of people to question the fairness of these social media accounts. and look, they are under the scrutiny in america of congress right now because they have got enemies, people angry at them on the right and the left, so i think that in the next year or two, you re going to see the government try to do more to manage this, to step in, because they don t have friends on either side of the aisle right now, so they actually truly are caught in the middle. but from my own perspective, some of the people that you see getting banned from facebook and twitter, itjust doesn t make a lot of sense and it doesn t seem fair. zing, do you agree with that? and i wondered whether you agree with the broader principles being raised here, but also a specific question about your business which relies on these platforms. do you feel vulnerable that they could, at any point, take a position against you or any other business? i think if you ask any editor of any publication that puts content outl on soci
breaking news, congress, the white house, politics in general, elections, and we also have a team of opinion columnists added into the mix. we are grateful for you joining us. and our final guest is zing tsjeng, editor in chief of vice uk. and, zing, for people who don t know vice well, what is your editorial remit in charge of vice uk? we are a global youth culture website. we have a tv film studio, we are on tiktok, social media channels, snapchat. and we also publish a website, very retro in this time and age for our gen 2 audience and we have audiences all over the world from la to new york and london and asia. we are at a stage where websites are retro that s where we have got to. unfortunately, if you re talking to people who are 18 and 19 years old, it very much is. all right. point taken.
susan, were you actually in congress or close to it when 6 january happened? yes, i was. i agree with david in terms of how he talked about how it unfolded and the shocking nature of it. i ve worked in the capitol since the early 1990s and i ve watched security evolve there over the years through various terrible incidents and i ve seen how it increased and changed in terms of access from the public. you used to be able to walk right in and wander around, and then it became a fortress over the years, and that was part of why it seemed so shocking to us that this huge group of people were able to, in two steps, access the capitol by pushing past the police and they were also allowed to wander in in huge numbers without any security checks by the police. so those two shocking things were happening. so just from a security perspective, aside from the nature of why these people did this, that was really extremely surprising to me and i have seen a lot of things going on in the capitol. whe
the ramification of 6january. susan, were you actually in congress or close to it when 6 january happened? yes, i was. i agree with david in terms of how he talked about how it unfolded and the shocking nature of it. i ve worked in the capitol since the early 1990s and i ve watched security evolve there over the years through various terrible incidents and i ve seen how it increased and changed in terms of access from the public. you used to be able to walk right in and wander around, and then it became a fortress over the years, and that was part of why it seemed so shocking to us that this huge group of people were able to, in two steps, access the capitol by pushing past the police and they were also allowed to wander in in huge numbers without any security checks by the police. so those two shocking things were happening. so just from a security perspective, aside from the nature of why these people did this, that was really extremely
we are a news website in a magazine based in washington, dc. our team of reporters cover breaking news, congress, the white house, politics in general, elections, and we also have a team of opinion columnists added into the mix. we are grateful for you joining us. and ourfinal guest is zing tsjeng, editor in chief of vice uk. and, zing, for people who don t know vice well, what is your editorial remit in charge of vice uk? we are a global youth culture website. we have a tv film studio, we are on tiktok, social media channels, snapchat. and we also publish a website, very retro in this time and age for our gen 2 audience and we have audiences all over the world from la to new york and london and asia. we are at a stage where websites are retro that s where we have got to. unfortunately, if you re talking to people who are 18 and 19 years old, it very much is. all right. point taken. let us go back to january 6 of 2021. i would like to ask the three