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eBay Nazi ghouls bid for SS 'death's head' hat

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eBay has sparked outrage for auctioning a hat made for Hitler's murderous SS. With more than 30 bids in and a day to go, the side cap - featuring the unit's macabre skull and crossbones 'death's head' motif - is predicted to fetch over £200. The listing shocked the eBay user who stumbled upon the sinister item. He said: 'I often search eBay for war memorabilia but who'd want to buy a hat like this?  'The SS were responsible for some of the most heinous crimes in human history. eBay surely shouldn't be profiting from the sale of stuff connected to unspeakable atrocities.' The listing's description is deliberately vague, suggesting the seller doesn't want the hat to come to the attention of anyone other that determined buyers scouring the site for such dubious items.  It reads: 'ww2 german cap. Condition is "Used". Dispatched with Royal Mail 2nd Class.' But the images accompanying the listing show a hat bearing the year s...
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Mask zealots will have good reason not to show their faces when the true costs of lockdown become clear

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We used to take living in a free society for granted. We would boast complacently about the British love of liberty, often basking shamelessly in the reflected glory of the wartime generation who sacrificed so much to keep this country free from tyranny. Then came the coronavirus... Covid-19 has done what the Nazis failed to do: it has cowed the UK into meek submission and caused its fearful citizens to embrace authoritarianism. While we're on the subject of Nazis, Hitler was very much an 'ends justify the means' kind of guy. Bizarrely, it is now progressive 'liberals' who adhere to this bankrupt and dangerous doctrine. The want to drive down coronavirus infections and will support any measures they believe will achieve this. They don't consider whether the cure may be worse than the disease. They don't consider whether the restrictions they support may actually kill more people in the long run. All they can see is Covid-19 and facts that obscure their fear ...
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Algorithms - why was an unheard song by an unknown artist BANNED INSTANTLY by YouTube?

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YouTube is awash with footage featuring violence, misinformation, extreme views, inappropriate sexual imagery - you name it. It's perhaps no wonder, given the rate of uploads to the video-sharing behemoth. Who, or what, could possibly keep on top of this digital torrent of toxicity? Sure, YouTube tries its best but it's fighting a losing battle. It's easy to find stuff that breaches the site's rules. Much of this footage has been clocking up views for months or years with no action taken against the offending accounts.  So why was it, then, that a song nobody has heard, by an artist nobody has heard of, got thrown in YouTube's virtual trash can almost as soon as it was posted on the site?   Maybe, just maybe, the answer lies in the subject matter.  'Algorithms' is a Green Day-esque track that rages against social media's propensity to entrench and reinforce personal prejudices, polarising political discourse and leading to fury and, ultimately, violence....
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