Natural News – by Ethan Huff

Banning President Donald Trump from social media while silencing his supporters who dare to object is simply not enough to stop “violence and hate” from spreading on the internet, according to Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser.

In an announcement, Mozilla expressed urgent plans to start filtering out “disinformation” at the browser level before it even has the chance to show up in an internet search or on a website. Continue reading “Mozilla, Firefox planning to censor conservatives at the browser level; deplatforming isn’t enough”

Summit News – by Steve Watson

Factory workers in France have labeled social distancing ‘dog collars’ as an “attack on individual liberty” as employers are trying to make them wear the devices to enforce restrictions while working.

The alarm devices emit a noise and light up if workers get closer than two metres together, but have been slammed by a worker’s union for “infantilising” employees. Continue reading “French Workers Angrily Reject Social Distancing ‘Collars’”

NextGov – by Brandi Vincent

Air Force personnel are set to soon be equipped with machine learning-driven capabilities to better counter COVID-19-connected disinformation.

Building on a prior falsehoods-fighting pursuit and as part of a larger solicitation launched in April, the branch recently awarded machine intelligence startup Primer a $1 million, phase II Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, contract that’ll underpin the integration of new solutions. Continue reading “Air Force Turns to Machine Learning to Fight COVID-19 Disinformation”

Daily Mail

Hundreds of National Guard troops are sleeping on the stone floor of the US Capitol as security intensifies in Washington DC and the capital goes into lockdown a week out from Joe Biden’s inauguration.

The troops, who descended on DC in the wake of last week’s MAGA mob riots, were spotted cradling their weapons as they slept on the floor of the Capitol on Wednesday morning.   Continue reading “Fort Capitol: Hundreds of National Guard troops sleep with their rifles on Congress stone floor to safeguard Biden inauguration”

Fox News

Parler will likely go offline for “a while” Sunday evening given Amazon Web Services‘ decision to suspend the upstart social media platform after Wednesday’s U.S. Capitol riot, executives said Sunday.

“We are clearly being singled out,” Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff told “Fox & Friends Weekend” one day after Apple suspended Parler from its App Store even as it surged to the No. 1 spot in the free apps section earlier in the day. Continue reading “Parler to be down ‘for a while’ without AWS, executives say: ‘We are clearly being singled out’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The military may allow the National Guard in Washington D.C. to carry firearms and batons ahead of the inauguration, according to a report from the Associated Press, citing the Secretary of the Army.

Restrictions on the use of force are currently under review by Defense leaders, as they brace for more protests surrounding the January 20 inaugural.
 Continue reading “DC National Guard May Carry Firearms Ahead Of Inauguration: Report”

RT

A coronavirus has caused an outbreak of kennel cough among dogs in Canada, according to the country’s vets. The virus, however, is entirely different from Covid-19 which has been plaguing the globe for over a year.

A new “canine coronavirus” has been determined to be the culprit behind the outbreak, the national medical director for VCA Animal Hospitals, Danny Joffe, said. Continue reading “‘CANINE CORONAVIRUS’ behind outbreak of kennel cough in Canada, veterinarians say”