TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Scott Pruitt is Negative . Scott Pruitt  Declares War on Wind and Solar Energy  While Fossil Fuels Get Billions in Subsidies
 Scott Pruitt  speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor  Maryland  on February 25  2017.
Photo Credit:  Gage Skidmore/Flickr
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  recently proposed eliminating federal tax credits for wind and solar power  arguing that  they  should âstand on  their  own and compete against coal and natural gas and other sourcesâ as opposed to âbeing propped up by tax incentives and other types of credits....â
Stand on  their  own?
 Pruitt  surely must be aware that fossil fuels have been feasting at the government trough for at least 100 years. Renewables  by comparison  have received support only since the mid-1990s and  until recently  have had to subsist on scraps.
Perhaps a review of the facts can set  Administrator Pruitt  straight. Thereâs a strong case to be made that Congress should terminate subsidies for fossil fuels and extend them for renewables  not the other way around.
A new study by Oil Change International brings us up-to-date. Published earlier this month  it found that federal subsidies in 2015 and 2016 averaged $10.9 billion a year for the oil and gas industry and $3.8 billion for the coal industry. By contrast  the wind industryâs so-called production tax credit  renewed by Congress in December 2015  amounted to $3.3 billion last year  according to a Congress Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate. Unlike the fossil fuel industryâs permanent subsidies  Congress has allowed the wind tax credit to expire six times in the last 20 years  and  it  is now set to decline incrementally until ending in 2020. Similarly  Congress fixed the solar industryâs investment tax credit at 30 percent of a projectâs cost through 2019  but reduced  it  to 10 percent for commercial projects and zeroed  it  out for residences by the end of 2021. The JCT estimates that the solar credit amounted to a $2.4-billion tax break last year. Totaling it up  fossil fuels â at $14.7 billion â still received two-and-a-half times more in federal support than solar and wind in 2016.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Prager U is Positive . Popular conservative/libertarian channel  Prager U  is once again being censored by Google and YouTube for a video deemed too “hateful.”
The video is titled “Born to Hate Jews ” and while the title seems dark  the message is the exact opposite. The speaker this time around is Kasim Hafeez  founder of the Israel Campaign  and in the video  he  tells the story of  his  journey from being a Muslim who came very close to being a terrorist against Israel  to a man whose first hand education led  him  to stand with country  he  previously hated.
The core of  his  message is that  he  discovered that Israel is not the horrible  oppressive  and murderous state that many Muslim parents teach their children  and college professors teach their students.  He  uses the story to point out that education about  his  enemy turned  his  enemy into  his  friend.
“YouTube’s removal of PragerU’s video is particularly alarming. YouTube labeled the video as ‘hate speech ’ which is ironic since the video is about fighting hatred and anti-Semitism  and is presented by a Muslim ” said Prager U’s Communication Director Jared Sichel.
Google and YouTube have censored  Prager U  in the past as well  having placed some of their educational content in the “restricted” column  which would block videos from being seen in places like schools  where these videos would have the most impact.
While  Prager U’s  videos have not carried mainstream messages  and even covered topics from views that are not politically correct   they  have never been inflammatory  obscene  or hateful. That YouTube is labeling this video promoting peace  understanding  and factuality as “hate speech” raises questions that should be asked about what values lay at the heart of the company.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Tock is Neutral . I dread many things about dining out in the coming year  from closings of beloved restaurants to ever-weirder ramen mutations. But the scariest of all may be the expansion of the online reservation app Tock  which makes you pay in advance for your meal at the time of booking — mostly at super-luxury eateries  but increasingly at lower-priced places  too.
The great Eleven Madison Park is the only place in Manhattan that currently uses three-year-old Tock for all seatings (though it’s also one of the very few restaurants worth such hassle). In Williamsburg  tiny Aska also uses the app exclusively. Now  Tock — which is used by just 300 US restaurants  compared to 43 000 for OpenTable and 1 000 for Resy — is trying to lure in lesser joints such as Té with Tock Intro.
Backed by millions of dollars in venture-capital funding  Tock promises great things to owners. Its platform can help them better manage reservations and reduce no-shows. Customers supposedly benefit from avoiding the hassles of reserving by phone.
But I hate having to buy a ticket for a meal — even for a world-class place such as Eleven Madison Park or Chicago’s Alinea  which is co-owned by Nick Kokonas  who also happens to be the founder of Tock.
Certain places that use OpenTable or Resy require a $50-a-head credit-card deposit. I’m not crazy about that  but at least we’re not giving them an interest-free loan of nearly $1 200  as a table for four would be at Eleven Madison Park reserved months from now on Tock.
Tock is striving to make inroads here by handling New Year’s Eve bookings at places that would otherwise use OpenTable or Resy. “New Year’s Eve has notoriously high demand and no-show rates  so we’re seeing a large number of restaurants using Tock Intro to combat the no-show issue ” says a company rep.
Among them: The Lambs Club and Lupa Osteria Romana — where you can only book the $275-per-head “Roman feast” starting at 9:45 p.m. on Dec. 31 using  Tock .
 Tock ’s strategy is to persuade users of the limited service to switch to the site full-time.  Tock ’s rep says  “Many restaurants start with  Tock  by offering a single prepaid experience  which is what you’re seeing with Lupa’s NYE dinner. After they see the full platform … they often transition all reservations over to  Tock .”

SOLUTION:
no