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Mark Zuckerberg is 'optimistic' AI tools to flag hate speech from Facebook will be developed in 5-10 years

Melissa Quinn
The Washington Examiner
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:51 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg testified
© Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a joint Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted Tuesday it will be five to 10 years before Facebook has technological tools in place to flag and remove hate speech from the platform before it is posted.

During testimony before a joint hearing with the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees, Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., asked Zuckerberg what challenges Facebook faces with evaluating hate speech versus legitimate political discourse.

Zuckerberg noted it's more difficult for Facebook to rely on technology to root out hate speech compared to other content on the platform, such as terrorist propaganda.

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Brick Wall

US liberals and conservatives won't agree so should the country split?

Jesse Kelly
The Federalist
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
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© AK Rockefeller / Flickr
This idea of breaking up the country may seem a bit outlandish now, but you won't think so once real domestic unrest comes to your town.
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..." - The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Divorce is hard, but it's easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife's car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids hide in their room.

We cannot come together, but we do not have to live like this. The history of the world is nations breaking up and redrawing their borders. If we want to avoid this political divide turning into a deadly one, we should do likewise.

Stop clinging to the past and acknowledge where we are as a country, not where you want us to be, not where things were when your grandpa was storming the beaches of Normandy. Where we truly are.

Comment: There's nothing to say that with a border the tensions wouldn't escalate further because the mutated liberal mindset, as noted in the article, is all consuming and won't stop till everybody and everything is subservient to its nihilistic agenda. Ultimately. like neo-nazis, libtards are just pawns in the ruling establishment's divide and conquer agenda: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Info

Supreme Court Justice's wife, Ginni Thomas, under fire for criticizing Parkland shooting survivors


RT
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:23 UTC
Parkland students
© Thom Baur / Reuters
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is the latest in a line of public figures under attack from the media for criticizing the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting.

Thomas shared several posts on her Facebook page, including one that depicted a pile of shoes from Holocaust victims. The caption implied that gun control leads to genocide.

"To all the kids that walked out of school to protest guns. These are the shoes of Jews that gave up their firearms to Hitler. They were led into gas chambers, murdered and buried in mass graves. Pick up a history book and you'll realize what happens when u give up freedoms and why we have them," the post said.

Comment: It seems that to the left, any criticism of the Parkland students who are leveraging their association with the tragedy into political partisan platforms, is strictly verboten. The holocaust one is pretty tasteless (and hyperbolic) but the memes in particular are nothing to get bent out of shape over.

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2 + 2 = 4

Al-Qaeda's air force: Syrian terrorists announce intention to launch counter-offensive after US attack


RT
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:09 UTC
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© Umit Bektas / Reuters
"Go Trump!"
Syrian militants will launch an offensive to capture government-held areas, if the US goes ahead with a strike and weakens the Syrian Army's positions, a rebel commander has said.

In a hardly surprising admission, an oft-cited Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander said the possible strike against Syria mulled by US President Donald Trump would play into the hands of militants seeking to topple Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

"We will try to take advantage of this strike on the battlefield first of all, since these strikes will lead to the dispersion of the regime's forces, the chaos in its ranks and the rout of the regime. Such circumstances will subsequently prepare the armed forces of revolution for launching attacks, during which it will be possible to regain control of certain areas and capture new ones," Fateh Hassoun told RIA Novosti, also arguing that the possible US strike would pave the way for "real" negotiations.

"As forces of political opposition, we will use the political weakness of the regime. It can possibly become an influence lever to push Russia in order to start real negotiations," Hassoun said.


Comment: What a clown. "Political" opposition?


Comment: It makes sense. They're American-backed terrorists, after all. But does Trump really want to go down as the president who so transparently supported jihadists by acting as their own personal air force?

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Arrow Down

Two Coloradan men only receive probation for gang-raping 13yo - locals outraged

Warner Todd Huston
Breitbart
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:03 UTC
Tommy Clarence Williams
© Colorado Springs Police Department
Coloradans are outraged that two men convicted of gang-raping a 13-year-old girl were only sentenced to probation.

On April 3, Tommy Williams, 20, and Clarence Williams, 19, received no jail time but were only sentenced to probation for the 2016 rape of a girl in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Fox News reported.

The pair was a part of a six-man crew convicted of the rape that occurred at the Stonebrook Terrace Apartments on the 4000 block of Tappan Drive in Colorado Springs. The victim testified that she was lured to the apartment with the promise of playing video games but, instead, found the crew there waiting to molest her.

The victim said there were other people in the apartment when she arrived, but when she went to use the bathroom, the others quickly vacated, leaving only the six men who attacked her. The girl's grandmother said the rape was so violent that the victim may never be able to have children, KKTV reported.

