In an interview with "Fox and Friends" on Friday morning, billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel responded to Twitter's recent decision to temporarily block Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign account.
Thiel also discussed his recent New York Times op-ed, in which he emphasized his concerns about the search giant Google setting up an AI research lab in China.
Billionaire tech investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel apparently thinks Silicon Valley tech companies have wielded too much, unchecked power.
In an interview with "Fox and Friends" on Friday morning, Thiel responded to Twitter's recent decision to temporarily block Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign account after it posted a video of protest ors threatening the Senator outside of his Kentucky home.
Instead, the company pointed us to tweets from Twitter's official corporate communications account that announced after "multiple appeals from affected users" the video in question would once again be visible, but bearing a "sensitive media interstitial."
As of Friday morning, the tweet containing the controversial video appears on McConnell's campaign account and full access to the account has been reinstated, a Twitter spokesperson said.
After Twitter temporarily locked the campaign account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a string of leading Republican campaign committees announced an ad spending boycott against the social media platform.
McConnell's official campaign account was locked Wednesday after his team posted a video of protesters outside his Louisville, Kentucky, home earlier this week.
Twitter's blanket policy bans videos that include violent threats, even from those who receive such threats.
The video in question, which also aired on Fox News, featured protest chants calling McConnell "murder turtle," and shouts from the crowd inciting violence against him.
Twitter told CNET in a statement that McConnell's campaign account was locked because the video "violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety."
"I have directed the @nrcc to immediately halt all spending with @Twitter until they correct their inexcusable targeting of @Team_Mitch.
As it emerges non-internet-connected election systems are actually connected to the internet
Black Hat While various high-tech solutions to secure electronic voting systems are being touted this week to election officials across the United States, according to infosec guru Bruce Schneier there is only one tried-and-tested approach that should be considered: pen and paper.
âPaper ballots are almost 100 per cent reliable and provide a voter-verifiable paper trail,â he told your humble Reg vulture and other hacks at Black Hat in Las Vegas on Thursday.
âThis isnât hard or controversial.
We use then all the time in Minnesota, and you make your vote and itâs easily tabulated.â
The integrity of the election process depends on three key areas: the security of the voter databases that list who can vote; the electronic ballot boxes themselves, which Schneier opined were the hardest things to hack successfully; and the computers that tabulate votes and distribute this information.
But if voting machine security standards don't change by the 2020 presidential election, Sen. Ron Wyden warns, the consequences could be far worse than the cyberattacks in 2016.
The Democrat from Oregon, who is a member of the Senate Intelligence committee, told the Defcon hacking conference that US voting infrastructure was failing to keep elections secure from potential cyberattacks.
Wyden had proposed an election security bill requiring paper ballots in 2018.
A House bill passed ,but was blocked in the Senate by Mitch McConnell, the majority leader.
McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, called it partisan legislation.
On Friday, Wyden blasted McConnell, calling him the reason why Congress hasn't been able to fix election security issues.
Major Republican committees and President Donald Trumpâs reelection campaign are pulling all advertising money from Twitter as of Thursday morning after the platform locked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellâs (R-KY) campaign account for violating the platformâs rules.
Trumpâs campaign, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) are promising to not spend any money on future Twitter campaign ads.
Richard Waters, the chief of staff of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said in a tweet that his organization, along with the Trump campaign, will not advertise on Twitter until âthey address this disgusting bias.â
I have directed the @nrcc to immediately halt all spending with @Twitter until they correct their inexcusable targeting of @Team_Mitch.
We will stand firmly with our friends against anti-conservative bias.
â Parker Hamilton Poling (@parkerpoling) August 8, 2019
On Tuesday, the US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden as the president-elect for the first time.
The acknowledgment came more than a month after Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
McConnell waited until the Electoral College formally voted to elect Biden on Monday, officially finalizing the election results.
Heâs devoted himself to public service for many yearsâ.
McConnell said, âBeyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first timeâ.On Tuesday, the departing for a campaign event in Georgia, Biden said he had a good conversation with Mitch McConnell today.
The president continues to falsely insist that the election was rigged, promoting unfounded claims of voter fraud.
If you would like to use social media as an avenue for marketing, then read the following article.Using Facebook can be a great way to promote your business.
Some of these companies create fake accounts on social networks using bots and proxy servers.
Your advertisement it then rarely seen by a real person despite the view count and the large amount of money you have paid the social media marketing company.Establish your goal for a social media campaign.
Are you looking for product awareness, concrete sales, or better customer service?
