From the people who banned Parler.
One of the Islamic State group’s propaganda arms, which celebrated a Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 American service members, uses a website and app hosted by Amazon Web Services.
Masks, YouTube & Rand Paul
Some good info in both these videos.
The offending video Rand mentions above.
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
You’ll like being Chinese. Really you will.
Twitter posts are “undermining Canada’s democracy,” said Canada’s Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in a briefing note, who is urging regulation of hurtful comments for “a truly democratic debate.”
Cabinet on June 23 introduced Bill C-36 An Act To Amend The Criminal Code that threatens Facebook, Twitter and YouTube users suspected of posting content that promotes “detestation or vilification” with house arrest or $70,000 fines. The heritage department promised public consultation on the bill, according to Blacklock’s.
“This content steals and damages lives,” wrote staff. “It intimidates and obscures valuable voices, preventing a truly democratic debate.”
“Our objective is to ensure more accountability and transparency from online platforms while respecting the Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms,” said the June 16 briefing note Regulation Of Social Media Platforms. “The mandate of the Department of Canadian Heritage includes the promotion of a greater understanding of human rights.”
Related: Psaki on de-platforming American citizens: “You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others if you providing ‘misinformation’ out there.”
Thank-You For Your Service
Take a look at people who think they are smart, where Jack Dorsey in the tradition of computer science entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, also dropped out of college before receiving his degree. Apparently, these guys were all so involved in coding, they never bothered to listen in history class. I warned before, they may have thought they were the golden boys of the Democrats for taking down Trump. That kind of power in the hands of anyone outside of Washington is just NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Biden’s new executive order was signed on Friday before these fools could realize, that they are no longer needed. Biden signed a new executive order to crack down on Big Tech, under the name of capitalism to boost competition across the board. Biden signed this new executive order aimed at cracking down on anti-competitive practices in Big Tech, labor, and numerous other sectors. There are 72 actions and recommendations that involve a dozen federal agencies, that are intended to reshape the thinking around corporate consolidation and antitrust laws.
Wokeapedia
How the sausage gets made at the fake information site Wikipedia.
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There’s more than one way to skin the First Amendment: Public/Private Censorship
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The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that federal law does not grant Facebook immunity against lawsuits for users who use its platform to lure minors into sex trafficking.
Three plaintiffs filed separate suits against Facebook alleging that they became victims of sex trafficking after meeting their abusers through Facebook or Instagram, which Facebook owns. In addition to several negligence claims, the plaintiffs asserted claims under a Texas statute that allows civil lawsuits “against those who intentionally or knowingly benefit from participation in a sex-trafficking venture.”
Facebook moved to dismiss all claims against it contending that they were barred by section 230 of the “Communications Decency Act,” which protects interactive computer service providers such as Facebook from being held liable for any information provided by its users.
However, the Texas Supreme Court denied Facebook’s motion saying that section 230 does not “create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet.” The court further explained that section 230 protects internet platforms from being held accountable for their users’ words or actions, but “[h]olding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing.” Thus, the court held that section 230 did not bar the plaintiffs’ statutory claims against Facebook.
More discussion with Viva Frei and Barnes Law.
And The Horse You Rode In On
Weinstein and Heying take the DarkHorse podcast to a new platform, “odysee” which apparently runs on blockchain protocol that may very well be un-censorable.
I have yet to be able to get the video to embed properly in wordpress but you can see it here.
Today in Social Media Censorship
YouTube has been going after content on ivermectin as well as other things. People are beginning to notice. Weinstein started a campaign to highlight the censorship and it’s been getting friction on Twitter. Eventually that did change but its an uphill battle.
Have a look at YouTube’s COVID-19 medical misinformation policy for a long list of what’s Verboten. Under the rubric of “misinformation” they are censoring actual information from actual doctors and scientists, and real studies a lot of which have been peer reviewed.
Smells like there’s a purge coming.
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His free speech views faded when they became a threat, rather than a boon, to his bottom line. Now, rather than being seen the way he wants to be, as an open-minded entrepreneur and even a potential presidential candidate, Zuckerberg finally stands exposed as a leading member of the new techno-aristocracy manipulating the world and shaping our society to fit their own world view, while getting ever richer in the process.
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.”
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Zuckerberg: “We’re pretty good about stopping leaks”
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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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
“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.