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Germany Officially Gives Up On Free Speech: Will Fine Internet Companies That Don't Delete 'Bad' Speech

Social media companies face fines of up to €50m (£43m) if they persistently fail to remove illegal content from their sites under a new law passed in Germany
The German parliament on Friday approved the bill aimed at cracking down on hate speech, criminal material and fake news on social networks – but critics warn it could have drastic consequences for free speech online.

The German justice minister, Heiko Maas, who was the driving force behind the bill, said: “Freedom of speech ends where the criminal law begins.” Maas said official figures showed the number of hate crimes in Germany increased by more than 300% in the last two years.

The new law also has an even weirder provision, putting liability not just on the platforms, but on individual employees at online platforms who are designated the Chief Censors for that platform:
Aside from the hefty fine for companies, the law also provides for fines of up to €5m for the person each company designates to deal with the complaints procedure if it doesn’t meet requirements.
Who the hell is going to want that job? Make one mistake in failing to censor something, and you may be bankrupted.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170630/15125037705/germany-officially-gives-up-free-speech-will-fine-internet-companies-that-dont-delete-bad-speech.shtml

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/us/disney-pirates-of-the-caribbean-wench-change/index.html

After 50 years, Disney plans to remove the "Wench Auction" section from its fan-favorite "Pirates of the Caribbean'" ride at its parks, a Disney spokeswoman told CNN on Friday.
The scene, featuring animatronic characters, showed a line of women tied together under a sign that read, "Auction -- Take a Wench for a Bride."
Soon, however, the sign will say, "Auction, Surrender Yer Loot."

Instead of just women, the auction will feature a mix of men and women auctioning off personal goods such as jewelry and clocks.
"We believe the time is right to turn the page to a new story in this scene consistent with the humorous, adventurous spirit of the attraction," said Suzi Brown, a spokeswoman for Disneyland Resort.

One of the redheaded "wenches" will become a pirate in the new display, overseeing the auction, according to Kathy Mangum, senior vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering, the division that designs Disney rides.

"Given the redhead has long been a fan favorite, we wanted to keep her as a pivotal part of the story, so we made her a plundering pirate," Mangum said.

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has the video of her shooting the fag been leaked??
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/us/shooting-youtube-stunt-minnesota.html

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http://www.inforoqueperez.com.ar/index.php/interes-general/2873-aparecieron-nuevas-pintadas-en-la-iglesia-san-juan-bautista

>30-6-17
>In this morning of today appeared new grafitti in the church. This time it can be observed over 380 Begrano street, where the entrance door to the church is
>"READ TH BIBLE, THAT WE NEED MORE ATHEISTS" is one of the messages that could be observed in this occasion, also with a drawing of a cockroach with a $ symbol.

>The grafitti appeared tomorrow in the daybreak. A detail to consider is that in the corne of 9 de Julio and Belgrano a security Dome is found, with which it will be a matter of trackin[sic] the images to maybe come across with those who are performing these grafitti, because remember that not long ago behind the church some drawings and messages of this kind had appeared

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https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms

>In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims. “Hunt them, identify them, and kill them,” declared U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican. “Kill them all. For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all.”

>Higgins’ plea for violent revenge went untouched by Facebook workers who scour the social network deleting offensive speech.

>But a May posting on Facebook by Boston poet and Black Lives Matter activist Didi Delgado drew a different response.

>“All white people are racist. Start from this reference point, or you’ve already failed,” Delgado wrote. The post was removed and her Facebook account was disabled for seven days.

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http://www.wdrb.com/story/35761568/suspect-posts-on-snapchat-during-high-speed-police-pursuit-in-boat-on-lake-cumberland

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>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he is “jealous” of immigrants to Canada and their families, who, he said, have more of a stake in the country than others.

>“Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I’m jealous,” he said in an interview that aired Friday morning on CTV.

I mean I get what he's saying but man it's just so completely brainless - especially with Canada day approaching at the time. Why would the leader of a country kick dirt (whether intentional or not) on the people who voted for him?

http://globalnews.ca/news/3567893/justin-trudeau-jealous-immigrants-ctv-interview/

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Give a chimp a typewriter and infinite time and it will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, or so the theory goes

But it seems if you give a chimp a paintbrush it takes barely any time at all to become an artist.

Or at least that's the theory behind a new exhibition called Apes That Paint which will be hosted at a framing store in Florida next month.

Among the celebrity animals exhibiting their masterpieces at the show is Bubbles, the chimp who once went on tour with Michael Jackson.

His pieces will be displayed at the Frames USA store in Miami next month.

Bubbles was retired to the Center for Great Apes in 2005 when he was 20, and now spends most of his time with an easel and paintbrush.

Now 34, he is the alpha of his group and one of the oldest residents. In addition to painting he loves playing in tubs of water.

Even after Bubbles' retirement, Michael Jackson maintained ownership of Bubbles, his first and favorite chimpanzee. But despite reports he did not include the 185-pound, 4½-foot Bubbles in his will.

The center says Bubbles is affectionate and kind to the younger chimps he lives with and is camera shy, despite his early life touring the world and appearing in music videos.

The exhibition, which features paintings on sale from $200 to $2,000, aims to raise funds for the center which provides a home for apes either rescued or retired from the entertainment industry.

