The Platform Power Debate: Publishers, Parler, & The President

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Parler, the social app favored by conservative Americans, found itself on the wrong side of Apple, Amazon, and Google in the wake of last week’s riots in the U.S. Capitol. Big tech is drawing a line on the internet, suspending President Donald Trump’s content and forcing Parler temporarily offline. Axios business editor Dan Primack and journalist Joanne Lipman track big tech’s journey to today’s platform power debate. CNBC’s Eamon Javers offers intel from Washington and considers the various paths for lawmakers seeking an eleventh hour impeachment. Plus, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt discusses the role of big tech in upholding free speech and protecting its users. He explores accountability and responsibility on the internet, and the implications of media businesses taking a stand on issues nearly inextricable from party politics.

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer today on our podcast
0:06.0	Social media silencing the president. How one app mainly for
0:10.8	conservatives and riots at the capital have the nation re-evaluating big
0:14.6	tech's power. journalist Joanne Littman on parlors troubles and social media's rules of
0:19.7	play. For years the tech platforms either did not have or did not consistently enforce their own standards about what are the rules on their platform.
0:30.0	And Axias, Business Editor Dan Premack, on Big Tech, peer pressure.
0:34.4	We all acted the next day, really one after another.
0:37.2	Maybe it was just a question of kind of conscious dominoes, or maybe there was something
0:41.2	in terms of law enforcement going to these companies and asking them to act.
0:44.6	The Anti-Defamation League says tech companies moves to suspend President Trump and drop parlor or wise ones,
0:51.0	CEO Jonathan Green Black.
0:52.6	Companies should not be agents of the state,
0:55.3	but companies also shouldn't be agents of chaos.
0:58.6	Those interviews, plus corporate America is responding to last week's violence
1:02.4	in its own way with their wallets.
1:04.4	Hotel chain Marriott and the Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance groups say they're going to stop giving
1:08.4	money to Republican lawmakers who backed efforts to disrupt last week's electoral vote count.
1:14.0	It's Monday, January 11, 2021, Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:20.0	Good morning everybody.
1:21.0	Welcome to Squack Box here on
1:22.6	CMBC. I'm Becky Quick along with Joe
1:24.7	Hermann and Andrew Ross Sorkin. It's Monday another week and endless
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