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by Paolo Cappelli
06 October 2021 Enough excuses, enough low wages.
Boris Johnson comes out of the corner and today closes the Conservative Party congress by rejecting the accusations against the government for missing gasoline and expensive bills on one of the traditional pillars of the Tory consensus, the entrepreneurs.
Another entrepreneur, Telegram's number one says that on Monday, when Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were blocked, users of his platform increased by 70 million.
There is not only the blackout: Facebook is back in the dock, amid accusations of looking only at business and the widespread belief, in Congress, that new rules must be found for social networks.
WSJ
Biden seeks mediation and reviews its $ 35 trillion massive government spending program hoping to convince congressional moderates
as banks challenge Apple Pay on digital transaction grounds.
Facebook Congressional Hearing Creates Momentum for Strengthening Rules for High-Tech Enterprises
Frances Haugen told lawmakers about internal Facebook documents showing the harm done to users by the company's choices - from teen health problems to '' poisoning of public confrontation on political issues, fueling the already strong push in Congress for stricter rules for social networks
"I have seen Facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its profits and our security. Facebook has consistently resolved these conflicts in favor of profits," Ms. Haugen told the Consumer Protection Commission in the Senate. "As long as Facebook operates in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny, it's irresponsible. As long as the incentives don't change, Facebook won't change." Facebook under Zuckerberg makes decisions based on how user engagement measurements will be impacted, rather than potential audience downsides, Haugen said. "Mark has built a very algorithm-based organization," he added. "algorithms decide".
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D., Connecticut), the chairman of the commission called on Mr. Zuckerberg to appear before Congress to testify, calling the company "morally bankrupt". Facebook noted that Zuckerberg has testified seven times in the past four years and his executives have testified a total of 30 times. The company said it has taken numerous actions that impacted its profitability to protect the security and privacy of its users.
Zuckerberg to employees and on FB:
"I think many of you do not recognize the false image of society that was painted in Congress. The argument that we deliberately push for profit content that makes people angry is profoundly illogical. We make money with ads and advertisers are constantly telling us. that they don't want their ads to be close to harmful content. I don't know of any hi-tech company that wants to make products that make people angry or depressed. Morals, business and product incentives all point in the opposite direction. "
Facebook must empower parents, not censor political speech.
Facebook became the latest company everyone loves to hate, and internal documents stolen by an employee became the indictment to blame the social media giant for America's ills. One in five American teenagers said Instagram made them feel worse, while 42% said it made them feel better. This is a problem that cannot be solved by the government: better to give users more control over their news feeds and parents more control over what their children are exposed to online. The Democrats saw that pressure on Mark Zuckerberg and regulatory threats worked. Zuckerberg has resisted censorship for some time, but in recent years Facebook has started adding "fact checking"opinionated or has censored stories that do not agree with progressive orthodoxy on climate, Covid or other issues. Our editorials have been targeted more than once.
Washington Post
Molly Roberts: what the FB blackout taught us.
The interruption of a few hours of the platform on Monday catapulted us, like a movie, into a fantasy world that told us a lot about the real one: imagine life without Facebook. The result showed how essential and inessential the platform is at the same time. It is said: Facebook is too powerful, because when it went down it also dragged Instagram and WhatsApp; Facebook is good for society, because without it we are deprived of Instagram and WhatsApp. And again, Facebook isn't powerful, after all, because when it collapsed, life went on. If that's true, though, why are we so concerned about its monopolistic hold on human attention? The reality, at least in the United States, is more nuanced. Many argue that Facebook should be regulated as a utility,but it was much easier to live an afternoon and evening without its apps than without electricity or water. In short, Facebook is not the Internet, we must not be trapped in this pervasive logic.
El Pais
The budget law increases pensions by more than 2%.
Government partners closed an agreement at the last minute to approve the draft budget for 2022 this week. The date chosen is tomorrow, in an extraordinary Council of Ministers. The negotiations were released after reaching a consensus on the housing law, one of the priority issues for Podemos. Another point of friction on which the two parties have agreed, the revaluation of pensions: it will be linked to the increase in average inflation of the previous year, according to various government sources, estimated between 2.2% and 2.3% . Pau Gazol, legend of Spanish basketball and NBA champion, retires with emotion
La Razon
The Catalan left will join the compromise between the Socialists and Podemos on the budget law thus guaranteeing the continuation of the legislature.
Hoy
Sanchez obtains Podemos' yes on public accounts by agreeing to intervene on rents.
Government intervention in the real estate sector will allow municipalities to effectively lower rental prices in areas with the highest price overheating.
There is also a bonus of 250 euros per month for young tenants for rent and a 150% increase in taxation on vacant properties
Bild
Heating up to 650 euros more expensive.
Here's what to do to try and save some next winter.
Daily Telegraph
Prime Minister: I know how to make us a high-wage country.
Today Boris Johnson will close the Conservative Party Congress pledging to make Britain a "high wage" economy and will say he has "the guts" to tackle the problems his predecessors ignored, starting with runaway immigration.
Ben Wright: Promising higher pay is a very dangerous bet for Johnson. Supporting wage growth in the private sector risks leading to costly wage negotiations for civil servants.
The Times
The prime minister will formalize the increase in the minimum wage in a few weeks.
from 8.91 pounds per hour to around 9.42 pounds for workers over the age of 23.
The move is part of Boris Johnson's promise to end the "broken" model of a low-wage, low-growth economy.
Daily Mirror
Conservative shame day.
No alternative, heartless.
Boris Johnson repeats the idol Thatcher's lies when he says he has to ask for £ 20 a week back from families most in need.
The measure is that of the Universal Credit recognized on the basis of our ISEE and the title takes up a lucky slogan from Johnson, there isn't.
alternative
FT
Johnson accentuates the battle with companies over immigration.
Boris Johnson will intensify friction with business today when he tells the Conservative Party Congress that some entrepreneurs have used high immigration as an "excuse" not to invest in their company or staff. The prime minister will insist that his government has "the guts" to lead a transition to a "high-wage, high-skill, high-productivity economy," closing the congress in a bright tone to businesses and farmers - once seen as i pillar of Tory support. Johnson was infuriated by accusations against the government of fuel shortages and supply chain disruptions. Rather than opening the door for large numbers of immigrants to fill vacancies, Johnson will say that the upheaval ofpost-pandemic and post-Brexit economy is an opportunity to reset the British economy. "The answer is to control immigration, to allow talented people to come to this country, but not to use immigration as an excuse for not investing in people, skills and equipment," Johnson will say. "We will not go back to the same old man. broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills and low productivity. "We will not go back to the same old broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills and low productivity. "We will not go back to the same old broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills and low productivity. "
Le Parisien
Sexual scandals in the church.
And now, how to repair.
The Pope yesterday denounced the frightening reality that emerged with the Sauvé report: 330 thousand victims of aggression.
The Vatican will take strong measures to avoid new cases.
Le Figaro
the Church in the shock of the truth
the figures revealed by the independent commission on sexual abuse in the church make you dizzy.
They reveal an evil that Jean Marc Sauvé defined as 'systemic'.
La Croix
Pain and shame.
Faced with the truth, writes Jerome Chapuis: The manifest contradiction between words and deeds adds to the scandal of the attack on the weakest.
This descent into the abyss of evil generates a deafening noise which for a time makes the words of the Church inaudible.
The request for forgiveness expressed on behalf of the bishops by Bishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort was necessary.
But more will be needed in the months and years to come to repair what can be repaired, with more listening, a reform of canon law, a reflection on the figure of the priest and on the secret of confession.