White House Responds to Sanctuary City Ruling, Meet the 'Fraternal Order of Alt Knights,' Sex Workers Protest Changes to Section 230: A.M. Links

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  Google is changing its algorithms to try and stop the spread of "fake news and hate speech."

• Sex workers are protesting the deceptively-named "No Immunity for Sex Traffickers Online Act," which would amend federal internet law so third-party publishers and platforms could be held liable for things users post on their sites.
• "Internet publishers are now adding workers at nearly twice the rate newspaper publishers are losing them. This isn't just a shift in medium. It's also a shift in sociopolitics, and a radical one."
• The Southern Poverty Law Center is sounding the alarm about a group of pro-Trump activists calling themselves the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights.
• A HuffPost South Africa column calling for the disenfranchisement of white men, published (unbeknownst to editors) by a hoaxer, is now being scrutinized by South Africa's media regulator as possible hate speech.
• Here's the White House response to U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick's Tuesday night ruling that temporarily froze Trump's executive order on sanctuary cities.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Google is changing its algorithms to try and stop the spread of "fake news and hate speech."

They should use it to try to stop people from saying 'try and'.

[Rich]

Damn your quick fingers!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I like ENB, though. Her Linkses are always aces.

[Bee Tagger]

Two internet workers still couldn't get that right.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Fuck Google. Fuck its algorithms. Fuck its workers. Fuck its executives. I hope those fuckers all end up homeless.

How's that for 'hate speech' assholes?

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Quit stealing our diary, hoser.

[Adans smith]

Rufus is a lumberjack and he's OK.

[Fist of Etiquette]

His dairy comes in a bag.

[Citizen X - #6]

"Sore-y!" says Rufus contritely.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Google can suck my dick.

No more Mr. Canadian Nice Guy.

[Citizen X - #6]

"Mr. Canadian Nice Guy" is a hell of a tautology.

[gaoxiaen]

A good start.

[Bee Tagger]

Google is changing its algorithms to try and stop the spread of "fake news and hate speech."

The kind of corporate political speech that should be protected!

[Bee Tagger]

Here's the White House response to U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick's Tuesday night ruling that temporarily froze Trump's executive order on sanctuary cities.

If the President isn't expected to read it, why should I?

[gaoxiaen]

Dyslexics of the world, untie!

[Bee Tagger]

The Southern Poverty Law Center is sounding the alarm about a group of pro-Trump activists calling themselves the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights.

FOAK, you?

[Fist of Etiquette]

A HuffPost South Africa column calling for the disenfranchisement of white men, published (unbeknownst to editors) by a hoaxer, is now being scrutinized by South Africa's media regulator as possible hate speech.

This sentence is so great I'm almost afraid to follow the link for fear of a letdown.

[Rich]

It continues: "It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a necklace lit up."

[Elizabeth Nolan Brown]

you won't be

[Fist of Etiquette]

This should probably be written up in its own post here. There's just so much to it.

Roodt got nowhere being contrite. If you're going to be a troll, use Milo as your model, I guess. And do it in the United States.

[Rhywun]

some in South African media are already defending HuffPost

Hilarious - hate speech for thee but not for me. This is the story that keeps on giving.

[MarkLastname]

Did the SPLC list HuffPo has a hate group yet?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Maybe the SAPLC did.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Southern Poverty Law Center is sounding the alarm-

Stop right there.

[Conchfritters]

It sounds like the Elks Club or the Moose Lodge, but with a bunch of socially stunted jerk offs. They probably have Tila Tequila as their mascot.

[Citizen X - #6]

Pictured.

[Conchfritters]

I went to my first renaissance festival last year, and my mind was blown. I was woefully underdressed. I'm going to patch together some squirrel skins and make my own wildling outfit for the festival this year, and get hammered on mead and chew on a turkey leg all day long.

[Citizen X - #6]

That's a pretty extensive masturbation euphemism.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

You are so wrong - those guys are like the George Clooney of bigotry.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

I bet they look like Christopher Schwarzenegger

[Citizen X - #6]

It's hard to tell from his position in the picture, but either his love handles have love handles or he is voguing something fierce.

[gaoxiaen]

Stay soft and puffy.

[Bee Tagger]

Internet publishers are now adding workers at nearly twice the rate newspaper publishers are losing them.

But they're probably all millennials so who will write the millennial scare stories?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Internet publishers are now adding workers at nearly twice the rate newspaper publishers are losing them.

All seasoned vets by the time they reach their late 20's. Do they hand out Pulitzers for clickbait?

[Citizen X - #6]

Check Out These 14 Pulitzer Recipients - You Won't Believe Number 8

[gaoxiaen]

+1 eight-year-old heroin addict

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cooke

[Citizen X - #6]

The Southern Poverty Law Center is sounding the alarm about a group of pro-Trump activists calling themselves the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights.

C'mon, people, Morris Dees needs another vacation home.

[Bee Tagger]

This isn't just a shift in medium. It's also a shift in..."

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[Citizen X - #6]

Google is changing its algorithms to try and stop the spread of "fake news and hate speech."

I guess i been meaning to give Bing another try.

[Conchfritters]

Yeah, but keep the algorithms for YouTube, where anyone can go to see videos of Mexican drug gang members getting their heads removed by a chainsaw. Then again, I suppose that's not fake news.

[Citizen X - #6]

Your YouTube suggestions page must look very, very different from mine.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Outgoing Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer will likely get $186m payout

That's what I call leaning in.

[Citizen X - #6]

Is she single?

[MarkLastname]

If she were a man you know she'd be getting 240 million. Poor girl.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Wild boars overrun Islamic State position, kill 3 militants

Three Islamic State militants setting up an ambush in a bitterly contested area of northern Iraq were killed by a herd of stampeding boars, local leaders say.

Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe and supervisor of anti-ISIS forces, told The Times of London the militants were hiding on the edge of a field about 50 miles southwest of Kirkuk when the boars overwhelmed them Sunday. Five other militants were injured, al-Assi said. He said the group was poised to attack a band of local tribesmen who had fled to nearby mountains since militants seized the town of Hawija three years ago.

"It is likely their movement disturbed a herd of wild pigs, which inhabit the area as well as the nearby cornfields," he said.

Send in the pigs!

[Citizen X - #6]

I'm pretty sure sending a pig to kill a Muslim is Allah's way of saying, "Go to hell. Go directly to hell. Do not pass Mecca, do not collect 72 virgins."

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

What are the odds that Trump saw this story on Fox and Friends and then placed a call to Mattis to see if a wild boar army invasion of Syria was possible?

[Citizen X - #6]

Wild Boar Army was the name of my LARP group in college.

[Anomalous]

Don't bother, they're here.

[CatoTheChipper]

This story has to be fake news. But it is great propaganda. And it is irresistible fake news to journalists of a certain ilk, kind of like Trump's golden shower dossier or Bush's Air National Guard letter were to journalists of another ilk.

[SandyBrooks]

So great topic! Thanks for the post and the answers!You have helped me to finish my research papers

[Citizen X - #6]

I doubt that's true.

[$park? leftist poser]

Google is changing its algorithms to try and stop the spread of "fake news and hate speech.

You mean "try to stop", right?

[Citizen X - #6]

Try and stop being such a grammar Nazi, $park?.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Big surprise - not only is Sparky an elitist, he is a pedant, too.

[Mickey Rat]

The Southern Poverty Law Center cries "Wolf!"...yet again.

[creech]

Contributions don't raise themselves.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Teacher 'seduced high school football star, 16, with Madison Mexicano Facebook alter-ego and had sex with him 40 times - including a THREESOME with her colleague'

The trial Tuesday revealed the two had sexual trysts after football practice around 40 times in her Honda Pilot and home. The legal age of consent in Louisiana is 17.

One encounter allegedly included Rachel Respess, 26, another teacher. The victim, now 19, took the stand today.

The student and the teacher allegedly had sex multiple times at the apartment and at one point, Respess joined in for a threesome.

However, Dufrense's attorney said there was no sex because the teen 'couldn't get an erection.' However, the teen maintained the three still had sex.

After alleged the group sex, Dufrense reportedly went to buy a pill to increase the teen's stamina when she went to buy cigarettes but he didn't take.

Someone get Soave off the college beat and on to the high school teacher beat. I need more details, damnit! MORE, MORE, MORE!

[Anomalous]

Would.

[Citizen X - #6]

"Yeah, i banged two teachers at the same time. It was awesome."

"Wait, then why are you pressing charges?"

"I just wanted it to be a matter of official public record."

[Rufus The Monocled]

'And my mom is making me do it because my dad banged my teacher too.'

[Conchfritters]

That kid has a long ways to go before he reaches Alex Jones numbers.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

However, Dufrense's attorney said there was no sex because the teen 'couldn't get an erection.'

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS KID???

[Rhywun]

The "victim" - that's cute.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Why picking your nose and eating it may be good for you! Filthy habit could prevent cavities, stomach ulcers and even HIV

Yet, a study has revealed people who pick their noses may actually be healthier - giving good reason for children to carry on with the disgusting habit.

Austrian lung specialist Professor Friedrich Bischinger, said: 'Eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body's immune system. Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do.

'In terms of the immune system, the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine.'

A-ha!

[Citizen X - #6]

How do you think Mikey has lasted so long?

[$park? leftist poser]

Did they mention ear wax?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Joachim Low approves!

[Rufus The Monocled]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3JBRD9AjXk

[Cynical Asshole]

"50 bucks the Smails kid pick his nose."

[Zeb]

I knew it.

[Cynical Asshole]

A new fight-club "fraternity" of young white, pro-Trump men is being formed, its organizers claim, to defend free-speech rights by "Alt-Right" leaders and engage in street fighting.

Huh. I can't imagine where they might have gotten the idea to form a "fight club." Or why they might think it's even necessary to do so.

Someone refresh my memory: did the SPLC shit their pants over the "Knights of Socialism" club at UCF forming a leftist fight club with the stated goal to "bash the fash"?

[Cynical Asshole]

Just noticed I SF'ed the 2nd link.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c.....-violence/

Even in abstentia SF looms large.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Samantha Bee Interviewed by Lena Dunham on Trump, Trolls and Comedy's Fraught New Normal

BEE It's funny. I went to Rikers [Island, New York City's main jail] a couple of weeks ago to shoot something that I think will be really good. It was a really interesting experience. But you're not allowed to take your phone in because you can't take glass or anything like that. So they took my phone, and they put it in a lockbox for eight hours. And I felt like I had gone on a Caribbean vacation. I emerged from Rikers, and everyone was like, "Your skin is shining." And it was because I've never been more relaxed. I felt so free just knowing that my phone was safe, but I wasn't allowed to see it or know what was happening in the world.

DUNHAM So Rikers became the most relaxing place you've been in months?

BEE It was the most free I've felt in months.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

DUNHAM Even if you don't feel that you're doing a great service to our nation, you should know that every woman feels protected by and grateful for you.

BEE You know, I mean, I think it sounds a little bad that I don't take responsibility, but I will say this: I feel so appreciative when people come up to me and they love the show. It's completely heartwarming, especially young girls and old ladies. For some reason, at the two ends of the spectrum, it's heavenly.

DUNHAM For me, it's old ladies and gay teenage boys.

BEE Yeah, gay teenage boys, too.

DUNHAM Gay teenage boys, that's who I want to connect to. That's who I feel I am inside. But thank you from the bottom of the hearts of all of us.

BEE My God. Jeez, thank you. I just started to sweat. I just got knee sweats.

[Zeb]

Gay teenage boys, that's who I want to connect to. That's who I feel I am inside.

Well, that explains a few things.

[Griffin3]

Neither of these people are part of a "healthy humoristic environment."

[chemjeff]

the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights.

Are their shirts brown?

[Citizen X - #6]

Yeah, but mostly from old ketchup and flop-sweat stains.

[Cynical Asshole]

Heh. The difference between "alt-right Nazis" and real, historical Nazis:

Real Nazis: snazzy looking uniforms and brown shirts by Hugo Boss

Alt-right "Nazis": "wife beaters" stained brown by old ketchup and flop sweat stains.

[Citizen X - #6]

Not wife beaters - novelty t-shirts featuring Internet memes.

[MarkLastname]

Those feldgrau officers' uniforms were pretty nice too.

[GILMORE?]

The Southern Poverty Law Center is sounding the alarm

Fortunately someone wired it in parallel to a Laugh-Track, so its all good.

[Rhywun]

Making the entire system wheelchair-friendly would cost more than than $10 billion.

LOL I wonder how many zeroes are missing from that figure.

I wonder why he doesn't use the hugely-expensive "paratransit" service I'm already paying for.