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Any Religious and Political Views Shared on Your Facebook Profile Will Be Removed By Jack Davis November 19, 2022 at 11:30am The profile police are coming and Facebook will never be the same.

Any Religious and Political Views Shared on Your Facebook Profile Will Be Removed

By Jack Davis November 19, 2022 at 11:30am

The profile police are coming and Facebook will never be the same.

Facebook is changing the information users are allowed to post as part of their profile beginning Dec. 1, according to TechCrunch.

The change was first noticed by tech-watcher Matt Navarra.

A representative of Facebook then confirmed the news via a statement to TechCrunch.

“As part of our efforts to make Facebook easier to navigate and use, we’re removing a handful of profile fields: Interested In, Religious Views, Political Views, and Address,” the representative said.

“We’re sending notifications to people who have these fields filled out, letting them know these fields will be removed. This change doesn’t affect anyone’s ability to share this information about themselves elsewhere on Facebook,” the Facebook statement said.

Is this a good decision for Facebook?

A report about the change on EndGadget suggested that Facebook is simply evolving with the times.

“It may reflect changing attitudes toward privacy, however. Facebook included these sections in the early days of social networking, when users more readily shared their more sensitive details (MySpace, anyone?),” the report said.

“Now, however, privacy is a major concern— Meta itself has been more interested in privacy in recent years, focusing on private chats and greater security. People may be less inclined to share info on profiles in an era when online stalking and harassment are all too common,” the report said.

Users will notice no major change when the new profile regime takes place, according to Andrew Hutchinson, writing on Social Media Today.

“In essence, Meta no longer has any need for you to share this info on your profile, and each of these elements could also lead to discrimination and harm simply by being present. So it’s probably better to remove them – but the overall impact on how the platform operates will be largely unchanged,” he wrote.

Writing on Gizmodo, Thomas Germain said Facebook is trying to regain its zip.

“Users have been leaving the platform in droves, and even Instagram, Facebook’s younger and slightly hipper sibling, has seen its cache decline,” he wrote.

“Dialing back the ways you can update your profile is, in a way, admitting defeat. The world moved on, and Facebook once again needs to move fast if it wants to stay relevant,” he wrote.

Meta, the parent of Facebook, is currently in a financial trough, having just laid off about 11,000 employees.

Judge Hands Down Huge Ruling on Two Arkansas Women Fired for Refusing to Wear LGBT Colors By George Upper November 8, 2022 at 5:56am

Judge Hands Down Huge Ruling on Two Arkansas Women Fired for Refusing to Wear LGBT Colors

By George Upper November 8, 2022 at 5:56am

The LGBT lobby has become little more than a massive bullying organization. People face job loss, humiliation and other penalties for simply sticking to their traditional, constitutionally protected religious views.

This was shown yet again when two Kroger employees, Brenda Lawson and Trudy Rickerd, were fired for refusing to wear aprons with multicolored hearts on them to show their support of sexual sin.

Coming to the two employees’ defense was an unlikely ally — the federal government, in the form of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the waning days of former President Donald Trump’s term in office.

“On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lee Rodofsky, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump in July 2019, ordered Kroger Limited Partnership to [pay] $180,000 to Rickerd and Lawson and ‘provide reasonable accommodations to employees who have sincere religious objections to Kroger’s dress code,’ court documents show,” according to the outlet. “Rudofsky also ordered the company to create a religious accommodation policy and new employee training.”

Rudofsky’s order added that the two former employees “both have sincerely held religious beliefs that homosexuality is a sin and that they cannot support or promote it.”

The current administration then was placed in the uncomfortable position of having to release a statement celebrating its victory over one of its staunchest allies, “the LGBTQ+ community.” It must have felt like the strangest victory lap in history, but at least the career bureaucrats at the EEOC found a way to “commend” the company they had sued.

The entire statement from the EEOC appears here:

EEOC and Kroger Limited Partnership I Resolve Religious Discrimination Lawsuit

Employees Denied Religious Accommodations, Federal Agency Charged

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Kroger Limited Partnership I will pay $180,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today. The EEOC had filed suit on behalf of two former employees who worked at a Kroger store in Conway, Arkansas.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Kroger Limited Partnership I engaged in religious discrimination when it disciplined and ultimately fired the employees for refusing to wear an apron with the company’s “Our Promise” symbol because they believed it represented support for the LGBTQ+ community. Kroger denies the allegations.

The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Kroger Limited Partnership d/b/a Kroger, Store No. 625, Civil Action No. 4:20-CV-01099 LPR) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Central Division, after first attempting to reach a voluntary pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.

