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☆ Meet GoDigital, the happiness-obsessed company that wants to buy Vice Media
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Alex Sherman | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +8 min
Vice Media Group logo Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesWhen Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes and Shane Smith founded Vice magazine, which later expanded to Vice Media, they built a business based on a punk rock, counterculture image. GoDigital Media Group is a privately held conglomerate that owns video and music rights, especially in the Latin genre, and an array of different businesses. GoDigital plans to bid for Vice on Tuesday at a price between $300 million and $400 million, according to people familiar with the company's thinking. He will preach that message to Vice's employees on Day One if GoDigital acquires the company, he said. Smith, Vice's executive chairman and former CEO, couldn't be reached for comment.
Persons: Pavlo Gonchar, Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, Shane Smith, Smith, Jason Peterson, Logan Mulvey, GoDigital, Jason DeRulo, Peterson, Berkshire Hathaway, what's, Mulvey, John Leguizamo, Craig Greiwe, Sean, Diddy, Combs, couldn't, haven't, ' Peterson, Alex Wallace, Wallace, Gay Hendricks, We're, Adam Neumann's, I'm Organizations: Media, Lightrocket, Vice Media, GoDigital Media, Berkshire, Eastern Mountain Sports, NGL, Fortress Investment, Soros Fund Management, Monroe Capital, Fortress, Yahoo, CNBC Locations: Brooklyn , New York, Los Angeles
☆ The Proud Boys' initiation manual has a detailed 'No Wanks' policy
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Charles R. Davis | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Proud Boys "initiation ceremony manual" details the far-right group's policy on masturbation. "A Proud Boy may not ejaculate alone more often than once every thirty days," states the group's "initiation ceremony manual," the document reads. An excerpt from a Proud Boys defense motion filed January 23, 2023 in US District Court in Washington, DC. InsiderThe Anti-Defamation League considers the Proud Boys a violent, right-wing extremist group whose members commonly engage in misogynistic, Islamaphobic, transphobic, and anti-immigration rhetoric. As detailed by journalist Andy Campbell in his book, "We Are Proud Boys," members of the group are expected to adhere to the policy if they wish to advance to the second of its four tiers of membership.
☆ At meetings, Proud Boys sing 'Proud of Your Boy,' a weepy ode to mom from Broadway's 'Aladdin,' documents show
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Laura Italiano | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Proud Boys are urged to sing a Broadway show tune at meetings, a new court document reveals. The song is "Proud of Your Boy," a weepy ode to making mom proud by the title character in "Aladdin." The anthem is 'Proud of Your Boy," an emotional ode to winning mom's approval from the hit musical, "Aladdin." "Do the 'Proud Boys' know their anthem was written by a gay Jew?" The Southern Poverty Law Center, which calls the Proud Boys a violent, right-wing hate group, has also noted that the song "Proud of Your Boy" inspired the group's name.
☆ Conservatives and anti-vaxxers are frantically lobbying Elon Musk to lift Twitter bans on their idols after he took over
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
An assortment of conservatives are lobbying Elon Musk to undo Twitter bans on prominent allies. Musk has said he opposes permanent bans and plans to roll back moderation on Twitter. But Twitter is enforcing legal sanctions on the networks in the EU and UK which prevents people seeing their content. Twitter has said it never shadowbans anybody, though Musk said Friday he was "digging in" to the allegations. Evolutionary biologist and podcaster Bret Weinstein, who has long questioned COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, also called for Musk to reinstate anti-vaxxer Dr Robert Malone.
☆ Penn State Cancels Event With Proud Boys Founder, Citing Threat of Violence
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Protesters took to Penn State’s campus in recent days as both students and university officials denounced the event’s speakers. Pennsylvania State University canceled a comedy event with the founder of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes , citing the threat of escalating violence ahead of the Monday night show. Protesters took to the campus in recent days as both students and university officials denounced the speakers: Mr. McInnes, who founded the extremist group the Proud Boys, and Alex Stein , a far-right commentator.
☆ Students demand Penn State cancel on-campus comedy show featuring Proud Boys founder: 'They're on the wrong side'
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Isabella Zavarise | Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Students at Penn State want the administration to cancel an event with the founder of the Proud Boys. The Proud Boys have been labeled a terrorist organization by the Canadian government. He told Insider he's grateful Penn State is following through with upholding the First Amendment and said he wants the protestors there. When asked by Insider whether Penn State would provide comment on students' demands the event be canceled, the university reiterated the First Amendment. "Penn State is really fighting a losing battle on this one.
☆ Violence, chauvinism, and no masturbation allowed: 'We Are Proud Boys' details the 4 tiers of membership in the extremist group
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
A new book, "We Are Proud Boys," details the four tiers of membership in the extremist organization. The top Proud Boy tier requires an arrest or a "serious violent fight," per founder Gavin McInnes. "The Proud Boys' actions," notes the Southern Poverty Law Center, "belie their disavowals of bigotry: Rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists." While Proud Boys are encouraged to boast of their membership, obfuscation is an essential part of being in the group. Tarrio was not in DC the day of the attack but, prosecutors allege, helped direct his fellow Proud Boys' actions from afar.
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