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Jen Gennai, head of Google’s “Responsible Innovation” team, advised Democrats “to make sure all the anti-corporate rhetoric stays rhetoric. They need to keep in mind that we are with them 100 percent in their goal to oust Trump and will do everything in our power to assure that this effort succeeds.” “Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google,” Gennai complained. “And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged...

THE SCIENCE FICTION OF PREGNANT MALES—AND JUST WHO THE HELL IS Julián (?) Castro? PICTURE i.dailymail.co.uk Author: Conservative Detective, JEFFREY A. FRIEDBERG OPINION: BY JEFFREY A. FRIEDBERG Impolite, and not chronicling the “news” politely…. PICTURES PREGNANT ‘MAN’” (oh, right this fooled me totally—I thought it was a MAN!) – “Hayden Cross was born a girl and was legally male when he paused transgender hormone treatment to conceive using a sperm donor he had met on Facebook.” Oh, that’s just too good: IT’S A “HE!” “…During Wednesday night’s first Democratic presidential debate, San Antonio mayor Julián Castro stated he supports taxpayer-funded...

Twitter will hide tweets from world leaders and politicians that break its rules, but not remove them from the Internet.... Officials in Harney County, Oregon are urging a federal judge not to issue a preliminary injunction preventing ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond from using federal lands for cattle grazing...... US Chief Justice John Roberts joining four liberal justices in a 5-4 decision Thursday saying the White House has not provided a good enough reason to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census..... The US Supreme Court also ruling that federal courts do not have a say over legislative maps...

Twitter Begins Censoring Trump's Tweets Twitter announced on Thursday that it would censor President Trump's tweets going into the 2020 election ...

Twitter will add warning labels to tweets from world leaders that break its rules following years of public criticism and uncertainty around contentious posts from Donald Trump and other politicians. On Thursday, the San Francisco-based company introduced a new policy for tweets from well known government officials that violate its policies on abuse, harassment, and violent threats. Instead of removing the violative posts, it will put them behind a warning notice. That notice will explain that a tweet was found to be in violation of Twitter’s policies, but has been allowed to remain on the platform because the company believes...

The British Conservative Party has set July 23rd as the day a new leader and a new Prime Minister for the UK will be announced..... In a series of tweets Tuesday President Trump blasted Iran... President Trump warning that attacks on "anything American" will be met with "great and overwhelming force".... A frank assessment of the situation regarding Iran from Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday.... The summit meeting in Israel between national security advisers from Israel, Russia and the United States produced a frank exchange of differing views.... The meeting is underway in Bahrain discussing the 50 billion dollar...

VIDEO A knitting and crochet website, Ravelry, is suffering from extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome with the result that they have banned anybody who posts anything favorable about Donald Trump. Note that this is not a general ban on political discussion. If you upload a project of knitted socks with hammer and sickle designs or post favorably about Elizabeth Warren, that is permissible. Only posting favorably about the Big Bad Orange Man is taboo there. I also analyze the genesis of this whole TDS outbreak on a knitting site which goes back to January due to the Social Justice Warriors going...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Washington Sunday headed for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.... President Trump tweeting over the weekend that: "major additional Sanctions" will be imposed on Iran Monday...... National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday that President Trump looks forward to meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit.... The rerun of the election for mayor in Turkey's largest city Sunday. Results showing a strong lead for the CHP opposition party..... Democrat Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg back home in South Bend, Indiana Sunday confronting anger and frustration at a town hall meeting.......

The "New York Times" reported late Thursday that President Trump had approved military action against Iran and had pulled back from the decision..... "Iran made a very big mistake!" That's how President Trump sees Iran's shooting down of an American drone via Twitter..... Both the US and Iran confirmed the shoot down of the American drone..... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that 108 airstrikes have been carried out in northwestern Syria.... We are now down to the final two candidates to be the next Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister... In Alabama Judge Roy Moore is in...

