WTF?
that is a particularly deranged story almost like some subplot from a lynch film.
method acting?
Wilder, a 22-year-old who graduated from Stanford University last year, joined AP as a news associate earlier this month. Last week, she became the target of Stanford College Republicans who deemed her an âanti-Israel agitatorâ in a Twitter thread, pointing to her membership in student organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine, as well as a Facebook post mocking Sheldon Adelson, the late Republican billionaire and ardent defender of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The tweets were later amplified by right-wing news outlets and even Republican Sen. Tom Cotton. The campaign targeting Wilder came after she tweeted criticism of news coverage of Israelâs occupation of Palestine.
The memo also alludes to concerns staffers have that APâs social media are applied unfairly to minority groups: âOne of the issues brought forward in recent days is the belief that restrictions on social media prevent you from being your true self, and that this disproportionately harms journalists of color, LGBTQ journalists and others who often feel attacked online. We need to dive into this issue.â
âMore kumbaye bullshit,â an AP staffer said of the new memo. âWe have management that is woefully late in the understanding of disinformation and amplification on Twitter.â
Message coming through loud and clear, AP. Criticize or otherwise oppose Isrealâs occupation of Palestine, lose your job.
Journalists should really ask themselves if they want to work for an organization that throws its reporters under the bus at the behest of racist Q-nuts.
J. Edgar Hoover cosplayâŚ
it IS awful! manatee are just so gentle and innocuous, they absolutely do not deserve starvation due to the runoff pollution from big sugar, cattle feedlots and commercial/residential over-fertilization.
goddamn you, Rick âSkeletorâ Scott, I blame you and your shameless money-grubbing policies that killed Lake O, the St. Johns and Intracoastal Waterway and now, as a result, hundreds of manatee.
this does not even include the horrible red tide blooms that are fed by the out flow of the blue-green algae into the estuary and salt water costal environs that also kill fish, plants, shellfish and precious marine mammals such as manatee and dolphin.
fuck you, rick scott, may you bathe in the putrid waters of Okeechobee the rest of your dying days while searching for something to eat.
So not only are they infringing on our personal liberties, theyâre doing so in drag?
Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines â even in America
The images are back today, but all in the context of âMicrosoft hid results for tank man yesterdayâ
How do we know it wasnât an independent hack, rather than official policy that got found out and quickly backtracked?
We donât, but it is likely someone just misconfigured a file somewhere at microsoft. All the search providers that operate in china are not allowed to show any of those pictures or talk about Tianamen square in any terms, other than it was a terrorist activity by potential rogue states that was put down by the army⌠and thatâs the MOST youâll get. Most times youâll just get rosy photographs of the square and flowers and a few statues here and there.
If you were to travel to China and search for âTank Manâ or âTinanmen squareâ, as one of my coworkers did, youâll get an extra special meeting with some people who will then escort you to the airport, put you on a plane, and fly you home. Your luggage will arrive two to six weeks later, but I would suggest throwing away any electronics you had. We picked out bugs in his laptop and cellphone.
âTank Manâ I can see, but âTiananmen squareâ canât possibly be a banned or suspicious search term in China. Itâs a place in the middle of one of their biggest cities and full of people. They take tourists there and show them the monuments and talk about how it is the largest public square in the world.
They for sure donât want people to know about what happened there in 1989, but thatâs not the first thing that will come to mind when you name the place, just like in America if I say âDetroitâ not everyone thinks of what happened in 1967.
