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"Meta built a censorship system specially designed for China to review including the ability to automatically detect restricted terms and popular content on Facebook, according to the complaint. The company agreed to hire at least 300 content moderators to support the system, the documents show."

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SOLDIERS OF SONG makes it clear how much Ukraine's soldiers value classical music and the cultural legacy of Western Civ (and Russia's savage disregard). Thanks to the Governor George Pataki Leadership Center for making this documentary possible. #filmreview up here: www.jbspins.com/2025/03/sold...

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Why the hell are so many trans women communists? We are living in the best society in the history of mankind for trans women. Capitalism and democracy built it. It did the medical research, developed the surgeries and gave us a legal framework to move on with life. Capitalism = trans rights.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

MEETING WITH POL POT is a withering indictment of collectivist movements, like the Marxist Khmer Rouge, as well as the media's willingness to obscure the truth of their nature, for ideological reasons. @epochtimes.bsky.social review up here: www.theepochtimes.com/bright/meeti...

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DOUGLAS IS CANCELLED is a wickedly funny roasting of media hypocrisy, cancel culture, wokeism, and sexism. Review up here: www.jbspins.com/2025/03/doug...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

OTD in 1944 the Red Air Force carpet bombed Narva, then Red Army used artillery to finish the job. As a deliberate act, hundreds of civilians died & thousands were made refugees. We then repopulated it with Russians. Imagine something like this happening in the 21st century.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Russia destroys irreplaceable fresco in ongoing destruction of 16th century Crimean Tatar Khan’s Palace

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Dissent has been crushed in Hong Kong and Taiwan is divided much like Korea in Badiucao & Melissa Chan's dystopian graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION. The art is starkly striking and their premise is disturbingly credible. Review here: www.jbspins.com/2025/03/you-...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

MAYA GIVE ME A TITLE was assembled from cut-out animated films originally produced for an audience of one. Yet, Gondry's mock epics, absurd humor, & fatherly affection will appeal to a lot of kids & animation fans (and not just his daughter). CINEMA DAILY US review: cinemadailyus.com/pick-up/new-...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Devastating development: 40 Uyghurs have been sent from Thailand to Xinjiang where they face severe rights abuses. China's embassy in Thailand posts pictures parading "Chinese illegal immigrants," claiming that after "fulfilling relevant legal procedures" they will be "returned to normal life."

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The anthology documentary SEEN UNSEEN alarmingly records how pervasive censorship & self-censorship have become under the Erdogan regime. Only 66-minutes, it should be required viewing for anyone who believes hurt feelings should trump the 1st Amendment. Review here: www.jbspins.com/2025/03/doc-...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to see the Oscars basically getting it right with best feature and best short. You can find my CINEMA DAILY US review of FLOW and and my J.B. SPINS review of IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS below: cinemadailyus.com/reviews/flow... www.jbspins.com/2025/01/shor...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nordstream 2 must never ever be restarted. No return to business as usual with Putin. RT if you agree.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Vietnamese scholar and journalist Truong Huy San (pen name Huy Duc) has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for Facebook posts "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state."

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

SO CLOSE, SO FAR has its flaws, but it certainly captures China's corrupt crony-kickback culture as well as the massive disruption of the country's real estate crash. Review up here: www.jbspins.com/2025/02/doc-...

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Kibbutz Nir Oz has announced that Shiri Bibas was murdered in Gaza captivity. The tragic news comes amid revelations that Hamas terrorists murdered the Bibas children—an infant and a child—in cold blood with their bare hands. Hamas must be brought to justice for crimes against humanity.

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM GQUUUUUUX -BEGINNING- takes the franchise in a very different direction, but it still delivers quality mecha action. However, it was clearly produced with fans rather than newcomers in mind. CINEMA DAILY US review up here: cinemadailyus.com/reviews/mobi...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments