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Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com)
In his first interview since leaving the White House in January, former President Barack Obama spoke about the dangers of irresponsible use of social media. From a report on BBC: He warned that such actions were distorting people's understanding of complex issues, and spreading misinformation. "All of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet," he said. The former president expressed concern about a future where facts are discarded and people only read and listen to things that reinforce their own views. "One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. The question has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead to a Balkanisation of society and allows ways of finding common ground," he said.
I find it funny that Obama still thinks he's relevant. I guess you have to call it "fake news" when the Clinton emails show him talking about male hookers. $15,000 dollars worth of "hot dogs".
Gotta keep talking about fake news when the former first lady is having trouble hiding her penis.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Hey, some people like having gay muslim cock in their mouths. Who am I to judge?
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
The changing rooms stuff was Obama trolling people. Under his rules not only did post op transsexuals get to use the bathroom of their choice anyone who felt a bit [the other gender] that day did too.
Basically this was the coastal NY/CA types trolling the heartland by telling them they had to let boys into the girls' changing rooms and then attacking them as transphobic bigots when they complained.
See Obama could have have set the Title IX rules to say the school must provide unisex changing facilities and that only post op transsexuals could use the bathroom of the gender they were changing too. But he didn't because he knew forcing the heartland to let 'intact males' into the girls changing rooms would cause a backlash which his supporters would enjoy.
He was just as much of a troll as Trump is, just in a more subtle, bureaucratic way.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
A transgender high school student in Missouri is facing backlash from her peers after requesting to use the girls' bathrooms and locker room.
More than 100 students at Hillsboro High School, about an hour south of St Louis, walked out of class on Monday in protest.
"I'm hoping this dies down," said Lila Perry, the 17-year-old who began identifying as a girl publicly in February. "I don't want my entire senior year to be like this."
Ms. Perry, who began feeling "more like a girl than a boy" when she was 13, said school officials gave her permission to use the girls' facilities as the new school year began.
The district's superintendent, Aaron D. Cornman, issued a statement saying the district "accepts all students no matter race, nationality/ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation."
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The student protest came on the heels of a school board meeting on Thursday attended by so many parents it had to be moved to a bigger location.
"My goal is for the district and parents to have a policy discussion," said Derrick Good, a lawyer who has two daughters in the district and wants students to use either facilities based on their biological sex or other gender-neutral facilities.
He worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian advocacy group, to draft a "student physical privacy policy" and submit it to the district, which has about 3,500 students.
Ms. Perry previously used a unisex faculty bathroom, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Mr. Good said he got involved after hearing about a female student who encountered "an intact male" in the girls' locker room.
"It's a violation of my daughters' rights to privacy to not have a policy," he said.
The protesting students assembled outside the school for about two hours. Mr. Cornman said he did not believe any of them were penalized.
Ms. Perry, who dropped out of the physical education class that prompted her use of the girls' locker room, spent the two hours in her guidance counselor's office.
"I was concerned about my own safety," she said.
She said she knows of other, younger transgender students in the district and wants to open a dialogue so they have a better high school experience.
"It feels really awful that people are going to these extremes against me, not just in school but all over the Internet," Ms. Perry said. "But I've also received so much support. It feels really surreal to be in the middle of all of this."
The Missouri Gay-Straight Alliance Network will host a rally supporting Ms. Perry on Friday.
"I think that there are a lot of folks that don't understand the difference between sex and gender and only see Lila as her sex at birth," said Morgan Keenan, the group's founding director.
It's not the first case to stir public debate about the matter.
A 13-year-old transgender student at a junior high school in Idaho was given permission to use the girls' bathrooms ea
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.. he should simply tell his media fanboys/lackeys to actually report the news, instead of hiding in bushes, taking pictures of a man on Christmas break (https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/945787636756738051 - Manu Raju, Senior "Correspondent" AKA Gossiper in Chief)
Maybe then we'd know that :
- Tax bill is NOT a tax cut for the rich (the people who are facing taxe increases are 6 figure earners with homes in high tax states like New York and California, everyone else is seeing a cut)
- Businesses are responding well to the tax cuts, with already announces for bonuses and salary increases to employees
- That the job market is booming and businesses are responding well to the Trump administration cut on Regulations
- The Dow record breaking performance in Trump's first year, each being fueled by the Administration's announcements of changes in policy
- That no, you don't get to keep your doctor, and that Obamacare deductibles are a scam, and that fining people for not getting healthcare they can't afford was a big mistake
- That yes, the Travel Ban is ACTUALLY LAW.
- That moving the embassy to Jerusalem was a bi-partisan decision, voted 90% in favor by the house and congress, and not "Trump's idea".
- That the Russian Dossier is considered a sham, and that this sham of a piece of fanfiction was used in a FISA court to obtain a warrant for the sitting administration in 2016 to spy on a political campaign.
- That yes, the Mueller probe is Partisan to the core and that it should be scrutinized, especially since it's who foundation is previously mentionned sham dossier
- That the FBI has been politicized under the previous administration.
And the list goes on and on and on. The media are simply not reporting the news anymore. They have a single purpose and that is to push the #Resist bullcrap and Democrat Party agenda, rather than report the actual facts.
On btw, yes, ISIS has been defeated. Took 11 months. Sure he promised 1. Still better than the previous administrations did on that front.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
A bluff? That's what we're calling lies these days? You do realize that Russia regarded Obama's "red line" in Syria as America's Suez Moment? The moment when the great power reveals itself as weak and cowardly. Russia would have NEVER tried to pull the shit that they pulled, invading Crimea and such, without being absolutely certain that Obama would do nothing. Thanks, Obama.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Liar!
In 2016 senior leadership within the Obama FBI and Department of Justice, with direct and provable ties straight to the White House, planned and conducted a targeted political operation against a presidential candidate by weaponizing the intelligence community against Donald Trump.
Using sketchy, intentionally misleading and false information provided to a U.S. District Court Judge, the Obama FBI and DOJ colluded to present an application for wiretaps and surveillance authority to the FISA court; subsequently, they used a FISA warrant as part of an exhaustive counterintelligence operation against their political opposition.
This is no longer some pie-in-the-sky conspiracy. There is massive evidence, including statements from the co-conspirators, that highlights this exact operation in detail. Thank God for our alternative media which is shining the blinding light of the sun on this blight on our Republic. If things were like Obama wanted in TFA, we would not have alternative media to report these inconvenient truths. Distorting people's understanding of complex issues my ass. Misinformation my ass.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!