If a waste basket is available at a toilet, always put toilet paper in the waste basket (and not the down the toilet).
Many plumbing and sewage systems cannot handle any items other than human waste.
Reuse bed linens & towels (and clothes!) more than a couple of times before laundering.
Bring your own toiletries to reuse (soap, shampoo, conditioner, etc.).
If provided mini bottles, then either don't use them or take the rest with you to use it up completely next time.
Bring a washcloth instead of disposable face/body wipes, as these are now banned in some countries since they are not biodegradable.
If bringing Q-Tips, then use paper/cardboard ones instead of plastic.
Try using washable pads (such as Luna Pads) or a reusable silicone cup (such as the Diva Cup) to reduce disposable waste.
If using disposable products, do not place them in any toilets—treat them like trash.
Bring a reusable bottle for water; do not encourage the use of disposable water bottles!
Use reusable/regular tableware (spoons, forks, bowls) instead of disposable ones.
Use a handkerchief instead of paper napkins.
Do not order more food than you can personally eat (and do not assume that someone else will eat it for you).
Take out what you bring in!
Bring a zippered/sealable bag to carry trash.
Minimize trash and waste as much as possible, reusing packaging when safe and avoiding purchasing heavily packaged items.
Do not leave trash anywhere outside of a trash bin/receptacle.
When disposable materials cannot be avoided but are recyclable (e.g. plastic, aluminum, etc.), then encourage proper recycling, even if it means holding onto them a bit longer to get to a proper receptacle.
Follow all government-imposed rules for treating natural areas!
Stay on the trails and don't stray off them.
Do not contaminate water sources (lakes, beaches, rivers, etc.) with chemical products such as sunscreen, non-biodegradable soap, etc.
Avoid defecating in natural areas unless permitted. If permitted (i.e. in the backcountry), then do so in a 6-inch (15 cm) deep hole that is at least 100 ft (300 m) away from water sources.
Avoid visiting places that are endangered.
Often the reason they are degrading is because of over-tourism.
Bring a reusable shopping bag to carry your purchases and other items.
Utilize local services (especially small independent businesses) as much as possible for everything: lodging, food, services, etc.
Buy from local farms or farmers markets.
Sustainable tourism--bringing global awareness to travel and putting it into action--was a top priority for the United Nations in 2017, designated as the "International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development," and continues on today.
There is growing research and concern that at our current rate of consumption of Earth's resources, there will not be enough for our future children just less than 7 generations from now.
Due to overuse of resources and excess of carbon emissions, the current change in environmental climate is already making for difficult living situations with more frequent natural disasters and less ability to grow much-needed food and provide clean water.
Constantly practice these gestures and inform others on their importance, especially in your own community as well as abroad.
If every person does their small part, then collectively we could make a big enough impact so that our future generations can also enjoy the beauties of this planet.


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Princess Eugenie's Wedding
London X City reports that an estimated number of about 2.1 million viewers tuned on to the ITV extended morning show to watch the royal wedding of Princess Eugenie, the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, and Jack Brooksbank. The wedding that took place in St. George's Chapel at the Windsor Castle had fans flocking both on the Windsor street and on TV to catch even just a snippet of it.
Princess Eugenie wore a beautiful low back cut wedding dress, designed by Christopher De Vos and Peter Pilotto, which revealed her surgery scars that she acquired way back when she was 12 years old to correct scoliosis.
The beautiful traditional wedding had Princess Beatrice as the maid of honour and Thomas Brooksbank as the best man. As Princess Eugenie walked down the aisle, we at London X City, caught a glimpse of her husband-to-be mouthing that she looked perfect! Later, the newly weds kissed outside at the steps while their well wishers cheered at them.
In attendance was the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who had wedded at the same venue just five months ago. The Queen arrived with the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, despite the rumours that had circulated that he would not be present. Other than the royal family, London X City reports that about 800 guests had been invited. Celebrities, including Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Demi Moore and Robbie Williams attended the wedding.
The royal wedding was officiated by David Conner, the Dean of Windsor. The bride's elder sister and maid of honour, Princess Beatrice read from the Great Gatsby and the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, wrote a personal prayer. The epitome of cuteness was to see Prince George and Princess Charlotte, children of Prince William and Kate, join in the bridal team as a page boy and bridesmaid respectively. Andrea Boceli, an Italian singer and songwriter performed two songs at the wedding.
