It is generally bad media practice to write about yourself, and here at Gript, we try to avoid it. There are, however, occasions when it becomes necessary, to illustrate a broader point. Yesterday morning, the Editorial Team at Gript received a communication from Facebook. Our Facebook page – with 42,000 followers – was, we were […]
“Amazon pays all the taxes required in every country where we operate,” the spokesman said.
It has recently emerged that Amazon has decided to ban books – and a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. They say they will not sell anything containing “hate speech,” though they haven’t defined what they mean by that. Sometime from late last year, it appears they have quietly been removing titles from their […]
Free-speech platform, Parler, posted online at the weekend, with CEO John Matze posting a message to “lovers and haters” “Hello world, is this thing on?” Mr Matze wrote, a week after the site, which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, was taken off line by Amazon Web Services and booted out of Google […]
Parler, a social media platform which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, has urged the U.S. Western District Court to order Amazon to restore its service online. Parler also accused Amazon of being “motivated by political animus” and of acting “to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter”. Amazon Web […]
Independent TD, Mattie McGrath, has appealed to shoppers to support independent retailers as shops re-open after the Covid-19 lockdown. “As our towns and villages across the county re-open, I am appealing to you all to do your best to shop local, buy local, eat local and stay local,” he said. Deputy McGrath said that local businesses, […]