Lansing The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Michigan House revealed a plan Tuesday to institute wide-ranging government ethics reforms, targeting policies that have been ranked worst nationally for transparency.
At least some of the bills are proposing fundamental changes for lobbying and disclosure laws, which have been agreed on by House members on both sides of the aisle. They will be introduced later this week and discussed in committee beginning next week.
If all of them became law, they would alter how Lansing operates, providing additional oversight, de-emphasizing the so-called lame duck period and changing the House process for deciding when bills take effect. Similar reforms have been debated in Michigan for years.
Terraxplorer/Getty Images We do not plan to shut down, said Jason Sheppard, Wimkin s founder.
A Google spokesperson said it didn t allow apps that depict or facilitate gratuitous violence.
Alternative social media network Wimkin enjoyed a spike of around 20% in new users in the 12 days between the Capitol siege and Monday, when Google removed it from its app store, said its founder.
Jason Sheppard told Insider it gained about 55,000 new users, breaking the milestone of 300,000 users.
Now, after Google and Apple both removed the app, new users will have to download Wimkin directly from the company s homepage. That will make it more difficult to add users accustomed to app stores. But the social network doesn t plan to call it quits.
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Apple has removed social media app Wimkin from its App Store as part of a growing crackdown on platforms that don t do enough to moderate content.
Apple removed Wimkin, which bills itself as an uncensored platform for free speech, because of content that called for violence ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden,
The Wall Street Journalreported Friday. According to Wimkin founder Jason Sheppard, Apple pulled the platform because of posts related to the organization of a Million Militia March at the inauguration on Jan. 20.
Other posts flagged as potentially dangerous included ones that called for the arrest of Vice President Mike Pence or a second civil war.