Do you know what this symbol represents ? – how often do you tweet ??
Twitter is a modern public
square where many voices discuss, debate and share their views. Media
personalities, politicians and the public turn to social networks for real-time
information and reactions to the day’s events.
The one seen
above is that of ‘Parler’ which is in news for wrong reasons. Apple has removed Parler, which has a
significant user base of President Donald Trump supporters, from its iPhone App
Store on Saturday. The company explained that the reason why they removed it is
because the posts on the pro-Trump app related to the US Capitol seige last
week included violence, which violates Apple’s rules for safe content. On
Friday, Google had also removed Parler from its Android app store, Google
Play. Parler is an American
microblogging and social networking service. Parler has a significant user base
of Donald Trump supporters, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, and right-wing
extremists
Kirstie Alley was born in
Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of Robert
Deal Alley, who owned a lumber company.
After moving to Los Angeles to
pursue Scientology and work as an interior designer, Alley appeared as a
contestant on the game show Match Game in 1979. She won both rounds, winning
$500 in the first round and $5500 in the second round. She also appeared on the game show Password
Plus in 1980. In 1981, an automobile accident involving a
drunk drive killed her mother and left
her father seriously injured. She is
famous as an American Actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe on the
NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), receiving an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in
1991 for the role. From 1997 to 2000, she starred on the sitcom Veronica's
Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
It took a riotous mob
storming the Capitol building for Facebook to finally take significant action
against the president , Facebook took this step on Thursday of blocking his account
indefinitely. It announced that his access won’t be reinstated until at least
after Joe Biden is inaugurated. “The current context is now fundamentally
different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against
a democratically elected government,” wrote Facebook’s founder and C.E.O., Mark
Zuckerberg. “ Micro-blogging
site, Twitter, finally banned US President Donald Trump’s account on Friday,
citing “the risk of further incitement of violence” following the US Capitol
Hill siege and the unrest that followed. The decision got everyone talking
online, memes and jokes ensued. After temporarily blocking his account
on the day of the attack, the company pulled the plug permanently on @realDonaldTrump. However, the official account for
the President of the United States, @POTUS, remains live. Twitter said its
policy enables world leaders to speak to the public, but that these accounts
“are not above our rules entirely” and can’t use Twitter to incite violence.
Actress Kirstie Alley came
under fire on Saturday for comparing President Trump’s Twitter ban to slavery. The
Cheers star was reacting to a comment from the American Civil Liberties Union
which is also opposed to the suspension of the president’s account on the
grounds of free speech. Alley, 69, claimed that tech
companies now hold ‘the keys to the chains’ as she compared Wednesday’s riot on
the Capitol by Trump supporters to the summer’s Black Lives Matter
demonstrations.
Despite criticism, the celeb
Trump supporter stood by her statement, claiming in a later tweet that there is
‘more than one definition of the word slavery’, yet also claimed she views the
actions of the president’s mob as a ‘treasonous criminal terrifying act’. Alley, who is a high profile follower of the
Church of Scientology, had retweeted a statement from the ACLU which said that
‘it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the
unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable
for the speech of billions – especially when political realities make those
decision easier’. While the statement later added that Trump could still
address his followers through ‘his press team or Fox News’ which is claimed is
a luxury ‘black, brown and LGBTQ activists who have been censored by social
media companies’ don’t have, Alley focused on the first line
She attempted to end her
Twitter thread before the backlash began ! After Alley was called out for
appearing to condone Wednesday’s violence, she returned to Twitter to write:
‘No violence no violence no violence PLEASE no violence’. ‘Breaching the CAPITOL was a treasonous
criminal terrifying act and those people should be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law,’ she continued. Yet others did not agree and accused her of
minimizing the ‘vicious brutality of real slavery’ in her comparison.
Technology can ruin people too !!
With regards – S. Sampathkumar
10.1.2021
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