The parties decided to resolve the case with a consent decree to avoid additional costs and uncertainties of future litigation. As part of the settlement, Kroger Limited Partnership I has agreed to create a religious accommodation policy and provide enhanced religious discrimination training to store management.

“The EEOC commends Kroger on its decision to create a policy describing the process for requesting a religious accommodation,” said Faye A. Williams, regional attorney of the EEOC’s Memphis District Office, which has jurisdiction over Arkansas, Tennessee and portions of Mississippi. “This policy will provide guidelines for requesting religious accommodation. The parties in the case worked in good faith to resolve this matter, and the Commission is pleased with the resolution.”

The EEOC advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. More information is available at www.eeoc.gov. Stay connected with the latest EEOC news by subscribing to our email updates.

Should these women be awarded more than $180,000?

Thankfully, it looks like a bit of sanity still remains in our country — even in President Joe Biden’s administration — and Kroger was not only checked, but made to pay out a six-figure sum.

Hopefully, other companies will learn a lesson from Kroger’s mistake. But I wouldn’t bet on it, because humanity’s sin runs deep — deeper that we generally know.

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Egg shortage hits UK as shoppers across the country are met with empty shelves ABC News EMMA OGAO November 19, 2022, 4:09 AM British shoppers looking for eggs have been met with empty shelves as the United Kingdom’s “largest ever” outbreak of bird flu and rising costs have placed pressure on egg supplies across the country.

Egg shortage hits UK as shoppers across the country are met with empty shelves

British shoppers looking for eggs have been met with empty shelves as the United Kingdom’s “largest ever” outbreak of bird flu and rising costs have placed pressure on egg supplies across the country.

Customers at British supermarket retailers Sainsbury’s and Tesco found eggs out of stock, while retailer Lidl has put a ration on eggs at some of its supermarket branches — limiting each customer to three units of eggs due to the shortage.

Elsewhere, breakfast menus at restaurant and pub chains across the country are also being curtailed, with chefs seeking alternatives for eggs as they grapple with the shortages.

“We are now facing this year, the largest ever outbreak of bird flu and are seeing rapid escalation in the number of cases on commercial farms and in backyard birds across England,” says the United Kingdom’s Chief Veterinary Officer, Christine Middlemiss. “The risk of kept birds being exposed to disease has reached a point where it is now necessary for all birds to be housed until further notice.”

There have been 234 cases of bird flu in England since October 2021, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control says a record 48 million birds have been culled across the UK and Europe during the 2021 to 2022 avian flu epidemic season.

FILE PHOTO: A closed road leading to a chicken farm is seen after an outbreak of bird flu in the village of Upham in southern England February 3, 2015. (Peter Nicholls/Reuters)

Rising production costs on British poultry farmers have also compounded pressure on egg supply chain.

“Egg producers have been hit with huge hikes in production costs,” says the British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA). “Feeding hens is now at least 50% more expensive than it was, and energy prices have soared in the same way that consumers have seen their domestic bills rise.”

“Not a single box”

“I went to my local Sainsbury’s yesterday morning and there was not a single box of eggs on the shelf,” Gemma De Souza, 27, told ABC News. “I own a small home bakery business so eggs are a lifeline for me. I had to hop round two Tesco’s until I stumbled on one with a stocked egg shelf, so even in my local area it's a very mixed picture with some stores having plenty of eggs, and some none at all.”

British-Americans have also noticed egg shortages ahead of Thanksgiving celebrations next week.

“I’ve got family coming down from the States next week and our family tradition is we always have this huge Thanksgiving feast,” Sam Johnson, 32, told ABC News. “My regular store’s egg shelves have been empty all week and so I’ve been running all over London the last few days on an egg-locating mission.”

Some free-range egg farmers have been calling out supermarket chains, saying that the current shortages are the result of retailers not paying farmers enough, which has left them at a loss whilst producing eggs.

In a viral video, Welsh Farmer Ioan Humphreys said: “Supermarkets aren’t paying us a fair price to cover the cost. They’ve raised the price for the consumer, but that hasn’t come down to us, the farmers.”

According to the British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA), the average price of an egg tray has risen by 50 pence (59 U.S. cents) in supermarkets, however farmers have only seen a price rise of payment by about 5 to10 pence during this period.

“We have been warning for months that failing to pay farmers a price which allows them to make a profit would result in mass de-stocking or, worse still, an exodus from the industry,” says Robert Gooch, Chief Executive of BFREPA.

Responding to concerns about the egg crisis in the House of Commons, Therese Coffey — the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — says she is “confident we can get through this supply difficulty in the short term,” adding that there are “still 40 million egg-laying hens available” across the U.K. and that she is “meeting the industry on a regular basis.”

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