The Online Safety Bill’s age verification mandates won’t make the internet safer
Regulating internet access is a huge challenge. Nadine Dories believes she has the solution. The multi-faceted Online Safety Bill will mandate age verification checks for adult content online to protect children. It’s a well-intentioned but woefully planned move which will do much more harm than good. To begin with, the government is making itself the […]
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Abd El-Fattah Is a Political Prisoner in Egypt. US Aid Is Funding His Jailers.
Alaa Abdul-Fattah, a prominent Egyptian activist, voice for the Arab Spring revolutions, was imprisoned for most of the past decade. He started a hunger strike on April 2nd. He is now 40 years old. He is the latest charge for spreading “fake news” — a phrase borrowed from former President Donald Trump — Egyptian authorities […]
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The Greatest Trick COVID Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World It Didn’t Exist
Last week saw a slew if surveys released, each trying to get a pulse on top U.S. concerns. According to a FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos pollInflation tops the list regardless of party affiliation. A Pew ResearchThese results mirror the poll: Inflation is by a mile the biggest concern. An AxiosExamining the top topics searched on the internet, we […]
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Abbott May Seek to Undo Decision That Grants Public Education to Immigrants
This article was first published by the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit investigative news organization. Next month marks 40 years of Plyler v. Doe, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case requiring public schools in all states to educate all children, regardless their immigration status. The high court could overturn decades-old precedents in […]
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The 2022 Elections Are Fraught With Undisclosed Dark Money
Dark money is flooding into U.S. elections but most of it is not being reported to the Federal Election Commission. The 2022 election cycle has already attracted more than $115 million in contributions from and spending by 501(c) groups reported to the FEC, OpenSecrets’ new analysis found. Many of the top spenders on so-called “issue” […]
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Judge Blocks Biden from Ending Title 42 in “Arbitrary, Racist” Ruling
Immigrant rights advocates Friday denounced a federal judge’s injunction The U.S. President Joe Biden administration was prevented from lifting Title 42. This Trump-era public order of health that both presidents invoked under the pretext the Covid-19 pandemic to deport around 2 million asylum-seekers, is being blocked. Judge Robert Summerhays of the U.S. District Court for […]
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Republicans Gave Tours of Capitol Before Attack, According to Jan. 6 Committee
The House select Committee investigating the attack on Capitol Building that occurred on January 6, 2021 is asking for information from a Republican legislator. He previously claimed that he didn’t host a tour of the building the day before the attack. New evidence obtained by the committee suggests that Rep. Barry Loudermilk’s (R-Georgia) and other […]
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Labor Officials Find Amazon Threatened Pro-Union Workers With Wage Cuts
Labor officials have found merit in claims that Amazon illegally threatened workers during a warehouse’s union drive in Staten Island, New York, confirming allegations that the company made threats to withhold benefits from union workers during captive audience meetings. As first reported by BloombergOfficials of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), were informed Amazon Labor […]
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Disinformation Board Paused, but not Biden Suppression of Free Speech
Within a matter of weeks, the unconstitutional, correctly criticized federal Disinformation Governance Board has been “paused” and “Minister of Truth” Nina Jankowicz has resigned. It is appropriate to celebrate, but amid statements from the White House saying the “work is going to continue,” we should beware that some version of the board will quietly pop […]
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Is Biden’s ‘Success’ Our Mess?
What would President Joe Biden have done differently if an administration wanted to create chaos at the border, to make fuel almost unaffordable and to cause a crime wave, 1970s hyperinflation, or rekindle ethnic tensions? So is Biden incompetent, malicious, or a wannabe leftwing ideologue. Biden responds to questions on inflation and fuel price increases […]
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