WhatsApp has confirmed that users won’t be able to read or send messages unless they agree to its rules on sharing personal data with Facebook. The new T&Cs have sparked backlash and led to a surge in popularity of rival apps. On Sunday, the company shared the details of how the new terms of service will affect its users with the tech news website TechCrunch. The comment came after the outlet... 

As the world’s ruling class become more “woke,” growing numbers of transgender athletes are entering female sports and conquering women’s events. One of Joe Biden’s first acts after becoming President was to sign an executive order on “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” The order declares that “children should be able to... 

Anti-racism activists in New York have risen up to rally against white supremacy as they demand justice for a Filipino-American man who was viciously slashed with a box cutter on the subway. Never mind that the attacker was black. Can you believe this? America is truly a mentally ill schizophrenic place to be in… Hundreds of protesters gathered at New York’s Washington Square Park on Saturday... 

President Joe Biden urged Congress Friday to “swiftly pass” the Equality Act, setting him squarely on a collision course with the U.S. Catholic Bishops. “Full equality has been denied to LGBTQ+ Americans and their families for far too long,” Biden said in a statement. “Despite the extraordinary progress the LGBTQ+ community has made to secure their basic civil rights, discrimination is still... 

Canadian political leader, Travis Patron, who was arrested on February 15, 2021 allegedly for “hate speech,” has released an official statement about his ordeal. We have transcribed it here for ease of reading. The original statement can be seen below. Patron Held As Political Prisoner For Over 48 Hours By Government Of Saskatchewan Thursday, February 18th, 2021 Fellow citizens, On Monday, February... 

Critical thinking is dangerous, according to a Times editorial urging readers to vet sources with Wikipedia lest they fall into traps set by evil conspiracy theorists and be tricked into questioning the paper’s iron-clad truths. Charlie Warzel, a Times columnist who styles himself an expert in “online radicalization,” has implored his readers not to “go down the rabbit hole,” in a Thursday... 

A new hearing on giving reparations to African Americans in the US has reignited discussion. But all reparations really are, are a distraction from other issues that could be solved to help black communities. Utah representative Burgess Owens and former football star Herschel Walker discussed their opposition to the possibility of reparations in the United States on Wednesday. The basic idea of reparations... 

With millions of Texans shivering through the fourth day of rolling power outages in the state, many are struggling to access food and water, while officials play the blame game and weather satellites are posting bizarre readings. At least 25 deaths have been attributed to the recent cold snap which has caused record snowfall in the Lone Star state, leading to frozen or broken water pipes and consequent... 

In 1967, at the height of racial tensions and riots in America, the New York Times published an editorial by “celebrated” Black author James Baldwin in which he attempted to explain and justify the reasons for rampant antisemitism among many Blacks, despite the superficial political alliance between the two “minority” groups. His argument, however, becomes very confused at a certain point... 

Left-wing teachers are now demanding that Shakespeare is banned from classes due to his “white supremacy and colonization.” Lorena German, National Council of Teachers of English Anti-Racism Committee chair and a co-founder of the #DisruptTexts, claims “everything about the fact that he was a man of his time is problematic about his plays. We cannot teach Shakespeare responsibly and not disrupt... 

Civil rights groups in California’s San Francisco Bay Area are demanding action following a recent surge in attacks on Asian Americans which have left one person dead and many others badly injured. The attacks, reminiscent of the ‘knockout game,’ typically happen during daytime – including one against a 91-year-old Asian man in Oakland’s Chinatown who was hospitalized with serious injuries... 

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from Parler from offensive jokes, despite the site claiming repeatedly to be pro-free speech. Parler came back online for many users on Monday, after being kicked off of the internet and app stores by the Big Tech giants determined to shut the site down, claiming the conservative-oriented social media platform hosted violent content, and attempted... 

America’s biggest owner of farmland, Bill Gates, says he wants to see everybody in the West to switch to eating “100% synthetic beef” in order to combat climate change. The world’s second richest man floated his ideas to reduce carbon emissions in a new interview with MIT’s Technology Review. “I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef,” Gates suggested when asked... 

The principal of East Side Community School in New York sent white parents a manifesto that calls on them to become “white traitors” and advocate for full “white abolition.” “This is the new language of public education,” tweeted Christopher F. Rufo along with an image showing “the 8 white identities,” which range from “white supremacist” to “white abolition.” The accompanying... 

Prosecutors say a West Side man and two accomplices went on a violent crime spree Tuesday, killing a man seemingly at random on the street, carjacking a woman, and robbing three Dunkin’ locations before police caught up with them. Investigators strongly suspect the crew is connected to a weeks-long pattern of similar crimes across the city and suburbs, including an armed carjacking outside Willis...