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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Instructing journalists to keep away from the police and threatening them with arrest if they don't.Given that the target of the police in this case have the Wrong Ideology, many journalists will be not angry but grateful: Ottawa Police @OttawaPolice All media who are attending the area, please keep a distance and stay out of police operations for your safety. Anyone found within areas undergoing enforcement may be subject to arrest. There will be a media availability later today at 474 Elgin Street. #ottnews

Marion Isabeau-Ringuette, director of communications for the solicitor general, donated $100 to an online fundraiser created by an organizer of the anti-COVID measures protests on Feb. 5, more than one week after protesters began occupying downtown Ottawa, and the day before the city's mayor declared a state of emergency. A few days ago, details including names, email addresses and postal codes of almost 100,000 donors to the GiveSendGo fundraiser leaked online. The Christian crowdfunding site has since acknowledged it was hacked, but has not verified the data itself.

Are you about to post a tweet containing “harmful” language? Don’t worry — Twitter is experimenting with a feature that will warn you ahead of time, so you don’t accidentally infect any users with your wrongthink. “When things get heated, you may say things you don’t mean,” wrote Twitter’s official support account in a tweet yesterday. To let you rethink a reply, we’re running a limited experiment on iOS with a prompt that gives you the option to revise your reply before it’s published if it uses language that could be harmful.” It’s a bit like “precrime” in the 2002...

The United Nations committee tasked with combating racial discrimination today opened its latest round of work in Geneva with a focus on stopping the spread of racist hate speech on the Internet and social media networks, as well as the need to use education to prevent racism and xenophobia. “Where does the right of expression, which we all want to respect, stop and the need to sanction and prevent hate speech begin? What is the point in time when one right has to recognize that it cannot be exercised if it implies the violation of another one,” UN Deputy High...

A SHOPKEEPER was threatened with arrest by police after he displayed a T shirt in his shop window with the statement: "Respect out beliefs or get out of our country."T shirt printer Matthew Taylor created the shirt in the wake of Drummer Lee Rigby's tragic death. But following a complaint from a member of the public, police came to his store in Newport, South Wales, and threatened to arrest him unless he removed the T shirt from sight. Matthew said: "I had a visit from two community support officers because it has been reported by someone who felt it was...

Is 'he' a four-letter word? by Pastor Erma Wolf Brandon - Split Rock Lutheran Parish Brandon, S.D. By what authority does the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America rewrite Scripture? By what authority is it decided that the Psalms, the Benedictus, and the Magnificat can be "emended" to eliminate all masculine pronouns for God? The final text of the new Evangelical Lutheran Worship has recently been posted on the ELCA Renewing Worship website. The word used by the Renewing Worship team is "emended": to improve by critical editing. Most of the Psalms have been edited. The scriptural canticles, used in morning...

China Cos. Show Appetite for Brand Names By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer Wed Jun 22, 8:50 AM ET China is moving into the merger-and-acquisition major leagues, as its star corporations shop for American household names like Unocal, Maytag and IBM, hoping that global ambitions will mean bigger profits. State media reports quoted unnamed officials at China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, as saying the company's board would meet this week and decide whether to go ahead with a $20 billion bid for Unocal Corp., the ninth-biggest U.S. oil and gas company. The CNOOC purchase, if it went through,...