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Sacha Baron Cohen is wrong about social media

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Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen launched a scathing attack on the social-media giants last week for enabling the proliferation of 'hate, conspiracies and lies'. In his keynote address to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Baron Cohen denounced Facebook as 'the greatest propaganda machine in history'. The Who is America star called for greater regulation of social media to remove hate speech, even if it meant banning elected politicians. And because Facebook doesn't fact-check political adverts, he claimed that if the platform were around in the 1930s, 'it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his "solution" to the "Jewish problem"'.

There are two major problems with Baron Cohen's broadside against social media. First, it is simply untrue that social-media platforms are unregulated and unmoderated havens for free speech. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and PayPal have all banned users who they consider to be spreading 'hate speech' - a definition which extends from conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and EDL founder Tommy Robinson to left-wing feminists like Meghan Murphy and some Antifa organisations.

Comment: So much for Cohen 'just being a comedian'. With this speech (to the ADL, no less!), he joins the globalists' call for mass censorship - precisely the kind of thing Hitler would have approved of. The 'funnyman' recently played a Mossad officer in a 'serious' biopic. It all puts his past 'performances' in a new light. Was he 'just making fun of' 'whoever' when singing ditties about 'throwing the Jews down the well', or was there a particular political slant to his characters?

As for social media being 'the largest mass propaganda machine in history'... whew, just don't mention the globalist MSM - largely controlled by his 'tribe'.

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Attention

NYC pays 'rubber room' teacher $1.7M over 20 years after sex abuse claims

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© J.C. RiceAryeh Eller
It's his 20th anniversary in the rubber room.

Aryeh Eller taught orchestral music at Hillcrest High School in Queens for just two full years before being suspended in November 1999 for allegedly harassing female students with sexual comments and touching.

He asked girls to lift their shirts to show him their butts, lewdly remarked on their breasts, hugged and kissed them and claimed that he "had a hard time teaching" with the way they dressed, investigators found. He even admitted having a "crush" on a teen.

Comment: That so many teachers guilty of clearly exploitive and degrading behavior with students are quarantined, with pay(!), rather than fired is a true miscarriage of justice. That these pedophiles are kept on the payroll is abhorrent.

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Stop

Council to sell original Magna Carta for £20,000,000 to fund office refurb

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© GettyThere are only seven copies of the Magna Carta – A charter of rights drawn up in 1215 – in existence.
Locals are fuming over their town council's plans to sell a medieval copy of the Magna Carta.

The charter of rights is just one of seven in existence and was presented to the Kent town of Faversham in 1300.

After caring for the document for more than 700 years, Faversham Town Council have revealed plans to sell the manuscript, which was signed and sealed by King Edward I.

Attention

Twitter's new terms of service explicitly allows pedophiles to discuss 'attraction towards minors' on their platform

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Social media giant Twitter has quietly amended their terms of service to allow for "discussions related to... attraction towards minors" to be allowed on their platform.

"Discussions related to child sexual exploitation as a phenomenon or attraction towards minors are permitted, provided they don't promote or glorify child sexual exploitation in any way," reads Twitter's terms of service.

Twitter noted that they would allow for nude depictions of children on their platform in certain instances.

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Avoiding and dealing with stupidity in the age of pregnant and period-producing men

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There are a lot of unbelievable things happening in our world today. So many, that it's easy to ignore them as they whip by us like the Wicked Witch of the West's hoard of flying monkeys.

But some things are just too remarkable to ignore. The ACLU's tweet for International Men's Day is one of them:


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Details in Ruth George death revealed: Man murdered, sexually assaulted her after she refused his advances

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© WGN / Cook CountyDonald Thurman, 26, is charged with first-degree murder and sexual assault in the death of Ruth George, who was found dead Saturday in a parking garage on the UIC campus.
The man charged in the murder of UIC student Ruth George at a campus parking garage was denied bail Tuesday.

Donald Thurman, 26, is charged with first-degree murder and sexual assault. Police said he has confessed to the crime and has a criminal history.

