You better watch out, you better not try, to voice your own thoughts, Big Tech is telling you why … you can’t have free speech online.
While most Americans are celebrating Christmas and the coming new year, there’s not much to celebrate when it comes to Big Tech’s handling of free speech.
China is fully engaged in a multi-front war against the United States. This “unrestricted warfare” against America has several dimensions: technological, space, military, political, economic, digital, psychological, informational and diplomatic. In fact, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) openly declared a “people’s war” against the US in a May 14, 2019 edition of the People’s Daily.
Thousands of child abuse images have been discovered in a database for artificial intelligence systems, raising fears that AI tools have been “trained” on the illegal images.
Researchers have identified more than 3,000 cases of child sexual abuse material in a vast trove of images designed to create AI photo generation software.
The free database, known as “LAION-5b”, has been used to develop AI software – including a version of Stable Diffusion, a popular image generator.
The Washington Post has removed the "War in Ukraine" section from their website. pic.twitter.com/vQTNUHV5BH
— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) December 20, 2023
h/t Mauser
More than one-third of Canadians lack confidence in the youth criminal justice system, according to government research, which the Department of Justice describes as a “cause for concern.”
Research by the Department of Justice revealed that 39 percent of Canadians have little confidence that the youth criminal justice system (YCJS) is fair. Only 22 percent of those surveyed said they were confident the system is fair while 29 percent said they were moderately confident.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India will “definitely look into” any evidence provided on its alleged links to an assassination plot in the US.
In November, the US charged an Indian man of conspiring to murder a Sikh separatist leader in New York.
Mr Modi told the Financial Times that the allegations will not affect ties between India and the US.
This is the first time he has spoken publicly about the issue.
Rent increases slowing in Canada. Here’s where price hikes are cooling most
A report says the average asking price for a rental unit in Canada was $2,174 in November, relatively flat from the previous month but an 8.4 per cent increase year-over-year.
The data released Friday by Rentals.ca and Urbanation, which analyzes monthly listings from the former’s network, showed the annual rate of rent growth in Canada continues to slow, following increases of 9.9 per cent in October and 11.1 per cent in September.
Nothing says don’t take us seriously like Colorado’s Supreme Court decision ostensibly taking Donald Trump off the November 2024 presidential ballot. The split 4-3 decision by the far-left wing of the far-left court did the bidding of the Democrats’ fringe lawfare crowd by proclaiming without evidence or precedence that the former president is a dyed-in-the-wool insurrectionist.
As Ottawa mandates selling electric vehicles (EVs) and with an increasing number of offerings for consumers, the potentially major issue of battery replacement remains uncertain.
It’s been said that an EV is its battery and then everything else.
In a video uploaded Dec. 12, automotive journalists Andrea and Zack Spencer of the Motormouth Youtube channel, told the story of Kyle Hsu, a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 owner who faced a $60,000 bill to replace its battery. That was more than the $55,000 cost of the car brand new.
By shelving talks over a free trade deal, Biden has confirmed all our worst fears about the Democrats
There have been plenty of disappointments since the Brexit vote of 2016. Disappointment over the behaviour of the political class in Britain; disappointment at the Conservative Party; disappointment at all those people who agreed to a democratic vote and then promptly refused to accept its results.
But if there is one disappointment that most rankles with me, it is the US-UK relationship, and what has not happened since 2016.
🇨🇦 PM @JustinTrudeau receives a bespoke video from senior Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad. He is so grateful for 🇨🇦 support of the UN Resolution calling for a ceasefire which mentioned neither Hamas nor the hostages it holds more than 70 days on. Such a proud moment for you as well,… https://t.co/8jNyEEH123
— Vivian Bercovici (@VivianBercovici) December 20, 2023
Justin Trudeau fears Pierre Poilievre is bringing Trump-style politics to Canada
Justin Trudeau is worried Canada is vulnerable to the spread of the far right in the United States, and says no one should be smugly assuming that this country is immune to its influence.
In a candid and personal interview with his old friend Terry DiMonte, Trudeau talked at length about the angry climate in Canada and the U.S., and what he sees as near “nihilism” infecting political discourse.
“There is something that is changing right now,” Trudeau said. “Donald Trump was a symptom of that, not a cause … There is a level of anger and ‘burn down the institutions’ and almost nihilism that’s creeping in, in all of our countries.”
Justin has a very strong aversion to mirrors.
Prince Andrew is expected to be among dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates named in documents to be unsealed next month on the orders of a New York judge.
The documents were filed as part of a lawsuit against the disgraced financier’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
Judge Loretta Preska has given those whose names will be released 14 days to appeal her decision before the documents are made public.
Less than a third of the population is optimistic about the future of Canada’s middle class, according to a new poll, which found that optimism has plummeted since 2020.
Released by Pollara Strategic Insights on Dec. 17, the survey said that only 31 percent of respondents expressed confidence in the future of the country’s middle class, reflecting a 22 percent decline from the 53 percent reported in 2020.
Far-left Axios is gushing over a new study that blames climate change for people fleeing Democrat-run cities like the “metro areas of Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.
