Moral Panic Over Palestinian Content In Ontario schools By Michelle Weinroth, Canadian Dimension. November 25, 2020 Moral Panic Over Palestinian Content In Ontario schools2020-11-252020-11-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/palestine_flag_mtl_800_489.png200px200px Above photo: Protesters carry a Palestinian flag in Montréal, July 30, 2014. Flickr. Digital technology has been a fixture in the Ontario classroom setting for some years now, but with COVID it has become a particularly dominant instrument of secondary school pedagogy. Online teaching and e-learning have increased exponentially with the pandemic. And while such educative options have been a necessary shield against aerosol contamination, they have not been without significant shortcomings. The electronic medium has brought with […]
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Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23 Amazon has joined its Big Tech fellows in ramping up censorship of any criticism of the “official” Covid-19 narrative, deploying obfuscatory excuses to justify removing journalist James Perloff’s latest book, he told RT. After selling a respectable 3,500 copies over the last two months, Perloff’s book on the coronavirus pandemic and its weaponization by world governments, “Covid-19 and the Agendas to Come: Red-Pilled,” was suddenly “banned” by Amazon.com, the writer revealed on Twitter on Thursday. Perloff spoke to RT on Friday about the platform’s ominous act of […]
Twitter is cracking down on the spread of “misleading” content ahead of the US election, as users attempting to retweet anything similar to the NYPost’s Hunter Biden leaks will now get a warning the material is “disputed.” Attempting to retweet offending content will trigger a prompt warning the user that the material they’re trying to post is “disputed,” Twitter revealed on Friday, posting an image of the new warning screen. The user will be able to click a button to “find out more” about why Twitter doesn’t want the material shared, and then presumably post it anyway. Our work to limit […]
The Russian nuclear industry has passed the 75 year mark, and as part of this big event we talked to Chiara Chocciara, aerospace engineer who contributes to the preparation of the future space missions. She explains that nuclear technology is crucial in almost all aspects of life, from medicine to food production. And in the Mars mission, such an industry can also play an important role. “Nuclear technology will be useful in many ways, including medicine, food, even art. It is also beneficial for space exploration. It will be very important for the Mars mission,”-said Chocchiara. The reduction of space flight […]
According to a recent survey of adults in the US aged 18-39, almost a quarter said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, that it had been exaggerated or they weren’t sure. Institutions focused on Holocaust research and remembrance, such as Yad Vashem, have noted that Holocaust education is a key component in combatting anti-Semitism. Tech giant Facebook updated its hate speech policy on Monday to ban any content that rejects or distorts the reality of the Holocaust. The decision comes following a campaign spearheaded by Holocaust survivors around the world to target Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this summer, urging him to […]
A figure skating powerhouse that has raised multiple world and Olympic champions, Russia continues to discover new talents, and Veronika Zhilina is one of the country’s most technically gifted finds in years. The 12-year-old had pundits talking about her future prospects the moment she presented her newly acquired jumping skills during training sessions. Also on rt.com Quad generation: 12yo Russian figure skating prodigy nails INSANE jump at training session (VIDEO) The slight-framed youngster, who moved to Evgeni Plushenko’s academy in May after splitting from Eteri Tutberidze, stunned skating experts with her talent, which has put her on a par with the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/17/1080543893_0:0:3121:1757_1200x675_80_0_0_d11ba5484f4bc88b2a049bd939bee61a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Evan Craighead . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009231080543925-facebook-prepared-to-restrict-content-circulation-if-us-election-descends-into-online-chaos/ Facebook will take an array of measures to “restrict the circulation of content” if the November 3 US presidential election devolves into chaos and unrest, according to a Tuesday report by the Financial Times. Former UK member of parliament Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communications risk management, told the Financial Times that risk management is one of the company’s utmost concerns related to the upcoming presidential election. Without getting into explicit details, Clegg noted that Facebook, which also owns the social media platform Instagram, has formulated a […]
A former YouTube mod has sued the Google-owned platform, claiming work exposure to child abuse, beheadings, and other vile content led to depression and PTSD. Her lawyers previously forced a large settlement out of Facebook. The unnamed ex-YouTube moderator is demanding compensation and treatment for the trauma she said she suffered, claiming in a lawsuit filed on Monday that her work left her with depression and PTSD symptoms. According to the filing, she now experiences panic attacks, nightmares, and crippling anxiety, causing her to shun crowds and children and fear one day having kids herself. Alleged “chronic understaffing” at YouTube forced […]
BELGRADE (Sputnik) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic revealed on Friday the content of an agreement on the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo, signed with the United States at the White House. Vucic stressed that the Serbian leadership and the Kosovars signed separate bilateral agreements with the United States and listed his country’s points. “We signed today a bilateral agreement with the United States, this is not a trilateral agreement, which is very important. This is a bilateral agreement because the third party is not recognized in this agreement as a subject of international law”, Vucic said, as broadcast by national TV. According […]
James Murdoch tendered his resignation from the Board of Directors of News Corporation, the parent company of FOX News. Rubert Murdoch stepped down as the CEO of FOX in June 2011 and handed the reins over to his son James. James Murdoch’s wife Kathryn Murdoch is an outspoken leftist who works for the Clinton Climate Initiative. The resignation went into effect today. TRENDING: Ghislaine Maxwell Documents Unsealed: Allegations Against Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Others — FBI Knew Had Evidence of the Crimes for Years Yahoo.com has more on the resignation. In a filing to US regulators, he said he also disagreed with some “strategic […]
