Why are you propagating this misinformation? It was not a Nazi salute. He said he was giving his heart to the crowd and extended his arm saying that. This is like saying baseball has a nazi salute because players extend their arm after throwing the ball.

An often overlooked issue with the disappearance of local newspapers is that they capture local history. Who on the local council voted three years ago for something that is now unpopular? The best place and often the only place to find this information is the local newspaper. If the articles are written by AI I would not trust them to capture what happened accurately. Social media will not have history back that far and I would not trust that either. We are in serious danger of not having a source for recent history..

An issue with phasing out third-party cookies is that a lot of software out there uses them and it is not something that they mention. For instance, the Adobe PDF inline viewer for WordPress requires third-party cookies. This means that removing it will break functionality on these sites.

It appears that the future of ISPs is 5G wireless. If this net neutrality does not address wireless Internet connectivity, it will be of limited use going forward. My understanding is that the previous net neutrality declaration mostly did not apply to wireless. Many of the ISPs have stopped building out their wired infrastructure because they expect to be able to provide service wirelessly saving the large expense of maintaining the last mile to peoples homes.

With 5G phone, cable, and Internet will be delivered wirelessly, the last wire to the house is electrical. The power companies are going to have to pay the full cost of maintaining the last mile of wires to the house. This cost has always been split across the different providers. Power bills are going to increase and the companies are going to need to figure out ways of limiting expenses. Wirelessly providing energy is going to be looked at again. We may see a distributed generation of power or some kind of wireless transmission of power.

There is no official Facebook or Twitter account. They are accounts used by a politician. Should any politician be able to refuse my phone call? It is their official phone.

What if the person is not acting politely. Most of the banning has occurred for non-polite behavior. Interesting thing is that the politician could use groups and change from interactive communication to merely a push.

Does free speech give me the right to go into private meetings? How about a politician's home? They are not being blocked from expressing themselves, but being blocked from expressing themselves in a specific place. The question is are the online accounts private or public places. If the answer is online is a public place, then there is little privacy online.

I think the danger here is this could be the "Don't hire poor people act". If they are punished for hiring people receiving government benefits, then they won't hire them. So this act might just wind up preventing people from being able to take jobs that allow them to get off government benefits.

How about illegal campaign contributions? If they are censoring political speech, that is a tremendous campaign contribution to the politics of the other side. If they are only allowing one view point to reach an audience of millions, how much is that worth? Is it fair that other people are limited in the amount political contributions, while social media and search engine companies can make essentially billion dollar campaign contributions?

Florida did not have a confusing ballot. Each county in Florida has a different ballot. It was Palm Beach County that had a confusing ballot, which is developed by their Democratic Supervisor of Election.

From the article "Using automated scans and test programs, the team identified multiple vulnerabilities, including problems with digital certificates used to verify secure connections with users, Franklin told Reuters ahead of the presentation." This may or may not be an issue. If the site is simply providing information and/or collecting email addresses this is not really an issue. If the site is collecting credit card info it would be an issue, but that is usually done through a third party. Basically they ran something that tested the web sites SSL implementation and without more information we cannot determine if that is really an issue.

If Facebook is promoting a certain candidate or party, then it can run afoul of campaign finance laws. If it is shown they are acting in a political manner, they open themselves up to being prosecuted for illegal contributions. If they are running ads, for the benefit of political entities it is clear cut that they are making in-kind contributions to the political entity. If they are suppressing one side of political speak it is less clear cut, but the same argument could be made. How much is exclusive advertising worth? The value in the commercial world is real. A bank could sign and exclusive contract with the local newspaper to be the only bank that runs ads in the newspaper. This generally requires significantly more money than a normal ad buy, since the newspaper is forgoing the opportunity to receive ads from competing banks.

The article says "276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots ... later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct." So the issue is that a bad number of registered voters was reported. Actually 3,704 registered voters cast 670 ballots. So slightly less than 1 in 5 registered voters casted votes. The initial reporting of the wrong number of registered voters did not have any affect on the election, it is a non story.

The City of Miami may be close to a perfect grid, but add in Coral Gables and that would all fall apart. Coral Gables would be interesting since the since the streets cross over each other. So in Coral Gables you may pass 27th, 40th, then 37th, in other areas they would be in order. I wonder if that is true of other areas. When you add in the surrounding communities the gridness goes away, since there was no longer central control. Rocco