The 28 year old Princess Eugenie who is ninth in line to the throne, married the love of her life, a 32 year old liquor company executive, Jack Brooksbank, in a star studded ceremony, going on to prove that love conquers all.
The cake was designed by Sophie Cabot, a London based cake designer. It was a beautiful centrepiece, featuring intricate autumn colours to complement the red velvet and chocolate flavors. The groom on the other hand was in charge of the drinks to be served. He even let it known that Casamigos tequila would be featured in the main menu.
At the reception, London X City caught the newly wedded couple exiting in style in a carriage ride following the route that the Earl and Countess of Wessex took at their wedding and later on, a real James Bond car, an Aston Martin DB10 which had been designed for the movie Spectre! The reception preceded an evening celebration in the York family lodge.
Princess Eugenie and Jack provided about 1200 balloted invites to members of the public, charity representatives, Eugenie's former schoolmates and other royal staff, which allowed them into the lower ward of the Castle. Keep up to date with all the Royal developments with London X City.
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University Drive: Between C.M. Allen Parkway and LBJ Drive, one westbound lane will be closed from May 29 to August 15 because of adjacent construction of Texas State's Performing Arts Center. Also, the north sidewalk will be closed between Moon Street and LBJ Drive until Nov. 1. Hunt Construction Group, Inc., 512-245-2068.
North LBJ Drive at Concho Street: All lanes of traffic will be closed 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 21 to August 20 for building and street construction at Bobcat Trail Street. Texas State University, 245.1737.
Moon Street: Converted to two-way traffic from University Drive to Woods Street. Texas State University, 512-245-2244.
Woods Street: Converted to two-way traffic from Moon Street to Edward Gary Street. Texas State University, 512-245-2244.
Lockhart Street at Second: Installation of all way stop signs on May 31. Message boards on Lockhart Street will advertise the change for two weeks. Public Services – Transportation, 512-393-8036.


ERNTEC Pty Ltd is a leading player in the manufacture and supply of precision components to all sectors associated with electrical, electronic and medical engineering. Products include backshells, backplanes, cabinets and racks, subracks, connectors, enclosures, Fieldbus products,motors and gearheads, couplings and opto electronic components.
Faulhaber products are designed to meet demanding requirements in all fields of high precision motion and control applications. In particular for those applications that demand precision, long life and maximum power in a small package you should choose Faulhaber.Low starting voltage even after long stationary periods Ironless rotor with self supporting skew winding Low inertia very rapid starting High efficiency High power to volume ratioDesigned for applications where precision and reliability go hand in handDue to its small, lightweight design, Faulhaber Miniature Drive Systems are recommended for practical applications where difficult operations and extended lifetime are the primary importance. Factory Automation and Robotics Industrial Machinery and Equipment Precision Instrumentation Precise Movement for Optics, Video and Audio Devices Office, Security and Communication Automotive, Aerospace and Aviation Medical and Laboratory Environmental and Safety Motor Products Micro Drives and DC Micro motors Piezo Electric Drives Linear Drives Brushless DC Motors Precision Gear heads Encoders DC Tacho Generators and DC Motor Tacho Combinations Drive ElectronicsMiniature Stepper Motors Single Phase and Two Phase Stepper Motors Precision Gear heads EncodersWith small diameters from 1.9mm up to 44mm, nominal voltage up to 56 V and output power up to 200 W, The Faulhaber offers a wide range of DC Micro motors and accessories for the most demanding and precise applications.
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Available from ERNTEC, Mentor's M-TUBE is the first LED light guide system that provides perfectly homogeneous light to the environment with just two LEDs. The LED light enters at the ends of a clear guide bar and is disipitated in a targeted way along an imprinted reflector line inside the bar. Features of the Mentor M-TUBE LED Light Guide SystemsExtremely long service life of up to 50,000 hoursZero or low cost intensive maintenanceMinimal heat generation and Higher energy efficiencyNo warm up necessaryModularity of the system and hence flexibility of useRGB versions availablePlug and Play versions availableApplications of the Mentor M-TUBE LED Light Guide SystemsThe small and compact design makes M-TUBE ready for use in a wide range of applications: M-TUBE can provide an LED source for applications in which safety and reliability are top priority Lower brightness and flexible versions can be used in decorative and Indirect ambience architectural applicationsHigh Brightness versions can be used for larger area illuminationM-TUBE High Brightness (MT-HB)Each MT-HB single module has high efficiency dragon LEDs (2 per unit)Special Aluminium body for thermo managementFour standard lengths (100mm, 300mm, 500mm, 700mm)Various colours (three shades of white, red, green and blue, RGB)Two types of power connection (connecting leads or plug and light version with a mains plug) MT-HB module can be combined with rigid or flexible M-TUBE light guides in various lengthsThe M-TUBE LED light system can provide quality lighting options for applications requiring low energy consumption, extremely long life time without expensive servicing requirements and minimal heat generation. From decorative and creative accentuation in architectural lighting to a wide variety of illumination applications the scope for M-TUBE is only limited by your imagination.
