"Social media is not just a place we 'go' anymore. It's a place we live, work, and play. That's why it's more crucial than ever to ensure that all people can safely access these spaces and freely express themselves without fear of retribution," Jenna Sherman, campaign director at UltraViolet
"Adriana Smith's family should have had a choice. Her mother was clear that she wanted to make the decision about whether her daughter's body should be kept on life support. But Georgia doctors and legislators failed Adriana and her family." said Arisha Hatch, interim executive director of UltraViolet
The progressive activist group, CREDO, and UltraViolet, an online community opposed to sexism, claimed credit for a joint petition campaign that collected tens of thousands of signatures calling for Handel’s resignation.
The progressive activist group, CREDO, and UltraViolet, an online community opposed to sexism, claimed credit for a joint petition campaign that collected tens of thousands of signatures calling for Handel’s resignation.
Late yesterday we got word that several groups — including reps from MoveOn.org, CREDO Action and UltraViolet — are congregating at Komen’s LBJ HQ at noon today to drop off “petitions signed by nearly 850,000 people demanding that Komen not let anti-choice extremists get in the way of funding life-saving breast health care services for women.”
“Komen’s CEO, Nancy Brinker, has demonstrated a pattern of deliberately lying to the public about the facts about Komen’s decision to defund PP,” the Internet watchdog group Ultraviolet wrote in a statement to Yahoo! Shine.
Last week, Apple’s Siri for iPhone 4S ignited a firestorm when the personal assistant failed to locate local abortion clinics.
Last week’s abortion “glitch” was the latest in a series of embarrassments for Apple’s bot. Apple apologized(-ish) for the issue, but the half-hearted statement and unchanged software has yet to quell the anger. The criticisms still continue via petitions , including one at SignOn.org that got over 30,000 signatures in 48 hours, petition author Nita Chaudhary told CBS News. Unfortunately, the abortion-query problem is just a micro representation of a macro problem: Siri just doesn’t work that well.
Last week a firestorm broke out over the iPhone 4S’s personal assistant Siri’s omission of abortion clinics.
In the past 24 hours, more than 27,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple to stop iPhone voice assistant Siri from directing women to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” when they ask where to get an abortion.