When you can answer these questions, building a strategy is an easier step.While you may not know what you are doing at first within social media marketing, fake confidence until you get the hang of it.
At first, you can just do the same things your competition does, so study them carefully and mimic their techniques.
Point to be noted that 275 members voted in the favor of the bill and 134 voted against it.
So, the bill received the needed two-thirds majority of the members voting to pass in the House.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasnât yet indicated if he will bring a vote to the floor on the larger checks.
Senator Bernie Sanders is a supporter of $2,000 checks and called for McConnell to bring the vote to the floor.
He also tweeted that if McConnell doesnât bring a vote to the floor.Sanders said he will object to the vote to override Trumpâs veto of the defense funding bill.
It is noteworthy that he canât stop the veto override from happening, he can filibuster it past New Yearâs Day, which would cause a major headache for the GOP.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has shown her support for including a repeal of the $10,000 cap on state and local deductions in President Bidenâs sweeping spending proposal.
She issued a press conference and said, âHopefully we can get it into the bill.
Several Democrats from New York and New Jersey threatened to withdraw support for the $2.25 trillion infrastructure measure and dubbed the American Jobs Plan unless the Trump-era deduction limit is lifted.
Pelosi said the deduction cap was imposed by Republicans with the passage of the 2017 tax overhaul and called it devastating to taxpayers in her home state of California.
She said that she is sympathetic to rank-and-file membersâ push to roll back the deduction limit.But, the hard-line from the group of moderate Democrats could put the billâs passage at risk, unless 10 Republicans break with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Democrats will almost certainly have to pass the measure via budget reconciliation, the obscure Senate rule the party used last month to approve Bidenâs $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan without a single GOP vote.
Going big and going global is what lots of businesses want.
Some spend lots of time, money, and brainpower building finished products full of great functionality but donât realize that users may not even want them.Scaling is a long process that requires plenty of experiments.
The secret of product scale is a good start, which often means building a minimum viable product, or MVP.
Today, they are great minimum viable product examples of how to validate a startup idea and create a product people love.If youâre planning to launch a product but are still hesitating, our advice is this: ä¸ Donât wait for the perfect product.
An MVP in business is vital since you share an idea of what the product might be and test it on your audience.Myth #2: An MVP is a product with more features than the competitionSome businesses believe that their MVPs should be full of functionality.
Stick to limited functionality and test it.
The move came just days ahead of a deadline to extend government funding and with critical relief programs set to expire at the end of the month.
A reliable source has confirmed the deal would likely cost around $900 billion with contentious provisions on funding for state and local governments and liability protections for businesses set aside.
These provisions are direct checks to Americans with a salary under a certain threshold and a weekly benefit on top of unemployment insurance.But, it is still unclear how much money would be included in the checks.
On Tuesday, the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met for hours to hammer out a deal with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Point to be noted that the framework being negotiated by these leaders is largely based on a $748 billion proposal introduced by a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers.
It is significantly lower than the $600 per week established by the CARES Act.The group also introduced a $160 billion proposal including funding for state and local governments.
The final vote on acquittal in the US Senate came 10 votes short of the 67 required to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting the 6th January riot at the US Capitol.
Trump said, âWe fight like hell.
Democratic impeachment manager Joe Neguse said, âHe assembled the mob, he summoned the mob, and he incited the mobâ.
The incident left on death and more than 130 officers injured, with many seriously.
Two committed suicide in the immediate aftermath of the onslaught.
The impeachment manager David Cicilline admired the police and said, âThey showed up here to serve, and to serve the American people, and to serve their government, to serve all of usâ.
The supposed package could cost around $3 trillion.
The first proposal would center on roads, bridges, and other infrastructure projects including many of the climate-change initiatives Biden outlined in the âBuild Back Betterâ plan, released during the 2020 campaign.
The package would be followed by measures focusing on education and other priorities including extending the newly expanded child tax credit scheduled to expire at the end of the year and providing for universal prekindergarten, and tuition-free community college.
The plan could face a difficult path through the narrowly divided Congress.Point to be noted that all Democrats arenât in agreement on how they should move forward with their spending and tax proposals.
The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki said, âThose conversations are ongoing, so any speculation about future economic proposals are premature and not a reflection of the White Houseâs thinkingâ.
On Monday, US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor and panned the idea of including other Democratic priorities in an infrastructure package.McConnell said, âWeâre hearing the next few months might bring a so-called âinfrastructureâ proposal that may actually be a Trojan horse for massive tax hikes and other job-killing left-wing policiesâ.
