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This is boom bust so one business show you cant afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up the federal Communications Commission has moved to target social media giants following outrage over alleged censorship straight ahead well dig into what the moves mean for the new Public Square plus amidst a pandemic sports are in need of distraction to cope it has wreaked havoc on nearly every major league later im going to bring in a panel to analyze the financial state of the industry we have a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we leave the program with the latest in the world of social media in a week that has been nothing short of head spinning in the tech world we have new developments on friday as the federal Communications Commission is indicating that it may begin to regulate platforms over censorship on thursday f. C. C. Chairman i said that the agency will seek to regulate social media platforms like facebook and twitter at the behest of the trump administrations
We tried again and again and we investigated all all over potentially dangerous. Knowledgeable objects close to noon to the ocean shore but found nothing around to 5 or 6 days scientists started talking about these nature will nature will reason. It is now a dominant version that is so mr governor thank you so much for your time we really appreciate i wish you good luck with your efforts to save nature and to preserve. And i wish your region a quick recovery thank you so much thank you and thank you for your concerns and and your interest you know what is happening im sure will make our work and showed and have a player that even a better place to leave. Fascinating conversation i hope you enjoyed it return with more headlines in half an hour. Join me every thursday on the alex simon short and ill be speaking to guest on the world of politics. Im sure. Ill see you then thanks. I. This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up the f
Been able to be released the Panama Papers would never be able to be released the idea that you cant share hacked or leaks documents unless there are any can be sent out of its with the hacker or someone working with the well what was what was Edward Snowden right he was someone who took leaked and not just leaked when he was the leaker took those documents and present presented them to news organizations who then shared them and said hey the n. S. A. Is spying on the entire country Edward Snowden would not be able to have his information out on twitter or by the way twitters not the only company that does this google also has a policy where they say that if you put anything up thats been hacked or leads theyll remove you from you tube your channel will be canceled so its a very strange policy to put into place and as a journalist i think its very chilling because journalists have to use documents that are leaked or taken at times we know we can leaks is on this is well has documents j
Would of had you not gotten involved as much as the post has complained about that if you looked at any of their coverage in the last 24 to 48 hours its been all about how theyve been wrong so i think theyre doing pretty well over it as well now you mentioned that twitter says the report violated its policy on hack materials but friday the company stated that it will quote no longer remove hack content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them and will add contextual labels to tweets with links to such material instead of blocking them entirely now is that a step in the right direction or is that kind of go in the same line of with what facebook has done which is still really. Messing up the distribution of those content. Well i dont think it goes in the right direction but i dont understand it as a journalist i would say that its very disturbing when a tech company says that we will block we have a policy against hacked materials why do you the polic