Last year, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson predicted that “Silicon Valley is never going to let 2016 happen again.” He was referring to Donald Trump’s social-media-enabled surprise victory — at least to the political establishment and pollsters — over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. Parenthetically, a similar unexpected result has apparently just played out in the Australian national elections.
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Judge in Robert Kraft Prostitution Case Issues Key Ruling
In a big win for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, a Florida judge has ordered the suppression of secretly recorded massage parlor videos. That means the evidence can not be included as part of the trial proceedings, if there is a trial. Kraft’s attorneys will reportedly seek a dismissal of the case as early as tomorrow.
Former VP Joe Biden is currently leading the field among those candidates seeking to oppose President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. But is his alleged appeal to Rust Belt and/or working-class voters legit or just media gaslighting?
An Op-Ed published by two M.D.s in the Journal of the American Medical Association essentially calls for on- and off-line censorship of what the authors decry as health or medical misinformation. The latter apparently mean quashing any discussion of approaches outside the conventional Big Pharma paradigm or surgical interventions.
Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano went from a pro-Trump libertarian to a vocal Never Trumper who has criticized the president for “immoral” and “condemnable” conduct as portrayed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. With the ascendancy of the Murdoch bros, Fox News is moving liberal outside of prime time. Maybe the ex-judge changed his tune for a paycheck; in addition to several anchors on Fox, lots of Trump bashers who regularly appear CNN and MSNBC have done the same. It also wouldn’t be the first time since Donald Trump won the White House that a personal vendetta masquerades as news analysis, if not fake news.
The owner of the irreverent, muckraking Turtleboy Sports blog knows a thing or two, to borrow language from that TV commercial for an insurance company, about online censorship. The entertaining and provocative Massachusetts-based investigative journalism portal — plus its slightly toned down, less vulgar TB Daily News version — focuses mainly on municipal corruption, felonious activity, and welfare scammers and assorted “hoodrats,” rather than sports. Given that the big social media networks have repeatedly de-platformed Turtleboy Sports and associated sites, owner “Uncle Turtleboy” claims that he “invented” tech censorship.
Live PD is the ratings-winning law enforcement ride-along show that ordinarily airs on Friday and Saturday evenings at 9 p.m. Eastern time on the A&E television network. Videographers embed in real time with officers from eight different police agencies. A Live PD recap follows below.
The surging, grassroots Brexit Party is in for the long haul, regardless of what happens in the EU parliamentary elections on May 23, the group’s leader Nigel Farage announced today. The Brexit Party will field candidates “with real-world experience” in the next U.K. national election for the House of Commons, the domestic parliament, whenever that occurs, Farage explained in another tour de force speech and press conference.
You don’t have to be a fan of controversial, fringe Infowars at all, for example, to be concerned about the implications for free speech. The latest bans, which also includes independent journalist Laura Loomer, appears to be a warm-up act by social media platforms for future censorship of mainstream conservatives, populists, and libertarians heading into the 2020 election.
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