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Muslim woman says she faced discrimination on United-linked flight

June 1, 2015 publisher airline, beverage-policy, chicago, cnn, facebook, incident, muslim, northwestern, passengers, post-the-flight, shuttle-america, subject, tahera-ahmad

(Reuters) – A social media campaign gained strength on Monday for a Muslim chaplain at Northwestern University who said she was denied an unopened can of soda on a United Airlines-affiliated carrier after a flight attendant told her it could be used as a weapon. Referring to the incident last week, Tahera Ahmad said in a Facebook post the flight attendant had discriminated against her and that she was the subject of anti-Islamic hatred by other passengers on the flight from Chicago to Washington. Bob Birge, a spokesman for Republic Airways Holdings, which operated the Shuttle America flight on behalf of United, told cable news channel CNN on Monday that the airline’s beverage policy does not prohibit serving unopened cans to passengers.

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With ads, FINRA hopes BrokerCheck becomes go-to site, like Yelp

June 1, 2015 publisher airline, beverage-policy, campaign, chicago, diners-or-angie, facebook, financial, homework, known-as-finra, northwestern, passengers, post-the-flight, promote-its, street, subject

With a new ad campaign, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority hopes its BrokerCheck website will become a customer’s first stop, like Yelp for diners or Angie’s List for home owners, before they invest with a financial adviser. The Wall Street watchdog, known as FINRA, launched the campaign Monday with 15-second commercials depicting people making big decisions without doing their homework, in a bid to promote its years-old website that provides free information about brokers’ employment history, credentials and customer complaints.

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China’s ‘Internet police’ open a window on Web censorship

June 1, 2015 admin beijing, campaign, facebook, homework, internet, known-as-finra, northwestern, passengers, public, shows-icons, street, subject, weibo, well-as-google

The branch of China's police in charge of censoring “illegal and harmful” online information will make its efforts more visible to the public from Monday with the launch of their own social media accounts, the Ministry of Public Security said. The Chinese government aggressively censors the Internet, blocking many sites it deems could challenge the rule of the Communist Party or threaten stability, including popular Western sites like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, as well as Google Inc's main search engine and Gmail service

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Boehner urges U.S. Senate to pass surveillance reform bill

May 31, 2015 creative america, boehner, critical, homework, internet, known-as-finra, pass-the-usa, passengers, program-expire, representatives, senate, shows-icons, street, subject, well-as-google

The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives urged the U.S

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Revenge porn website permanently barred by FTC

January 29, 2015 creative collection, commission, consent, craigslist, high-profile, investigation, more-consumers, revenge-porn, sharply-higher, street, subject, thursday-craig, while-the-site

By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The owner of a “revenge porn site,” IsAnybodyDown.com, has agreed to not publish any nude pictures without the consent of the subject and to destroy his collection, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday. Craig Brittain, who opened his website in 2011 and closed it in 2013 after a blast of publicity, had solicited pictures of women he met on sites such as Craigslist, the FTC said in its complaint.