Episode 22 - Slow News Week

<p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/themindkiller"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Support us on Patreon!</span></a></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">News Discussed:</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Newark NJ, where no cops fired a shot last year, reports</span> <a href= "https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/no-police-shots-fired-2020-newark/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Overall crime was also down 6%</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Several Republican have</span> <a href= "https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2021/01/republican-members-of-congress-say-theyre-afraid-of-being-assassinated/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">claimed to be in fear for their lives</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">if they cross Trump</span></p> <p><a href= "https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://gizmodo.com/twitter-doesnt-like-piracy-even-when-its-in-the-public-1846022460"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter takes down Sci-Hub account</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy&fbclid=IwAR3K73C-3qnMTwFgS7zyH1xJy-tYwjxIPjQeuDg2vYKNzGTiV_nTdwNwxcM"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Parler destroyed in 24 hours</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href= "https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/1347064818944118784"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It has not escaped my attention that the day social media companies decided there actually IS more they could do to police Trump’s destructive behavior was the same day they learned Democrats would chair all the congressional committees that oversee them.”</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight