Will Facebook have to give up WhatsApp and Instagram?
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-13
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha analyzes the latest antitrust case against Facebook. He looks at the growing global consensus on action against the tech giants, and talks about the situation in the developing countries…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/13/will-facebook-have-to-give-up-whatsapp-and-instagram-draft/

Bankrolling blu klux klans?
Raymond Nat Turner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-13
Rhythms of red, white, blue 'party' lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10–and then some… Robotic legs, arms–possessed– punching, kicking a fetal fraction– prone red shirt; black face; fractured eye socket, exploding eyeball; broken ribs drowning in swarming blue savagery: The viral video sparks flashbacks to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/bankrolling-blu-klux-klans/

President Luis Arce Travels to Brazil for Medical Check-up
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-13
Bolivian President Luis Arce departed on Sunday morning to Brazil for a routine appointment, temporarily leaving the presidency in the hands of Vice President David Choquehuanca until Tuesday. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Lower Chamber Passes a Bill Taxing Large Fortunes | "Today, I am absent from Bolivia until Tuesday, December 15, to carry out my routine health check-up. I thank the Bolivian people for the love and well wishes that they have sent me," Arce tweeted. | Before Arce's trip t…
telesurenglish.net/news/president-luis-arce-travels-to-brazil-for-medical-check-up-20201213-0002.html

Protesters in London march against police atrocity against Black teenager
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-13
On Friday, December 11, anti-racism groups in the UK protested police atrocity against a Black teenager in North London. Video footage which shows a police officer punching the teenager in the head while he was pressed against a police car, was widely circulated on social media on Thursday night and triggered widespread outrage across the UK. Scores of people under the leadership of Black Lives Matter Movement and Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) marched to North London's Tottenham police station and protested the police brutality and demanded punishment for the officers involved in the incident. | According to a Mornin…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/13/protesters-in-london-march-against-police-atrocity-against-black-teenager/

Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia—You've Long Earned It
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-12-12
Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/georgia_primary.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/12/12/go-vote-yourself-raise-georgia-youve-long-earned-it?cd-origin=rss

FTC sues Facebook: What does it mean for social media users?
Chris Garaffa | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-12
The complaint is not about privacy or speech.
liberationnews.org/ftc-sues-facebook-what-does-it-mean-for-social-media-users/

Yet Another Major Escalation In Establishment Internet Censorship
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-12
YouTube, whose corporate owner Google is arguably the most powerful company on earth, is now deleting user videos which claim the US election was fraudulent. | YouTube's official statement on its decision to do this is very revealing, not so much for what it says as for what it does not say. | At no point does the video publishing platform attempt to argue that it is removing these videos because they jeopardize anyone's health or safety, as it did when it began deleting videos deemed to be spreading misinformation about Covid-19. | At no point does it attempt to argue that these videos are inciting violence, as…
popularresistance.org/yet-another-major-escalation-in-establishment-internet-censorship/

BBC presenter claims UK gardening culture is so 'RACIST' that 'racism is baked into its DNA'
rt.com | 2020-12-12
BBC presenter and botanist James Wong has been mocked online after going on a wild Saturday Twitter rant accusing "gardening culture" in the UK of being racist. | Wong — who has presented several BBC shows, including Countryfile, and serves as an ambassador for London's Kew Gardens — made the bizarre claim in a series of Twitter posts. | Replying to another tweet that claimed gardens are not allowed "political agency" because they'll "reveal uncomfortable politics of individual ownership" and "spatial inequity," Wong wrote, "Absolutely U.K. gardening culture has racism baked into its DNA. It's so int…
rt.com/uk/509492-bbc-presenter-gardening-racist/

'We might get thrown out of NATO': Twitter baffled & divided over UK govt idea to send warships against EU fishermen
rt.com | 2020-12-12
Debates broke out on Twitter over the news that the Royal Navy was ready to deploy British patrol vessels to confront European fishing boats after a 'no-deal' Brexit. | London has until December 31 to hammer out a free-trade deal with the EU, and fisheries remain one of the most contentious issues. While the EU wants to secure the decades-old quota system which allows European boats to operate in British waters, the UK wishes to make its waters more exclusive to British fishermen. | On Friday, British media reported that the Royal Navy was ready to deploy four warships to stop European fishing boats from illeg…
rt.com/uk/509485-uk-navy-ship-fisheries/

Critics Pan Time's Choice of Biden-Harris for 2020 Person of the Year Award
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-11
"This is Joe Biden's year. He not only managed to stay alive until the election, he also did other things, presumably." — YouTube creator Shaun…
mintpressnews.com/critics-time-choice-of-joe-biden-kamala-harris-2020-person-of-the-year/273557/

Twitter Acquires Screen-Sharing and Video Chat App Squad
sputniknews.com | 2020-12-11
Squad is a social networking app that allows users to share their screens with friends and family as part of a video call. The app was launched last year.
sputniknews.com/science/202012111081434033-twitter-acquires-screen-sharing-and-video-chat-app-squad/

US Federal Trade Commission sues Facebook over monopolistic acquisitions and anticompetitive practices
wsws.org | 2020-12-11
The FTC, along with 48 US attorneys general, filed an antitrust lawsuit against the social media giant Facebook on Wednesday, seeking to split off its popular Instagram and WhatsApp properties and regulate the firm's business practices.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/11/face-d11-d11.html

Yuma Hospital Fires ER Doctor For Talking About COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11