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Turtle

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You may have heard the rumors that Twitter, Facebook, Google and other tech information entities are biased against conservatives, and that they vigorously and emphatically deny any and all such allegations, despite their actions telling the exact opposite story.

There is a new entry into "we're not biased [even though we clearly are, ha! ha! ha!]" category.

Malwarebytes makes some realty good (and free) software that detects malware, viruses, PUPs and various other issues. They can be a little annoying because they intentionally flag as a virus, even though they know full well that it's not, certain types of software used in software piracy to defeat certain anti-piracy schemes. To the uneducated, when one of these "viruses" are discovered, they try to get you to believe you are mere seconds away from being mauled by a lion, a bear, and three tigers currently charging at your back, and you need to act, and act quickly, without any hesitation or thought, to allow Malwarebytes to delete forever the offending software, and to never ever let it grace the confines of your storage media again. And they make it far more difficult than is necessary to bypass the danger and allow the offending software to remain. Be that as it may...

They have a relatively new browser extension (FIrefox, Chrome, probably others) that alerts you to malware websites, those that engage in FAKE NEWS and conspiracy theories, and those that specialize in clickbait. After getting some questionable result regarding which sites are and are not flagged by the software, the Malwarebytes Staff gave this response (BOLD emphasis theirs, not mine):

Disclaimer: Please note that our Clickbait filtering is NOT politically motivated at all.

Clickbait filtering is divided into two parts, 1) Domain based and 2) Content based

1) Our clickbait website data is sourced from a group of academic researchers.

any site that falls into the domain category will display a clickbait banner that can by bypassed, if you feel that warning is incorrect, please let us know and will look into it.

2) Content based filtering is transparent, all the known pattern based clickbait content will be filtered out from the webpage and number of blocked content will be displayed on the right corner under the malwarebytes logo. Some of the example are:

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Content based clickbait filtering works on all sites like news, social, tech etc.

Here's the problem with that ridiculous statement, and their subsequent replies after being pressed on the details. One, they refuse to name the source of their academic researchers, only saying that they might be proprietary and that the researchers are completely unbiased (which doesn't exist in any human being ever, but I digress).

But they also replied, "Again, Malwarebytes clickbait filtering is not politically motivated, blocking is purely based on behavior of questionable value."

But that's a lie, and they know it's a lie.

Skeptical researchers (skeptical researchers are the best kind) ran multiple extensive tests to see which sites get flagged and which do not, based on the criteria listed above. Tests run on liberal/progressive sites/domain list, including that bastion of clickbait, Buzzfeed, with zero sites being flagged as clickbait. What was particularly surprising was running the test on Antifa sites/domains; none of them were flagged, even organizations banned on major social media platforms were not flagged by the extension.

Yet below are the sites that are flagged as clickbait by the software. Clickbait, mind you. According to these unbiased researchers the Wall Street Journal is clickbait. I post the Top 100 for your amusement.