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18/05/17 - Faulhaber announces the introduction of a new brushless DC servomotor to their extremely powerful BP4 product family. Available in Australia from ERNTEC Pty Ltd, the new brushless DC servomotor 2264…BP4 offers an outstanding ratio of torque to size and weight, while the miniature drive comes with integrated sensors and a wide speed range.The 4-pole motor achieves a torque of 59 mNm with a weight of just 140g and a diameter of 22mm. The DC servomotor also reaches up to 34,500 revolutions per minute, thanks to the innovative segment winding of the coil, which was developed for the brushless DC motors of the BP4 family. Given the overlapping, nested, individually wound segments, an especially large amount of copper can be accommodated in the coil. The compact coil in the servomotor leaves sufficient room for a resilient shaft with a diameter of 4mm and suitable bearings. Key benefits also include low inertia, making the motor well suited for dynamic start/stop operation; overload resistance; longer service life than standard DC micromotors; and wide operating temperature range of -40 to +125 degrees Centigrade.Optionally integrated analogue Hall sensors can replace an encoder in the majority of applications and determine the position of the output shaft very precisely. Compatible optical and magnetic encoders are also available for high-precision applications.Faulhaber's new brushless DC servomotors are ideally suited for industrial automation and can also be used as handpieces for electric tools such as electric pruning shears and screwdrivers, motorised instruments for surgery, grippers and robots, and also for aerospace or active prosthetics.Additionally, Faulhaber is introducing a drive with integrated motion controller to its family of motors. The 3274…BP4, considered the most powerful motor in the family, is now also available as a motion control system. This combines the brushless high-performance motor with control electronics in an extremely small space, creating a highly dynamic drive system for complex positioning tasks directly in the automation environment.Faulhaber specialises in the development, production and deployment of high-precision small and miniaturised drive systems, servo components and drive electronics with output power of up to 250 watts. The product range includes brushless motors, DC micromotors, encoders and motion controllers.
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24/11/10 - ERNTEC introduces the new Faulhaber 22 mm Brushless DC Servomotors with integrated Motion Controller, which extends the portfolio of four pole brushless DC servomotors. The new Faulhaber 22 mm Brushless DC Servomotors are the world's most compact drives with integrated motion controller. This new series combines all the advantages of the BX4 four pole brushless technology with a single axis motion controller. High reliability, high torque, compact slotless design with no cogging torque, and robust construction without the use of adhesives make these new DC servomotors ideal devices for complex areas of application like robotics, automation, medical and laboratory technology, specialty machinery and aerospace. The drives are based on the flexible and easy to use Faulhaber motion control platform. The compact motion controllers, which fit within the diameter of the motor, combined with the motor and a full range of gearhead combinations provide a versatile modular platform for a variety of applications. The following are other features of the new Faulhaber 22 mm Brushless DC Servomotors with integrated Motion Controllers: Available with a RS-232 serial or CAN interface.Easy configuration using the free Faulhaber Motion Manager 4.4 software. Wide operational temperature range from -25 degrees C to 85 degrees C Continuous current up to 0,69 A with a peak of up to 3A. Speed can be precisely controlled from down to 5 rpm and up to 8000 rpm. Custom firmware and software are available on request. Factory preset current limits to protect the motor and electronics during normal operation. Upon request the drives can be supplied with separate motor and electronics voltage supply connections.


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Maria Hicks to speak at "History of Computing beyond the Computer" in Oxford, 21-22 March 2018
Marie Hicks, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost its Edge in Computing" is to speak at "History of Computing beyond the Computer"
The Oxford Mathematics Institute and the British Society for the History of Mathematics host "History of Computing beyond the Computer" on 21-22 March, with speakers Marie Hicks, Andrew Hodges, Adrian Johnstone, Cliff Jones, Julianne Nyhan, Mark Priestly, and Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, with a focus on the people and the science underpinning modern programming, from Charles Babbage's hardware design language to the systematic exclusion of women.