After Twitter temporarily locked the campaign account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a string of leading Republican campaign committees announced an ad spending boycott against the social media platform.
McConnell's official campaign account was locked Wednesday after his team posted a video of protesters outside his Louisville, Kentucky, home earlier this week.
Twitter's blanket policy bans videos that include violent threats, even from those who receive such threats.
The video in question, which also aired on Fox News, featured protest chants calling McConnell "murder turtle," and shouts from the crowd inciting violence against him.
Twitter told CNET in a statement that McConnell's campaign account was locked because the video "violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety."
"I have directed the @nrcc to immediately halt all spending with @Twitter until they correct their inexcusable targeting of @Team_Mitch.
But if voting machine security standards don't change by the 2020 presidential election, Sen. Ron Wyden warns, the consequences could be far worse than the cyberattacks in 2016.
The Democrat from Oregon, who is a member of the Senate Intelligence committee, told the Defcon hacking conference that US voting infrastructure was failing to keep elections secure from potential cyberattacks.
Wyden had proposed an election security bill requiring paper ballots in 2018.
A House bill passed ,but was blocked in the Senate by Mitch McConnell, the majority leader.
McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, called it partisan legislation.
On Friday, Wyden blasted McConnell, calling him the reason why Congress hasn't been able to fix election security issues.
On Tuesday, the US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden as the president-elect for the first time.
The acknowledgment came more than a month after Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
McConnell waited until the Electoral College formally voted to elect Biden on Monday, officially finalizing the election results.
Heâs devoted himself to public service for many yearsâ.
McConnell said, âBeyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first timeâ.On Tuesday, the departing for a campaign event in Georgia, Biden said he had a good conversation with Mitch McConnell today.
The president continues to falsely insist that the election was rigged, promoting unfounded claims of voter fraud.
Point to be noted that 275 members voted in the favor of the bill and 134 voted against it.
So, the bill received the needed two-thirds majority of the members voting to pass in the House.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasnât yet indicated if he will bring a vote to the floor on the larger checks.
Senator Bernie Sanders is a supporter of $2,000 checks and called for McConnell to bring the vote to the floor.
He also tweeted that if McConnell doesnât bring a vote to the floor.Sanders said he will object to the vote to override Trumpâs veto of the defense funding bill.
It is noteworthy that he canât stop the veto override from happening, he can filibuster it past New Yearâs Day, which would cause a major headache for the GOP.
Going big and going global is what lots of businesses want.
Some spend lots of time, money, and brainpower building finished products full of great functionality but donât realize that users may not even want them.Scaling is a long process that requires plenty of experiments.
The secret of product scale is a good start, which often means building a minimum viable product, or MVP.
Today, they are great minimum viable product examples of how to validate a startup idea and create a product people love.If youâre planning to launch a product but are still hesitating, our advice is this: ä¸ Donât wait for the perfect product.
An MVP in business is vital since you share an idea of what the product might be and test it on your audience.Myth #2: An MVP is a product with more features than the competitionSome businesses believe that their MVPs should be full of functionality.
Stick to limited functionality and test it.
The final vote on acquittal in the US Senate came 10 votes short of the 67 required to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting the 6th January riot at the US Capitol.
Trump said, âWe fight like hell.
Democratic impeachment manager Joe Neguse said, âHe assembled the mob, he summoned the mob, and he incited the mobâ.
The incident left on death and more than 130 officers injured, with many seriously.
Two committed suicide in the immediate aftermath of the onslaught.
The impeachment manager David Cicilline admired the police and said, âThey showed up here to serve, and to serve the American people, and to serve their government, to serve all of usâ.
In an interview with "Fox and Friends" on Friday morning, billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel responded to Twitter's recent decision to temporarily block Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign account.
Thiel also discussed his recent New York Times op-ed, in which he emphasized his concerns about the search giant Google setting up an AI research lab in China.
Billionaire tech investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel apparently thinks Silicon Valley tech companies have wielded too much, unchecked power.
In an interview with "Fox and Friends" on Friday morning, Thiel responded to Twitter's recent decision to temporarily block Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign account after it posted a video of protest ors threatening the Senator outside of his Kentucky home.
Instead, the company pointed us to tweets from Twitter's official corporate communications account that announced after "multiple appeals from affected users" the video in question would once again be visible, but bearing a "sensitive media interstitial."
As of Friday morning, the tweet containing the controversial video appears on McConnell's campaign account and full access to the account has been reinstated, a Twitter spokesperson said.