Judge Charles Beach II ordered Thurman held without bail, after Cook County prosecutors said he admitted to the attack. He has no connection to UIC and did not know George, police said.

The 19-year-old sophomore was found strangled in the backseat of her family's car at a UIC parking garage near Halsted and Taylor streets.

Police said surveillance video shows Thurman at about 1:35 a.m. Saturday following George into the garage and then leaving a half hour later.

A person of interest is in custody after authorities said a University of Illinois Chicago student was strangled at a campus parking garage.

Thurman allegedly confessed after being arrested Sunday morning at the nearby Harrison and Halsted Blue Line stop. Investigators said they had staked out that station after tracking his travel patterns with the help of nearby cameras.

"The defendant was angry that he was being ignored. The defendant came up behind the victim, grabbed her around the neck from behind, and put her into a choke hold," said Cook County Asst. State's Attorney James Murphy. "With his arms still wrapped around the victim's neck the defendant dragged the victim from the ground and he opened her back seat car door."

Megaphone

Irate French farmers descend on Paris in 1,000-strong tractor convoy to protest EU regulations

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Roughly one thousand tractors have descended on Paris as French farmers protest against government policies and international trade agreements which they say are impacting their bottom line and thus their quality of life.

The frustrated farmers are assembling at Avenue Foch, near the Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe.

The protest was organized by the two main farmers' unions who have called for a joint meeting with President Emmanuel Macron to discuss his policies, which they claim are hurting the agricultural sector.

Comment: Some of the recent farmers protests throughout Europe:


Bullseye

Ron Paul: Americans are 'sick and tired' of impeachment and 'grandstanding & chicanery' of both parties

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The Democrats are desperately trying to remove President Donald Trump from office or at least win back the presidency in 2020. Yet, all their efforts are seemingly having the opposite effect, former congressman Ron Paul told RT.

Under the present circumstances, the impeachment would be a "total negative for the Democrats" as it would be "squelched in the Senate," even if the Democrat-majority House approves it, Paul said on Tuesday.

More importantly, the whole process is apparently losing steam because people are "sick and tired" of the latest of many attempts to impeach Trump.

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Packed crowd in south Florida welcomes Trump for another massive rally


Comment: US national media either ignored or bashed this event, while even local media pooh-poohed it, but the 4-year-old trend of Trump speaking to sell-out crowds at large venues demonstrates that he is far and away the most popular leader the US has had for decades...


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© Anna Moneymaker/The New York TimesPresident Trump rocks the house, again
President Donald Trump's supporters outside his "homecoming" rally at the BB&T Center in Sunrise Tuesday took the theme to heart, grilling hot dogs from the backs of trucks and sunning themselves on patriotic-themed lawn chairs like they were attending a block party for their famous new Florida neighbor.


Comment: Indeed, in addition to the capacity crowd of 22,000 inside the arena, an overflow crowd of several thousand more watched the event on a big screen outside.


But when the doors opened for supporters to start filing into the arena, they ditched their chairs in piles throughout the parking lot — or, in some cases, returned them to a rental table — and headed into the center en masse for the campaign rally.


Comment: That was yesterday. Today, Trump tweeted this:




Bad Guys

Prince Andrew met with Jeffrey Epstein's 'madam' Ghislaine Maxwell for secret summit at Buckingham Palace

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© Swen Pförtner—Picture-Alliance/AP Prince Andrew, Duke of York, visits Georg August University in Goettingen, Germany on June 3, 2014.
Prince Andrew secretly met Ghislaine Maxwell inside Buckingham Palace — two weeks after her paedo ex Jeffrey Epstein was placed under new investigation by US cops.

The Duke of York admitted in his "car crash" Newsnight interview that he saw Maxwell during the summer, but denied discussing Epstein. But we can reveal the long-term pals met inside Andrew's private Palace quarters on June 6.

The choice of venue — the inner sanctum of the monarchy — raises fresh questions over the Duke's judgment and piles more embarrassment on the Queen.

A source said: "Andrew's arrogance is breathtaking. To invite a woman accused of such serious wrongdoing into the heart of the Royal Family simply beggars belief."