More information and a registration form can be found here
Contributed by Professor Ursula Martin.


People continue to worry about having enough money to live on in retirement. Check out these insights from our retirement readiness survey for ways to help employees feel less stressed about — and more prepared for — the future.
Research shows that automatic features, like auto enrollment and auto increases, improve retirement outcomes. Automatic features help people overcome their tendency to stay in their current state and delay decisions, also known as inertia.
Even with statistics like this, some employers are hesitant to adopt automatic features because they're afraid of alienating employees.
About half say they aren't comfortable determining how much to save for retirement or selecting the investment options in their plans. Low-cost or free managed account services that are included in plans may lead to higher participation, higher engagement and higher levels of retirement readiness.
and managed account service for retirement plans.
The Standard surveyed 1,000 working men and women about retirement readiness during 2017. The participants were full-time employees between 21 and 69 years old and eligible to enroll in their employers' 401(k) or 403 (b) retirement plan.
The Standard is the marketing name for StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries. StanCorp Equities, Inc., member FINRA, wholesales a group annuity contract issued by Standard Insurance Company and a mutual fund trust platform for retirement plans. Standard Retirement Services, Inc., provides financial recordkeeping and plan administrative services. Investment advisory services are provided by StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., a registered investment advisor. StanCorp Equities, Inc., Standard Insurance Company, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., are subsidiaries of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., and all are Oregon corporations.
Automatic options can help people start saving earlier and keep them from feeling stuck along the way.
And because employees can opt out of auto services at any time, companies should feel OK about adopting them.


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Q: Some of the damaged parts are missing from an image (using image processing with python) I am trying to display damaged parts of an image in order to restore them. I am quite new to image processing and I'm using cv2. Here are the images I'm working on.
original damaged image
required mask image
And I'm getting the following image:
Output
import cv2
dim = (512,512)
im_color = cv2.imread("couple.png", cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
im_color = cv2.resize(im_color,dim)
im_gray = cv2.cvtColor(im_color, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
mask = cv2.threshold(im_gray, thresh=200, maxval=255, type=cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
im_thresh_gray = cv2.bitwise_and(im_gray, mask[0])
mask3 = cv2.cvtColor(mask[1], cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR)
im_thresh_color = cv2.bitwise_and(im_color, mask3)
cv2.imshow("original image", im_color)
cv2.imshow("binary mask", mask[1])
cv2.imshow("3 channel mask", mask3)
cv2.imshow("im_thresh_gray", im_thresh_gray)
cv2.imshow("im_thresh_color", im_thresh_color)
cv2.imwrite("repaired.png",mask3)
cv2.waitKey(0)

Some of the damaged parts are being missed. please can anyone help me out ?!


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The Internet Won't Be the Same After Trump
How the president changed life online-for better and for worse
Being online has changed Donald Trump. He was the internet's candidate in 2016—he appears in Urban Dictionary's definition of meme god—and his campaign leveraged the power of Facebook advertising to beat Hillary Clinton. Since then, he's become even more obsessed with petty grievances and conspiracy theories that play well on Twitter, a platform used by just 22 percent of the American population.
On several occasions, the president has employed Reddit posts to help him make points or issue threats.Trump has also changed the internet in obvious ways. During his first term, Americans have watched his administration relish the opportunity to destroy net neutrality—the core principle of a free and open internet. We've had to ask whether social-media platforms should penalize the president for threatening and glorifying violence, and whether the president might in turn just ban internet companies he doesn't like.
We've seen some people on the internet turn into emotionally-numb doom-scrollers, while others have joined the #Resistance, engaging in viral virtue signaling and creating a micro-economy of political merch.But Trump's impact on the internet is bigger than its weirdest memes or its most prolonged Twitter fights. His presidency has changed how Americans communicate with one another on the internet, heightening its tone of divisiveness and suspicion, shaping its norms and rules, and creating an expectation that each day online will be more surreal than the one before.
We'll look back at these years as an era of major upheaval in nearly everything about being online: The internet is a fundamentally different place from what it was in 2016, and using it the way many people do, the president's influence is undeniable. Four years in, Americans are only starting to get a sense of how Trump has altered daily American life. Regardless of what happens on Election Day, we can expect four of the biggest changes to last.
