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August 7, 2018Sarah Palin interview may have been cut from Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Who Is America?'
August 7, 2018Sacha Baron Cohen shows no mercy to his interviewees — except, perhaps, for one very notable exception.
At a panel for the Television Critic’s Association on Monday, Showtime entertainment president Gary Levine revealed that the Sarah Palin interview, one of the most anticipated segments of Who Is America?, might not even make it to air.
When asked when the Palin episode would air, Levine started throwing caution to the wind. “There are several people who have thrown themselves in front of buses that may not be headed their way,” he said, according to Entertainment Weekly. Read more…
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Pretty much everyone saw this coming.
A forthcoming report from the FCC’s Office of Inspector General reportedly dispels earlier dubious claims from the FCC that its comment system was hit by a distributed denial of service attack in May of last year. It turns out, after all, that the commission’s site was likely brought to a crawl not by malicious hackers or pranksters but by — gasp — concerned citizens trying to make their voices heard in support of net neutrality.
“The Inspector General Report tells us what we knew all along: the FCC’s claim that it was the victim of a DDoS attack during the net neutrality proceeding is bogus,” reads a statement from FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. “What happened instead is obvious—millions of Americans overwhelmed our online system because they wanted to tell us how important internet openness is to them and how distressed they were to see the FCC roll back their rights.” Read more…
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InfoWars host Alex Jones may no longer be able to publish content on YouTube and iTunes, but the companies haven’t removed his content entirely.
That’s because these bans so far haven’t extended to InfoWars’ mobile app, which remains available in both Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store.
Both app stores have policies prohibiting hate speech and harassment — the same reasons the companies cited for removing Jones’ podcasts and YouTube channels in the first place.
In fact, not only is the InfoWars app still available in both stores, it appears to be thriving. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | The InfoWars app is still alive and well in the App Store and Google Play
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