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Biden Supports Amazon Workers’ Push to Unionize in Alabama

On Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, Amazon, the e-commerce giant, lost a major push to suspend a closely-watched unionization vote at a major warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., allowing over 5,800 workers to decide whether or not to form a union in the first major unionization effort at Amazon since 2014. On Sunday, President Biden issued a video statement on Twitter showing his support for the unionization bid.

Silicon Valley Bans Show Where Power Truly Lies

On Jan. 8, Twitter announced that effective immediately, President Trump’s Twitter handle, @realDonaldTrump, would be permanently banned from the platform for inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Other platforms later jumped onto the bandwagon. Later that day, Google and Apple announced bans over the Parler app, a popular platform for conservatives, and Amazon stopped hosting the website beginning today. The removal of Trump’s megaphone and a conservative hotbed by Big Tech in Silicon Valley shows where power truly lies.

US Government Sues Facebook For Being an Illegal Monopoly

In a major groundbreaking lawsuit, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in conjunction with 46 states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Guam, accused Facebook (FB) Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of being an illegal monopoly, by buying up its rivals in order to quell competition.

Key Ballot Measures Voters Voted On In Nov. 2020

Besides voting for statewide and nationwide offices, voters in over 32 states decided on about 100 statewide ballot measures, including on issues regarding voting, elections, abortion rights, drug legalization, taxes, and more. Let’s take a look at some of the most important ballot measures that voters approved in this post.

Is Big Tech Too Big?

Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft are some of the biggest tech companies in the world. However, their size, market dominance, manipulative power, and monopolistic behaviors are now once again coming into scrutiny over issues like in-app purchases, monopolistic practices that drive out competition, and prices. Let’s take a look at whether or not big tech really is too big in this post.

WWDC 2020: What Was Announced?

This year, Apple held its first-ever completely online World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), kicking off with a software announcement keynote on June 22, 2020, at 10 a.m. PDT. Major changes were announced to iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and especially macOS and the transition to ARM-based Macs. Here are some of the major features announced.

Twitter and Trump

On May 26, 2020, President Trump made a number of false tweets regarding mail-in voting in the 2020 election this November. Twitter “fact-checked” his tweet and flagged it, posting a little message that sais “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” noting that the tweet contained false information. This prompted outrage from the president.