Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 13MAY22
Baby Formula Shortage, Elon Musk Cultural Avatar, China’s Hong Kong Abuses, guest James Czerniawski
Your Heard Tell for Thursday, 12 May, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting the information we need regarding the baby formula shortage, what caused, why it’s coming to a head now, and the role of familiar themes like supply chain, government regulation, and company policies played to get us to the present crisis. We go to Hong Kong, where China is cracking down further on dissent, including arresting the 90 year old former archbishop as a “threat to the state” we will cover the latest in the stripping of human rights from the once proud city of Hong Kong. Guest James Czerniawski of Young Voices returns to the program to talk Twitter, Elon Musk, and Big Tech that has been a constant in the headlines. James helps us turn down the noise on how Elon Musk has become a cultural avatar where the right is convinced he will champion free speech and save social media and the left is demanding his acquisition of Twitter be stopped or it will be the fall of the Republic, we cut through the caterwauling to get to the answers. Plus, James breaks down the regulator, business, and technical aspects of what a Musk-owned Twitter might be like, and whether there is a chance the deal does not go through. Also, a Canadian MP gets in trouble for phoning it in during a session of parliament…from the bathroom, and two countries that are linked in the great humanitarian crisis of our day will take to sport for a good cause. All that and more on this Friday edition of Heard Tell.
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