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Pivot

Facebook changes its speech policy, Amazon moves into driverless cars, and a Friend of Pivot on how suspension of visas will affect Silicon Valley

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, News Commentary, News, Tech News

4.29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott talk about Facebook announcing it would change its policies around hate speech on the platform after mounting pressures from Civil Rights organizations and company ad boycotts. They also discuss Amazon buying Zoox, an autonomous ride-hailing company to start competing in delivery and ride share. We are joined by Friend of Pivot Sayu Bhojwani to talk about Trump's suspension of H1-B visas and how that will affect Silicon Valley. Get tickets for our upcoming livestream event series: PivotSchooled.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.0

Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:40.0

I'm Cara Swisher.

0:41.0

And I'm Scott Galway.

0:43.0

So Scott, so much happened this week, and we don't have weekends off anymore.

0:46.0

This weekend, of course, Trump tweeted a video of his supporters in Florida.

0:50.0

Are they in Florida?

0:53.0

Well, they're the group of elderly people in the villages,

0:56.0

and they were driving golf carts, but one of the people,

0:59.0

audibly yelled, white power, which the president left up for quite a long time,

1:04.0

and then took it down under, I probably derest some guessing.

1:09.0

He took it down, and they used the excuse that he didn't hear it,

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