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Rep. Andy Barr explains voting no on impeachment, Big Tech, and working with incoming Biden administration
and last updated 2021-01-13 18:52:39-05
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LEX 18) â Rep. Andy Barr, who represents Kentucky s 6th District, explains why he voted against impeaching President Donald Trump.
In a wide-ranging interview, Barr joined LEX 18 s Nancy Cox to talk about Wednesday s vote along with several other topics, including the role of Big Tech in American politics, the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine to Kentuckians, and if he will attend President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration.
Congressman Barr also discussed how Americans should come together during these difficult times instead of resorting to violence.
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Taylor Owen is the director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill and the host of the podcast.
Last week, social-media companies held hands, plugged their noses and jumped together, suspending the President of the United States from their platforms and delivering, in effect, the de-platforming of Donald Trump, which many thought was long overdue.
The kindest interpretation of this move is that the platforms, responding to the insurrection in Washington, acted swiftly and decisively to protect the country from further unrest, marking an evolution from their youthful and naive pretenses of neutrality to a more mature stature as responsible gatekeepers. More cynically, this moment could be seen as a deferential m
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Jack Dorsey plugged bitcoin during his tweetstorm about Trump. It s not as surprising as it seems: His other company, Square, owns $186 million worth of the cryptocurrency.
Jack Dorsey plugged bitcoin during his tweetstorm about Trump. It s not as surprising as it seems: His other company, Square, owns $186 million worth of the cryptocurrency.
Avery HartmansJan 14, 2021, 21:17 IST
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey.Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images
Jack Dorsey has spoken out for the first time since last week s riots at the Capitol, and he used the opportunity to make a plug for bitcoin.
Dorsey tweeted that he s passionate about bitcoin because it s not controlled by a single entity, which is also one of his goals for social media moderation.