Jan 12 (Reuters) – U.S. civil rights groups will organize an advertiser boycott against Alphabet’s YouTube if it does not remove President Donald Trump’s channel, the groups told Reuters. Jim Steyer, one of the organizers of the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign which led over 1,000 advertisers to boycott Facebook in July, said the groups are demanding YouTube take down Trump’s verified YouTube channel, which has 2.76 million subscribers. YouTube is the last major tech company that has… Source link
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National Review Spain’s Government Declares War on the Spanish Language It might seem like a headline from a satirical newspaper, but it is not: Spanish will no longer be the official language of the Spanish State or the lingua franca in education. It is part of the socialist-Communist government’s new education law. This war on the Spanish language is the ransom that socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez has to pay the Catalan nationalists of ERC (a party that represents 3 percent of… Source link
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Yahoo has announced its decision to shut down Yahoo Groups on December 15, 2020, permanently. New group creation was disabled earlier this month. Due to a steady decline in usage over that past few years, Yahoo Groups is now in the final stage of being shut down. The process began last year, but now they will be totally removed from the web by December 15, 2020. Yahoo Groups is a piece of internet history launched all the way back in 2001, and before February 2020, it was one of the… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Groups to Fully Shut Down on December 15, 2020
Yahoo Groups is completing the final stage of shutting down on December 15, 2020, at which time it will be fully removed from the web. The process of shutting down Yahoo Groups, a once thriving website full of vibrant communities, began last year. First, Yahoo disabled the ability to use Groups in October 2019. New content could no longer be contributed to Groups, but existing content could still be viewed and downloaded. Content in Yahoo Groups became no longer viewable in December 2019, and… Source link
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President Trump “attempts to hijack our faith for votes,” the writer Jerusha Duford — Billy Graham’s granddaughter — said Thursday in a Zoom call sponsored by one of a growing number of evangelical groups that have formed to encourage Christians to vote for Joe Biden. Trump’s “attempts to hijack our faith for votes, and evangelical leaders’ silence on his actions and behavior, has presented a picture of what our faith looks like that is so erroneous that it has done… Source link
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If you still have a Yahoo mail account, you’d have probably noticed an email announcement made by Yahoo. It has decided to shut down Yahoo Groups on 15 December 2020. “Yahoo Groups has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years. Over that same period we’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of engagement across our properties as customers seek out premium, trustworthy content. To that end, we must sometimes make difficult decisions regarding products that no longer fit our… Source link
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A billboard for the technology company Yahoo is seen Aug. 5, 2015, in Washington, DC. AFP Photo/Karen Bleier Yahoo Groups is set to be gone for good by Dec. 15, 2020. The announcement from Verizon was made today, Oct. 14, on the Yahoo Groups site and in emails sent to Yahoo Groups users. Verizon purchased Yahoo in 2017 for $4.5 billion. The online platform, launched in 2001, allowed users to post messages, upload files and photos, make… Source link
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Yahoo Group has already stopped allowing the creation of new groups on the platform. The service will be disabled completely on December 15. Yahoo Groups will shut down in December 2020. (Picture: Reuters) HIGHLIGHTS Yahoo Groups will become defunct in December 2020. Yahoo Groups noted that the service has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years. Yahoo Groups was among the earliest social media services that gave virtual group interaction service. Yahoo Groups, the almost… Source link
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Yahoo has put the final nail in the coffin for its social media platform Yahoo Groups, announcing on Monday that the 20 year-old service will shut down on Dec. 15, 2020. Yahoo Groups, which was aimed to help users stay connected to their community and friends, has seen a “steady decline in usage over the last several years,” the Yahoo Groups team shared with users in an email. “Over that same period we’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of engagement across our properties as… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Groups to shut down for good on December 15, 2020
Yahoo Groups, one of the last vestiges of the old Yahoo web properties, will shut down on December 15, 2020, when Verizon plans to take the groups.yahoo.com website offline for good. Verizon, which bought Yahoo in 2017, announced the decision today in emails sent to Yahoo Groups users and a message posted on the Yahoo Groups website. Today’s announcement marks the end of the road for one of the internet’s… Source link
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