Veiled assassination threat?
I really, really, REALLY don't like Holder.
Really.
p.s. No, I don't twitter.
Bagster
Posted on 11/07/2018 10:44:17 PM PST by ransomnote
Veiled assassination threat?
I really, really, REALLY don't like Holder.
Really.
p.s. No, I don't twitter.
Bagster
Probably anything I post is going to be old news to all of you guys.
I’m normally in lurk mode.
I haven’t been this into the thread since the Syria kerfluffle.
I had to get away for a while I was becoming obsessed!
Not to mention wrecking my eyes.
I’m hungry for information right now.
Wondering how everything is going to shake out after the midterms and Sessions bowing out.
Waiting for it all to fall into place.
Do what you can, brother.
We Cali freaks need to stick together, here behind enemy lines.
#Wolverine
Bagster
Capacity is to capability?
Probably anything I post is going to be old news to all of you guys.
Not so.
I can't count the times that there was something that I remembered or thought was so obvious, but I went ahead and posted it anyway, overcoming my EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT trepidations, and because I got a big mouth and just can't shut up, only to have somebody say "I didn't think of that" and all of a sudden I feel like a genius.
Some people might know things or have connected some dots and not put it in a post for the same reasons. And think of the people who DON'T know certain things or are just coming on board, or have forgotten stuff, or haven't made the connection.
It's good to put even the simplest things (or so you might think) out for everybody to see.
It's really a main part of our purpose here, I think.
#HiveMind
Bagster
Veiled assassination threat?
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Maybe or maybe a go signal?
Amazon employees seek to deplatform Palantir – founded by Peter Thiel – from Amazon cloud
Posted by William A. Jacobson Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 7:35pm
A threat to internet freedom, and Amazon’s cash-cow.
So you’re telling us that some Amazon employees bring their personal politics into the office including as to which companies Amazon should do business with?
hat is not, of course, a shock to us: Amazon demonetizes conservative website (us).
While Amazon purported to give a non-political reason for termination (which we dispute), I believe that someone in Amazon wanted us gone. The attempt by employees to sever ties with ICE comes after a controversy of Amazon terminating a conservative law group’s participation in the Amazon Smile program, This is my *shocked* face: Amazon turns over policing of its charity program to SPLC
But that is not the big story about the Amazon employee letter demanding a halt to doing business with ICE.
Gizmodo, which first reported the story, notes a much more ominous additional demand, that the company Trump-supporter Peter Thiel founded be kicked off the Amazon cloud service:
In addition to its demands about Rekognition, the Amazon employee letter also calls on the company to boot Palantir, the Peter Thiel-founded firm that offers predictive policing tools to law enforcement and enjoys a hefty contract with ICE, from Amazon Web Services. (Thiel secretly funded a lawsuit that led to the bankruptcy of Gawker Media, Gizmodo’s former parent company.)
The Amazon letter appears to be the first time an employee demand letter has moved beyond calls to cancel a specific contract to demands to remove a customer from a cloud platform. Although it may seem like a small distinction, it’s an important one for tech companies. Leadership at Microsoft and Google have drawn a distinction between providing benign cloud services to ethically questionable customers and aiding these firms with specific tech that could be used to cause harm. Google, for instance, said that its AI should be used for “socially beneficial” purposes but that it would continue to work with the government for projects like search and rescue or cybersecurity.
“We refuse to build the platform that powers ICE,” the Amazon letter states, “and we refuse to contribute to tools that violate human rights.”
Here’s the language from the letter via Gizmodo:
“Stop providing infrastructure to Palantir and any other Amazon partners who enable ICE.”
The demand to kick Thiel’s company off Amazon’s cloud platform is not the first time politics has led to demands that Amazon and other tech giants deplatform companies. NRA-TV was such a target after the Parkland School shooting:
There is an ongoing campaign touted on social media by the small group of students but organizes by groups like Think Progress. Sleeping Giants and Moms Demand Action, who are targeting corporations that do business with the NRA, mostly though discounts offered to NRA members. Using a playbook refined against Glenn Beck, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and others, companies are being bombarded on social media with demands they sever ties.
It’s not surprising that they are having immediate success. Corporations are cowards when faced with such leftist campaigns. Hertz, Delta, United and many others have severed ties….
But it’s going further. People like Joe Scarborough have joined a campaign to deplatform NRA-TV. That is, to force companies like Apple, Amazon and YouTube to shut down NRA-TV’s ability to stream content….
Leftists have identified a weak point — private entities are not constrained by the 1st Amendment the way the government is, but they perform on the internet quasi-governmental functions over internet infrastructure and access.
NRA-TV was not the first such attempt to use the political leverage liberals and leftists have within the tech world to cut off political opponents from access to internet services:
Attempts to induce corporations to silence conservatives are nothing new. We have seen years of pressure tactics from groups such as Media Matter to shut down voices such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity by pressuring and harassing advertisers. Campaigns are currently underway to force advertisers away from websites such as Breitbart and Gateway Pundit….
