a bit of that and ash that any of us and a professor of information studies at the university of california los angeles professor you'll probably call before for a regulatory intervention and perhaps even transformation of those big tech companies what's the best possible way to do that as far as we are concerned thank you for asking that question we have bipartisan agreement actually and for his own reasons president trump himself supported doing something about the oversized outside of our big tax there are many do like the way he is one of the very few high ranking officials who actually ties that age. which is highly highly ironic given that his entire brands and in many ways his entire popularity and his hijacking of our journalistic system and his attacks on journalism were partly pre-condition based upon his social media presence so you know that they mean it's really remarkable right now is we have bipartisan we have spent 70 percent of americans who support some sort of some forms of reform we have $47.00 i believe out of 50 state attorney general is looking at regulatory issues involving the

still with us, ramesh srinivasan , professor of information studies at the university of california los angelesla, where he also directs the digital cultures lab. chris, can you respond to twitter permanently banning donald trump? >> well, twitter, all of these digital platforms, are not neutral arbiters. they are for-pfit corporations with close ties to the security state. if you look at cover the past few years, they have imposed heavy forms of censorship and interference, primarily on the left, and in particularly on wikileaks. they blocked the ability for wikileaks to accept donations, paypal, and other platforms. every time wikileaks would hold a press conference, there would be interference, electronic interference. people could not get in a room. they used algorithms. y luck "the new york post" out of its own twitter account because it had published stories about the revelations found on the discarded or abated laptop from hunter biden -- in retrospect, have proven quite serious. when greenwald took a hit rogue states on this and the intercept would not publish his story. to allow these

that i'm now joined by ramesh 3 of us and a professor of information studies at the university of california los angeles press is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time it's nice to meet you thank you for having me i know that you fully support removing trunk from social media platforms and yet you also find twitter is and the other big tech companies decision to suspend his accounts somewhat problematic why is that you know we don't quite see that they support sort of a. trump per se i think long before we reach this point there should have been enough there should have been a set of guidelines and rules everybody technology platform followed around specific kinds of q. says by which people might be maybe not deep laughter. and take into steps that are on the way to there and that is not what happens and i think those cases and just to kind of lay it out should be for folks for individuals who have huge viral it meaning what they say what they share can go very viral it's one of those kinds of individuals if they are stating information that is going viral that is obviously false and or

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layla is a creative writing professor at the university of california riverside and she lives in los angelesre she is joining us. layla, thank you again it's such a privilege to be here and talk about your book which is really moving and were going to start with the opening because when you became a u.s. citizen this is a sweltering day in the year 2000 and you talk about 3000 people packed into this fairground complex and soon after you got your american passport which you called your powerful artifact, what did the american passport symbolize to you? >> i think that's an excellent question to start with because it gets to the heart of how things can be introverted in the moment and 20 years later in the middle the pandemic. at this time we see a passport served as a tangible proof as u.s. citizenship because we obviously don't have a birth certificate so were naturalized citizen and the passport is essentially your proof of citizenship and you don't walk around and you're not supposed to cure your naturalization certificate, the passport is essentially your citizenship and also i said it w

of vaccines going to waste they should expand to lower priority groups that make sense, elderly, first responders, and people with preexisting conditions. kaylee hartung, abc news, los angeles. >>> a southern california universityled out covid-19 test vending machines, testing is required weekly at ucsd, the automated machines are the first of their kind on a u.s. college campus. they allow students to access the test easily and quickly and after self-administering and returning the swabs, results can be received in less than two days. so far the university has installed 11 machines across campus. >>> the san francisco board of supervisors has elected a new president. supervisor shamann walton was elected in a unanimous vote on friday, he will be the first black man to serve as board president. walton represents district 10 this includes neighborhoods like dog patch. he will hold the position for two years, joins a list of notable former board presidents, including mayor london breed and governor gavin newsom. >>> the governor released his $227 billion budget proposal, the plan comes with a one-time windfall leading to 12% more spending than last year but the center piece of it all is immediate funding for the

of vaccines going to waste they should expand to lower priority groups that make sense, elderly, first responders, and people with preexisting conditions. kaylee hartung, abc news, los angeles. >>> a southern california universityines, testing is required weekly at ucsd, the automated machines are the first of their kind on a u.s. college campus. they allow students to access the test easily and quickly and after self-administering and returning the swabs, results can be received in less than two days. so far the university has installed 11 machines across campus. >>> the reality of 2021 is becoming clear for many business owners realizing the lockdown isn't ending soon. abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley met many in contra costa county fearful for the future. >> ghost town out here. >> reporter: this cafe owner says he's on the edge as he sees no end in sight to the shutdown. >> we're not doing good to be honest. not doing good at all. i let off six people the last three weeks. >> reporter: businesses say in the spring shutdown they had a sense of somehow we'll get through this. they say it's totally different now this winter, they've shifted into desperation mode. >> we're going to be opening our patio and l

of those states, including southern california. pauline mayer indicated that if there was anything like a universal holiday in the 19th century, it was the fourth of july. each fourth of july, the los angeles star published these columns explaining why the confederate cause was the true inheritor of the american revolution. it said, history, it is said, reproduces itself. but who then candidly looking on today at the struggle pending between the southern states and the united states cannot perceive a strong if not complete parallel to the cause of the united colonies contending against the government of great britain in 1776. and the difference between a rebellion and a revolution, the los angeles star concluded it was victory. success turned a mere rebellion into a glorious revolution. that's why washington and his companions were rebels, and they were not ashamed in the name. that was in 1862. in 1863, the los angeles star said the declaration of independence was being re-enacted. and the civil war was another baptism of blood, and praised the confederacy for sending heroes against this tyrant, abraham lincoln. and they just pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the confedera

university hospital in california. trimane davis is a los angeles educator. and james martin is a veteran from pittsburgh. and manuel bojorquez spoke with all three ahead ofes. >> reverend king -- >> i'm still surprised. i'm probably going to be at the super bowl like there is. happening. >> reporter: trimane davis, suzie dorner, and james martin all met for the first time on the zoom call. and in less than two weeks, the three will be on the field in tampa honored for their dedication to communityty durin the pandemic. >> i'm still waiting f for the "psych." >> reporter: at a time when so many are feeling isolated, marine corps veteran james martin has kept his focus on staying connected. martin, a father of three, is streaming high school sports in his pittsburgh, pennsylvania, suburb free to the community. >> she needs a reason to smile. >> reporter: connecting fellow veterans through gaming as part of the wounded warrior project, and opening his home to neighborhood kids facing domestic issues. >> you know, hats off to my wife. knowing full well that was going to cost our grocery bill astonishingly. my daughter switched out her bedroom to give the boy

she's from los angeles, has ties to california like the now vice president of the united states, and my alma mater harvard universitydly poetry, but she was a showstopper. it was the kind of thing where she had prose. she had the oratory. >> chris coons, senator from delaware there. >> we're going to watch this as we talk about amanda gorman. but she, she really just absolutely had everybody, everybody's attention because of how fantastic she was. as i was saying, not just in how she wrote the poem, but in how she delivered it. we could sit here all day picking out some of the great lines. one is, there is always light if only we are brave enough to see it, if only we are brave enough to be it. that line alone is just beautiful and so, so appropriate. >> and really just summed up what i think was so distressing in it an existential way about what we saw two weeks ago. obviously witnessing any sort of violence is hideous, but what we saw two weeks ago in the same building that we are looking at right now -- there is senator corey booker, democrat of new jersey. in the same building was an attempt to undermine democra