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While the Alphabet-owned tech behemoth suspended Parler from its main app platform right away, Apple Inc. issued a symbolic ultimatum on Friday, giving the company 24 hours to impose content-policing. “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler …

Photos of Rittenhouse’s outing earlier this week at Pudgy’s Pub in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, began circulating on social media on Friday, spurring outraged responses and an investigation by local police. It turns out that it’s legal in Wisconsin for an 18-year-old to drink beer at a tavern in the company …

Twitter permanently banned the president from its platform on Friday, following in the footsteps of Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch, and other platforms that used Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol as an excuse to do what much of Silicon Valley has wanted to do for years.  But it wasn’t Trump’s on-platform conduct …

“Our two democracies share common values of individual freedom, the rule of law and a respect for human dignity,” Pompeo said Saturday in a statement.  China doesn’t acknowledge Taiwan’s sovereignty, and the US has operated under a geopolitical compromise with Beijing in its dealing with the island. Neither the US …

Independent record label Mexican Summer said in a tweet that it was ending its “working relationship” with Pink “going forward.” The company was set to release a new album from the artist at the end of January. The popular indie musician attracts more than one million listeners per month on …

Apple and Google have commanded Parler, a social network used by conservatives, to police its users. In effect, what their warning issued to Parler means, ‘do as you are told or face digital annihilation!’. Google suspended Parler from its Play Store, declaring that it will shut the network until it …

When President Donald Trump’s supporters forced their way inside the US Capitol on Wednesday, they did not act as a unified force bent on seizing power. Instead they snapped selfies, looted souvenirs, and engaged in petty vandalism. While the rampage ended in tragedy for the protester shot dead by police, …

In a forthcoming interview, the 84-year-old leader of the Catholic Church says that “ethically” getting a vaccine against the virus should be a duty for everyone. “Next week, we will start to do it here (in the Vatican) and I made an appointment, we must do it,” Francis told Italy’s …

Come on, guys and gals, chill out USA. Calm down, calm down. You say you want to heal. Okay. The first thing y’all need to do is dial down the rhetoric. A coup attempt, an insurrection, sedition – whatever wonderfully evocative term you care to reach for – is not …

“A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,” Pakistani power minister Omar Ayub Khan wrote on Twitter, shortly after the country was plunged into darkness before midnight on Saturday. Pakistanis soon shared pictures of their blacked out cities and towns, …