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Is Ello A Viable Alternative To Facebook? - Whats New Now
Social network Ello was thrust into the spotlight as users flocked to it in response to Facebook #39;s restrictive real name policy. Is Ello the social networking alternative many of us...
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As you settle into the social network (or wait for your invitation), learn about Ello's ad-free promise and find out how to navigate the interface.
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By now, you've probably heard of Ello, the invite-only social network garnering attention for its radical approach to social networking. Find out why the site is seeing 35,000 hourly sign-ups, and why people are so willing to join yet another social network.
Ello is the anti-Facebook, and it has no problem stating that. The bare-bones, ad-free, so-minimalist-it-hurts social network was designed in response to the many controversial Facebook policies, especially the one that forces users to display their real names.
But when you look at Ello, it might not seem that much different than other social networks. It doesn't go out of its way to use innovative approaches to organizing your friends, discovering content, or enriching your experience. Google+, for instance, introduced Circles, confusing users before they even had a chance to set up their profile.
What you get is a hybrid between Tumblr and Twitter. Like Tumblr, you can post photos and written thoughts, long or short. Like Twitter, you can @mention people, and those mentions show up on your profile, as well as theirs.
Unadorned and intentionally sparse, the users and their content are the focus, while other site elements generally go unnoticed.
Ello promises to uphold its proposition and remain ad-free forever. The reason goes back to Ello's philosophy -- the only way to sell ads is by harvesting user data, and the company does not intend on doing that. In fact, Ello allows users to opt out of Google Analytics tracking, and details the ways in which it anonymizes user data.
Plenty of folks are dubious, but Ello responded to the skepticism by asserting its plans to find other streams of income. In a post, its founders stated plans to offer paid feature upgrades, which could be things like data exporting or profile enhancements.
Nope. We looked high and low, but there's no button to be found.
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TIME U.S. Law Pet Owners Look to Muzzle Police Who Shoot Dogs Brittany Preston Bereaved owners argue that when police shoot dogs it a violates their Fourth Amendment rights
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Lexie, a Labrador mix, was barking in fear when the police arrived at her owners suburban Detroit house early in the morning last November. The officers, responding to a call about a dog roaming the area, arrived with dog-catching gear. Yet they didnt help the one-year-old dog, who had been left outside the house, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court: Instead, they pulled out their guns and shot Lexie eight times.
The only thing Im gonna do is shoot it anyway, the lawsuit quotes an officer saying. I do not like dogs.
Such a response, animal advocates say, is not uncommon among law enforcement officers in America who are often ill-equipped to deal with animals in the line of duty. And now bereaved owners like Brittany Preston, Lexies owner, are suing cities and police departments, expressing outrage at what they see as an abuse of power by police. Animal activists, meanwhile, are turning to state legislatures to combat the problem, with demands for better police training in dealing with pets.
There are no official tallies of dog killings by police, but media reports suggest there are, at minimum, dozens every year, and possibly many more. When it comes to Prestons dog, officials from the city of St. Clair Shores and the dog owner agree on little. City police say the dog attacked, prompting officers to open fire in self-defense. But the lawsuit filed by Preston cites police audio recordings to argue that the November 2013 shooting was premeditated, prompted by officers eager to kill a dog. Preston is suing the city for violating her Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
We want whatever it takes to make sure it doesnt happen again, said Christopher Olson, Prestons lawyer. Before this case I wasnt a dog shooting lawyer, but I am now.
St. Clair Shores defended the officers actions.
The animal was only put down after a decision was made that it was in the best interest of the residents, said city attorney Robert Ihrie, who is defending the city in the lawsuit. Sometimes police officers are in a position where they need to make very quick decisions for the protection of themselves and others.
The Fourth Amendment argument gained traction in 2005, when the San Jose chapter of the Hells Angels sued the city and the police department because officers had killed dogs during a gang raid in 1998. A federal appeals judge found that the Fourth Amendment forbids the killing of a persons dog when that destruction is unnecessary, and the Hells Angels ultimately won $1.8 million in damages. In addition to the St. Clair lawsuit, other lawsuits stemming from police shootings of dogs are being planned or filed in Idaho, California, and Nevada.
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