👸 Tubz 🛀 Unfiltered - Volume 52
Miss USA Drama; Sportz; Supreme Court to hear Section 230 case.
Happy Monday, y’all!
I sometimes think how cool it would be to live in the middle-of-nowhere West Virginia. Have I ever been to West Virginia? No, no I have not, but the thought of escaping to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and drinking just a wee bit of moonshine with my feet kicked up sounds like fun (for like a week, then I would be itching for internet access like a crack addict).
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New York Post: Contestants claim Miss USA 2022 was ‘rigged’: ‘We were humiliated’
Love me some good ole Miss USA drama! As the saying goes though, don’t mess with Texas. To make a long story short: R’Bonney Gabriel — Miss Texas and someone with a name for the record books — won Miss USA and the other contestants, donning tinfoil hats, whined and complained about it because they finished in last place under Ricky Bobby’s definition of contest finishes. Here is why they whined and complained.
Speculations swirled as soon as Gabriel was crowned and the other 50 women swiftly exited the stage, as seen in the telecast. In comparison, fellow competitors typically remain onstage during the crowning moments.
On top of that, Miss Texas didn’t seem surprised at her big win in the slightest … since most Miss USA winners are shocked upon hearing their name.
As advertised on the Miss USA website, the winner of Miss USA receives complimentary services at MIA Plastic Surgery which is affiliated with NIZUC Spa, according to the resort’s website. … [L]ess than 24 hours after the pageant aired live Monday night, NIZUC Spa posted an Instagram story of Gabriel receiving services — noting it happened nine weeks ago.
The founder of MIA Beaute, a sponsor of the Miss USA pageant, is also reportedly a judge in the competition … and posted clips of Gabriel on his Instagram stories, further fueling speculation.
First of all, I am not a huge fan of Miss USA offering plastic surgery as a prize. What happened to el natural? Shameful. Second and most importantly, there were either a lot of coincidences or Miss USA was rigged.
I want it to be rigged for all of the drama that would ensue thereafter, but rigging a contest of knowledge, skill, or chance, which Miss USA falls under, is a federal criminal offense (47 U.S.C. § 509) so I cannot imagine WME/IMG, the owner of the Miss USA, and Crystle Stewart, the national director of Miss USA, would be dumb enough to rig it.
Then again, it would not be the first time there were serious allegations of a rigged beauty pageant (read the whole thread if you’re interested). Plus, powerful organizations and people occasionally make real dumb decisions, so …. where there is smoke, there may be a big ole fire.
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🏆 SPORTZ 🏆
COLLEGE FOOTBALL RECAP
Texas 49 Oklahoma 0: Oklahoma is a trash-ass state, so I was very happy to see the Longhorns pistol-whip the Sooners. This year’s edition of the Red River Rivalry was Oklahoma’s most-lopsided loss in its history. Texas QB Quinn Ewers was electric in his return from injury (21/31, 289 yards, 4 TDs, 1 INT, 92.3 QBR).
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Alabama 24 Texas A&M 20: The Aggies had 1st-and-goal from the 2 with three seconds left after ‘Bama was penalized for pass interference in the end zone. Below was what they dialed up. And Jimbo Fischer is known as an offensive genius. Yeah, and I have more game than Nick Cannon.
NFL RECAP
Giants 27 Packers 22: As I wrote in Volume 51, the more you f*ck around, the more you find out. I know it is early and a lot can happen the rest of the season, but I think the Packers found out, or at least I did, that they are not legitimate contenders right now.
Everything was clicking in the first half. But the remote ran out of the batteries in the second half. The defense allowed 27 points on 59 plays and the offense did not score a single point.
After the Giants’ 91-yard touchdown drive, with roughly 10 minutes remaining, that lasted 15 plays and was longer than Avatar (read: eight minutes of game time), the Packers’ offense got more antsy than a turkey the week of Thanksgiving and threw the ball three straight times, all of which were incomplete.
They were also faced with a 3rd-and-2 toward the end of the game, needing a score to tie it. What did they do? They ran it twice to get a first down with their bruising running back or dynamic, lightning-fast running back, right? No, because they have small brains, and instead passed it twice, resulting in two incompletions. Ball game.
Altogether, the Packers are v frustrating to watch from time to time because (1) the defense cannot stop crossing routes to save their life and (2) once the offense gets punched in the mouth, they go into hero mode, abandon the run, and Rodgers starts chucking it up, which is ironic because he does the same thing to his phone when he gets a text from a family member (I write that respectfully, as always).
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Chargers 30 Browns 28: The Chargers PASSED THE FOOTBALL on 4th-and-1 on their own 46 yard line and did not convert. Luckily, Browns kicker Cade York missed a 54-yard field goal to win the game or else LAC head coach Brandon Staley would have been Tubz Unfiltered’s Dumb-Dumb of the Year by a landslide.
The Browns, who were up 14-nada early, did not help themselves when Jacoby Brissett threw an ill-advised interception in the end zone on third down from the Chargers’ 9 yard line with under three minutes remaining.
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Bucs 21 Falcons 15: Tom Brady and the Bucs were absolutely gifted a 15-yard penalty in a one-score game late in the fourth quarter, which pretty much sealed the outcome. Brady and his wife are getting a divorce (unrelated, but still newsworthy).
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MLB Playoffs: The Division Series matchups are all set (best-of-5 series).
-NY Yankees vs. CLE Guardians
-HOU Astros vs. SEA Mariners
-ATL Braves vs. PHI Phillies
-LA Dodgers vs. SD Padres
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Vox: A new Supreme Court case could fundamentally change the internet
Every fake Twitter lawyer’s favorite topic: Section 230! So many people on the internet do not understand what Section 230 actually is. Thus, generally speaking, 47 U.S.C. § 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields companies from civil liability for illegal content that is posted on their websites, because they are not considered the publisher/speaker of said content, and also shields them from civil liability even if they “restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.” (As a reminder: the law is nuanced and, accordingly, there are always exceptions to the rules.)
Gonzalez v. Google is one of the all-important cases that the Supreme Court will hear, which will focus on whether Section 230 shields internet companies, which the statute defines as interactive computer services, from civil liability when their algorithm promotes specific recommendations to users or are they only free from liability “when they engage in traditional editorial functions (such as deciding whether to display or withdraw).”
Nohemi Gonzalez was a 23-year-old American studying in Paris, who was killed after individuals affiliated with the terrorist group ISIS opened fire on a café where she and her friends were eating dinner. According to her family’s lawyers, she was one of 129 people killed during a November 2015 wave of violence in Paris that ISIS claimed responsibility for.
In the wake of Gonzalez’s murder, her estate and several of her relatives sued an unlikely defendant: Google. Their theory is that ISIS posted “hundreds of radicalizing videos inciting violence and recruiting potential supporters” to YouTube, which is owned by Google. Significantly, the Gonzalez family’s lawyers also argue that YouTube’s algorithms promoted this content to “users whose characteristics indicated that they would be interested in ISIS videos.”
Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh is another related case that the Supreme Court agreed to hear.
As you might guess, this has significant implications for the future of the internet, so I will keep you posted on the outcome of both cases (if I remember).
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