules on glorifying violence and labelled it. so, should t

our tech reporter james clayton joins us live from san francisco. james, what's going on here?m twitter. i will read them out. about an hour ago, they said, we know people are having difficulty tweeting and we are working to fix this and then they said we have no evidence this outage is caused by a security breach or hack. we are currently investigating internally and will share more soon. that is important because the last time this happened, all verified accounts on twitter went down, it was deliberate because there was big twitter hat, people like jeff besort were hacked and they close down twitter to see what was going on. this time, they do not think the same thing has happened, which begs the question what has happened? at the moment, we do not know. it says something that an outage for a couple of hours causes such a stir. yes, it is not the first time it happened. injuly, very similar thing happened. a lot of people said they were quite refreshed by they were quite refreshed by the idea that verified twitter users could not actually tweet, but it is not the first time t

our north american technology reporter, james clayton, has the latest from san franscisco.lear that the department ofjustice thinks that google is monopolistic. the lawsuit strikes at the heart of the crib on the internet for small businesses and entrepreneurs beholding to and entrepreneurs beholding to an unholy monopoly. google is a monopolist and as you mentioned, 90% of all the searches in america on search engine searches are google searches and the question is, did they get there fairly and i think this with the loss for example, on android phones, google searches are the things that are preinstalled. if you going to safari, google have a deal with apple or google searches are preinstalled. it is not fair essentially, and it's going to conclude the anti—competitive practices of had a harmful effects on people. google says look, how can this possibly be anti—consumer when the google search is free and you don't have to pay to use it? i think this is going be very difficult for them. because they're going to have to prove that there anti—consumer without acknowledging t

earlier our tech reporter james clayton talked us through twitter‘s latest statement and what it means by an inadvertent change we made to our internal systems. twitter should be working for everyone within the next few hours." something very similar happened to this in february and we don't know what happened. it could have been a developer pressing the wrong button. we simply don't know, but it does appear that this is not a hack and that's what people were worried about. last time something similar to this happened when verified users could not was because of a hack. jeff bezos, joe biden's account had been hacked. the crucial point here is that it does not appear to have happened this time. james, why is it such a big new story? why do people get so animated when a service just drops out even for a couple of hours? it's basically the message board for the world. donald trump uses it as a place where he puts all of his press releases. it's a place that has become hugely influential along with facebook. people, particularly in times of covid when people are at home, are on their phon

james clayton reports.et, google, facebook and twitter. these platforms refereed themselves, decide what content is promoted, taken down or left up. the question at the senate today in washington, is that too much power? but first it was good to know that even tech bosses have moments when the computer says no. we are unable to make contact with mr mark zuckerberg. thank you, i was able to hear the other opening statements, i wasjust having a hard time connecting myself. the line fixed and the here and move to the subject of bias. to these social media companies use their power to u nfa i rly ta ke companies use their power to unfairly take on republicans? trump certainly thinks so. i am running against the left—wing corrupt media. what does he mean by that? it comes down to moderation. during the protest in minneapolis after the death of george floyd, donald trump posted on facebook and twitter saying, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. facebook allows this, twitter said it violated rules on glo

here's our north america tech reporter james clayton on how those two factors put an end to quibi.d in the middle of a pandemic, and i think there is the idea that maybe quibi would be used by commuters on the train to catch up by commuters on the train to catch up with content. that didn't happen, obviously, as commuting is way down. when it came to the content itself, there was nothing standout that eve ryo ne there was nothing standout that everyone was talking about that you had to get onto quibi to watch. it was also subsection —based sea had to pay for it and it was competing against the likes of youtube, which is free. you have to sit through adverts, but it is free. for all of those reasons, quibi didn't do as well as they thought they would do. but, you know, yesterday's announcements showed that they went just doing badly, they were doing really, really badly. and i think thatis really, really badly. and i think that is the surprising thing to many. it was the new and coming thinkjust six months ago and it is now a dead in the water. and james finishes that remarkable sto

nobody seems to be on the go, as our reporter james clayton reports from san francisco.you just how competitive online streaming is at the moment and how dog eat dog it is. the idea of quibi was a good one because a lot of people watch content on their phone so why not create content for peoples' phones, so they filled things in horizontal and vertical specifically for your phone, but there were lots of issues. the first one was a lot of investors thought, and this would be great for the commuter, greater people say on the train, watching content on their phone. it was launched in april at the peak of covid—19, and obviously commuting, well, who commute anymore? that was a big issue. ithink who commute anymore? that was a big issue. i think also in terms of content there were no standout pieces of content that eve ryo ne standout pieces of content that everyone was talking about that you had to get onto quibi to see and also the business model, it was subscription —based, you had to subscribe. there is lots of content out there in chunks of 8—10 minutes which is what qui