Starbucks recently virtue signaled by banning plastic straws and replacing them with lids, but a report indicates the coffee giant will be using even more plastic than the original straw/lid combination. With its latest PR stunt, the corporation hopes to completely eliminate all single-use plastic straws at its 28,000 stores worldwide by 2020. CEO Kevin Johnson released a statement Monday, saying,... 

China’s foam-blowing industry has been identified as the source of a dramatic increase in the ozone-destroying CFC-11 chemical, despite a worldwide ban on the production and use of that chemical, a new environmental report has revealed. An investigation carried out by the UK-based NGO Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said that 18 companies in 10 Chinese provinces confirmed their use of CFC-11... 

Groups dedicated to life are saddened and mourning after Ireland voted Saturday to repeal its Eight Amendment banning abortion. “Ireland will now join that sad community of nations who throw away irreplaceable human beings through abortion on demand,” Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins said in a Saturday press release. “I personally know the pain of abortion and how... 

One of the world’s most watched annual TV programs has come down hard on China for censoring its content. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes Eurovision broadcasts around the world, pulled its contract with Chinese channel Mango TV, after learning that the Chinese broadcaster had censored several videos, including an Irish music video featuring an LGBTQ love story. According to... 

Domain registrar GoDaddy has taken down white nationalist Richard Spencer’s site Altright.com, saying the site “crossed the line” in promoting violence. BuzzFeed reported the news yesterday, noting that Spencer had also been kicked off Facebook a few weeks earlier. Altright.com is currently offline, and GoDaddy told BuzzFeed that Spencer had 48 hours to transfer to a new registrar. When a... 

“When spreading that kind of extreme opinion, sometimes calling for violence and threatening groups, it’s illegal.” Swedish Justice Minister Morgan Johansson has promised to put more pressure on social media giants Facebook and YouTube owner Google to remove illegal “hate speech” material. The Minister’s remarks come after many in the Swedish media railed against YouTube over right-wing... 

Bitcoin dropped below $8,000 after news that US tech giant Google is going to ban cryptocurrency advertising. According to CoinMarketCap data, as of 05:25 GMT, Bitcoin fell by 14 percent to $7,909. At Bitfinex crypto-currency exchange trading platform, its value dropped by 13.8 percent to $7,847, at Binance — by 14.8 percent to $7,835. On Wednesday, Google said it would ban advertisements related... 

Major White activist Jared Taylor and his organization American Renaissance are suing Twitter for permanently suspending their accounts, accusing the social media giant of “the silencing of dissident voices.” The suit, filed Wednesday in California Superior Court’s San Francisco District, alleges that Twitter is engaging in viewpoint discrimination against the site for its racist views, in violation... 

Twitter has purposefully decided to start using the word “suspension” to refer to both suspensions and permabans, so it is never clear which they are talking about when they use the word “suspension.” I don’t really understand how they can permanently ban a congressional candidate. But it appears that this is what has happened. Forward: Twitter suspended the account of congressional candidate... 

Facebook Inc. on Tuesday said it is banning ads promoting bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as well as those about initial coin offerings (ICOs) and binary options. The social networking giant said in a blog that it is making the move because these are “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” “We want people to continue... 

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies are falling substantially on Thursday after India announced a crackdown on their trading and circulation. The largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, dropped over 12 percent below $9,000, the lowest level seen since November. The Indian Finance Ministry on Thursday made bitcoin illegal and announced an upcoming ban. “The government does not consider cryptocurrencies... 

Above and below: Crowds of Germans demonstrate in Cottbus this past weekend against the nonwhite invasion of their country. Following an increasing number of physical clashes between nonwhite invaders and Germans in two German cities, one of the affected towns, Cottbus in Brandenburg, has banned all “new refugees” from being “settled” in the town. In addition, the town of Wurzen, located in... 

A preschool in southern Sweden has pioneered a zero tolerance policy on play fighting and aggressive games for the sake of children’s “mental wellbeing”, a step which triggered psychologists’ skepticism. Children at the Västanvinden preschool, located in Halmstad in southern Sweden, may no longer engage in play fighting, as aggressive games and war toys were dismissed as destructive... 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has lifted a three-year moratorium on civilian gain-of-function (GOF) research that enhances the potency of pandemic pathogens such as SARS, the flu and Ebola. “GOF research is important in helping us identify, understand, and develop strategies and effective countermeasures against rapidly evolving pathogens that pose a threat to public health,” said NIH... 

Facebook has slapped a user with a 7 day account suspension for a post in which the individual called for European governments to follow “sensible migration policies”. The full post reads; “A reminder that the EU, while drowning in their own mess, threatens to punish Poland for failing to meet their “refugee quota”. “It is time for sensible migration policies that work for the people....