Trump's Permaband a CES Predictions
The week that was. The perma ban of trump came early, or very late, depending on your perspective.
In response to the insurrection at the US Capitol building on January 6th, Twitter first froze Trump’s account before permanently banning the president from the platform, citing the "risk of further incitement of violence". It’s a much bigger move than just labelling tweets as false or deleting them.
Facebook has suspended Trump from its platform at least until Inauguration Day, January 20. He is also banned from Instagram for two weeks as well as a host of other online services.
It’s not just Trump’s account that tech companies are worried about. Parler which is popular among Trump supporters has been pulled from the Apple App store and Google Play store. Amazon Web Services is kicking Parler off its cloud hosting service, meaning the app will go offline unless it can find another hosting service.
Buzzfeed reports, The app has recently been overrun with death threats, celebrations of violence, and posts encouraging “Patriots” to march on Washington, DC with weapons on January 19, the day before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Once again shows the massive weight of big tech. Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter all had to respond this week.
Also worth noting these bans came the day that the democrats took control of the senate. The fact that Zuck moved first shows he’s the better businessman than Jack.
But is this where we are? That meaningful change can only happen if Tim Cook is personally offended by something?
https://mobile.twitter.com/killaudeepstate
Also gone
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws
Listen to Kara Swisher interview Parler CEO John Matze
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-john-matze.html
CES PREDICTIONS
What is CES and why do we care?
What should we expect this year?
Slick as hell presentations. Without having to do something live, most of the big brands have probably spent the last 3 months editing the hell out of their launches - so it’ll be possibly the most watchable CES in years.
Mini LED - which some brands call ULED - will be the manor push from all companies that aren’t LG
Focus on the home - I reckon we’ll see a heap of home office and home fitness products this year, or the same old products repackaged as home fitness/home office.
Lots of PC announcements - will they be good or bad for Intel?
5G
Hall one has gone from a cheap accessories hall to a car hall in recent years - expect to see many EVs and more self driving cars
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