Trump Made Memes Boring
During the 2016 presidential primary, the Vine artist Vic Berger was making eerie, six-second videos exposing Republican candidates as absurdities. He would zoom in on the moments in which they seemed most truly themselves: Jeb Bush was the haunted husk of a try-hard who knew words but not human facial expressions; Trump was repeating phrases and physical gestures—odd ones, like pointing at people with his thumbs. There were lots of air horns. Millions of people watched every clip, filling the comments with amazement, and The New Yorker called Berger a "political satirist for the internet election."
Trump ruined the fun. "As Trump was rising, [the internet] got a lot darker, and I think he had a lot to do with that," Berger told me. In 2016, he was harassed for months by the right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, and in 2018, a member of the Proud Boys militia drove to Berger's house to intimidate him because of a video he'd made. When we spoke this summer, Berger had just received a call from the Committee to Protect Journalists informing him that the Proud Boys were posting about him again.
Trump has implicitly encouraged behavior like this, and sometimes participated happily in the worst that meme culture has to offer. His 2016 win was fueled by memes, and now other politicians are expected to follow suit: Memes are just another form of political advertising available for purchase. When Michael Bloomberg entered the race for this year's Democratic nomination, his campaign spent serious money to place ads on popular meme accounts, specifically citing the need to "reach people where they are and compete with President Trump's powerful digital operation."
Berger was recently approached by the Biden campaign about making clips for them. (He declined.) In July, he sparred with the Lincoln Project, a PAC founded by anti-Trump Republicans, which seems to be inspired by the president's macho, lowest-common-denominator style of humor and has developed a reputation for stealing videos, memes, and jokes—including one from Berger. (He reported the group for copyright violation.)
Politicians from both parties saw how much memes did for Trump in 2016, and now they're trying to buy them. Meanwhile, the people who make the internet's most-interesting jokes either sell out or get ripped off.
Trump Forced Social Platforms to React
The major social-media companies—Facebook, Twitter, YouTube—used to take little responsibility for the way they facilitated radicalization and harassment. In 2014 and 2015, the "Gamergate" harassment campaign was sweeping through most of them, largely unchecked. But Trump's presidency brought new scrutiny of these platforms' rules, not least because his own behavior raised questions about online hate more broadly.
Big changes have come one after another for social-media platforms. Facebook banished right-wing militias and QAnon conspiracists, and has attempted to weed out white nationalism. YouTube limited extremists' ability to make money through advertising. Twitter introduced new filtering features to diminish the impact of harassment. And this summer, several sites started moderating Trump himself. If the moderation improvements and philosophical pivots don't name Trump, they all stem from his influence.
Even for sites such as Reddit, whose CEO said as recently as 2018 that racial slurs were not against its rules, public pressure and moderator frustration eventually gave way to policy reform. "Reddit has changed a lot; it's actually been weird," a 31-year-old Reddit moderator who goes by TheYellowRose, told me. (She asked to be identified by only her username out of concern about harassment.)
It's no secret that the site used to be a cesspool—when she joined in 2012 some forums, called "subreddits," still had racial slurs in their name. She moderates a subreddit for Black women called r/blackladies, which was the subject of constant coordinated harassment from members of r/The_Donald—an enormous subreddit dedicated to the president and known for harassment, doxing, racism, and a whole potpourri of dysfunction.
This year, Reddit updated its content policy to specifically describe and ban hate speech for the first time and to identify behaviors—such as r/The_Donald's organized trolling—that make the site less functional for marginalized groups. When the policy went into effect, r/The_Donald was immediately banned, a move TheYellowRose referred to as "the killing of the rat's nest." Since 2016, "Reddit has gotten much, much better at squashing momentum [for extremist subreddits]," Kat Lo, a researcher at UC Irvine, who studies Reddit, told me. "That has a big role in reducing manic meme energy. Things are scattered. There aren't these big public hubs like they had with The_Donald."
To TheYellowRose, it seems obvious that Reddit's reckoning with the way it does business would have taken longer if Trump hadn't been elected. "Trump kind of accelerated the progress that Reddit was making," she told me. "It's unfortunate that it had to be that way." ("The past few years have coincided with changes in politics and civil discourse," a Reddit spokesperson said in a statement. "These societal changes have affected the urgency with which we evolved our policies, but were not a primary driver.") Trump caused a lot of problems on Reddit, but in dealing with them, the site also dealt with some issues that had preceded him.
