Microsoft says it blocked Tiananmen Square searches outside China due to ‘error’
Censor Vs Censor
Nigeria bans Twitter after company deletes President Buhari’s tweet
From the comments – “If Twitter doesn’t like it they can build their own Nigeria.”
Social Disease
Zuckerberg: “We’re pretty good about stopping leaks”
“If I Were A Jew”
“I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.” — Kamau Bobb, Google’s Head Of Diversity
Facebook Whistleblower Morgan Kahmann, With Tucker Carlson.
Don Lemon is a journalist
in the same way as McDonald’s is food.
Fauci’s Fibs
Lindsay points out that they’re a feature not a bug.
The counter point to this is no he’s just an idiot. My money’s on both.
Do a quick search on the psychology of compliance And all sorts of interesting things pop up. Same goes for obedience. And also conformity. The midwits in charge are not just taking questionable advice from the unions, journalists and medical people, the brain police are also in the room.
It’s not unlike giving a monkey a machine gun. Except there’s more than one monkey. Eventually they might hit the right target but a lot of innocent people are going to get hurt along the way.
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Come Back, Pizzagate!
When Bill Gates and his wife Melinda announced their upcoming divorce last Monday, they had already been negotiating the split for more than a year. Bill Gates’ meetings with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who mysteriously died in prison while facing sex trafficking charges in 2019, feature prominently in the divorce, sources said.
Trust The Experts
“Connect critical infrastructure to the internet”, they said.
“It’ll be great!”, they said.
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Social Disease
Edward Snowden translates CNN — the White House is discussing a new plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance of Americans — by paying private companies to infiltrate and report on the private social media groups of those it categorizes as “suspected extremists.”
#Consequences
h/t David Murrell
Have You Seen The New iPhire?
Related: Too Dumb For Fiction
“Congress … has given digital platforms ‘immunity from certain types of suits’ … but it has not imposed corresponding responsibilities”
Justice Clarence Thomas is a national treasure.
@JackPosobiec: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds social media companies do not have First Amendment right to ban protected speech and that Section 230 is unconstitutional
Much like with a communications utility, this concentration gives some digital platforms enormous control over speech. When a user does not already know exactly where to find something on the Internet—and users rarely do— Google is the gatekeeper between that user and the speech of others 90% of the time. It can suppress content by deindexing or downlisting a search result or by steering users away from certain content by manually altering autocomplete results. Grind, Schechner, McMillan, & West, How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 15, 2019. Facebook and Twitter can greatly narrow a person’s information flow through similar means. And, as the distributor of the clear majority of e-books and about half of all physical books, 4 Amazon can impose cataclysmic consequences on authors by, among other things, blocking a listing.
It changes nothing that these platforms are not the sole means for distributing speech or information. A person always could choose to avoid the toll bridge or train and instead swim the Charles River or hike the Oregon Trail. But in assessing whether a company exercises substantial market power, what matters is whether the alternatives are comparable. For many of today’s digital platforms, nothing is.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords
Via Road and Track – If you think we’re anywhere near fully autonomous cars, this video might convince you otherwise.
Related: Connected-Car Hacking Is a Perennial Worry and a Constant Fight
h/t Greg
Orwell Update- GadFather
For those who don’t know Gad Saad is a Lebanese Jew.
The Tolerant Left
Yes, “Liam O’Mara for Congress”.
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Social media platforms will not last. — good observations from “old school internet nerd” Cal Newport, with Lex Fridman.
Related: Liberals cannot stop the self-destruction Twitter encourages.
“I’m working for a company that’s doing a lot of damage in the world.”
The latest from Project Veritas.
“What would be a proxy for a racist? … Lives in an all white town, education, religious preference. So you can triangulate three or four data points and say, ‘She’s likely to be a racist.'”