I'm sure all this talk about snowflakes on college campuses is fascinating to some, but frankly it's exhausting and distracting from the very real problems occurring with regards to US Politics, so maybe we could stop arguing about whether or not people with appalling beliefs should or shouldn't be allowed to spout those appalling beliefs at young, impressionable minds? Or just move it to another thread? It's only tangentially related to American politics.
While Trump and his cronies are distracting us, by the way, Congress is having a good old time introducing some interesting legislation.
At the moment we're trying to hamstring and/or completely shutter the EPA, we're trying to steal funding from already underfunded public schools to give to private charter schools instead, trying to completely terminate the Department of Education, trying to roll back protections for endangered wildlife, trying to defund Planned Parenthood, and trying to make abortion punishable with jail time.
http://resistancereport.com/politics...ills-congress/
Oh also the FCC has set aside Obama administration regulations that would've forced ISP's like Comcast, etc to have more stringent protection on user information such as social security numbers. With all this talk about Free Speech for white supremacists, I guess we don't care so much about our personal information being protected.
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The Federal Communications Commission has voted to prevent the Internet privacy rules passed five months ago from fully taking effect.
The agency voted 2-to-1 Wednesday to temporarily stay a data security regulation within the privacy rules, passed in October 2016. That provision, which would have gone into effect Thursday, would have subjected Internet service providers (ISPs) to a different standard than web sites, apps and other Net players.
The Federal Trade Commission has the authority to enforce consumer privacy rules followed by Web sites, apps and other Net destinations. Had the FCC's data security regulation gone into effect, ISPs would have had to adopt more stringent data security requirements than companies under the FTC's regulations.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/n...rule/98599438/
Oh also we've decided that lead poisoning is no big deal for animals (but then Flint still doesn't have clean water, so I guess this shouldn't be a surprise).
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The former Montana congressman said his new orders will allow people outside of the “land-owning elite” to participate in outdoor recreation on public lands. Pro-gun groups like the National Rifle Association claim lead-free bullets are more expensive and harder to obtain than their toxic counterparts.
But the Obama administration’s ban on lead ammunition was meant to protect wildlife from lead poisoning. As many as 20 million birds and other animals die of lead poisoning each year as a result of the nearly 100,000 tons of lead that hunters, fishers and other sportsmen use, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b02a4e8ddb710f (warning, autoplay video at link)
And I haven't yet had a chance to really go through the details of the GOP's healthcare plan, but I haven't seen much that's positive about it from any reputable sources.
So please, can we stop the incessant roundabout arguments about whether Milo and his ilk are allowed to spew falsehoods about the trans community wherever he wishes and focus on actual issues?