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You Can Now Watch Dozens Of Disney Films On Hulu, Just Like On Netflix

Hulu has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Disney for the rights to stream 56 classic Disney titles. It's the biggest addition of full-length films to Hulu&039;s catalogue to date, according to the company.

Six titles will exclusively stream on Hulu, though you&039;ll still be able to rent or buy them online: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mulan, Pocahontas, Hercules, Sister Act, and Air Bud. They&039;re already available. You&039;ll be able to stream the other 50 films — The Emperor&039;s New Groove, Tarzan, and Lilo and Stitch, for example — come 2017, though they will not be exclusive to Hulu.

Netflix, one of Hulu&039;s competitors in the streaming space, signed a similar deal with Disney in 2012 to stream exclusive titles from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm. The same deal gave Netflix the right to stream titles from Disney at the same time they would be available to subscription cable networks, starting in 2016. Netflix reminded customers about the deal in May, telling them to “get ready for summer.” The titles became available in September.

Viewership of kids&039; content on Hulu went up 300% from 2015 to 2016, and Hulu has made several moves to bolster its library of kids&039; content and introduce kid-friendly features in 2016. The streaming service enabled customers to create several user profiles on one account in early December, including separate logins for children with content safeguards. Netflix supports a similar feature.

And just last month, Hulu signed an agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group to exclusively stream Disney Channel Original movies and series, the largest expansion of Hulu&039;s library of kids&039; content yet. Earlier this year, the company acquired exclusive rights to all nine past seasons and the future seasons of Curious George in a deal with NBCUniversal. The show has been the most popular kids series on Hulu.

Disney owns a 30% stake in Hulu, though a Hulu spokesperson said the current deal will not affect the ownership structure of the company. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The logo of the Disney store on the Champs Elysee is seen in Paris, France, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen/File Photo

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In 2016, An Anti-Troll Hero Came To My Rescue

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As a “cuckkike” member of the “lugenpresse,” one frequently up to the “Jewish tricks” of trying to “spread fake news” about the new right internet, I spent much of this year absorbing horrific online abuse: Anonymous death threats, ad hominem screeds, gas chamber memes about dead relatives, phone calls to my bewildered parents, and so on. I like to think of myself as a “sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me” sort of guy. But man, this stuff takes a toll.

Yet, way far down, in furthest vantablack depths of my mentions, amidst the eggs and the Pepes and the iron crosses and the “Heinrich Hammlers,” I glimpsed this fall a glimmer of hope, and a potential way forward for all of us.

His name is Captain James T Kink, and he&#039;s an anonymous account with only 32 followers who started his Twitter life doing a parody schtick in the voice of a horny gay Star Trek captain. Yet however inauspicious his beginnings, I think Capt. Kink may be a hero.

He has certainly come to my rescue, time and time again. As of last week, Capt. Kink had tweeted 793 times. Of those 793 tweets, by my count, at least 160, or a fifth, are insults, invective, taunting, mockery, and sarcasm directed toward my trolls. (Bear in mind, Capt. Kink has been tweeting since 2013 and only took up the cause of owning my trolls in late August.)

He&039;s my anti-troll troll, a potty-mouthed, gold-hearted anonymous internet do-gooder with seemingly nothing better to do than troll the people who have nothing better to do than troll me. In one week alone, Capt. Kink swooped in to call various of my harassers “a shit flicking low brow,” a “filthy paedo,” “stiff as a broomstick for Joe,” a virgin, and a “lukewarm Richard Spencer” who looks like “a middle aged Roger Moore.”

Kink is a brilliant troll, with the mouth of a sailor and the mind of a poet. Check out the simile he dropped on one “MRSADSONGHIMSELF” (bio: DEPLORABLE SHITPOSTER PRESIDENT ELECT DONALD J. TRUMP), who called me a “BLOCK HEAD” one recent weekend:

Yes, Capt. Kink can go high, but good lord, can he go low. MRSADSONGHIMSELF responded to the Louis XIV tweet with what he must have thought was a clever comeback. Poor lil&039; guy.

Bait taken, Capt Kink absolutely unloaded:

“Your dad watched” with no punctuation kills me. It&039;s a devastating cuckold joke without the now-ubiquitous epithet, tossed off as an afterthought: Your sexually explosive mother and I banged, and oh, I guess your dad was there too.

