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#11 diogenes227

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Posted 21 March 2017 - 07:57 AM

 

Google isn't just the world's biggest purveyor of information; it is also the world's biggest censor.  

 

The company maintains at least nine different blacklists that impact our lives, generally without input or authority from any outside advisory group, industry association or government agency.  

 

Google's blacklisting practices put the company into the role of thuggish internet cop – a role that was never authorized by any government, nonprofit organization or industry association. It is as if the biggest bully in town suddenly put on a badge and started patrolling, shuttering businesses as it pleased, while also secretly peeping into windows, taking photos and selling them to the highest bidder. 

 

When Google's employees or algorithms decide to block our access to information about a news item, political candidate or business, opinions and votes can shift, reputations can be ruined and businesses can crash and burn. Because online censorship is entirely unregulated at the moment, victims have little or no recourse when they have been harmed. Eventually, authorities will almost certainly have to step in, just as they did when credit bureaus were regulated in 1970. The alternative would be to allow a large corporation to wield an especially destructive kind of power that should be exercised with great restraint and should belong only to the public: the power to shame or exclude.

 

 https://www.usnews.c...st-be-regulated

 

 

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What do you think needs to be done about this?  Anti-trust? A government censor censoring Google?  A search engine from failing Breitbart news?  What sayest thou?


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Posted 24 April 2017 - 07:29 AM

1984 or Brave New World? 

 

It is the westernized cultures of the world, including Asian nations like Japan and South Korea, that more closely resemble Brave New World, whereas vestiges of 1984 can be seen in the eastern bloc communist countries, China, North Korea and the Islamic societies of the middle-east.

 

The modernized nations today have sacrificed individual freedom upon the altar of Collectivism as political correctness stifles free speech; families suffocate beneath mountains of debt and United Nations Agenda 21 policies release a deluge of regulations causing private autonomous innovation to collapse.  

 

Corporations like Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung and Apple have become the eyes and ears of Big Brother who is always watching, and ever listening. 

 

Only in wealthy westernized nations do billionaires own multiple mansions, fly private jets and ride in eight-cylinder limousines to climate-change conferences where policies are decreed to lower the carbon footprint of the proletariat.      

 

Only in wealthy westernized nations, do ever-increasing numbers of women consider white men to be pigs while simultaneously striving to be their equals.  

   

And, only in the wealthy Christian nations of the northern hemisphere will citizens support a women’s right to third-trimester abortions, while rigorously and righteously battling for legislation to save endangered dung beetles.   

 

 

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Posted 18 July 2017 - 07:13 AM


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Posted 06 August 2017 - 10:40 AM

Sharyl Attkisson, formerly of CBS, has prepared an extensive timeline of the Obama administration’s surveillance and weaponizing of intercepted intelligence against opponents, reporters, and even Congress. There was a consistent pattern of surveilling and leaking information about anyone who opposed anything the administration did and punishing severely whistleblowers and reporters who tried to report wrongdoing.  

 

It began on April 2009 within three months of Obama’s inauguration with the leaking of a conversation Congresswoman Jane Harmon with pro-Israeli lobbyists. It grew to include

 

FBI contractor Shamai Leibowitz,

“Tea Party” and “patriot” applicants for special status with the IRS,

Fox news reporter James Rosen, Sharyl Attkisson herself,

former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Fox news reporter Mike Levine,

ATF whistleblower John Dodson, CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus,

journalists from the AP and New York Times, reporter Audrey Hudson,

Senate intelligence Committee computers, Joint Chiefs of Staff James Cartwright,

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Carter Page, and  lawmakers and Jewish groups opposed to the Iran “deal.”

 

 

 

 

 http://www.americant..._the_cliff.html

 


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Posted 20 September 2017 - 09:10 AM

U.S. investigators wiretapped President Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort in Trump Tower, according to a report by CNN. That vindicates the president’s earlier claims, which were mocked as a conspiracy theory.

 

President Trump had tweeted on March 4: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

 

 

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

 

 

 http://www.breitbart...trump-campaign/


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Posted 21 September 2017 - 11:45 AM

Former DNI James Clapper Denies Knowledge of Manafort FISA Warrant… 

 

It is important to remember that FBI Director James Comey stated on March 20th 2017 he briefed the DNI (James Clapper) and the National Security Adviser (Susan Rice) on the details of the counter intelligence operation. By all intents and appearances the statement last night by Clapper denying knowledge is essentially refuting James Comey’s earlier testimony and throwing Comey under the bus.

 

They both cannot be telling the truth.

 

Either Comey told Clapper which means Clapper is lying.  Or Comey never told Clapper, which provides evidence of the FBI collusion with the White House; and the FBI working as a rogue intelligence agency for political targeting. 

 

In the abstract the Obama authorized wiretapping of a Trump campaign official is alarming. However when these recent revelations are added to FBI James Comey admitting to keeping the investigations hidden from congressional oversight an even more alarming picture emerges.


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Posted 26 November 2017 - 10:01 AM

Narrative Launches Blockchain Based Social Network That Puts Revenue In Your Pocket, Not Mark Zuckerberg’s 

 

Narrative Ltd. is announcing the launch of its new content and social networking platform, in which community members make the rules and reap the benefits of their contributions. 

 

Today, social networks are run by monolithic corporations. These companies are the ones who make the decisions about the content posted on their network, and they pocket the revenues from the network’s activity. With Narrative, users are truly in control of the communities they help create. 

 

http://www.the-block...rk-zuckerbergs/


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Posted 16 March 2018 - 07:30 AM

We’re watching 1984 unfold right before our eyes. 

 

We’re watching the evolution of Newspeak as the internet strives to silence any voices that oppose their carefully crafted stories of how guns are bad, there are 291 genders, and anyone who isn’t a liberal is an evil Nazi racist. 

 

YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have all been participating in a full-on purge of not just conservative voices, but the voices of anyone who is loudly anti-establishment. Any internet personality who is pro-gun or anti-socialism can fully expect to be censored. If you go against the agenda, you will be silenced. 

 

 

 

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Posted 19 March 2018 - 08:13 AM

Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As "Social Media" 

 

Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices.

 

Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.

 

 

 

https://www.zerohedg...ed-social-media


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Posted 05 May 2018 - 05:36 AM

Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As "Social Media" 

 

Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. 

 

 

 

Tech giants like Google and Facebook are 'ripe for the plucking,' says investor Jim Mellon
  • Increased regulation and litigation lies ahead for tech giants like Facebook and Google, British investor Jim Mellon says.
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"These fatted calves are now ripe for the plucking by governments everywhere," he said, adding that tech companies were going to be "pillaged" by administrations across the world. 

 

"We're going to see decimation of particularly Facebook," he added, saying that it was a "trivial use of modern technology and one that's rather sinister." 

 

 

 

https://www.cnbc.com...jim-mellon.html


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