Good Morning Mr. President! Have A Wonderful Tuesday Sir!! :)
https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1115427470315016193
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Daily Public Schedule for April 9, 2019:
12:00PM POTUS participates in the arrival of the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
12:05PM POTUS participates in a bilateral meeting with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
12:35PM POTUS participates in an expanded working lunch with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
1:35PM POTUS participates in the departure of the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
$620 Million!! I can't!
Damn! Bank of America is going to raise min wage to $20 an hour! Citi get on board!
Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20 an hour
[CNBC]
John Melloy
CNBCApril 9, 2019
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-america-raising-minimum-wage-114925514.html
"If you get a job at Bank of America, you'll make $41,000," Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan says.
Effective on May 1, the minimum wage will be raised to $17 and will go higher in increments for the next two years, according to the company.
Bank of America BAC is raising the minimum wage for employees this year and plans to hike it to $20 an hour in two years.
"If you get a job at Bank of America, you'll make $41,000," Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan told MSNBC on Tuesday. "With the success our company has … we have to share that success with our teammates."
Effective on May 1, the minimum wage will be raised to $17 and will go higher in increments for the next two years, the company said in a statement.
Bank of America employs 205,000 people.
Facebook and Google will be grilled by Congress today on white nationalism as they struggle to silence hate speech
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-and-google-to-be-grilled-by-congress-on-white-nationalism-2019-4
Facebook and Google are back in Congress this week facing tough questions.
The Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee is going to grill executives from Facebook and Google at 10 a.m. on Tuesday about how they police hate speech their platforms, The Washington Post reports.
The witness list reveals that Facebook's Director of Public Policy Neil Potts and Google's Public Policy and Government Relations Counsel Alexandria Walden will testify, alongside expert witnesses from civil rights organisations, including the Anti-Defamation League. House Democrats told the Post that Tuesday's hearing is the first of a series on the issue of white nationalism.
Facebook recently banned white nationalism, along with white separatism, saying the ideologies could not be "meaningfully separated" from white supremacy and organized hate groups. Far-right figure Faith Goldy fell foul of the ban this week.
Facebook's ban came shortly after the mass murder of Muslim worshipers in two New Zealand mosques, which the suspected attacker streamed live on Facebook.
Google-owned YouTube is also grappling with the issue of white nationalism. Last week, the video service all-but banned far-right activist Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, restricting likes, comments, and suggested videos from his posts.
"They [the tech giants] clearly have been conduits for that kind of hate speech," Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary committee holding Tuesday's hearing, told the Post.
Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled Senate Committee on the Judiciary is holding an evidence session on Wednesday on allegations of political bias in tech. The hearing is titled, "Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse," and will be chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz.
US President Donald Trump accused Google of anti-conservative bias in August 2018, claiming the company was rigging search results to surface more negative news stories about him. There was no evidence to support his claims.
More recently in March, the president told reporters that social media companies silence conservative voices online. "Something's happening with those groups of folks that are running Facebook and Google and Twitter, and I do think we have to get to the bottom of it," he said.
Facebook, Google And Twitter Hit By New Legal Regulation To 'Clean Up Their Acts'
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/08/u-k-government-threatens-facebook-google-and-twitter-enough-is-enough/#29ac042e7762
On Monday, the U.K. Government published proposals for "tough new measures to ensure the U.K. is the safest place in the world to be online," claiming these to be the world's "first online safety laws." An independent regulator will be put in place with the "powers to take effective enforcement action against companies that have breached their statutory duty of care." Such enforcement will include "substantial fines" as well as, potentially, the powers "to disrupt the business activities of a non-compliant company… to impose liability on individual members of senior management… and to block non-compliant services."
Substantial fines, business restrictions, jailing execs - and the U.K. is not a lone voice. Just a few hours before the U.K. proposals were published, Facebook was branded "morally bankrupt pathological liars" by New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner in the wake of their handling of last month's attacks in Christchurch. And a week ago, Australia's Government introduced legislation to fine or imprison social media execs who fail to prevent "the spread of abhorrent violent material online seriously" which "weaponizes" their platforms.
The race to regulate is now on. "In the first online safety laws of their kind," the U.K. Government said on issuing the proposals, "social media companies and tech firms will be legally required to protect their users and face tough penalties if they do not comply."
The inevitable is here
It was in light of Christchurch and the international response that followed, that Facebook belatedly banned white hatred from its platforms. Coincidentally, the change of policy came hot on the heels of Australia's threats to jail execs, including the inference that they may even pursue execs resident overseas. Until now, the social media giants have ridden out the storm of protests and criticism following increased scrutiny of the material 'published' by users on their sites. The irony is that most of the protests were aired on social media, the more the platforms are used, the more data they collect. And the more data they collect, the more money they make. This is not complicated.
The industry has raised the issue, and last month Mark Zuckerberg penned an op-ed in the Washington Post to argue that social media companies cannot and should not be held responsible for policing what can and cannot be published and shared. All well and good, but how to strike the balance between what the U.S. or U.K. Governments might say and what others might say. When the Singaporean Government came out with legislation to police content, there were immediate complaints that this was an impediment to free speech and could not be allowed. You can see the dilemma.
UK and AUS
Just wondering if there could be a connection to this…
Patrial Q:
Does UK stand w/ the US or only select divisions within the US?
Does AUS stand w/ the US or only select divisions within the US?
Will immediate action(s) be 'publicly' taken within each country to REUNIFY THE BOND that was once held PRIOR TO…….[CLAS 9]?
[Koala]
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Love Barr's face to her!