by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 11, 2021 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
The political and cultural aftermath of the Capitol riot is already upon us, with Big Tech opting to ‘cancel’ the Parler social media platform that has become a go-to refuge for conservatives and Trumpists unhappy with Twitter’s increasingly...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 9, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
Twitter’s editorial bias in policing the content that flows through its service has been ruffling the Right’s feathers for quite a while. The market responded, and Parler emerged as an alternative, with a promise of more freedom and less censorship. Google...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 8, 2021 | Election, Politics
The doer and the thinker, no allowance for the other – Gerald “Little Milton” Bostock A disinterested observer might conclude that there have been two Donald Trumps. There is the doer, someone who had some significant accomplishments during his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 23, 2020 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
A COVID-19 vaccine arrived, a product of human ingenuity motivated by crisis. In months, not years. Then, a second. Soon, a third. And, now, the politics. It was inevitable that there’d be debates about who should get immunized first. In a rational society, the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 10, 2020 | Economics, Politics
A bit over 20 years ago, social media was dominated by one company: America Online (AOL). It was a monster, and if you weren’t on AOL, you weren’t one of the cool kids. AOL’s market cap in December, 1999 was $222B (about $350B today). A month later,...
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