Capt. Kink&#033; He&039;s a very happy warrior. He calls my trolls babies, onanists, twats, farts, frenula. There&039;s no troll — or hate speech— too abominable for his pro-Joe Bernstein Twitter judo. He turns Holocaust jokes against themselves:

And in a move I regard as an act of genius, he defuses the alt-right&039;s constant invocations of free speech by posting shirtless pictures of Tom Selleck:

So who is this vulgar champion? And more importantly, what led him to become my personal Twitter henchman? Over email, Capt. Kink told me that he is an engineer from an English-speaking country. Like any hero worth his salt, he has an origin story:

“Six months ago I fell off a ladder (helping a plumber replace my water tank) and broke my shoulder. I was off work for two months with nothing to do but watch Dr Phil and start up my old Twitter account. I was horrified by the level of antisemitism, misogyny and anime. I can&039;t remember how I saw your besieged account but &039;Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do&039;.”

Yes, my Twitter guardian angel quotes Voltaire.

Look, I can&039;t say I don&039;t take some satisfaction in watching an anonymous account with an endless appetite for trolling do to my harassers exactly what they do to me. I do. I think any person who has faced the sheer volume of hatred that many of us have this year has fantasized about comprehensive and brutal retribution. So committed is Capt. Kink to my defense that my trolls have accused him of being me, and I in turn have half-wondered if I&039;m capable of some kind of unconscious, Tyler Durdenish projection. It&039;s not every day you discover your id outside your body.

But that&039;s not exactly why I love Capt. Kink. The traditional wisdom about trolls is that it&039;s best to ignore them, but that&039;s worked about as well for me as abstinence-only sex education has worked for the teenagers of America. What if we engaged? When Capt Kink gets involved with my trolls, a funny thing happens: They stop trolling me. They either get bogged down in endless shitfights with Kink, or else they disappear. It seems to me that trolling is typically a fairly frictionless experience for the troll. Adding almost any outside opposition seems to cause a fair number of them to scurry under other bridges.

None of which is to say I don&039;t still get harassed. I get harassed constantly. Capt. Kink is unfortunately just one man and, for the time being, sui generis. It took a specific set of circumstances and a bottomless appetite for conflict to create him.

(Kink, bless his soul, said via email that he&039;s “surprised more people aren&039;t challenging this type of behaviour.”)

Still, imagine an army of Capt. Kinks. Imagine Capt. Kink at scale: A thousands-strong justice league of anti-trolls, descending on every two-bit neo-Nazi and antisocial shitposter on every social platform around the world, armed to the gills with hurtful jibes and state of the art memes, fighting an epic war of flame attrition, freeing the rest of us to do our jobs.

I can see it in my mind&039;s eye, and friend, it&039;s beautiful.

Okay, I know how this sounds. But it&039;s not that crazy. A guy in Foreign Policy magazine suggested we do it to ISIS&033; And if tech companies can set up bug bounties, paying black-hat hackers to contribute meaningfully to society, there has to be a way to incentivize hatemongering trolls to use their powers for good. Maybe present it to them in the form of a Suicide Squad meme. I don&039;t know. The point is, Captain James T. Kinks don&039;t grow on trees.

But I&039;d like to see what would happen if we made more of him. Because maybe, just maybe, the vaccine for the epidemic of online abuse that has ruined this year online contains a dose of the disease.

Quelle: <a href="In 2016, An Anti-Troll Hero Came To My Rescue“>BuzzFeed

Modi's Political Party Creates Abusive Social Media Campaigns And Breeds Internet Trolls, Claims New Book

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India’s ruling political party directly masterminded systematic social media trolling campaigns against prominent Indian journalists, political opponents, and celebrities, a new book claims.

The book, titled I Am A Troll, written by journalist Swati Chaturvedi, explores the relationship between abusive social media accounts in India, and the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Through anonymous interviews with over 30 members from the BJP&#039;s social media cell, the book claims that volunteers – both paid and unpaid – operating out of the cell located at the party&039;s central Delhi headquarters, work full-time to bombard Twitter with hashtags to make them trend, lob sexual abuse threats at prominent Indian liberals and journalists, and seed WhatsApp – the Facebook-owned instant messenger used by over 160 million Indians – with hate speeches and propaganda.

The book, written by Indian journalist Swati Chaturvedi, features anonymous interviews with over 30 BJP social media volunteers.

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Sadhavi Khosla, is a 37-year-old marketing professional who spent two years as a full-time volunteer with the cell but stepped down after she was ordered to tweet “slanderous claims” about prominent Indian journalists and Bollywood celebrities.

