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The Office of the Court Administrator (OCAD) has advised judges and court personnel nationwide to be cautious when sharing their photographs and views on social networking sites.

OCA Circular No. 173 dated Aug. 17, 2017, was issued as it noted that some judges and court personnel have been active in various social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

It has been observed that some judges and court personnel have been taking active part in social networking sites by sharing personal photographs and updates, and posting their views and comments on certain issues and current events, the circular, which was signed by Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez, stated.

Marquez said that while being active on social networking sites can be considered an exercise of freedom of expression, it may be considered inappropriate for members of the judiciary due to the higher standard of integrity, candor and fairness reposed on them.

Accordingly, in communicating and socializing through social networks, judges must bear in mind that what they communicateregardless of whether it is a personal matter or part of his or her judicial dutiescreates and contributes to the peoples opinion not just of the judge but of the entire judiciary of which he or she is a part, he added.

Marquez cited Section 6, Canon 4 of the New Code of Judicial Conduct, which provides that in the exercise of freedom of expression, judges and court personnel shall always conduct themselves in a manner as to preserve the dignity of the judicial office and the impartiality and independence of the judiciary.

All told, judges and court personnel who participate in social media are enjoined to be cautious and circumspect in posting photographs, liking posts and making comments in public on social networking sites, for public confidence in the judiciary (may be) eroded by their irresponsible or improper conduct,' the circular read.

Covered by the circular were judges and court personnel in the first and second level courts.

The first level courts include the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Circuit Trial Courts and Sharia Circuit Courts.

The second level courts are the Regional Trial Courts and Sharia District Courts. JPV

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BE careful. With the rise of social media, the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) has called on trial judges and court employees to exercise prudence in posting photographs, liking posts and making comments in social networking sites.

In a circular dated August 17, 2017, Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez said much is expected of members of the judiciary and other court employees due to the higher standard of integrity, candor, and fairness reposed on them.

As the visible personification of law and justice, judges and court employees have a higher standard of conduct. The standard of conduct expected from members of judiciary is much higher than an ordinary man, he said.

Thus, judges and court personnel are reminded to conduct themselves in a way that would not call into question the dignity of the judiciary. Judges and court personnel must be above suspicion, he added.

Copies of the circular were sent by the OCA to all first and second level trial courts nationwide. The circular was issued after OCA observed that some judges and court personnel have been active in social networking sites by sharing personal photographs and updates as well as posting their views and comments on certain issues and current events.

While judges and court employees are not prohibited from engaging in social media, they are reminded that when they do, they do not thereby shed off their status as members of the judiciary, Marquez said.

He said using of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is an exercise of freedom of expression, but there are restrictions upon a judges conduct inherent in the judicial office.

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LinkedIn Corp. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in 2011.(Photo: Paul Sakuma, AP)

Social networking siteLinkedIn says it plans to open a sales office in downtown Detroit and initially hire 30 local workers to fill it.

The office willfocuson selling LinkedIn's products to assist businesses withmarketing, hiring and sales growth. The office will open later this year;itsprecise location will later be announced,saidMarquise McCoy, LinkedIn's corporate communications manager.

This will actually be the first office that we are opening in the U.S. in 10 years," Mike Gamson, LinkedIn's senior vice president of global solutions, said in a statement. LinkedIn chose Detroit after evaluating more than 10 other cities.

LinkedIn has already posted job listingsfor positions in the futureDetroit office.

More: Microsoft to move to downtown Detroit

More: Microsoft's move boosts Detroit's credibility as tech hub

Based in Mountain View, Calif.,LinkedIn is a social networking service that highlights users' work and educationalbackgrounds.

The tech company was founded in 2003 and last year was boughtby Microsoft for more than $26billion.

"We chose Detroit because it's a city with amazing talent," Gamson said. "There is a proven spirit of greatness and innovation, and these are the types of people with whom we want to work."

"We're committed to creating an economic opportunity for everyone and sometimes that means bringing the jobs to where the people are. We're excited to be part of the Detroit economic comeback story," he said.

