Joe Biden-backing pop star Lizzo railed against Texas lawmakers’ attempt to probe transgender medical procedures for minors during a keynote session at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival on Sunday, proclaiming, “It’s a violation of human rights.”
Popular audio chatroom app Clubhouse has announced that it will boycott the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference this year in Austin, Texas, due to the state’s policy labeling extreme treatments for allegedly transgender children as child abuse. Gov. Greg Abbott said: “It is already against the law to subject Texas children to a wide variety of elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or estrogen.”
South by Southwest (SXSW) — the annual film, media, and music festival in Austin, Texas — has added U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to its lineup of keynote speakers.
Justin Bieber says there’s “no truth” to allegations that he once sexually assaulted a woman in 2014.
Having the league’s only undefeated team definitely doesn’t hurt, but the XFL happens to be killing it in the Great State of Texas.
Organizers of the South By Southwest Festival said late Friday that they are complying with the Austin government’s decision to cancel the March dates for the annual event, which typically brings thousands of cinephiles and tech enthusiasts to the Texas city.
Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke apologized to 2018 campaign staff for being a “giant asshole” in a documentary on his failed Senate campaign that airs Tuesday on HBO.
If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or anyone, attacks Ronald Wilson Reagan, it is fitting and proper for loyal Reaganites, including this one, to rise to the Gipper’s defense.
In an interview at the South by Southwest festival Monday, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams admitted that while she is “still very bitter” about her failed gubernatorial bid, she “can’t prove” she would have won the November 2018 race.
Basically, Ocasio-Crazy envisions a world where the government takes 90 percent from the rich and distributes it to hundreds of millions of American who no longer need to work due to automation.
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti claimed Big Tech companies are having a “huge problem” controlling content on their platforms, and declared, “We can’t just police bad content, we have to produce good content,” during a speech at SXSW, Friday.
Sunday, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a potential 2020 presidential candidate, commented on the issues that black people face, revealing in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” live from the SXSW Conference in Austin, TX, that black college graduates have
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A big chunk of the 2020 Democratic field began making Texas an unlikely early-state stop Saturday and pushed back on big tech in front of young, social-media savvy crowds in a city where companies including Google and Apple have big footprints.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) defended her plan to break up large technology companies, noting it would not end the world if these “monopolies” would make less in profits.
Zucker has driven the CNN brand into the dirt with an unprecedented firehose of fake news, hate campaigns, and terrible ratings.
Appearing at the SXSW conference Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said people should be excited by the prospect of robots taking their jobs because it will afford them more time to pursue their creative passions.
Appearing at SXSW on Saturday, CNN president Jeff Zucker accused President Donald Trump of instigating a Justice Department lawsuit to block AT&T’s mega-merger with parent company Time Warner.
Panelists at the South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU 2019 conference this week urged educators to make “social and emotional learning” (SEL) part of every core subject in K–12 classrooms.
HBO has announced that it will air a documentary following former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s failed bid for the U.S. Senate, the latest in a long line of films charting the careers of various left-wing media darlings.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been slammed for flying to a liberal arts festival in Texas in the midst of a violent crime wave in his city, to argue that national government should focus on pressuring social media firms to increase censorship.
Twitter and YouTube allegedly targeted conservative commentator Steven Crowder, limiting his social media accounts and those of his staff, along with removing certain YouTube videos.
YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to “conspiracy theory” videos on the platform in an effort to combat alternative narratives, according to a report.
Uber Chief Brand Officer Bozama Saint John has called on white men to ‘make noise’ about diversity in the workplace.
Facebook Head of News Product Alex Hardiman expressed the company’s plans to “redefine its relationship” with news publishers in an effort to “minimize the bad” and “promote quality” during a panel at the South by Southwest film festival.
Former Gawker CEO Nick Denton claimed that the left-wing establishment will have to adopt a nicer “Zen Buddhism response” to beat Breitbart News during a SXSW interview last week.
Canadian actor and filmmaker Seth Rogen believes it is important that resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency and his policy agenda be “normalized.”
This year’s SXSW festival is taking on President Trump, according to The Hill, which reported that the proceedings largely focused on negative rhetoric against the president.
The father of Michael Brown accused the City of Ferguson of “asking for” the riots that plagued the city following his son’s death.
The New York Times’ executive editor Dean Baquet joked about The Washington Post’s new slogan Sunday, according to Advertising Age.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper says his 7-year-old son has started using President Trump’s term “fake news.”
The Charles Koch Institute and rapper Snoop Dogg will team up to host a panel on criminal justice reform at South by Southwest (SXSW) later this month.
Politics and the Trump administration’s immigration policies have taken center stage at one of the music industry’s biggest events.
A New York band member called out Austin’s world-famous South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival over its contract that demands foreign musicians follow U.S. immigration law. The festival is scheduled to run from March 10-19 in Austin.
A special showcase at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) film, media, and music festival will feature performances by musical artists from the seven terror-prone countries listed in President Donald Trump’s stalled executive order on immigration.
FBI Director James Comey is set to speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music, art and film festival in Austin, Texas in March.
Members of the rap group Public Enemy are split on what to make of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
Despite Barack and Michelle Obama trying to politicize Austin’s South by Southwest music and entrepreneurship festival, the most catalytic presentation was the triumphant return of the Powerpuff Girls.
Politically active porn star, free speech activist, and GamerGate icon Mercedes Carrera dropped out of a panel appearance at SXSW this week after refusing to delete a list of tweets criticising notorious harasser and anti-GamerGate activist Randi Lee Harper, who was also in attendance at the festival.
First Lady Michelle Obama has joined forces with Diane Warren, Kelly Clarkson and a number of other female singer-songwriters for a new anthem celebrating female empowerment.
The presence of a gun rights group at the Texas State Capitol during President Obama’s visit to the SxSW festival elicited members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense to call for gun violence against the group. Among other incitements to violence, “Just shoot them all,” and “Shoot the a**bags,” they said.
