Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, May 28th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today is the Trump administration finally willing to go to war

with Big tech.

Another Apple startup acquisition,

but also why Fragel Rock might indicate a strategy shift for Apple TV Plus.

Remember 4K TVs? and the microcredit app that will threaten to shame you to everyone you know if you

fall behind on your payments.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

For those of you who hate it when U.S. politics intrude on the show, you know, what can I tell you?

Rumors have been swirling all night that President Trump

today plans to sign an executive order that would threaten punishment for

Facebook Google and Twitter over what is being called content moderation.

So that's too big a deal for us to just alide over.

Those two little tweets from earlier this week could end up being maybe the most

consequential tweets of all time at least for Silicon Valley. Now if you're

hearing these words then that means that at the time of this recording the

order had not yet actually been signed but of this is what it will entail from what we currently understand quoting the

Washington Post. Trump's directive chiefly seeks to embolden federal regulators to rethink a portion of law known as Section 230,

according to the two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a document that could still evolve and has not

been officially signed by the president. The law spares tech companies from being

held liable for the comments, videos, and other content posted by users on

their platforms.

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