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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
Though the inventor of the Facebook ‘Like’ button said in October that there will probably never be a ‘Dislike’ button, Mark Zuckerberg has said the company is “thinking about it”.
Ev Williams, founder of Twitter, lost the rag a bit this week, Fortune reported, saying he doesn’t “give a s*** if Instagram has more people looking at pretty pictures”. Yikes.
The Pirate Bay was taken down this week after Swedish police raided a server room.
The Atlantic had this interesting feature on tech tools women are using that revive old school contraception methods. They include an app-linked thermometer, cycle monitors and ovulation trackers.
We would be the first to say that citizen journalism can be a beautiful (and helpful) thing to have in the world. However, as Buzzfeed pointed out this week, this search for the truth can sometimes move into the uncomfortable territory of online vigilantism, where we see people outing alleged perpetrators of crimes and sometimes victims. And in some of the most damaging instances, people were wrongly identified.
This link between zika and GB is tenuous is so rare that the story is hyperbole, where is this upsurge?
After another attempt by the abortion industry to link a medical catastrophe, and abortion; it now appears most likely that the high incidence of affected children is linked to an additive put in the water supply of these regions, and not to the mosquito itself. This blood thirsty industry is begging for an excuse to force abortions on people’s who have resisted it’s mantra. The “advanced, sophisticated” west cannot believe that people would wish to place the defence of human life, over the conveniences of modern living, which includes the killing of its own offspring.
That is the first time that I have heard of the ‘additive put in the water supply of these regions ..’ Where did you come across this ? Was it on one of you all’ life is sacred web pages ?’
pyroproxifen, is a larvacide used to interrupt the mosquito breeding cycle.
The problem with the indirect reference made by Paddy Scully is that not all states in Brazil use the product.
The rate of encephalitis outside areas using the larvacide is as prevalent as those in areas where it is used.
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