As it emerges non-internet-connected election systems are actually connected to the internet
Black Hat While various high-tech solutions to secure electronic voting systems are being touted this week to election officials across the United States, according to infosec guru Bruce Schneier there is only one tried-and-tested approach that should be considered: pen and paper.
âPaper ballots are almost 100 per cent reliable and provide a voter-verifiable paper trail,â he told your humble Reg vulture and other hacks at Black Hat in Las Vegas on Thursday.
âThis isnât hard or controversial.
We use then all the time in Minnesota, and you make your vote and itâs easily tabulated.â
The integrity of the election process depends on three key areas: the security of the voter databases that list who can vote; the electronic ballot boxes themselves, which Schneier opined were the hardest things to hack successfully; and the computers that tabulate votes and distribute this information.
Major Republican committees and President Donald Trumpâs reelection campaign are pulling all advertising money from Twitter as of Thursday morning after the platform locked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellâs (R-KY) campaign account for violating the platformâs rules.
Trumpâs campaign, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) are promising to not spend any money on future Twitter campaign ads.
Richard Waters, the chief of staff of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said in a tweet that his organization, along with the Trump campaign, will not advertise on Twitter until âthey address this disgusting bias.â
I have directed the @nrcc to immediately halt all spending with @Twitter until they correct their inexcusable targeting of @Team_Mitch.
We will stand firmly with our friends against anti-conservative bias.
â Parker Hamilton Poling (@parkerpoling) August 8, 2019
If you would like to use social media as an avenue for marketing, then read the following article.Using Facebook can be a great way to promote your business.
Some of these companies create fake accounts on social networks using bots and proxy servers.
Your advertisement it then rarely seen by a real person despite the view count and the large amount of money you have paid the social media marketing company.Establish your goal for a social media campaign.
Are you looking for product awareness, concrete sales, or better customer service?
When you can answer these questions, building a strategy is an easier step.While you may not know what you are doing at first within social media marketing, fake confidence until you get the hang of it.
At first, you can just do the same things your competition does, so study them carefully and mimic their techniques.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has shown her support for including a repeal of the $10,000 cap on state and local deductions in President Bidenâs sweeping spending proposal.
She issued a press conference and said, âHopefully we can get it into the bill.
Several Democrats from New York and New Jersey threatened to withdraw support for the $2.25 trillion infrastructure measure and dubbed the American Jobs Plan unless the Trump-era deduction limit is lifted.
Pelosi said the deduction cap was imposed by Republicans with the passage of the 2017 tax overhaul and called it devastating to taxpayers in her home state of California.
She said that she is sympathetic to rank-and-file membersâ push to roll back the deduction limit.But, the hard-line from the group of moderate Democrats could put the billâs passage at risk, unless 10 Republicans break with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Democrats will almost certainly have to pass the measure via budget reconciliation, the obscure Senate rule the party used last month to approve Bidenâs $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan without a single GOP vote.
The move came just days ahead of a deadline to extend government funding and with critical relief programs set to expire at the end of the month.
A reliable source has confirmed the deal would likely cost around $900 billion with contentious provisions on funding for state and local governments and liability protections for businesses set aside.
These provisions are direct checks to Americans with a salary under a certain threshold and a weekly benefit on top of unemployment insurance.But, it is still unclear how much money would be included in the checks.
On Tuesday, the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met for hours to hammer out a deal with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Point to be noted that the framework being negotiated by these leaders is largely based on a $748 billion proposal introduced by a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers.
It is significantly lower than the $600 per week established by the CARES Act.The group also introduced a $160 billion proposal including funding for state and local governments.
The supposed package could cost around $3 trillion.
The first proposal would center on roads, bridges, and other infrastructure projects including many of the climate-change initiatives Biden outlined in the âBuild Back Betterâ plan, released during the 2020 campaign.
The package would be followed by measures focusing on education and other priorities including extending the newly expanded child tax credit scheduled to expire at the end of the year and providing for universal prekindergarten, and tuition-free community college.
The plan could face a difficult path through the narrowly divided Congress.Point to be noted that all Democrats arenât in agreement on how they should move forward with their spending and tax proposals.
The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki said, âThose conversations are ongoing, so any speculation about future economic proposals are premature and not a reflection of the White Houseâs thinkingâ.
On Monday, US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor and panned the idea of including other Democratic priorities in an infrastructure package.McConnell said, âWeâre hearing the next few months might bring a so-called âinfrastructureâ proposal that may actually be a Trojan horse for massive tax hikes and other job-killing left-wing policiesâ.