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New Biden nominees to top Hill’s cyber to-do list
04/12/2021 10:00 AM EDT
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that will likely receive sustained oversight in the weeks ahead. Key lawmakers still have concerns about cyber funding despite generally praising the White House’s budget request for it. The last White House cyber coordinator just took up his new post
Consideration for an outside panel similar to the 9/11 Commission
Numerous committees gathering information, promising hearings January 21, 2021 10:59 AM By Emily Wilkins
The numerous angles to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the vast and overlapping jurisdictions of congressional committees has led to a web of potential investigations into what happened and how to prevent it from occurring again.
Lawmakers seeking answers about how their lives could be put at such risk during the electoral vote count have begun digging into the logistics around the insurrection and why the Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies were unable to control the pro-Trump mob.
Glenn Greenwald
How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
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Users of the social media platform Parler encountered this error message as of Jan. 11, 2021, after Apple, Google and Amazon united to remove them from app stores and hosting services (Photo by Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images).
Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don’t like what they are doing, the solution is not to complain or to regulate them. Instead, go create your own social media platform that operates the way you think it should.