Other primates putting their works on display include stars of 'Planet of the Apes,' orangutans from the movie 'Going Ape!' and NBC's soap opera 'Passions.'

Gallery owner Adam Brand said he got the inspiration for the ape art show after a customer came into the store to frame a painting done by an orangutan.

The Center for Great Apes is home to around 50 animals, with each one costing $22,000 per year to house.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4654494/Michael-Jackson-s-chimp-Bubbles-artist.html

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New Jersey
>Lawmakers blow deadline to pass N.J. budget
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/lawmakers_blow_deadline_to_pass_nj_budget.html

Delaware
>DOVER — As of midnight Friday — the last day of the legislative session — Democrats and Republicans still didn’t have a deal to balance the budget.
http://delawarestatenews.net/government/no-budget-deal-legislative-session-nears-end/

Illinois
>State budget passes first House vote, but huge hurdles remain on deadline day
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-legislature-special-session-met-0701-20170630-story.html

Maine
>AUGUSTA, Maine — For the first time in 26 years, Maine state government has shutdown. Lawmakers could not reach a budget agreement by 12:01 a.m. Saturday, triggering the shutdown.
http://www.wmtw.com/article/state-government-shut-down/10238932

Connecticut
>Maine, Connecticut Among States Likely to Soon Feel Pain Without Budget Deals
https://www.wsj.com/articles/maine-legislative-leaders-strike-budget-deal-as-shutdown-looms-1498830281

Massachusetts
>State lawmakers leave for holiday weekend without finishing budget, pot deals
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/30/state-lawmakers-leave-for-holiday-weekend-without-finishing-budget-pot-bills/SVBrLV4N15F31xyFKWxSnK/story.html

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http://www.newsweek.com/trump-morning-joe-mika-scarborough-630306

>On their MSNBC show Friday, Scarborough and Brzezinski expanded on the threatened story, alleging that the White House told them to apologize to Trump for their critical coverage of the president in order to make the story disappear.
“We got a call that ‘hey the National Enquirer is going to run a negative story about you guys,’” Scarborough said. “And they said ‘if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage then he would pick up the phone and basically spike this story.’”

>He added: “I had three people at the very top of the administration calling me and the response was like ‘are you kidding me, I don't know what they have, run a story, I'm not going to do it.’

>“The calls kept coming and they were like ‘you need to call, please call.’”
According to Brzezinski, the Enquirer, in fact, had no story but was harassing her teenage daughters and staking out her house.

>“They were calling my children, they were calling close friends and they were pinning this story on my ex-husband, who I knew would never do that, so I knew immediately that it was a lie and that they had nothing,” she said. “And these calls persisted for quite some time and then Joe had the conversations that he had with the White House where they said ‘oh, this could go away.’”

Trump countered with the following tweet:
>Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show

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Italy’s migrant welcome centers are in a state of “collapse” as huge waves of African migrants arrive in past two days

Officials reported on June 15 that more than 65,000 migrants had arrived since the beginning of the year, but that was prior to the latest influx. Figures for the year now stand at 73,380 migrants into Italy, or a rise of 14.42 percent over the same period in 2016, when then-record arrivals had reached 64,133.

The illegal immigrants who reach the Libyan coast from all parts of Africa (most recently, from the West), embark in the Mediterranean on makeshift boats. The majority of these are picked up either by NGOs or humanitarian organizations or official Italian Coast Guard or naval vessels.

“The government continues to show a worrying powerlessness in the face of a situation that becomes more and more dramatic every day,” said Paolo Romani, president of the senators of Forza Italy. Romani urged Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni to “safeguard national interests, even if necessary by blocking the access to Italian ports.”

Romani has also called on the UN Security Council to intervene, urging “shared strategies to stop the departures” from Libya, as well as a ban on NGOs whose shuttle service to Italy only serves to “aggravate the situation.”

The head of Italy’s Northern League party, Matteo Salvini, expressed his exasperation in a tweet to his followers, noting that Tuesday’s arrival of 8,500 illegal immigrants onto Italian soil was “fucking enough.”

“This complicit government will do nothing,” he wrote, “so it’s up to us to use every (licit) means we can,” while adding the hashtag #stopinvasione.

http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2017/06/27/migranti-8500-arrivi-in-due-giorni-opposizione-allattacco_a_23003793/

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-religion-idUSKBN19I1RT

>The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a lower court ruling prohibiting the use of public funds to pay for children to attend private religious schools, a day after it issued a major ruling narrowing the separation of church and state.

>The justices ordered the lower court in Colorado to reconsider the legality of school "voucher" programs in light of Monday's ruling that churches and other religious entities cannot be categorically denied public money even in states whose constitutions explicitly ban such funding.

tl;dr - Education in the U.S. is getting fucked over by religious fundamentalist figures like Betsy DeVos, who want to push children into institutions that indoctrinate them with religious dogma while shunning accepted scientific theories.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-allows-implementation-of-most-of-trump-travel-ban-1498487727

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to implement part of its temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and said it would review lower-court rulings that found the executive actions likely unlawful.

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Man grabs a baby's crotch, while a protest against deportation of illegal immigrants, in Helsinki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX-aYo99D1s