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Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent Ireland's Human Rights and Equality Commissioner has said that if internet platforms are profiteering from the polarisation of views online, the Government needs to examine the problem. Sinead Gibney has said while the publication of hate crime legislation is welcome, Government needs to deal with online hate speech. In the first of three reports exploring racism in Ireland, Our Social Affairs Correspondent Ailbhe Conneely looks at the political representation among minority groups and hate speech online. In the year 2000, the General Secretary of the I...

President obama has been on a roll this week making good on this claim from his 2011 state of the union address. >> we do big things. >> oh, i'm sorry. i thought he was going to say more about how we do big things. he was at that time talking about the united states doing big things but in this case his administration doing those big things and one of those things got overshadowed but it could improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of families. the connect home initiative a pilot program that would bring broad band connectivity to 275,000 households in 27 cities and the choctaw nation in o...