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  • Do Facebook’s Community Standards Allow Hateful Posts?

    Do Facebook’s Community Standards Allow Hateful Posts?

    Facebook has over 2 billion users.  That’s almost 30% of the world’s population. Now, how many of those users are actually fake profiles or duplicates are unknown.  Regardless though, Facebook has a really difficult task.  They have to be able to police what users are doing to make sure that it conforms to their terms…

  • New York Might Replace a Statue of the clueless Columbus with Haitian Liberator Toussaint L’Ouverture

    New York Might Replace a Statue of the clueless Columbus with Haitian Liberator Toussaint L’Ouverture

    There have been a lot of discussions lately about the statues we see throughout the world.  This is a big deal in the southern United States due to the fact that the statues are usually of Confederate soldiers.  There are many historical and racial implications with these statues, and with that, comes controversy.  The one…

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Banned Because it Made People “Uncomfortable”

    To Kill a Mockingbird Banned Because it Made People “Uncomfortable”

    In a recent decision, the book To Kill a Mockingbird was banned from the reading list of a school district in Biloxi, Mississippi. Usually, books are banned because they are controversial in some way. The Catcher in the Rye was famously banned because it was deemed “unacceptable, obscene, blasphemous, negative, foul, filthy and it undermines morality”.  But who…