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With Daniel Lippman
CHAMBER GOES AFTER ENHANCED UNEMPLOYMENT: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce this morning seized on April’s vastly underwhelming jobs numbers, laying the blame on the federal $300 enhanced unemployment included in President
Joe Biden’s relief package and calling for the benefit to be scrapped.
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Editor’s note: We endeavor to bring you the top voices on current events representing a range of perspectives. Below is a column arguing that social media companies should not be allowed to ban Trump. You can read a counterpoint here, where Adrian Moore, vice president at Reason Foundation, and Rebecca van Burken, a policy analyst at Reason Foundation, argue that social media companies, as private entities, have the right to ban whomever they choose.
Imagine explaining to a pro-life activist that abortion is currently legal in the United States. Silly, right? The pro-life movement is not deluded; it does not argue that Roe vs. Wade is not currently good law. The pro-life movement seeks to change the law: that’s the point.
For The Inter-Mountain
CHARLESTON Two members of the House of Delegates announced plan to introduce a resolution this legislative session condemning tech companies they say are censoring conservative voices in their efforts to remove violent and threatening posts and social media tools spreading those posts.
Delegates Trenton Barnhart, R-Pleasants, and Josh Holstein, R-Boone, released a statement Monday announcing their intent to introduced a resolution condemning “Big Tech” for removing conservative social media users and urging Congress to amend federal protections for social media platforms.
Speaking Tuesday in his office in the State Capitol Building, Barnhart said that Big Tech platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon among others are violating the freedom of speech of conservative voices and called for freedom of expression to be restored.
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Del. Trenton Barnhart, R-Pleasants, plans to introduce a resolution condemning social media and tech companies. (Photo by Steven Allen Adams)
CHARLESTON Two members of the House of Delegates announced plan to introduce a resolution this legislative session condemning tech companies they say are censoring conservative voices in their efforts to remove violent and threatening posts and social media tools spreading those posts.
Delegates Trenton Barnhart, R-Pleasants, and Josh Holstein, R-Boone, released a statement Monday announcing their intent to introduced a resolution condemning “Big Tech” for removing conservative social media users and urging Congress to amend federal protections for social media platforms.