Some of the suspects were cousins or brothers, police discovered.

Comment: Rapists should go to prison. And parents should teach their young girls that it's very stupid to accept some stranger's offer to come up to his place to "play video games".

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Slain Palestinian journalist's media org Ain promises to hold Israel accountable 'for this heinous crime'


Mondoweiss
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:19 UTC
Yaser Murtajajournalst Gaza
© AIN Media
Yaser Murtaja, founder of Ain Media.
Last Friday, Palestinian journalist Yaser Abdul Rahman Murtaja was killed by an Israeli sniper near the border fence wearing a PRESS flak jacket, and today the Norwegian Refugee Council- which had reached an agreement for Murtaja to shoot video for them - linked to Murtaja's latest footage of the "Great March of Return" protests.

It is posted here, and is a ravishing demonstration of Murtaja's powers as a filmmaker. "He was killed doing his job: recording his people's right to protest for their human rights," says Karl Schembri of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Comment: More than anything else, psychopaths fear exposure.

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Dominoes

Newest round of anti-Russian sanctions will cost German economy billions with China ready to fill the void


RT
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:58 UTC
german flag
© Johannes Eisele / Reuters
Washington's latest round of sanctions targeting Russian business will cost the German economy billions of euros, according to estimates revealed by the Russian-German Foreign Trade Chamber (AHK).

"The recent sanctions of the US against Russia may cost the German economy billions of euros in years to come," the report said. "The German economy is facing losses of more than €100 million ($123 million) in the short term. The growing administrative costs due to additional inspections are an additional obstacle for German business."

According to the body's analysts, German companies working in Russia have close partnership relations with companies and individuals included in the latest US sanction list. They say that Russian automotive conglomerate GAZ Group, metallurgic and energy group Renova, global aluminum major RUSAL, as well as Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller, are key figures in German business deals in Russia.
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Eye 1

AI to police content and other revelations from Zuckerberg's Senate testimony


RT
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:46 UTC
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent five hours testifying to the Senate, defending the social network from charges of aiding 'Russian meddling' and even revealing a few trade secrets in the process.

The marathon session on Tuesday involved members of the Senate Judiciary and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees. While the internet trolled Zuckerberg for using a booster seat and his meme-able, grade-school bowl haircut, Facebook's stocks had their best day in two years, with a 4.5 percent surge after weeks of decline.

While Democrats seemed more concerned with passing new laws to regulate social media, Republicans asked pointed questions about Facebook's "policing" of content on the platform.
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Fireball

Well-rounded education? University sex week to feature strap-on anal sex workshop

Ema Gavrilovic
The College Fix
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:09 UTC
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The University of Tennessee at Knoxville is hosting "Sex Week" at which students will learn about a wide variety of sexual practices and topics, including a workshop dedicated to teaching students about "pegging," a sexual practice in which a woman anally penetrates a man with a strap-on dildo.

The class, titled "Butt Stuff 2.0: The Pegging," is one of among nearly 30 workshops and events taking place over the weeklong festival.

"Pegging is a sexual practice that's slowly gaining prominence in the cultural eye," states the event listing. "This event will attempt to clarify how to safely and healthily engage in the act, as well as demystify any misconceptions regarding anal sex."


Comment: "Slowly gaining prominence in the cultural eye"? Now that's wishful thinking.


The event, to be hosted by sexologist Dr. Lindsey Doe, "will address many facets of the subject, ranging from different positions to try and appropriate preparation tactics."

Doe, who is also moderating the events "Toys R Sex" and "Sucking D and Licking P," hosts her own YouTube channel titled "Sexplanations," featuring videos such as "Asphyxiation" and "Cross Cultural Intimacy." She did not respond to requests for comment from The College Fix.
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Red Flag

Veteran academics: Higher education has become 'profoundly unintellectual' and students 'can't think for themselves'

Jeremiah Poff
The College Fix
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:06 UTC
sex addiction
Today's college students are "situationally confused." They have no room in their schedules for "intellectual curiosity."

And their sexual promiscuity is practically the only part of their lives that their colleges refuse to police.

Two veteran academics who have diagnosed different plagues in modern higher education have little optimism for young people entering college for the foreseeable future, judging by their presentations to a conference this past weekend at Franciscan University of Steubenville, a conservative Catholic institution.

College students have no passions today and "aren't trained to pay attention to the things they feel connected to," former Yale English professor William Deresiewicz told the gathering on the "crisis" in American higher education at the Veritas Center for Public Ethics.

In fact, higher education has become "profoundly unintellectual" and student life has become about "accumulating gold stars," said Deresiewicz, who publicly disavowed Ivy League education several years after leaving Yale.
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