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Nearly all major social media platforms banned former President Donald Trump in January after he called for “peace” following the Capitol riot. A new study from the Pew Research Center revealed just how controversial the bans were to the American people.
The Pew Research Center conducted a study of 4,623 U.S. adults who were asked about their views on permanently banning Trump from social media. The groups were nearly evenly split, with 50 percent of American respondents not in support of a permanent ban. Fifty percent of U.S. adults said that Trump “should NOT be banned permanently,” compared to 49 percent who said he “should be banned permanently,” according to the study.
In a massive blow to free speech online, the Facebook Oversight Board decided to uphold the platform’s ban of former President Donald Trump. But with limits.
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Conservatives have raised the alarm about Big Tech censorship for years. But now a far-left senator has admitted that Big Tech’s power may be a problem.
Newly elected Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) spoke out against Facebook’s power in an April 27 hearing. He claimed that Facebook has “an obligation to remove certain content, for example, incitement to violence or hate speech.” But Ossoff continued that he is “not at all enthusiastic about huge, multinational tech companies becoming the arbiters of legitimate speech and expression, especially when the decisions about what you may boost or suppress algorithmically are often made in secret and under heavy pressure from politicians and advertisers and public opinion.”
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Rural communities are generally under-served by high-speed internet. Often, the costs of providing the service across open spaces cannot be recovered through a small number of subscriptions. Native communities are 26% less served by broadband internet compared to those living in rural areas outside of reservations.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is working to change that. Earlier this year, the FCC offered tribes across the country the chance to apply for a free slice of the broadband spectrum in order to provide high speed, wireless internet to their communities. More than 400 nations have applied, including four in Idaho. Joining
Idaho Matters to talk about this is Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Valerie Fast Horse with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe.