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  • Twitter Piles on Richard Dawkins Over Eugenics Tweet

    Twitter Piles on Richard Dawkins Over Eugenics Tweet0

    Twitter may not be the best medium for explaining the science of eugenics to a wary public, as the sometime Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Richard Dawkins, discovered this week. Professor Dawkins, now aged 78, renowned as an evolutionary biologist and as the author of best-sellers about genetics

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  • Twitter Loses Round One of Anti-Censorship Suit Brought By Supremacist

    Twitter Loses Round One of Anti-Censorship Suit Brought By Supremacist0

    Anyone who has been on some form of social media has probably heard about censorship at some time. “They squelched my Facebook post!” or “I finally got out of Twitter prison,” are common accusations lodged against prominent platforms. Despite the complaining, most people throw their hands up in the air and walk off, convinced that

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  • Twitter Doesn’t Realize that Protecting Hate Speech Promotes Tolerance

    Twitter Doesn’t Realize that Protecting Hate Speech Promotes Tolerance0

    Does freedom to speak in ways that others consider “offensive” or “hateful” threaten minorities or does it protect minorities? Before you answer, please consider one of the means by which abolitionists sought to change public opinion about slavery. In the 1830s abolitionists were using the U.S. mail in their campaign to end slavery. In 1835

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  • Twitter CEO Apologizes for Eating Chick-Fil-A Sandwich

    Twitter CEO Apologizes for Eating Chick-Fil-A Sandwich0

    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday expressed regret over eating at Chick-fil-A because of the chicken company’s CEO’s personal views on gay marriage. Dorsey tweeted a screenshot from his phone that showed a purchase he had made at Chick-fil-A using a mobile application. After a liberal backlash, however, Dorsey apologized for eating at the popular

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  • Twisting Words: A Look at ‘Lynching’

    Twisting Words: A Look at ‘Lynching’0

    On October 22, Donald Trump tweeted a message regarding the ongoing impeachment inquiry against him: So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are

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  • Twin Cities School District Thinks Students Should be in Front of a Screen ALL OF THE TIME

    Twin Cities School District Thinks Students Should be in Front of a Screen ALL OF THE TIME0

    • August 25, 2015

    Public school districts today are increasingly identifying screen time with education. Across the country, many districts are spending a lot of money to provide each student with an iPad or laptop.  I live around one of them. The other day I received in the mail the 2015-16 calendar for the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan school

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