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Sunday, April 14, 2019

Live-Streaming Hate

In an appearance today on MSNBC. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D - PA 5th) related something very disturbing.  Scanlon, vice-chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said a hearing on hate crimes in that Committee was live-streamed on several platforms, most prominent among them YouTube, and that the streaming resulted in responses so objectionable, obscene, offensive, reprehensible, and  depraved,
that even Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus didn't have enough words to describe them.

As a result, the comments section was taken down.  After which the streaming was moved to a site sponsored by the far right.  Which resulted in more than one instance of this tail-chasing exercise.

You get the drift.  What are we coming to as a society?

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