Amazon has asked all of its employees to remove the TikTok app from their cell phones. The move comes as the US government considers a nationwide ban on the Chinese video app. “Due to security risks, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email,” […]
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has banned all large public events for the next three months, citing the Covid-19 pandemic – only to make a belated exception for Black Lives Matter rallies, incensing Americans far outside the city. Fresh off painting a giant “Black Lives Matter” mural on Fifth […]
A Scrabble players group finds some words are too offensive for its approved list. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A Scrabble players group finds some words are too offensive for its approved list. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The word “slur” has a number of meanings in […]
Facebook has banned dozens of pages allegedly linked to ex-Trump adviser and Republican operative Roger Stone, as well as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in its relentless battle against political ‘misinformation networks’. The 100-account network said to be linked to Stone, a Florida resident, was discovered in the course of an […]
Lithuania has followed its neighbor Latvia’s lead to ban five RT channels based on “recommendations” from the country’s Foreign Ministry, but offered the same bogus and bizarre excuse for the decision. Indeed, officials in Vilnius were no more creative with their reasoning for the ban than those in Riga last […]
The crackdown on alleged hate speech is intensifying as social media platforms either expand their policies or step up enforcement of their terms of service. Reddit banned over 2,000 subreddits as part of a focus on what it deemed hate speech, including The_Donald as well as the subreddit for the […]
Sky Sports has reportedly circulated a list of phrases which are forbidden to be used in match commentary after a study showed that several household phrases which frequently appear on broadcasts have links to slavery. According to a report by the Daily Mail, the list of potentially offensive phrases has […]
Hundreds of Facebook profiles said to be part of a “violent anti-government network” linked to the loose-knit “boogaloo” movement have been permanently deleted, the latest in a wave of mass bans targeting the political right. Some 220 accounts, 106 groups and 28 pages were scrubbed from Facebook on Tuesday, the […]
Latvia’s media council has announced a complete ban on seven RT channels, declaring falsely that they are “under the effective control” of a person subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union. The person in question is well-known Russian broadcaster Dmitry Kiselyov, who in fact heads a completely different news […]
YouTube today banned Stefan Molyneux today after 14 years. Stefan ran the largest philosophy channel on YouTube with nearly a million subscribers, thousands of videos, hundreds of millions of views and billions of comments. @TeamYouTube My channel – active without problems since 2006 – was just terminated without any prior […]
A nationwide coronavirus tracking app is set to launch in Canada, but while the government says its software is fully anonymous, skeptics have raised major privacy concerns, pointing to similarly intrusive programs overseas. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the new software would soon be unveiled in a press briefing […]
Conservative activist Brandon Straka has been banned from flying with American Airlines after he was booted from a plane for refusing to wear a mask as part of the company’s Covid-19 guidelines. “American Airlines thoroughly reviewed an incident on June 17 involving one of our customers, Brandon Straka,” the company […]
May day riot in Seattle Seattle City Council on Monday voted 9-0 to ban choke-holds and police use of crowd control devices such as tear gas, pepper spray, water cannons or acoustic weapons. Police officers can successfully disperse crowds using tear gas instead of using their riot batons, but the […]
A walker passes by the names of George Floyd and Eric Garner spelled out in fabric at the art installation “Say Their Names: Silver Lake Memorial” at the Silver Lake Reservoir, on June 9, in Los Angeles. There has been a recent push for a nationwide ban on police chokeholds […]
The Seattle City Council has voted to make it illegal for police to deploy tear gas, pepper spray and chokeholds on peaceful demonstrators, as part of the city is being overrun by activists declaring it an “autonomous zone.” All nine members of the council voted to strip the city police […]
French police will abandon the chokehold method of arresting suspects, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner promised as George Floyd protests in the US inspired renewed outrage over police conduct in France. “It will no longer be taught in police and gendarmerie schools,” Castaner said on Monday, adding that the chokehold “has […]
Earlier today former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson tweeted out that Amazon had censored and refused to publish his latest book “Unpublished Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns.” THEY CENSORED IT! It is based entirely on published government data and scientific papers. It doesn’t say coronavirus isn’t real or doesn’t […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105790/31/1057903137_75:0:1845:996_1200x675_80_0_0_f2bc4e303f3956088baed649ba613e27.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202005281079438695-chinese-customs-bans-import-of-pigs-wild-boars-from-india-state-media/ New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s northeastern states have been hit by an African swine fever outbreak which has resulted in the death of over 15,000 pigs. The impact of the disease is increasing day by day. So far, over 17,000 pigs have died due […]
Amy Jacobson is an Emmy Award winning journalist at Chicago’s Morning Answer AM 560. Advertisement – story continues below Earlier this month Amy attended an anti-lockdown rally in Chicago. Amy condemned two signs at the rally that compared Pritzker to a Nazi.This is a tactic the Democrat and leftists use […]
World 17:50 GMT 09.05.2020Get short URL 9 May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, which, of course, prompts many social media users to share pictures related to the memorable event. However, Facebook algorithms seem to be strikingly intolerant of one picture in particular. Facebook users […]
The world’s worst terrorists, the Zionists, just forced their German puppets to ban the world’s foremost anti-terror group. -KB In this edition of The Debate, Press TV interviews Kevin Barrett, editor at Veterans Today from Madison and Michael Lane, political analyst from Washington DC to look at whether Germanys anti-Hezbollah […]