Anonymous ID: 888868 May 17, 2019, 10:15 a.m. No.6522025   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2041 >>2244 >>2448 >>2561

>>6521952

White House launches tool for reporting social media 'bias'

The White House on Wednesday launched a tool that allows people to report possible "political bias" by social media companies, an issue that President Trump and top Republicans have hammered for months, accusing the largest tech platforms of censoring right-wing voices.

 

The reporting tool prompts users to "share [their] story with President Trump" if they suspect they were removed or reported on social media because of "political bias."

 

"SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS should advance FREEDOM OF SPEECH," the website reads. "Yet too many Americans have seen their accounts suspended, banned, or fraudulently reported for unclear 'violations' of user policies."

 

The form asks for the respondent's first and last name, zip code, phone number, and whether they are a citizen. Once they fill out that information, the tool asks what happened to their social media account, whether a specific post was involved and on which platform (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube or "other") it occurred. The tool also provides a space to attach screenshots.

 

https://whitehouse.typeform.com/to/Jti9QH

Anonymous ID: 888868 May 17, 2019, 10:27 a.m. No.6522100   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2110

Anyone think Tech Bias Story Telling to the White House should be in the Globals?

Adds ammo to restoring the First Amendment.

Gives Patriots direct communication to the White House.

Seems pretty important imo.

Just a thought…

Anonymous ID: 888868 May 17, 2019, 10:40 a.m. No.6522193   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2227 >>2244 >>2448 >>2561 >>2598

>>6521876

Telling the awful truth about the new SAT ‘adversity’ score

 

It’s kept a secret. “Trust us,” in effect, they say. There is no appeal possible. And as a black box whose inner workings are secret, it becomes an ideal vehicle for engineering the racial results admissions offices desire.

 

It is easily gamed – fake addresses, even possible income manipulation (by claiming a lot of depreciation, for instance, the way that Donald Trump reported negative income in the 1980s)

 

And it provides perverse incentives, rewarding victim status, not achievement. Parents who start out with no advantages and work hard to provide a better life for their kids will now be handicapping them if they have high incomes and live in nice neighborhoods with good schools.

 

Since college admissions are a zero-sum issue (for every person who gets in, another person is denied submission), what is called an “adversity” score used to grant an advantage becomes a “privilege” penalty for those who do not have an adversity plus added to their admissions file. This is precisely why the federal prosecutions of families that paid bribes to gain advantages for their children in elite college admissions are harming the public. Their crimes have victims. So does the SAT’s scheme.

 

Heather Mac Donald states that David Coleman, the head of the College Board (and also called “the architect of the common core curriculum in the media) has “thrown the College Board into the excuse-making grievance industry,” which is true. But it is important to add that the financial self-interest of his organization is at stake. The College Board is reacting to demand from colleges, many of which are making use if the SATs optional, or even dropping the requirement entirely, precisely because it does not yield the desired racial distribution of scores. Fewer students taking the test, because colleges don’t require it, means less money for the College Board.

 

By adding the adversity score and therefore a veneer of pseudo-science to the racial engineering of outcomes, the College Board is feathering its own financial nest. So it's not only about hypocrisy, racial engineering, and achievement gaps, it's also about the money.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/telling_the_awful_truth_about_the_new_sat_adversity_score.html

Anonymous ID: 888868 May 17, 2019, 10:57 a.m. No.6522315   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Underrated Recent USSC Decision:

 

Taming the Bench: MAGA Means Ending Judicial Precedent

 

“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.” So said Anglo-Irish essayist Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels in 1726. Unfortunately, something has changed almost three centuries later:

The decisions have perhaps become even more iniquitous.

 

Swift was rightly mocking the notion of “judicial precedent.” Yet it’s even more preposterous in our time and place, for at least 18th-century British judges didn’t have a constitution to violate. How is the principle even remotely defensible, however, in a nation with our Constitution, the “supreme law of the land”?

 

One justice who apparently understands this is Clarence Thomas, who just wrote the majority opinion in a recent decision (Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt) overturning a 1979 precedent. He was the ideal candidate for the task, as it has been noted that he’s not a “Court conservative” as much as an originalist. A conservative, after all, would hew to the status quo, which here means honoring precedent. In contrast, as SCOTUSblog pointed out in 2007, Thomas “believes that precedent qua precedent concerning constitutional law has no value at all; he does not give stare decisis any weight.” Thomas “believes that precedent qua precedent concerning constitutional law has no value at all; he does not give stare decisis [the notion that judicial decisions should not be undone]".

