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…“Alright. We’re tired of shopping with masks on,” Chris Nelson, who organized the event, said while holding up his phone as “We’re Not Gonna Take It” began to play in the background.
“And now, we’re taking our masks off because we’re done with it,” he said as others began taking their masks off in the store.
“Breathe. Breathe. You’re Americans. Breathe,” one woman said as she marched through the store.…
…“In a free country like the Netherlands, everyone has the freedom and space to behave and dress as he or she desires. Sometimes, limits can and must be imposed on that freedom. In the case of face-covering clothing, this applies in particular if mutual communication is impeded or safety is jeopardized.
“Mutual communication whereby people can look each other in the face is so important that uniform rules have now been laid down by law. This makes it clear to everyone what is and is not allowed in those situations.”…
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — The founder of a Kentucky creationism museum will appear at an Oklahoma university, after all, after the student body president initially canceled the event over objections of female and LGBTQ students and their supporters.…
The People's Cube entry has just been purged from Wikipedia.…
YouTube on Wednesday terminated the account of Danney Williams, the 30-year-old man who has claimed since the 1990s to be the black son of former President Bill Clinton.
But YouTube suddenly reversed its decision on Thursday amid public outcry and reinstated the account in the early morning hours, posting a notice that said only: “After a review of your account, we have confirmed that your YouTube account is not in violation of our Terms of Service. As such, we have unsuspended your account.”
When it terminated the account on Wednesday, YouTube cited unspecified “repeated or severe violations of our Terms of Use and/or Community Guidelines” and declared the account “cannot be restored.”…
WikiLeaks Director Gavin MacFadyen, the 76-year-old Wikileaks diirector and founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism has died.… passed away from “a short illness.” The line about the “short illness” was removed and no further word has been given on his exact cause of death. However, postings indicate he may have been ill in the days leading up to his death.…
Twitter blocked conservative journalist James O’Keefe’s account on Wednesday evening, shortly after he tweeted that he was about to release new video about a candidate for the U.S. Senate.…
The conservative nonprofit organization Prager University announced Tuesday that it has no choice but to “go public” over YouTube’s attempts to muzzle its educational videos. …says much of its all-ages content is being classified under “restricted mode” for objectionable content.…
Infogalactic, an online encyclopedia branding itself as a censorship free alternative to Wikipedia without “bias or thought police,” has launched.…
…Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s chief policy adviser, said in a Wednesday statement:
Donald J. Trump is committed to preserving Internet freedom for the American people and citizens all over the world. The U.S. should not turn control of the Internet over to the United Nations and the international community.…
…Authorities say the banned satellite dishes are morally damaging, despite high-level calls for reform of the law.… …part of a widespread crackdown against illegal devices they say "deviate morality and culture".…
Two Canadian Pokemon Go players were detained by the US Border Patrol after crossing the border while playing the popular mobile game. The two teenagers accidentally wandered into Montana while searching for Pokemon, drawing the ire of US officials.…
…Two weeks ago on a Tuesday night, at around 9 p.m, 18-year-old Lane Smith was at a Flower Mound park with his friends, searching for a PokéStop—a place to stock up on Poké Balls and helpful items. While distracted by the game, with his eyes glued to the screen of his cell phone, a small brown snake -- believed to be a copperhead -- wrapped itself around Smith's foot and sunk its venomous fangs into his toe.…
…Firefighters in Gloucester County were dispatched to Eglington Cemetery in East Greenwich Township on Tuesday night after receiving a report of a woman who got stuck in a tree while chasing a Pokemon. A rescue team used an extension ladder to rescue her. …
…Four teenage boys …found themselves stuck in an underground cave system that spans 72 square miles. They entered what are known as the Box mines in Hawthorn, Wiltshire, scouting the series of underground tunnels for Pokemon. Unfortunately, they couldn't get back out, but they lucked upon an opening that allowed service to their cell phones and called for help.…
…A woman claims her fifteen year old daughter was hit by a car while playing Pokemon Go. …Tarentum, PA …the girl crossed a busy highway shortly after catching a Pokemon on the game.
…girl's mother, told a local news station that the game had lured her daughter across the highway during rush hour.… …girl sustained collarbone and foot injuries, as well as numerous cuts and bruises.…
ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say two men who were playing "Pokemon Go" fell off an ocean bluff in Southern California. …One man fell about 50 feet down the side of the unstable bluff and the other fell about 90 feet to the beach. …moderate injuries.…
The New York man who wrapped his car around a tree while playing “Pokémon Go” is a former Marine who was trying to “catch” Lapras, a blue sea creature, right before the crash Tuesday night.…
…The O'Fallon Police Department in Missouri responded to reports early this morning that a group of Pokemon GO players were robbed at gunpoint. … robbers used Lure Modules to attract players to a nearby PokeStop and then robbed them at gunpoint.… suspects were later apprehended…
A North Georgia newspaper publisher was indicted on a felony charge and jailed overnight last week – for filing an open-records request.
Fannin Focus publisher Mark Thomason, along with his attorney Russell Stookey, were arrested on Friday and charged with attempted identity fraud and identity fraud. Thomason was also accused of making a false statement in his records request.…
Oklahoma City Fire crews responded to Frontier City Wednesday afternoon, where a roller coaster got stuck.… Eight people got stuck…
Almost 46 million people are living as slaves globally with the greatest number in India but the highest prevalence in North Korea, according to the third Global Slavery Index launched on Tuesday… by Australia-based human rights group Walk Free Foundation, increased its estimate of people born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, or trapped in debt bondage or forced labor to 45.8 million from 35.8 million in 2014.…
Internet giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft signed up Tuesday to a new EU code of conduct against hate speech, the European Commission said.
The US-based firms have agreed to speed up their reactions when illegal material is flagged up, with the aim of looking at all suspicious material within 24 hours.…
…many voices within the federal government are quite concerned about the growing patriot movement throughout the country, and especially in rural strongholds where land and liberty go hand and hand.
More events like the Bundy Ranch standoff seem likely to occur, as the BLM and other agencies show no sign of changing policies, and more and more individuals are waking up to the abuses and tyrannies taking place.…
Atheist activist Patrick Greene lost his lawsuit today against Abundant Life Fellowship Church in Corpus Christi, Texas… admitting that his lawsuit was “baseless,” and submitting to a court order never to bring such a frivolous lawsuit in the future. …Pastor Rick Milby started building a 230-foot cross on his church’s property. Greene’s lawsuit claims that a church’s erecting of a cross on private property is unconstitutional because a local mayor and city council members attended the church’s groundbreaking ceremony.…
Milo Yiannopoulos’ event at DePaul University had to be cut short Tuesday night after protesters stormed the stage, blew whistles, grabbed the microphone out of the interviewer’s hand, and threatened to punch Yiannopoulos in the face.…
Speech Restriction Stories I Have Read in Just the Last 24 Hours…
Bikers for Trump rolled in to Wisconsin and upset some anti-Trump protestors that think the first amendment isn’t for all citizens. They heard the ROLLING THUNDER coming from afar and dang….their shouts just weren’t loud enough to earn their George Soro’s cash for the day!…
…Students at the University of Southern California protested a speech by David Horowitz last Wednesday, not by shouting him down or otherwise disrupting the event, but by duct-taping their own mouths shut and linking together in a pointless human chain at the side of the room in what has been described as the “lamest protest ever.”…
Was America once socialist? Surprisingly, yes. The early settlers who arrived at Plymouth and Jamestown in the early 1600s experimented with socialist communes. Did it work? History professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton shares the fascinating story.
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