politics

internetWhite House Asks FCC to Not Give Social Media Sites Immunity if Sites Have Biased Censorship

August 9, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
A White House draft order called Protecting Americans from Online Censorship asks the FCC to restrict the government’s view of the good-faith provision. Under the draft proposal, the FCC will be asked to find that social media sites do not …
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googlePreventing Google, Facebook and Twitter from Manipulating the US Election

August 6, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Robert Epstein proposes a plan to limit Google, Facebook and Twitter from manipulating up to 15 million votes in the United States. Epstein is not a conservative. He has been center/center-left my whole adult life and supported Hillary Clinton in …
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US Restarts Trade Talks With China and Talks With North Korea

businessUS Restarts Trade Talks With China and Talks With North Korea

June 30, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Trade talks with China and restarted. There is now a delay in any tariff increases. Huawei is getting some relief. North Korea President Trump became the first sitting President to set foot in North Korea on Sunday as he met …
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businessTheresa May Resigns and Banks Have 25-40% Odds for a No-Deal Brexit

May 24, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
U.S. bank JPMorgan has raised its probability of a no-deal Brexit to 25%. They think the most likely scenario is Boris Johnson will become prime minister and then there will be a parliamentary election. They believe there is a 60% …
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canadaBrexit Party Could Win in UK Election and Trudeau Will Likely Lose in Canada

May 13, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
A new Opinium/Observer poll shows both major British parties have lost vote share: Labour has lost ground to the Lib Dems and Greens, while the Conservatives are losing ground to the Brexit Party who have reached 21%. The Brexit Party …
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futureDeep Fakes With Synthetic Media #TCRobotics

April 18, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
AI-based tools are proving capable of fabricating or modifying imagery and audio in ways that are nearly indistinguishable from reality. #TCRobi
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antiagingWould Antiaging Mean More Dictators?

March 2, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
By 2040-2050 there could be effective antiaging treatments that could enable people to live 30 years longer than they do today. One of the concerns that people have is that this will enable dictators for life to dominate their countries …
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futureAvoiding Civil War 2.0 With Better Options

February 21, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
There are fears that the US will have a hot civil war. There is currently what has been described as a cold civil war. This is where we have entrenched more political elites and media using social media, politics and …
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