 

This is why I’ve long said that Thomas is by far the best SCOTUS justice of recent decades (yes, that includes Scalia). Moreover, it’s certainly right to distinguish between Thomas’ originalism and being merely a “Court conservative,” which more and more is seeming akin to a court jester.

 

Thus, when going through the Senate confirmation process, the norm now is for more “conservative” judges to be asked if they’ll abide by certain precedents (i.e., Roe v. Wade). Translated, this is a demand to conserve yesterday’s progressives’ mistakes.

 

In reality, judicial nominees should be asked if they’ll respect precedent — and then be roundly rejected upon answering yes. For we can’t MAGA unless we MAJJA: Make American Judges Judges Again. For tolerating oligarchs in black robes ensures a dark future.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/taming_the_bench_maga_means_ending_judicial_precedent.html

Anonymous ID: 888868 May 17, 2019, 11:39 a.m. No.6522501   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2510 >>2561

Facebook Suspends Candace Owens For Saying Liberal Policies Incentivize Fatherless Homes

 

“When a black woman begins discussing the TRUTH—which is that liberal policies have systematically ruined black homes—they censor”.

 

Facebook has truly jumped the shark.

The social media monopoly has suspended activist and commentator Candace Owens for the crime of claiming that liberal policies incentivize fatherless homes in the black community.

Owens was hit with a 7 day ban for posting, “Black America must wake up to the great liberal hoax. White supremacy is not a threat. Liberal supremacy is.”

She then included a screenshot of a tweet which pointed out that the poverty rate amongst married blacks is 7 per cent, compared to 22 per cent for blacks generally.

 

“My @facebook page has been suspended for 7 days for posting that white supremacy is not a threat to black America, as much as father absence and & liberal policies that incentivize it, are,” she tweeted. “I am censored for posting the poverty rates in fatherless homes.”

 

https://summit.news/2019/05/17/facebook-suspends-candace-owens-for-saying-liberal-policies-incentivize-fatherless-homes/

Anonymous ID: 888868 May 17, 2019, 11:46 a.m. No.6522537   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Exclusive: FBI targets Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, GE, Philips in Brazil graft case - sources

 

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. FBI is investigating corporate giants Johnson & Johnson, Siemens AG, General Electric Co and Philips for allegedly paying kickbacks as part of a scheme involving medical equipment sales in Brazil, two Brazilian investigators have told Reuters.

Brazilian prosecutors suspect the companies channeled illegal payoffs to government officials to secure contracts with public health programs across the South American country over the past two decades.

 

Brazilian authorities say more than 20 companies may have been part of a “cartel” that paid bribes and charged the government inflated prices for medical gear such as magnetic resonance imaging machines and prosthetics.

 

The four multinational companies, with a combined market capitalization of nearly $600 billion at Thursday’s market close, are the largest foreign enterprises to be investigated in an unprecedented anti-corruption push in Brazil in recent years.

 

Big U.S. and European companies found to have engaged in wrongdoing in Brazil could also face heavy fines and other punishment under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Since 1977, that law has made it illegal for American citizens, U.S. companies or foreign companies whose securities are listed in the United States to pay foreign officials to win business.

 

Foreign companies are the latest targets of government corruption probes in Brazil. Over the past five years, prosecutors have uncovered pervasive graft in state institutions and private-sector companies seeking to do business with them.

 

The sprawling investigations by prosecutors and federal police, including the famed “Car Wash” dragnet centered on Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras, have toppled business and political leaders across Latin America.

 

Authorities say plea-bargain testimonies obtained from suspects alerted them to other possible schemes, including alleged bribes paid by multinationals to obtain public contracts in Brazil.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-healthcare-exclusiv/exclusive-fbi-targets-johnson-johnson-siemens-ge-philips-in-brazil-graft-case-sources-idUSKCN1SN0ZZ

Anonymous ID: 888868 May 17, 2019, 11:53 a.m. No.6522554   🗄️.is 🔗kun

U.S. to remove tariffs on Canadian metals, Mexico deal imminent

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-usmca/u-s-to-remove-tariffs-on-canadian-metals-mexico-deal-imminent-idUSKCN1SN1VF