Promoters of social media censorship say it is necessary to combate misinformation and disinformation. But then, who regulates offline speech, such as political hit pieces that arrive via postal mail the week before an election? No one does. In fact, the government regulating either is a First Amendment violation – they cannot regulate our speech.
The US Department of Homeland Security, in cooperation with Facebook and Twitter, activity sought to censor online speech, allegedly using secret back door login portals to make urgent censorship requests.
Pick cherries to make whatever flavor of cherry pie you want.
Wow – a woman posts on social media that she and her husband enjoy coffee each morning, sitting in their garden. The perpetual culture of outrage piles on and turns her tweet into a viral, and then mass media, story, about how everyone has a need to be perpetually outraged!!!!!
Cambridge University is teaching students a fake form of the German language, that does away with the language’s gender usage. Many languages, German, French, Spanish – and so on – have gendered nouns that require a gender specific definite or indefinite article (and other forms).
NPR reporter bungles simple facts to make her argument.
The Oregonian, published since the 19th century, admits to a long and powerful history of deliberate, cruel racism and as an advocate of xenophobia, much like the admission of National Geographic in 2018. Powerful publishers have spread hate and disinformation for more than a century – how can we trust anything they produce today? They have all lost our trust.
This article confuses “average” in the title, with “median” used in the report. Why do they do this?
Just an ordinary Mom of 2 traveling the world, working remotely, and saving tons of money by earning a U.S. income while living in much lower cost of living countries … the meme expressed here is bogus.
She was born in Albania, speaks multiple languages, attended universities in the U.S. and elsewhere, and did various work-related internship programs in Albania and Switzerland, was founder and CEO of he own business, almost certainly has EU citizenship and US residency, enabling her family to stay past the 90-day visa limits.
Just an ordinary Mom of 2.
New paper notes climate models, and for that matter media attention is focused on the least likely scenarios – which are the worst case. But some say these worst-case scenarios are not physically possible, let alone likely. A direct consequence of much attention given to likely impossible scenarios is that 40% of young adults suffer from serious anxiety, scared of outcomes that are highly unlikely to develop.