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, on Tuesday requested that Facebook pause its development of Libra, an upcoming cryptocurrency that the company plans to release in 2020. “Given the company’s troubled past, I am requesting that Facebook agree to a moratorium on any movement forward on developing a cryptocurrency until Congress and regulators have the opportunity to examine these issues and take action,” Waters said in a statement on Tuesday. Facebook and a consortium of partners on Tuesday unveiled Libra, its much-awaited blockchain project that the company has been working on over the past year....

VIDEO Poppy Harlow disgraced the profession of journalism by advocating strongly in favor of censorship on YouTube. Of course, she wants a ban on Stephen Crowder's channel and other channels that just so happen to be conservative leaning. You never hear her call for a ban on any leftwing videos, no matter how offensive they might be.

People come to Pinterest for all kinds of things. But apparently, there's one thing users won't find on the app -- and that's tolerance. It was supposed to be a harmless site, a place for swapping recipes and planning kitchen remodels. Now we know: even the most innocuous platforms aren't immune from Big Tech's censorship. And if that's the case, conservatives are in trouble. Because the problem just got a whole lot worse than we thought. Eric Cochran was an employee of Pinterest, a software engineer. Like a lot of conservatives in the online world, he kept his views to...

For some weird reason I can't sign in to YouTube via my Chrome Browser. In fact I never have to sign in because it reads my information automatically. However, this time I was prompted to sign in but when I click to sign in, I get an error message. How can I sign in. I can access my YouTube account via IE browser but I rarely use that. I need to sign in via chrome. I can't figure out why I am being blocked when I use Chrome.

VIDEO YouTube's Rewind 2018 turned out to be such an incredible disaster that it quickly became that platform's most disliked video of all time. So this year it is expected that YouTube will avoid the mistake of featuring celebrities and concentrate more on YouTubers themselves. However, the problem is if they do that how do they ignore prominent YouTubers such as PewDiePie and Logan Paul who they have very noticeably shunned last year? In addition, the biggest controversy by far this year is the demonetization of Steven Crowder's Louder With Crowder, not for violating any specific policies but because someone...

I've used a computer running Windows 7 to file our federal taxes for several years. Microsoft will stop support and security updates on January 14, 2020. We always file as soon as we get all tax forms (usually early February). Wondering if we would be safe doing the same one more time. Thoughts?

VIDEO After watching the Axios on HBO interview with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the DUmmie FUnnies has decided that we will only produce delightfully bland videos free of any hint of controversy in the future in order to maintain our Social Media Credit score and avoid the fate of Steven Crowder. K-POP!!!

Saturday afternoon, poolside. Traeger was smoking away. Family was in the pool. I was manning the Traeger and got a phone call from my brother. We spoke and I automatically put the phone in my pocket. My swimsuit pocket. Yeah, you know what happened next. Decided to take a dip. I hit the water took a lap. That was when I realized the phone was still in my pocket. Took it out, took it out of the case, dried it off and plunged it into a bag of rice. Wait 36 hours one website said. Today: Phone works with no...

Tim Pool's thoughts on Vox Media's censorship campaign and the latest AdPocalypse.

In this face recognition article, I will guide you to create your own face recognition in images. For this purpose, I will use Python face recognition library and Pillow which is Python Imaging Library(PIL). I chose to use Visual Studio Code since I need to use integrated terminal. First, I start with setting a virtual environment and install pipenv on my terminal...

On April 10, 2018, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz grilled Facebook Chairman and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg over the social media platform’s content moderation policies. Citing examples of Facebook censoring pro-conservative accounts and articles, Sen. Cruz explained to Zuckerberg, “to a great many Americans, that appears to be a pervasive pattern of political bias.” Sen. Ted Cruz then pressed the Facebook chairman on whether his organization was a “neutral public forum,” arguing that neutrality is necessary to enjoy the protections guaranteed by Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. A willingness to consider modifying Section 230 to weaken protections enjoyed by...