  1. breitbart.com Breitbart News Network
  2. foxnews.com Fox News
  3. drudgereport.com DRUDGE REPORT 2019®
  4. wsj.com The Wall Street Journal & Breaking News, Business, Financial and Economic News, World News and Video
  5. nypost.com http://nypost.com
  6. dailycaller.com The Daily Caller
  7. conservativetribune.com Conservative Tribune Fearless, Bold, Conservative.
  8. westernjournal.com The Western Journal
  9. zerohedge.com Zero Hedge | On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
  10. wnd.com WND - WND
  11. dailywire.com Daily Wire
  12. bizpacreview.com BPR
  13. washingtonexaminer.com Washington Examiner: Political News and Analysis About Congress, the President and the Federal Government
  14. nationalreview.com National Review: Conservative News, Opinion, Politics, Policy, & Current Events
  15. theblaze.com TheBlaze
  16. washingtontimes.com Washington Times - Politics, Breaking News, US and World News
  17. thegatewaypundit.com http://thegatewaypundit.com
  18. newsmax.com Newsmax.com - Conservative News in Politics, Health, Finance & More
  19. mediaite.com Mediaite
  20. townhall.com Conservative news, politics, opinion, breaking news analysis, political cartoons and commentary – Townhall
  21. pjmedia.com PJ Media
  22. thefederalist.com http://thefederalist.com
  23. ocregister.com Orange County Register: Local News, Sports and Things to Do
  24. reason.com Reason.com
  25. lifezette.com Life Zette | Life. Explained.
  26. hotair.com Hot Air - The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network
  27. twitchy.com twitchy.com - Who Said What
  28. timesofisrael.com The Times of Israel
  29. jpost.com Israel online news | The Jerusalem Post
  30. themaven.net/theresurgent/ The Resurgent - TheResurgent.com
  31. theconservativetreehouse.com The Last Refuge
  32. nationalinterest.org The National Interest
  33. americanthinker.com http://americanthinker.com
  34. newsbusters.org NewsBusters
  35. freerepublic.com Latest Articles
  36. redstate.com Conservative Blog & Conservative News Source for Right of Center Activists | RedState
  37. freebeacon.com "Free Beacon" — Breaking News, Politics, National Security
  38. ijr.com IJR - Independent Journal Review
  39. rushlimbaugh.com Rush Home
  40. cbn.com/ CBN.com - The Christian Broadcasting Network
  41. blog.heritage.org The Daily Signal: Policy News, Conservative Analysis and Opinion
  42. weeklystandard.com The Weekly Standard | A Weekly Conservative Magazine and Blog of News and Opinion
  43. rare.us Rare
  44. cnsnews.com CNS News
  45. powerlineblog.com Power Line
  46. hannity.com http://hannity.com
  47. mises.org Mises Institute
  48. lucianne.com http://lucianne.com
  49. dailysignal.com http://dailysignal.com
  50. aei.org http://aei.org
  51. theamericanconservative.com http://theamericanconservative.com
  52. weaselzippers.us http://weaselzippers.us
  53. Cato.org http://Cato.org
  54. judicialwatch.org http://judicialwatch.org
  55. fas.org http://fas.org
  56. therightscoop.com http://therightscoop.com
  57. spectator.org http://spectator.org
  58. frontpagemag.com http://frontpagemag.com
  59. legalinsurrection.com http://legalinsurrection.com
  60. bearingarms.com http://bearingarms.com
  61. thepoliticalinsider.com http://thepoliticalinsider.com
  62. redstatewatcher.com http://redstatewatcher.com
  63. thefederalistpapers.org http://thefederalistpapers.org
  64. creators.com http://creators.com
  65. Waynedupree.com http://Waynedupree.com
  66. city-journal.org http://city-journal.org
  67. lifenews.com http://lifenews.com
  68. debka.com http://debka.com
  69. firstthings.com http://firstthings.com
  70. wattsupwiththat.com http://wattsupwiththat.com
  71. conservativereview.com http://conservativereview.com
  72. jihadwatch.org http://jihadwatch.org
  73. freedomoutpost.com http://freedomoutpost.com
  74. amren.com http://amren.com
  75. onenewsnow.com http://onenewsnow.com
  76. teaparty.org http://teaparty.org
  77. linkiest.com http://linkiest.com
  78. vdare.com http://vdare.com
  79. 100percentfedup.com http://100percentfedup.com
  80. commentarymagazine.com http://commentarymagazine.com
  81. anncoulter.com http://anncoulter.com
  82. cis.org http://cis.org
  83. hoover.org http://hoover.org
  84. iotwreport.com http://iotwreport.com
  85. downtrend.com http://downtrend.com
  86. strategypage.com http://strategypage.com
  87. cei.org http://cei.org
  88. www.fairus.org http://www.fairus.org
  89. joeforamerica.com http://joeforamerica.com
  90. madworldnews.com http://madworldnews.com
  91. independentsentinel.com http://independentsentinel.com
  92. marklevinshow.com http://marklevinshow.com
  93. michellemalkin.com http://michellemalkin.com
  94. numbersusa.com http://numbersusa.com
  95. canadafreepress.com http://canadafreepress.com
  96. steynonline.com http://steynonline.com
  97. humanevents.com http://humanevents.com
  98. thetrumpet.com http://thetrumpet.com
  99. algemeiner.com http://algemeiner.com
  100. ricochet.com http://ricochet.com
 
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Yale is a small school, relatively speaking, but it ain't that small, certainly not so small that everyone knows everyone else;s business. THey run an enrollment of between 5,000 and 5,500 each year, give or take.

A new woman has come forward with more allegations. Apparently Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to her frequently, and sometimes even peed on her, and then laughed about it. Happened every time she changed his diaper when she babysat.

And still another woman says that in 1972 Kavanaugh inappropriately groped her Barbie doll. They were drinking a lot of Kool-Aid and she was in a sugar high fog, but she's positive it was him.
 
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Society is redefining what is or isn't acceptable behavior. I think that's a good thing.

To apply those standards to past behavior is idiotic. I don't think what some kid did in middle school, high school or college defines who that 40, 50 or 60 year old IS today.

Social media is tearing our country apart.

One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.


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Well, we know the hippocampus isn't even fully formed until about age 25, so we think very differently in our teens and early twenties than we do even in out late twenties, much less in our fifties.
 
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Well, we know the hippocampus isn't even fully formed until about age 25, so we think very differently in our teens and early twenties than we do even in out late twenties, much less in our fifties.
Interesting. I was having a conversation with my wife about this just few minutes ago. You think differently than you did in your teens.
I was trying to remember the worst thing I did back then too. :D
 
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Well, we know the hippocampus isn't even fully formed until about age 25, so we think very differently in our teens and early twenties than we do even in out late twenties, much less in our fifties.
Interesting. I was having a conversation with my wife about this just few minutes ago. You think differently than you did in your teens.
I was trying to remember the worst thing I did back then too. :D
I farted in church once and blamed my brother.....
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Another handcrafted, artisan headline from the Red Star. I thought Kavanaugh was sworn in because
the Senate voted and confirmed his nomination.
 
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muttly

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The caption on the right said it's a blow to the court's non-partisan image. Ruth Bader Ginsburg says right on.
 
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The Washington Post has an article with the headline of:

The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh

And by "article," I mean an entire article, the whole thing. Research was done (OK, half-assed research, but it was done), questions were asked, quotes ere printed. It's almost like the "journalist" and his editor thinks it's a serious piece.

FIrst of all, it's not junk science. It's a well studied and researched phenomenon that people have mistaken identities with memories, and the farther back the memory is the more likely it is to have a mistaken identity. It's also not junk science for there to be triggered false memories. It's actually normal.

But the Republicans didn't even use that stuff to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh. They used the junk science of refusing to believe someone on face value solely because of their gender. They used the junk science of wanting to see some kind, even if its just a scant a scintilla, of evidence of that corroborated her claims.
 
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Her friend doesn't remember Kavanaugh. Just not any cooberation from anyone that there was even a party.
If there were at least one other person that remembered the party or get together it might lend more credence. But nothing...
 
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