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| Net Neutrality | |||
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| Motivations behind net neutrality discussions called into question | |||
| Net NeutralityPoliticsBusiness | |||
| Opinion: The Case Against Net Neutrality – wsj.com | The troubling truth behind these anti-net neutrality op-ed writers – dailydot.com | ||
| The Internet has had plenty of innovation and growth on its own over the last few decades, it doesn’t need bureaucratic intervention stifling it now. | The expert on this panel has received money from ISPs in the past, and this panel looks like astroturfing from those ISPs to get support against Net Neutrality. | ||
| Entertainment | |||
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| Is Music Still About Selling Records? | |||
| Taylor SwiftMusicEntertainment | |||
| Taylor Swift’s New Album Is Amazing – But You Shouldn’t Buy It – mic.com | Taylor Swift and the Myth of the Mean Greedy Artist – electricliterature.com | ||
| Taylor Swift has kept her new album off Youtube and out of Spotify because she believes that people should have to pay for music, not get it for free. | An artist who protects their music should not be labelled greedy or insulting. Artists rights are workers’ rights and deserve protection. | ||
| Society | |||
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| The “New” Klan? | |||
| Ku Klux KlanRacismSociety | |||
| The Ku Klux Klan opens its door to Jews, black people and homosexuals – dailymail.co.uk | You May Have Heard That the KKK Is Now Accepting Black Members. Here’s What Is Actually Happening – reason.com | ||
| The Ku Klux Klan is now looking to diversify and increase its membership to include Jews, black people, homosexuals and those of Hispanic origin with a re-branding as ‘the new Klan’. | Anyone can call themselves KKK, and some of those new groups are accepting non-white members. These groups are clearly not the original white supremacist group which was disbanded over a century ago. | ||
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| The Islam Debate Continues | |||
| IslamMuslimReligion | |||
| Why I don’t believe people who say they loathe Islam but not Muslims | Andrew Brown | Comment is free – theguardian.com | UK’s Guardian takes stance against freedom of speech, tolerance and liberty – skeptical-science.com | ||
| Using the statement that being against Islam is not racist because Islam is not a race is no excuse for fear or hatred. | Criticism of a specific belief, ideology is not racist. To speak out against human rights violations and other aspects is not to condemn an entire race. | ||
| Business | |||
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| Should We Be More Concerned About Health Or Profits? | |||
| PharmaceuticalBusinessHealth | |||
| BBC News – Pharmaceutical industry gets high on fat profits – bbc.com | Marketing And R&D, Again. In the Pipeline: – corante.com | ||
| When it comes to pharmaceuticals, just because you can charge a high price for something, doesn’t mean you should. Is it ethical that the largest pharmaceutical company made a 42% margin last year? | The author challenges the statistics, as well as the R&D and marketing table contained in the article. | ||
| Politics | |||
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| The Personal Is Political | |||
| FeminismPoliticsGOP | |||
| 2014 was an election of firsts for Republican women. But it wasn’t a ‘win’ for women at all – theguardian.com | A Feminine Rebuttal to Feminist Jessica Valenti’s Article Rebuking Women for Supporting the GOP – midsouthsentinel.com | ||
| “Your gender doesn’t make you pro-woman, your actions do.” Women in politics are not necessary good for women when the representative is against contraception, abortion or women in the military. |
Freedom of speech and ideas are not gender specific. We all have the right to our political beliefs regardless of gender. | ||
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