Trump Has Made Everyone Suspicious of … Everything
Four years ago, Americans had yet to hear the phrase alternative facts. They had yet to elect a president who would talk constantly about "fake news," and the "lamestream media" outlets that published it. They had yet to encounter a lifestyle influencer saying "Do your own research" while talking about a pandemic being a hoax. And they certainly had yet to see a president refuse to disavow a violent conspiracy community that insists the Democratic Party is engaged in child trafficking and Satanic rituals.
In the Trump years, viral conspiracy theories such as QAnon have gone mainstream, endangering lives in the process. Reality has become a slippery thing online. Like so many people today, I approach the internet with suspicion. Anything I find funny will probably be revealed to be bad. Recently, I was taken by the saga of an Instagram meme account that accidentally started a death hoax about the indie-pop singer Clairo, apologized, gave a full interview tinged with regret about spreading misinformation, then launched a Lana Del Rey death hoax on purpose. It just doesn't seem like anything can be taken at face value.
Trump is the "poster child" of bad information, Renee Hobbs, a communication professor at the University of Rhode Island, says. "He doesn't value experts, he doesn't value evidence, he goes with his gut, and he demonstrates the appeal of that." He undermines the press, fuels conspiracy theories, and lies about basic information. But Trump's push against truth has backfired in some ways. In general, "fake news" has been "good for the conversation," Hobbs said. The buzzword has made more people aware of the necessity of media literacy, even if a lot of them are flinging it around senselessly.
Lots of people are now on edge about disinformation. Though the era of QAnon is far from over, there have been at least a few spontaneous moments of Americans intervening in their communities and professional networks to slow its spread. More than 70 organizations that deal with human trafficking signed a joint statement earlier this month laying out the ways in which QAnon conspiracy theories "actively harm" their work. Alarmed by the propagation of QAnon theories in the yoga-and-wellness community, a group led by the yoga instructor Seane Corn took a stand on Instagram.
She wanted to let people know where she stood, "so there's no mistake," she told me, and to give her followers "some language, where if they need to push back, they can push back." Though the comments on her page were flooded with harassment from QAnon supporters, she said she didn't regret the post. "I have a certain amount of trust that I've accrued within my community, [and] I have a responsibility," she said.
Trump Championed the Destruction of the Internet as We Know It
"With our base across the country, it's probably a top-three issue," Donald Trump Jr. said during a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. He was talking about the belief that social media is biased against conservatives—a view held by about 90 percent of Republicans. (There is more evidence of the opposite.)
Senator Josh Hawley, the 38-year-old Republican from Missouri, was also part of the panel, and he chimed in enthusiastically. "For the left, it's all about this partnership. This big government, Big Tech partnership, run by the liberals." Trump and Hawley swapped stories for several minutes about right-wing suppression on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook, and Hawley had the last big line: "We ought to be able to sue 'em," he said as the audience cheered.
Hawley's legislative solution for anti-conservative bias involves crippling the internet's foundational law, a passage of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 called Section 230. Basically, the law says that websites are not considered the "speakers" of content that is published on them: So if I slander you on Twitter, you can sue me, but you can't sue Twitter.
The intention was to encourage moderation, guaranteeing that a website that edits out hate speech and other abuse is not legally expected to exert editorial control over every single post. Hawley has proposed at least three bills that would diminish Section 230 nearly to the point of repeal, including one that would put the Federal Trade Commission in charge of determining whether a platform is sufficiently politically "neutral" to receive Section 230 protections. (Hawley's office was not able to arrange an interview, and did not respond to a request for a statement.)
Four years ago, the words Section 230 would have been meaningless to nearly all Americans, but Trump and his allies have made it a pet cause. "REVOKE 230!" Trump tweeted in May, shortly after signing an executive order "on preventing online censorship." "REPEAL SECTION 230!!!" he tweeted in October.
Trump has chosen the way he would like Big Tech's power to be checked based on personal interest, and doesn't seem to understand that the repeal he's calling for would actually chill speech—including his own. If Twitter were legally liable for everything he said, he'd likely be unable to keep an account. Other social sites, particularly blogging platforms and forums like Reddit, could have a hard time operating at all.
There are valid reasons to consider reforming Section 230—Joe Biden has also called for its repeal, though for different reasons, and other lawmakers have made a range of suggestions—but gutting it would do nothing to make platforms "neutral," and regardless that goal doesn't make sense in and of itself. "The whole idea of political neutrality as an achievable goal is illogical.
