3 OpinionPeyton Smith

OPINION EDITOR

Netflix vs. Other Forms of Streaming

It seems like every-one praises Netflix for stream-ing t.v. shows and movies, but why does it earn more praise than other networks such as Hulu or Amazon Prime? Netflix was created in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, but it was not until a few years ago when everyone started raving about Netflix and its ability to stream movies and t.v. shows. The network became so popular they decided to start producing their own tv shows and mov-ies, Orange is the New Black, Arrested Development, and Stranger Things are just a few of Netflix’s very own tv shows. One advantage Hulu has over Netflix is the fact they update their tv shows much quicker than Netflix. Hulu up-

dates its t.v. shows by the epi-sode while Netflix waits and updates by season. To add to this, Hulu is a bit cheaper than Netflix, but still does not com-pare to Netflix’s popularity. Amazon Prime contains many more movies than both Netflix and Hulu, however Amazon prime is much more expensive and less popular than both Netflix and Hulu. SCHS freshman Malvin Issac said, “Netflix is much more popular than Hulu and Amazon, because people just talk about it more on social media,” Issac con-tinued, “People rarely mention Hulu and people almost never talk about Amazon prime.” Netflix continues to dominate Hulu, Amazon prime, and any other stream-ing networks out there due to it’s incredible popularity.

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With only 46 days until the election left, there are still millions of Americans who are undecided when it comes to voting between Don-ald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Two of the biggest controver-sies of this election have been Trump’s tax returns and Clin-ton’s emails. Just so I can clar-ify this topic to anyone who dares to read about it, I wanted to dive into the subject and explain some of the similari-ties and differences between the tax returns and emails. Presidential nomi-nees from both parties had been releasing their tax re-turns for multiple decades. The last nominee of a major party in the US not to release their tax returns was 1968 GOP nominee, Richard Nixon. Nixon had won both of his elections without releas-ing his returns, but in 1973 he was audited by the IRS. This raised many questions by the media, so to calm down the nation, Nixon released his 4 previous years of tax returns.

It turned out that Nixon owed $476,431 in unpaid taxes and accrued interests. This situation proved that it is safe and legal to release your tax returns even when under audit by the IRS. Choosing the ability to not release tax returns is le-gal, it is just customary in the presidential nominating system of the US. There is also a wide speculation that Trump has been avoiding releasing his tax returns because he had found a way to ‘skip’ paying his in-come tax for the past 18 years. Clinton had first set up her personal email in 2008 while she was Sena-tor of New York and was running for the Democratic nomination for president. She continued to use her email after she was nominated to be Secretary of State in 2009. While there is a lot of confusion and misun-derstanding about what was allowed and what was not al-lowed on her server, there are very simple answers. Clinton was al-lowed to use a personal email server for government busi-ness. White House staff are permitted to use the occa-

sional personal email un-der certain circumstances. Clinton was not al-lowed to use a private server. It was department policy since 2005 that ‘day-to-day operations’ are to be handled on government servers. The former Secretary did not have a government email account, the FBI said she declined to have one set up. Similarly to Trump’s returns, it was not il-legal for Clinton to violate state department policies, it was just uncustomary to use a private email server to man-age her day-to-day business. “I care about Trump’s tax returns and Hillary’s emails. I care about Trump’s tax re-turns less because at worst he skipped paying his income tax. I care about the emails to more of a degree because the de-leted emails could’ve contain highly confidential material,” said SCHS 11th grader Ryan Laughlin. Whether you think Trump is a fraud for holding his returns, or Clinton is crooked for de-leting emails, they each have their own special controversy which makes this election even more special than usual.

Noah Murphy-CristalNEWS EDITOR

Trump vs. Clinton : Taxes and Emails

Are Protests Beneficial or

Counterproductive?Peyton SmithOPINION EDITOR

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary clinton/newsday.com In the words of Mar-tin Luther King Jr., “The ulti-mate measure of a man is not where he stands in a moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controver-sy.” With such in mind, and in consideration of a recent

Individuals engage in peaceful protests with the tagline, “we all bleed red”/Pittsberg. post.gazette.com

influx of protests specifically within the United States, it’s necessary to consider whether or not such protests are ben-eficial or counterproductive. Moreover, if one choses to engage in some sort of protest against authority or in sup-port of an issue, what is the best philosophy to abide by?

Steele Canyon senior Katie Bodenmiller articulates her beliefs on protests claim-ing, “I feel like a lot of shoot-ings lately can be linked to

irresponsible discharge of po-lice weapons, but that doesn’t mean go out and vandalize property or break windows. You’re not getting your point

across with violence. You cant fight fire with fire even when you fel that you should...Yes there is a problem, we need to acknowledge it and fix it, it will take time. And in thart time, we should confront it in the same way MLK did with nonviolent actions.” SCHS junior and Vice President of Project Black concures claiming that in moments of injustice, “peaceful protesting works.” Yes, protesting and othe forms of public sup-port or outrage should be conducted in a way that si-multaneously demonstrates a respomsible use of control over ones physical and men-tal faculties, pursuing peace with the objective of gaining the admiration and respect of those who incite injustice.