That tactic now has gone to a completely different level with attempts to intimidate internet hosting companies and companies that provide internet infrastructure to cut off access to the internet. So far, the effort has been focused on the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. People might not care that The Daily Stormer is taken down, but the history of leftist tactics show that the target universe will expand dramatically and it will not be long before efforts are directed, as they are now for advertisers, at mainstream conservative and right-of-center websites….
Companies like Cloudfare and others who provide internet infrastrucure will come under increasing pressure, and it won’t be limited to the Storm Fronts of the world. We know from history that the “hate” label is broadly applied for political purposes, and will be used only against right-of-center websites.
Being cut off from domain registrars and other aspects of the internet backbone is something we expect from totalitarian governments. Now that power is in the control of almost-uniformly left-wing corporate managers.
Don’t underestimate the impact the politicization of Amazon’s cloud service would have both on internet freedom and on Amazon itself. The cloud service accounts for essentially all of Amazon’s operating income:
Amazon raked in fourth quarter earnings and sales as the company took retail share to handily top estimates. Yet, operating income for its e-commerce units in U.S. and international were well below Amazon Web Services.
The company said net income for the fourth quarter was $1.9 billion, or $3.75 a share, on revenue of $60.5 billion, up 38 percent from a year ago. The fourth quarter earnings got a boost from a tax benefit of $789 million….
While the numbers from Amazon’s e-commerce operations were impressive, the cash cow remains Amazon Web Services. Consider:
Amazon’s North America e-commerce business delivered fourth quarter operating income of $1.69 billion on revenue of $37.3 billion.
International e-commerce sales were $18.04 billion with a operating loss of $919 million.
AWS had operating income of $1.35 billion for the fourth quarter with sales of $5.11 billion.
For the year, Amazon’s international e-commerce operating losses eclipsed the company’s North American operating profit. AWS had 2017 operating income of $4.33 billion on sales of $17.46 billion.
In other words, on an annual basis all of Amazon’s operating income derives from AWS.
The actions of these Amazon employees reveal a truth: Leftist politics have infused the tech giants on whom we rely for internet access and essential computing services. It is only a matter of time before the employees at places such as Amazon use that leverage.
In fact, one could argue it’s already happening.
With some input from ransomnote and submareener, there may be another interpretation of that post.
While I'm not totally sure what PATRITOS FIGHT is(I think 8chan research board?), FReeQanon says that Q has "cleared the board" at Patriots Fight. He says that is what happens before a new phase of the operation is fixing to commence.
I'd be interested to know if, when the last message like this was posted, if the "board was cleared" and another phase started.
So that's what this could be.
Maybe.
Bagster
There’s soooo much going on it’s hard to remember all the important information.
Amazon/Bezos = Derp
Palantir/Thiel = Anti-Derp
The Derp vs America war on the high tech front wages on.
GREAT post.
p.s. Now, I ran out of gas catching up on thread and posting. Must take nap, then get up and do Oracle (late).
G'nite Cali and errbody else.
Bagster
Haha. Tell me about it.
I just try to absorb it all and trust that it'll come back and make connections automatically. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. Ha.
Try that method. Don't even worry or stress over forcing yourself to remember. It just happens (a lot of the time). G'nite for reallys.
Bagster
“Davis’s “bullet bill” ordinance would require law enforcement approval before a buyer could purchase ammunition. The buyer would also have to go through a mental screening to qualify to buy ammo. The buyer would need to repeat these steps for each new ammunition purchase. The purchaser would be forced to cover the cost of the screening.”
GET YOUR EXTRA AMMO BEFORE THE DISEASE SPREADS
Peter Thiel = Founder of Palantir.
p.s. Any friend of Flynn’s is a friend of mine.
p.p.s. Feels like McMaster was full on derp status, doesn’t it?
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LOL! GREAT POINTS!
Only the last two drops are now posted on PatriotsFight. The gavel picture and the repost of the definition of patriot and traitor.
That must be the really depressing thing my son read before our chat went off into the weeds.
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Do bicycling. If you want pain, try the 2014 Tour De France, where Mark Cavendish crashed with another rider during a sprint and dislocated his collarbone, and two weeks later, Alberto Contador crashed on wet roads, got up, and biked 20 more kilometers including 10 or so uphill before abandoning the race with a broken *tibia*!
“””Thank you for that post, halffast. I love thinking and talking about thinking.”””
ME TOO!! I’m gonna try to do more of it!
The front lawn is covered in fallen leaves that need gathering and disposing of. I’m just gonna think about it, I think.
Let's use the kind with counterweight so we can call them Trump Trebuchets!
One other thought, bags, and only as a possibility. On a long ago post, Q mentioned something like-- you should feel honored, the President has addressed this board [P_pers].
Everyone took it to mean "papers" but it meant "P personally"
So too, here, perhaps the "_y" suffix is not part of the words, but merely signifies "yes" (as in "all present and accounted for, done, in place") in each case..
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