It's not possible," says Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University who often writes about Section 230. "The bill didn't require Republican and Democratic content to be treated equally, which would itself be stupid. It required all political parties to be treated equally. So the American Nazi Party would be treated equally to the Republican Party."
Still, Hawley has become a star of the Republican techlash. This month alone, Hawley's office has issued six press releases about anti-conservative bias on social media. By all available evidence, Hawley is set to continue that work even if Trump is voted out of office: "His name is frequently floated as a potential lead architect of Trumpism after Trump," my colleague Emma Green wrote last year. He's not going anywhere, and neither is the fight over Section 230.
There was a manic energy on Reddit and 4chan in the run-up to the last election, as memelords celebrated their success in elevating a troll like them all the way to the White House. Nobody will have to watch the events of next week play out in hateful memes on r/The_Donald. Facebook—whose role in the last election was the subject of debate for months afterward—will ban political ads indefinitely following this one, and has made a point of paying attention to disinformation this time around. (In 2016, CEO Mark Zuckerberg notoriously said that the idea that disinformation on Facebook influenced the election was "crazy.")
But even though online life has changed for the better in at least a few tangible ways, it still feels bad—and Trump has made sure of that. We know how to describe a deluge of disinformation, but generally we can't personally stamp it out. We can recognize the absurdity of the president tweeting over and over, in all caps, from a hospital, but we can't do anything but gesture at it with a weak "???" We expect to see politicians making gross jokes about one another now, which are usually not even funny.
We'll continue to live this way whether Trump wins or loses. And we'll live with his policy priorities as well. Regardless of the election's outcome, Section 230 will be on the chopping block.
By extension, this means we're at risk of losing the freedom to say something rude on Twitter without getting banned to protect the site from litigation. And to participate in comments sections. And to collaborate freely with others. Trump may have inadvertently made the internet a little better, and there is a chance that he could still make it a lot worse.
For anybody who spends a significant amount of their time online—which, after the pandemic hit, has become many more of us—these are not abstractions. The whole idea of the internet was that it would be open and free and egalitarian, but we've spent four years watching one man exert influence over just about every aspect of it. Even if Trump's presidency could soon be over, his influence on the way we experience the internet is far from it.
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Messett dreaming of medals in the Netherlands
Gary Messett is dreaming of making history in the next fortnight at the 2018 IFCPF European Championships in the Netherlands.
The Wicklow midfielder captains the Republic of Ireland CP team at this year's tournament, and has already set his sights on reaching the semi-final stages.
With ten teams taking part in the tournament, Ireland will play four games in Group A, hoping to finish in the top-two.
After a sixth place finish in last year's World Championships, Messett feels the team can improve on that performance in the coming weeks.
"We've been given a favourable draw and were looking forward to getting to the Netherlands. There will be some tough games, but if we do our jobs and do and what we have to do, we will get the results and hopefully go from there.
This year's European Championships marks the end of a three-year cycle for Paul Breen's team after trips to South America for the Paralympics and World Championships.
Messett was involved in both of those trips and he feels this is the strongest squad of the three.
"2016 was a poor year for us as a group. We didn't perform. A new management team came in last year, and it was a huge success. We have a young squad, and everyone wants to get in that starting seven.
Some of the CP squad, including Messett plays the 11-a-side format. He claims there are subtle differences between that and the 7-a-side game he plays with Ireland's CP team.
"I dont run as much in the 11-a-side game. Even though CP games are 30 minutes less, I find I run far more with less players on the pitch.
"I've trained with able-bodied players since I was 7. Players like myself and Dillon Sheridan play the 11-a-side game regularly. By playing football weekly, with able-bodied players it proven hugely beneficial.
With games against Denmark, Germany, Northern Ireland and the Netherlands to come, the midfielder has his eyes set on a semi-final.
"We're in a good mindset of what we want to achieve in the Netherlands. Once the team come together we have a brilliant chance of getting a medal.
2018 has been a year of mixed emotions for the 31-year-old. In March, the Arklow Town player was named the FAI Football For All International Player of the Year. Last month, his father Bobby died tragically.
"I lost my father a month and a half ago. All my family are coming over to support me though. To be able to captain the team will be a great honour. I'm hoping to do the best I can for my team, my family and my friends."
Ireland's campaign begins on July 25th with a game against Denmark in the KNVB Campus in Zeist.
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