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Research: Restricting free speech isn’t the solution to violence and hate speech

Jun10
by on June 10, 2018 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


The fight to protect freedom of speech is ancient and can be traced through history from Socrates, Milton, and Voltaire to Hypatia and Goldman. The issue is currently undergoing a resurgence with figures like Jordan Peterson, Christina Hoff Sommers, Count Dankula, Sarah Silverman, Laci Green, Amy Schumer, and so on. Whether politics or comedy, left-wing, right-wing, or apolitical, free speech permeates every aspect of life. What’s more is that censorship has led to some of the world’s greatest tragedies and most oppressive authoritarian regimes. Most people want less violence, racism, sexism, and bigotry. In order to achieve this, we must…

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Religion isn’t the opiate of the masses — AI is

Jun09
by on June 9, 2018 at 4:30 pm
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Overall leisure time has increased by over an hour per day in the past ten years. How are we spending these extra 365 hours per year? Not playing with our kids, working on passion projects, exercising, or any other wholesome activity you may have guessed — we’re spending it in front of screens. In 2007, just 33 percent of leisure time was spent on screens; today, that number has increased to 47 percent — over three and a half hours per day. According to research from McKinsey, smartphone users interact with their devices an average of 85 times a day and…

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Week two of GDPR: We’re still not ready

Jun09
by on June 9, 2018 at 12:30 pm
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“Reading is hard and we just don’t want to do it,” scream the European Union countries like frightened children at the sight of their first reading test. The reading test of course being the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) whose sole purpose is to protect the vital right to privacy of European Union residents. A right that we can only dream of here in the United States of Big Brother. Should we face the facts here or should we just pat them on the back, give them a bottle of milk and tell them that “sweetheart, you tried. That’s all…

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