“It was a never-ending drip feed of hate and bigotry against the minorities, the Gandhi family, journalists on the hit list, liberals, anyone perceived as anti-Modi,” Khosla says in the book. “I simply could not follow [the] directions anymore after I saw rape threats being made against female journalists.”

“My state of mind is calm,” Khosla told BuzzFeed News when asked about her decision to speak up about her experience. “I followed my principles and my conscience.”

The BJP did not respond to BuzzFeed News&039; request for comment on the book, but Arvind Gupta, who runs the party&039;s IT cell, dismissed Khosla&039;s claims and told the Indian Express that she “supports the Congress”, the BJP&039;s opposition party. He also said that the author of the book had “vested interests” and said that the BJP “never encouraged trolling.”

Right-wing abuse on Indian social media grew substantially in the lead up to and since the 2014 Indian elections when Modi, a polarizing politician known for his close ties to Hindi supremacist group RSS, became the Prime Minister of the country. His online followers are labelled as the Internet Hindus for their abusive discourse against anyone who criticises Modi and the BJP.

In 2015, Modi drew criticism for organising a gathering of 150 social media supporters including Twitter users who had sexually abused women online.

“I know that the BJP is vindictive,” Khosla told BuzzFeed News when asked whether she feared any repercussions after deciding to speak out. “They will definitely try and harm me. I know that.”

Quelle: <a href="Modi&039;s Political Party Creates Abusive Social Media Campaigns And Breeds Internet Trolls, Claims New Book“>BuzzFeed

Blac Chyna Is Promoting A Shady Student Loan Ripoff On Instagram

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Blac Chyna is using her vast social media presence to promote a deceptive and wildly expensive student loan forgiveness scheme, telling her 10.6 million Instagram followers they can call a phone number to “get rid” of their student loans “before it&#039;s too late and Obama is out of office.”

It&039;ll take 5 minutes, she says. “Hurry&#033;&033;&033; IT WORKS&033;”

It doesn&039;t. The Student Relief Center, the company in Chyna&039;s post, is one of hundreds of fly-by-night student loan operators that use social media to target borrowers. Via Facebook and Instagram, most promise to help students have their loans wiped away.

In reality, they charge hefty fees to do what anyone can do for free: sign up for the Education Department&039;s income-based repayment options, which fix student loan payments at a percentage of monthly earnings.

By charging hundreds or thousands of dollars for doing this, the student loan relief schemes extract money from people already struggling with debt. But they can be lucrative for the people promoting them — based on typical rates, Chyna could have been paid as much as $35,000 for her post promoting the scheme, according to Mike Heller, the president and CEO of Talent Resource, a celebrity lifestyle marketing company.

As Americans grapple with more than a trillion dollars of student debt, schemes targeting borrowers looking for a way out have become widespread. “Have you seen ads offering help with your federal student loans that seem too good to be true? They probably are,” reads a warning from the Secretary of Education about student debt relief scams.

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The fees charged to former students by the company in Blac Chyna&039;s Instagram post — which was not marked as an ad — are astronomical, and carefully disguised. When BuzzFeed News called the Student Relief Center number yesterday, a representative said the company could arrange a “graduated payment plan,” where a borrower paying off a $20,000 loan would make two payments of $385, then pay $162.99 a month for 36 months, then begin paying $113 monthly.

But what they didn&039;t say, until further prodding, was that much of that money would go to the middleman, not loan repayments. Baked into the Student Relief Center&039;s plan were well over $2,200 in fees paid to the company, including a charge of $49.99 a month for 36 months, long after any paperwork had been filed with the government.

After the three-year time period, the representative said, the $49.99 monthly fees would become “optional” — though customers would be automatically enrolled in the payments.

Student debt forgiveness schemes like the Student Relief Center have come under increasingly harsh scrutiny in recent years. They charge sky-high fees, at times in violation of state law, for services that often involve little more than submitting free forms to the government. At worst, some companies charge hundreds and even thousands of dollars and then disappear without performing any services at all.

Representatives for Blac Chyna and the Student Relief Center did not respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News. The reality TV star&039;s initial Instagram ad was deleted on Wednesday; another ad was posted on Thursday afternoon.

Quelle: <a href="Blac Chyna Is Promoting A Shady Student Loan Ripoff On Instagram“>BuzzFeed