Parents have hit out at a Bristol primary school’s decision to bring “drag queens” in to condition young children against “hate crime”.
byVirginia Hale25 Feb 2018, 4:09 AM PST0
The NRA gave FCC Chairman Ajit Pai its Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire award at CPAC for saving the Internet.
bySean Moran24 Feb 2018, 2:25 PM PST0
A group of free-speech lawyers filed the most serious legal challenge yet to Twitter’s censorship policies Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court, seeking a ruling preventing Twitter from banning users purely on the basis of their views and political associations.
byIan Mason23 Feb 2018, 11:10 PM PST0
The communist People’s Republic of China has been waging “unrestricted war” against the United States as its top financial and cyber adversary, cautioned national security expert Frank Gaffney during a 2018 CPAC event Friday.
byEdwin Mora23 Feb 2018, 10:01 PM PST0
Leftist protesters in Washington, DC, projected text reading “Dreamers Deserve Protection” on the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center where CPAC is taking place this year.
byLucas Nolan23 Feb 2018, 8:47 PM PST0
A panel at CPAC 2018 on the topic of social media censorship faced protests on Friday, after attendees asked how the organizers were any different from social networks for deplatforming the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft. During the Q&A session of
byCharlie Nash23 Feb 2018, 4:23 PM PST0
The media is rejoicing at a ruling by the National Labor Review Board (NLRB) which claims that Google was within its rights to fire its former software engineer, James Damore, for questioning company diversity policies. Except there’s one snag: the NLRB “ruling” wasn’t a ruling at all – it’s an internal advice memo with no effect on Damore’s current legal claims.
byAllum Bokhari23 Feb 2018, 12:27 PM PST0
Intel has confirmed that they did not alert security officials about the “Meltdown” and “Spectre” CPU bugs until the security vulnerabilities were made public.
byLucas Nolan23 Feb 2018, 12:26 PM PST0
A new report from Cambridge University warns that rogue states, criminal gangs, and terrorist organizations could use artificial intelligence technology to wreak untold havoc in the very near future.
byJohn Hayward23 Feb 2018, 12:09 PM PST0
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude argued on MSNBC this week that “toxic masculinity” is at the heart of America’s “gun culture.”
byTom Ciccotta23 Feb 2018, 10:45 AM PST0
The University of California, San Diego, is refusing to act on the demands of a petition calling for the university to cancel a course on the films of Woody Allen.
byTom Ciccotta23 Feb 2018, 10:09 AM PST0
A new lawsuit from a former employee claims that Tesla knowingly sold faulty cars that they referred to as “lemons” to the public.
byLucas Nolan23 Feb 2018, 9:46 AM PST0
Snapchat’s market value dropped $1.3 billion after Kylie Jenner dropped a tweet critical of the platform’s most recent update.
byTom Ciccotta23 Feb 2018, 9:35 AM PST0
Actors from the popular TV series Parks and Recreation attacked the National Rifle Association after the group used of a gif featuring a character from the NBC show.
byLucas Nolan23 Feb 2018, 7:42 AM PST0
Futurist Professor Michio Kaku claimed smart robots could “become dangerous,” and that humans may have to “merge” with machines, during an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit this week.
byCharlie Nash22 Feb 2018, 3:01 PM PST0
A professor at an Australian university recently published an academic journal article that highlights the “horrors” of heterosexuality.
byTom Ciccotta22 Feb 2018, 12:15 PM PST0
“[A] lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds, and their minds are being fooled,” Trump said, citing “violence” in video games that were “shaping young people’s thoughts.”
byCharlie Spiering22 Feb 2018, 11:40 AM PST0
The Harvard community is expressing its disappointment that another white male has been selected to serve as university president.
byTom Ciccotta22 Feb 2018, 10:51 AM PST0
A long-form piece in the New York Times Magazine highlights how Google is under increasing scrutiny for anticompetitive practices and how it may lead to government regulation.
byLucas Nolan22 Feb 2018, 10:15 AM PST0
Stanford University announced this semester that male students are banned from the university gym twice a week in order to promote “inclusivity.”
byTom Ciccotta22 Feb 2018, 10:01 AM PST0
A judge has blown up a lawsuit brought by Disney like the Death Star, after the company tried to stop Redbox from selling digital download codes for its movies.
byCharlie Nash22 Feb 2018, 9:28 AM PST0
Guardian and HuffPost contributor Karen Geier expressed hope on Twitter that North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong Un would “drop a bomb on CPAC” this week.
byCharlie Nash22 Feb 2018, 9:00 AM PST0
Rap, media, and fashion mogul and entrepreneur Russell Simmons said in an Instagram post on Tuesday that he is Bali, Indonesia, where he is ‘closed for spiritual maintenance,’ following multiple rape accusations.
byCharlie Nash22 Feb 2018, 8:37 AM PST0
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Intel Corp plans to invest $5 billion to expand production at its Kiryat Gat plant in southern Israel, Israeli Economy Minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday after talks with the U.S. chipmaker.
byBreitbart Jerusalem22 Feb 2018, 4:48 AM PST0
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Mercedes-Benz for equipping its diesel vehicles with emissions testing “defeat” devices similar to those that cost Volkswagen $32 billion.
byChriss W. Street22 Feb 2018, 12:01 AM PST0
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will publish its net neutrality order repeal on Thursday, which will allow activists to sue the agency to attempt to block the agency’s “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” from taking effect.
bySean Moran21 Feb 2018, 7:16 PM PST0
Journalist and author Mike Cernovich has called on CNN to donate the profits earned from advertisements during coverage of the Parkland school shooting to charity.
byCharlie Nash21 Feb 2018, 3:01 PM PST0
A former Twitter employee blamed the company’s head of trust and safety, Del Harvey, after the platform locked out thousands of conservative users overnight.
byAllum Bokhari21 Feb 2018, 1:07 PM PST0
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that he is building a 500-foot tall clock inside a West Texas mountain.
byTom Ciccotta21 Feb 2018, 12:31 PM PST0
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has announced the cancellation of a discriminatory tutoring program that only asked white students to pay.
byTom Ciccotta21 Feb 2018, 11:56 AM PST0
On his way home after the Munich Security Conference last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis speculated that artificial intelligence could change the “fundamental nature of war.” The impression given by the security conference is that no one is truly prepared for that change.
byJohn Hayward21 Feb 2018, 11:50 AM PST0
Members of Yale University’s historic Whiffenpoofs a cappella singing group announced this week that they will admit their first female member.
byTom Ciccotta21 Feb 2018, 11:39 AM PST0
A private citizen received online abuse after CNN tracked her down and publicly shamed her for unknowingly sharing a “Russian-coordinated event” on her Facebook page.
byCharlie Nash21 Feb 2018, 10:57 AM PST0
#TwitterLockOut became the number one trending hashtag on Twitter, Wednesday, after conservatives reported various account sanctions, including the loss of thousands of followers.
byCharlie Nash21 Feb 2018, 9:57 AM PST0
Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence hit back at feminists who attacked her for wearing a ‘revealing’ dress in cold weather, writing on Facebook Wednesday that she is “extremely offended” and calling her critics ‘sexist.’
byCharlie Nash21 Feb 2018, 9:36 AM PST0
Conservative commentator Pam Geller revealed on Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday morning that her panel on free speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had been canceled because she refused to remove Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit as a participant.
byJoel B. Pollak21 Feb 2018, 7:50 AM PST0
The European Union Capital of Culture competition has rejected the city of Székesfehérvár after claiming a video presented by the city’s mayor showed the city to be too white and Christian.
byChris Tomlinson21 Feb 2018, 1:53 AM PST0
A mob of hateful Twitter trolls excoriated the father of one of the victims of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting because he was wearing a Donald Trump campaign t-shirt as he drove to the school looking for his daughter who turned out to be among the dead.
byWarner Todd Huston20 Feb 2018, 10:51 PM PST0
YouTube states that, when viewers have “Restricted Mode” turned on, “potentially mature content will not be shown,” and provides examples of such “mature content,” including “drugs and alcohol;” “sexual situations;” “violence;” “profane and mature language;” and “incendiary and demeaning content.”
byDr. Susan Berry20 Feb 2018, 5:17 PM PST0
Washington, DC, has issued the Boring Company its first commercial drilling permit for a Hyperloop tunnel that CEO Elon Musk promises will eventually offer a 29-minute service to downtown New York City. The drilling permit follows Musk’s July tweet that he had “verbal government
byChriss W. Street20 Feb 2018, 2:41 PM PST0
A Russian husband and wife “troll team” was indicted by U.S. authorities on Friday for their involvement in an online effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.
byTom Ciccotta20 Feb 2018, 1:17 PM PST0
Professor Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School claims that a controversial op-ed she penned for a local paper last August ruined her progressive colleague’s summer break.
byTom Ciccotta20 Feb 2018, 1:10 PM PST0
Lush, a popular cosmetics chain which specializes in natural, vegetarian, and vegan products, has stripped their shop windows and launched a campaign in an effort to protest “discrimination” against transgender people.
byCharlie Nash20 Feb 2018, 1:05 PM PST0
Facebook co-Founder Chris Hughes said in a recent interview that the modern digital economy is “going to continue to destroy work” in America.
byLucas Nolan20 Feb 2018, 12:56 PM PST0
Atlantic columnist Conor Friedersdorf condemned the recent trend of overbearing political correctness on social media in a piece published on Monday.
byTom Ciccotta20 Feb 2018, 11:40 AM PST0
