Social Disease

Good. Now Barr needs to do something about it.

Related: Attorney General Barr testifies this morning before the House Judiciary Committee.

Update: Live feed here.

14 Replies to “Social Disease”

  1. I would like to see that creepy lizard locked up and his company busted. Google, Twitter and Amazon included. Too much control. And while they are at it, they need to bust up big media. 6 companies cannot control 90% of all media.

    1. It always fascinates me that people complain about facebook, google et al, yet all they have to do is stop using them and they die. No one is forcing anyone to use them.

      1. Yes, if you don’t like Ma Bell listening in on your calls and correcting your improper thoughts, don’t use the phone. Simple.

        It’s a private company. You could make your own radio and use it instead. There’s no basis for complaint because you don’t “have” to use their services.

        1. You think you have a point, but there is absolutely zero, zip, zilch, nada, nothing Google, Facebook et al can do to prevent you from using any of the many competitors for the services they provide. The Internet is a lot more than four web sites.

          1. Yes. You can make your own radio set. You cannot use the phone infrastructure to talk to other people that have a phone.

            What portion of total usage (in this case, internet communications) comprises a monopoly in governmental terms?

            We’ve disagreed with this before because you look at the laws as they are written. I’m arguing for how they should be written. It’s a philosophical disagreement. Twitter is the equivalent of a Ma Bell. Facebook is the equivalent of a Ma Bell. If I cannot communicate with my friends on Twitter or Facebook (who have a monopoly on their platforms, just like Ma Bell did) using the other platforms to which you’ve alluded then their monopoly is preventing my communications. It’s not that I don’t have a choice, it’s that both parties must use the same system which is protected by monopoly.

            I know that you and I will not agree on this, and I’m not writing to try to change your mind.

  2. A coincidental headline coming soon: In other news massive layoffs at FB because of rogue employees or something. Bonfire on campus at 11.

  3. This is pretty weak sauce. Proving perjury is pretty difficult, and Zuckerberg’s defense is going to be that there was, indeed, no directive to be biased, it was just rogue employees acting on their own and the management is very disappointed, etc.

    And Zack’s argument that the AI “had to be programmed by a human” isn’t true, either. That’s not how machine learning works. What happens is the AI rules are drafted and then every time the AI refers a post to a human moderator, the moderator’s decision is fed back to the AI as reinforcement. Over time, the AI learns what type of posts the human moderators are flagging as bad, and send more like those and less like the ones they pass through.

  4. Rebel News recently reported on how Facebook actively censored posts during the 2019 Canadian federal election.

    “Recently, Rebel News interviewed Facebook whistleblower Ryan Hartwig, what he described was Facebook subcontracting upwards of 1,500 content moderators working around the clock to monitor posts about the 2019 Canadian federal election.

    Hartwig says censors were given a special briefing on the Canadian election, including special instructions to delete posts that were insulting to Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.”

    https://www.rebelnews.com/facebook_censors_only_show_half_the_story

  5. Things you’d never hear on the CBC: one of the reasons Democrats and the MSM are going hard against Barr is to try to discredit him prior to his making serious headway with his investigation into the Russian fiasco and other conspiracies. It will be going pretty high up the food chain.

  6. Pfffffttttt…Barr will get right on that I’m sure. BTW…where’s the perjury? And how’s that Durham investigation coming along? Apparently he’ll have his report out by the end of summer…uh huh. Oh yeah, he’s just super meticulous they say and wants to make sure he dots all the i’s and crosses all the t’s so these things take time. Yeah, right. I see someone playing for time, that’s what I’m seeing. The same people that tried to convince us that Rod Rosenstein was some sort of “White Hat” in the big scheme of things.
    Barr & company make glaciers look like bullet trains.
    Mueller, the doddering old fool, managed to criminally charge 34 people and three companies within the scant time that he had and all of that based on a hoax.

    1. burton, I share your cynicism 100%.
      I keep getting burned by a tiny sub-atomic residue of optimism but always end up saying, Damn wasn’t cynical enough.

    1. Steward, do you really think anyone wants the truth. The truth has been available from the get go but the people prefer lies and fear that promotes a political agenda. I am sick but not with a virus, I am sick of the level of stupid that has been embraced by the people of damn near every country. I am sick and tired of listening to the same damn shit over and over while the word’s population is not being decimated only aggravated by this freaking flu virus. How many in the media will decry the truth as a lie, well, the answer would be all of them. I am in favor of a revolution to take back our freedom. I would start by shoving very mask up every a hole who is wearing one.

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