Twitter has announced a mass ban for thousands of profiles linked to the so-called QAnon community and any related content, citing potential “offline harm,” but critics insist the purge will only raise the movement’s profile. The social media giant said it would permanently suspend accounts that share content associated with the conspiracy-minded community, arguing such posts could lead to real world harm, though it did not explain how. The sweeping ban will affect up to 150,000 accounts, 7,000 of which have already been wiped from the site, NBC News reported, citing a company spokesperson. In addition, we will:1⃣ No longer serve […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The telecommunications regulatory body of Pakistan issued notices to popular Chinese app TikTok and Singapore-based video sharing platform Bigo after receiving a number complaints, claiming the apps are spreading pornography for the sake of fame and ratings on social media. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued a “final warning” to Bytedance-owned TikTok over so-called obscene and immoral content on the platforms, days after it temporarily suspended PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). In a statement issued on Monday night, the telecommunications regulator banned live streaming application Bigo and issued a warning to TikTok after not getting “satisfactory responses” from the company over […]
The probe was launched after postal police investigators discovered photos of nude minors and other “horrifying” content, depicting actual sexual violence where the victims were often infants. Italian police have broken up a sizeable child pornography ring in which sexual photographs and videos of children, including newborns, were shared via instant messaging, according to the Guardian. The bust involved dozens of home raids and led to the arrests of three people for possessing “huge quantities of pornographic material depicting minors” – in all, 50 people are reportedly currently under investigation. In some cases, the pornography was produced in the homes of […]
YouTube intellectual Stefan Molyneux has seen his channel of 14 years and thousands of videos deleted, with the platform citing “hate speech” as a number of online venues take aim at conservative and right-wing personalities. Molyneux – the host of Freedomain Radio, billed as “the world’s number one philosophy show” – was booted off YouTube on Monday over its policies regulating “hate speech,” according to a company statement. His termination came amid a broader social media purge throughout the day, which saw prominent Trump-related accounts banned on Reddit and Twitch, as well as other right-wingers scrubbed from YouTube for good. READ […]
A longtime subforum dedicated to fans and supporters of US President Donald Trump has been removed from Reddit, adding to the growing list of social media violations recently attributed to the US president and his supporters. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced in a Monday content policy update that in addition to increased forum moderation and more explicit rules regarding “hate based on identity or vulnerability,” some 2,000 active and inactive subreddits have been banned from the website, including “r/The_Donald.” “All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith. We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, […]
Watch the video, John Oliver is brilliant, and of course, utterly truthful and very well informed Daily Beast: The comic then threw to Vice President Mike Pence’s press conference, in which the man who once allowed a horrifying HIV outbreak during his stint as Indiana governor lied through his teeth. “The truth is, we did slow the spread,” he said. “We flattened the curve. We were able to stand up the resources and the capacities in our health-care system to be able to meet this coronavirus, uh, in a way that would put, um, the health of all of our country first.” […]
Barr’s interview, in which he shares his opinions on antitrust law, comes amid high tension between US President Donald Trump and social media, as Twitter and Facebook flag and remove his content for breaking terms of service. Trump, in response, initiated an executive order that would make it easier for social media platforms to be sued. US Attorney General William Barr in an interview on Fox News reacted to two conservative news sites – The Federalist and ZeroHedge – allegedly being punished by Google for “biased” coverage of the George Floyd anti-police-brutality protests, a claim made by NBC earlier in the week […]
A new platform dubbed Superhero will allow users such as artists and musicians to boost exposure to their content and receive tips in the form of tokens – all while keeping their personal data private. Launched Wednesday on Aeternity, an open-source public blockchain, the Superhero project is a decentralized peer-to-peer social sharing initiative for tipping, patronage and sponsoring user content or digital goods. Artists, developers, educators, medical groups, environmentalists and non-profits are just some of the wide-ranging groups that are being eyed as potentially benefiting from the Superhero platform. Donations for quality content can be sent to the creator without needing […]
Flora Teoh The far left tech companines are moving at light speed to eliminate free speech in the West. The YouTube-Google CEO announced recently that the world’s largest video platform would only allow WHO approved talking points on their platform. They will delete other videos that are not approved by the China-dominated health organization. Facebook enlisted several far left groups to ‘factcheck’ articles written by conservatives in an effort to prevent the real truth or a different point of view from being decimated to the public. This is happening every day. Being one of the most influential conservative news outlets in […]
Facebook will pay $52 million to thousands of contract workers who viewed and removed graphic and disturbing posts on the social media platform, lawyers for the company said in a new legal filing. Ben Margot/AP hide caption toggle caption Ben Margot/AP Facebook will pay $52 million to thousands of contract workers who viewed and removed graphic and disturbing posts on the social media platform, lawyers for the company said in a new legal filing. Ben Margot/AP Facebook will pay $52 million to thousands of current and former contract workers who viewed and removed graphic and disturbing posts on the social media […]