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- utopian3
Amazon is allowing Chinese manufactures to sell directly to U.S. customers, opening a flood gate of problems...
Four things you should know about Amazon before shopping!
1) Fake Reviews
2) Commingled Inventory
3) Hijacked Listings
4) Multiple Stores- Amazon, the Walmart of the internet********
- 5) copy-pasted counterfeit products from Kickstarter.sted
- Amazon, the Walmart of the internet
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Not sure where else to put this.
Dave Chappelle to Make ‘Saturday Night Live’ Hosting Debut on Nov. 12
- whatthefunk1
De Blasio bans salary inquiries at city agencies in executive order. Also joining the mayor was Public Advocate Letitia James, who has introduced legislation that would ban both public and private employers from asking about salary history. Past salary should not dictate present value and a similar law was recently passed in Ma.
- City agencies will be able to ask about prior salaries after making a job offer that includes a proposed salary. Amen!whatthefunk
- http://www.nytimes.c…whatthefunk
- Gnash4
Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-engla…"Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated, it said."
"The report estimates 1,400 children were sexually exploited over 16 years, with one young person telling the report's author that gang rape was a usual part of growing up in Rotherham."
- bliznutty-3
In light of recent protests and riots across the country - and especially as a result of the many windows being broken across Portland.. Trump has decided to renounce his victory and effective immediately give the Presidency to Hillary Clinton. LOL
- whatthefunk2
Ivy League university hosts post-election ‘Breathing Space’: Puppy cuddling, coloring, chocolate
“[O]ur aim is just to make a safe and quiet space to relax a bit at a time at which opening a space for quiet and relaxation feels especially important,” an email to students announcing the event stated.
- there was another college that offered a room with playdoh and colouring to help those traumatized by electionGnash
- paying the big bucks for their children to be coddled and placated********
- Hnnnngh. Manufactured infantism, producing a generation of soft, shaking, emotional basketcases.face_melter
- Wake up white people********
- ********4
Tesla made more money last quarter than the entire US oil industry made last year
https://electrek.co/2016/11/10/t…- misleading. It is also true that I made more money than the oil industry did last quarterGnash
- how it misleading?********
- oil has been downhill and solar is on the rise********
- it is 'inferring' that electric cars tech has surpassed tradition oil sales.
again, everyone on qbn made more money than the oil industry last yearGnash - US oil industry generated $130 billion in 2015. Telsa shipped 50K carsGnash
- says here it lost $67 billion and lost 100,000 jobs. where did $130B come from?********
- 130B was it's gross sales. Telsa's gross in 2015 was 4B
again, I'm only arguing that the statement is misleading, not that oil is awesome.Gnash - i understand, it's still miraculous news considering Tesla against big oil with Trump as president.********
- huh?grotesk_neue
- utopian10
- Gnash0
- yeah, nothing like a new gimmick to embrace to make people happyspl33nidoru
- Gnash0
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11…
Twitter expands 'mute' and 'report' features to combat abuse
But the company knows it won't completely be able to get rid of trolls.
- This place would certainly lose some of its joie de vivreGnash
- Gardener0
XTC news -
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.…
- ********0
DIGITAL LOCK DOWN: GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK TAKE AIM AT ‘FAKE NEWS’ WEBSITES
The moves by Google and Facebook follow a recent de-monitzation effort at Youtube that has also targeted alternative media. As noted in their “Advertiser Friendly Content Guidelines,” they appear to be targeting exactly the issues often covered by alternative media by directly banning:
Content that is considered “not advertiser-friendly” includes, but is not limited to:
Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.
So basically, anything newsworthy is no longer advertiser friendly, and these organizations will now determine whose news will or won’t be seen based on what is sure to be proprietary algorithms and secretive human curation.
The bottom line is this: the time and energy required to produce the amount of video content and investigative journalism that we saw during the election is astronomical. Thousands of journalists, bloggers and concerned citizens spent countless hours reporting the news the mainstream media wouldn’t. Many of those people depend on advertising revenue to cover their most basic website maintenance costs, as well as their monthly mortgages and the food they put on their dinner tables.
The aim with policies like this, which will no doubt be overseen by establishment hacks, is to quite literally starve independent media. In turn, they will starve the people of the information they so desperately need to understand what is being done to them.
- the right thing to do would to set up a youtube alternative for alternative media. if the traffic follows, the advertisers will follow.uan
- the anti-free speech brigade simply argue that they're not shutting anyone down, only demonetizing.Gnash
- related article:
Bursting the Facebook bubble:
https://www.theguard…instrmntl - good, too much dumb in this world as it is alreadymoldero
- so does that mean no more FOX?moldero
- if one judges with equal eye it would include Fox, CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC... endless, really.
do you want Facebook and google deciding what is true?Gnash - fuck you googleutopian
- fuck you Facebookutopian
- Maaku0
"Man killed, body dissolved in Yellowstone hot spring"
- Gnash1
http://www.zdnet.com/article/sno…
Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
- instrmntl5
Mark Zuckerburg – Dead At 32 – Denies Facebook Has Problem With Fake News
http://www.theshovel.com.au/2016…
- bliznutty0
Foam blob fills Santa Clara street
- Gnash0
https://www.theguardian.com/medi…
City University students vote for campus ban on Sun, Mail and Express
Student union at university known for its journalism school votes to ban the newspapers in ‘opposing fascism’ motion
- Banning newspapers in the name of anti-fascism. Stay cool, kidsGnash
- For fuck's sake. Those papers are comics, banning them is the height of fuckwittery. How hard is it to just ignore them? Clowns.face_melter
- exactly, face.Gnash
- But how will they get their daily football fix?detritus
- they've got extra Daily Sport for the footballIanbolton
- KaitlinMcCarthy-1
Kurdish militias & locals replace cross destroyed by ISIS atop Christian church near Mosul
