“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”
“We thought we could control it,” Mr. Anderson said. “And this is beyond our power to control. This is going straight to the pleasure centers of the developing brain. This is beyond our capacity as regular parents to understand.”
The 5 Keys to Surviving Attacks from a Social Media Mob
I’ll make it even simpler: Nobody is harassed on the internet without their permission.
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What ordinary Americans long suspected, The Good Censor has proven beyond doubt. According to Google’s own analysis, tech companies have performed perhaps the greatest bait-and-switch in American history, promising their users free speech while they were taking over the market, only to go back on their word once they came to “control the majority of online conversations.”
h/t antelope
Into a hundred thousand million pieces: “Twitter suspended 1,500 accounts that were using the NPC meme as their avatar. Meanwhile, they have taken no action against 100’s of far-left accounts that advocate for violence, including one that used the platform to distribute a poster calling for the assassination of Trump.”
Facebook just shut down the ‘Right Wing News’ page with its 3.1 million followers
They can’t reach us here.
Society seems to be growing steadily crazier. And maybe it doesn’t just seem to be. Maybe it actually, is growing crazier.
AFTER BEING TOLD FOR YEARS THAT CORPORATIONS AREN’T ENTITLED TO FREE SPEECH, WE’LL NOW HEAR THAT THIS IS AN ASSAULT ON GOOGLE’S FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
Conservative Hollywood actor James Woods has confirmed that he was locked out of Twitter late last week “because I posted a sarcastic remark about Democrats.”
h/t Lev
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UPDATE: Ask, and ye shall receive.
The White House has drafted an executive order for President Donald Trump’s signature that would instruct federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies to open investigations into the business practices of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and other social media companies.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/twitter-blocks-posts-that-use-phrase-illegal-alien-as-hateful-content/
Related. Facebook has banned Brandon Straka, the former Democrat who founded the “Walk Away” campaign and its viral hashtag #WalkAway, after he linked to Infowars.com
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A video recorded by Google shortly after the 2016 presidential election reveals an atmosphere of panic and dismay amongst the tech giant’s leadership, coupled with a determination to thwart both the Trump agenda and the broader populist movement emerging around the globe.
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The video is a full recording of Google’s first all-hands meeting following the 2016 election (these weekly meetings are known inside the company as “TGIF” or “Thank God It’s Friday” meetings). Sent to Breitbart News by an anonymous source, it features co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, VPs Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton, CFO Ruth Porat, and CEO Sundar Pichai. It can be watched in full above. It can and should be watched in full above in order to get the full context of the meeting and the statements made.
It was reported earlier this week that Google tried to boost turnout among the Latino population to help Hillary Clinton, only to be dismayed as the usually solid Democratic voting bloc switched to the GOP in record numbers. This video shows a similar level of dismay among Google’s most high-profile figures.
These individuals, who preside over a company with unrivaled influence over the flow of information, can be seen disparaging the motivations of Trump voters and plotting ways to use their vast resources to thwart the Trump agenda.
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CEO Sundar Pichai states that the company will develop machine learning and A.I. to combat what an employee described as “misinformation” shared by “low-information voters.”
Video at the link.
Twitter shares down as much as 6% during CEO Jack Dorsey’s Senate testimony
More than a dozen locals told The Information they they hated the cars, which often struggle to cross a T-intersection near the company’s office.
According to a memo posted on Facebook’s internal message board titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity”, and which was published by the New York Times, senior Facebook engineer Brian Amerige confirmed Trump’s allegation writing that “we are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views” and shockingly admitted that “we claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology. We throw labels that end in *obe and *ist at each other, attacking each other’s character rather than their ideas.”
The scathing indictment of Facebook’s liberal “mono-culture” continues…
Top story on Google News is that Google isn’t rigged. pic.twitter.com/HeSN8xiCFF
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) August 28, 2018
As an aside, try a Google web search for “QAnon”. You’ll be fed pages of negative commentary, but a link to the actual page is absent.
The assertion that computation is thought, hence thought is computation, is called computer functionalism. It is the theory that the human mind is to the brain as software is to hardware. The mind is what the brain does; the brain “runs” the mind, as a computer runs a program. However, careful examination of natural intelligence (the human mind) and artificial intelligence (computation) shows that this is a profound misunderstanding.