LinkedIn will join other well-known tech companies with current and future outposts in downtown Detroit, including Twitter and Microsoft. Microsoft said earlier this year that it will relocate its southeast Michigan officeto downtown's One Campus Martius building from Southfield.

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As high-tech firms have begun taking stepsto weed out some of the most offensive right-wing hate groups, alternative social network Gab has seen a surge in donations to its crowdfunding campaign as it plays up its anti-Silicon Valley crusade.

Today, Gab passed $1 million raised. That includes almost $500,000 in just the last five days. And Gab isnt being coy about its feeling towards Silicon Valley giants.

The founders of the site insist that its a neutral, free-speech platform that is trying to build an advertising-free business. In its fundraising material, it highlights the fact that 50 percent of the top social networking apps are owned by Facebook, and that a handful of Silicon Valley companies wield enormous control over content on the internet.

It also stresses that with the rise of ad blockers, advertising-driven business models are problematic.

While the site claims to be politically neutral, it was started by Andrew Torba, an outspoken Trump supporter who was kicked off the Y Combinator alumni network last year for speaking in a threatening, harassing way toward other YC founders.

Torba claimed it was politically motivated, and had already launched Gab.ai as an alternative social network. This summer, the company began a crowdfunding campaign on Startengine, which allows startups to register and sell shares in their companies. Gabs logo, a smiling frog, seems to reference the Pepe the Frog image that is a favorite meme of some right-wing hate groups.

Gabs crowdfunding campaign seems to have benefited greatly from a one-two punch of events that have energized right-wing groups.

The first was Googles firing of James Damore, the engineer who wrote the controversial diversity memo. The second was the violence surrounding the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville last weekend that resulted in the death of one counterprotester. The ensuing controversy over President Trumps remarks has also continued to bring attention to the site.

Andrew Anglin, founder of neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer, has turned to Gab over the past couple of days as a platform of last report. Stormer appears to be offline again after several attempts to find a new registrarfailedfollowing its expulsion from GoDaddy. After moving to a Russian domain name, the site was taken down by at the request of a Russian agency which said that as a neo-Nazi site, Stormer violated laws against extremism.

So for now, Anglin said he would post articles on Gab as screen shots until he can find another solution:

Meanwhile, Torba took to Periscope today to celebrate the fundraising milestone, and said Gab will soon launch its own cryptocurrency to hold an Initial Coin Offering:

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Russias most popular social network VK is hosting the neo-Nazi group Daily Stormer even after the far-right website was blocked in Russia and the group was kicked off Twitter.

The neo-Nazi group in recent days was booted from Google, GoDaddy, Cloudfare and Twitter for publishing a derogatory article on Heather Heyer who died protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in the United States.

The head of Russias internet watchdog Alexander Zharov told the Interfax news agency on Thursday he had asked the company providing Daily Stormers Russian domain to stop servicing the website.

The Daily Stormer propagandizes a neo-Nazi ideology, inciting racial, national and other social hatred, Zharov told Interfax.

The group is still active however on Russias leading social networking website VK, the Russian equivalent of Facebook.

The Daily Stormers page dates to April 11, when the group uploaded a profile picture of a Nazi eagle towering over a skull.

It was mostly dormant until Aug. 15 when a post appeared announcing: Daily Stormer is now available only by Tor Browser. Google has seized our domain name.

A day later it announced: "back on the normie web, with a .ru domain, providing a link to the website which is now blocked.

The last post appeared Wednesday evening saying: Cloudfare just dropped us. Well have to build an alternative.

The page has 249 members and most have Russian names. It contains several images that depict Nazi symbolism, including a picture of a swastika and the text: White Power.

Russian law explicitly forbids Nazi imagery and Russians have previously been convicted on extremism charges of promoting Nazi symbolism after sharing pictures on VK.

In one high-profile case, a Russian journalist was fined for sharing a photograph of Nazi troops in her neighborhood during the World War II occupation of the city.A Russian man in 2012 was also convicted for sharing images of the film American History X.

Responding to a request from The Moscow Times, VKs press service said: VK does not block communities only because of the fact that other services have blocked pages with similar names.

It also said pages that violated Russian laws or called for violence or bullying would be blocked.

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