I barely have to comment on this one. Incredibly, the British House of Commons sent the letter above to Chris Pavlovsky, asking Rumble’s CEO to censor actor/comic Russell Brand as YouTube has (discussed in this post from yesterday.)
Pavlovsky’s response:
The Brits really never have gotten our Constitution, have they? Unfortunately, an increasing number of Americans, including those who run news, social media and Big Tech platforms don’t get it either.
[Note: This post takes no position regarding the validity and justness of the Hollywood writers’ strike.]
Tough choice: is the now middle-aged former child star turned talk show host’s apology even more unethical than Broebert’s discussed here? It’s certainly more ridiculous, even though Drew’s was teary and seemingly sincere, unlike the Republican’s. In fact, this apology is unique in my experience: Barrymore was apologizing for something she had announced she was doing, then she went ahead and did it anyway. What is that?
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike since May over more equitable wages and working conditions. Even though it is a talk show and theoretically shouldn’t require writers, “The Drew Barrymore Show” does employ some, and thus is officially being struck. Nonetheless, Barrymore announced that her show would metaphorically cross the picket lines to premier tomorrow as scheduled. Her announcement predictably attracted a “scab” response from the WGA and others on social media. Then Barrymore posted the mea culpa video excerpted above on Instagram.
I did not see this coming at all. Obviously, neither did Oprah Winfrey.
On August 31, Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson united on their Instagram and TikTok accounts to promote their People’s Fund of Maui, which they had co-launched with a combined $10 million donation. The fund would support the victims of the Maui wildfires, and O joined with The Rock to call on the public for more contributions. The following accompanied their joint video, shot in Hawaii, naturally:
Mock away. The climate change fanatics are truly bananas.
Lifestyle media icon Martha Stewart was vacationing on a cruise around Greenland and posted a photograph of a cocktail chilled by ice she said had been chipped off an iceberg. “End of the first zodiac cruise from @swanhelleniccruises into a very beautiful fjord on the east coast of Greenland,” she wrote in the post. “We actually captured a small iceberg for our cocktails tonight.” Wait a sec—Marlon would like a word…
Stewart was immediately scorched on social media because using ice from an iceberg is promoting global warming, or cruelty to icebergs, or anti-Semitic (“Iceberg, Goldberg, what’s the difference?”) or something. “Wealthy white people drinking their iceberg cocktails while the planet is in flames is a bit tone deaf,” wrote a typical hysteric. “Please don’t use an endangered whale or seal to make any elitist meals like you did with the disappearing iceberg,” wrote another. You know: morons.
Martha is no weenie: She followed up by posting a photograph of an iceberg and wrote, “Pleated iceberg. Perfect for cocktails!”
Perfect response, too.
I would have been tempted to post a photo of me eating a polar bear steak.
Lizzie Marbach, a former Ohio GOP official and currently director of communications at Ohio Right to Life, tweeted ,
This upset Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), who is Jewish, so he tweeted, twice,
Ugh.
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What’s worse than Ethics Dunce? What Wander Franco, the Tampa Bay Rays sensational young shortstop, has done is so flagrantly destructive to himself and so ruinous to his team and family…and so obviously wrong and avoidable that “dunce” is an understatement.
If you don’t follow baseball, I need to tell you bit about Franco. At 22 years old, he is already in his third major league season. He plays shortstop, the most important and difficult defensive position besides pitcher and catcher, and his team, the Tampa Bay Rays, are a perennial powerhouse in the American League. He is handsome and built like a Greek statue: so clearly does everything about Franco scream “Superstar!” that the Rays took the almost unprecedented step of signing him to an eleven year contract before this season, before he has won a single batting title, Gold Glove or MVP award. He has already made just under $4 million dollars; the rest of his contract will pay him an estimated $176 million more, whereupon he will be eligible for another long-term contract as a free agent conservatively worth more than twice as much.
He has all of that before him, and that’s just the money. He is looking at being a community and national celebrity, a product spokesperson and endorser, a role model for the young, and a legend in his sport. And what did he do?
Once again, it is increasingly apparent that entrusting one’s children to the incompetent and irresponsible care likely to be provided to them by America’s public schools is itself incompetent and irresponsible.
That’s Danielle Allen above by her Twitter (‘X’) profile on her account which she operated under the pseudonym Claire Kyle. She was, despite not only proclaiming herself a “black supremacist” but constantly posting anti-white comments and rants online, a first-grade teacher at the Thompson Elementary School in the Mesquite Independent School District in Texas.
The anti-white posts started coming in July when she joined the social media network. A video picked up by The Libs of TikTok outed “Kyle”, and soon her various racist tweets were, as they say, “going viral.” It didn’t take long for web sleuths to discover the real tweeter, and apparently the school knew about her Twitter racism. Allen smugly announced that they were cool with it…
All righty then!
I was literally going to start this post with nearly the exact same statement, except I was going to ask how many progressives and die-hard Biden defenders would have the integrity to condemn the revelation that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies after unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House.
Not that this should have surprised anyone; it certainly didn’t surprise me, Censorship, deception and suppression of news, facts and reality is how the current mutation of the Democratic Party rolls, and Big Tech and social media have joined the mainstream media as their enablers and accomplices.
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