In light of the SEC's recent enforcement activity involving Rule 21F-17, this post aims to provide a brief overview of the rule's purpose, history and enforcement evolution.
We need the laws and standards and practices protected by those laws to support what has happened with the technology industry. today those laws actually abide for you here at msnbc, but not for those social media companies. that needs to change. we have to take responsibility for all of our businesses. companies cannot wash their hands of what customers do with their products. there has to be an ethical component and you have to take some level of responsibility for what is happening with your product. that said, part of my business and that is a part of their business as well. the problem is section 230 which indemnifies the social media platforms what needs to get abolished. is mark zuckerberg the issue or the law the issue? the law is the issue. businesses need to take responsibility for their actions. just like we do as individuals. we all have to be law abiding citizens and our companies need to be that way as well.
Companies cannot even claim they are defending an american value or an american interest. i think one of the things it tells us is that american business interests, if they see the almighty dollar in the hands of a foreign rival, they ll go and chase it even if it s not in the best interest of their own country. tucker: not in the best interest? i mean, this is our preeminent rival, enemy actually i think from their perspective on the world stage. a country that s about to overtake us economically and militarily. siding with them seems like a profound betrayal. it s a profound betrayal in a couple of different ways, tucker. the first is what you mentioned. i think we are in the geopolitical struggle with china unlike anything we ve seen since at least the early 1930s with germany. we are not yet at physical war and hopefully of course we don t go to war with china. but we are in a struggle really for global preeminence with this country and they have ambitions to be a global superp
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Anniversary of when nelson mandela went into the infamous prison, robin island, and that is where he contracted tuberculoids, which is the cause of these respiratory problems that have caused him to the hospitalized, especially in the past few years. we could get an update on his condition tomorrow. president zuma had a previously scheduled event happening in w sowetta, where nelson mandela once lived. if we do get an update, we expect it to happen then. chris jansing, appreciate it. we told you earlier the supreme court ruled today that companies cannot patent naturally occurring human genes. that s a decision that could profoundly affect lucrative medical research. it throws out patent by myriad genetics on an increasingly popular breast cancer test. what s your gut tell you?