Posted on 02/06/2024 5:40:33 AM PST by Red Badger
(Reclaim The Net)—More reports are emerging about the various forms in which the Big Tech/government collusion is taking place in the US.
It’s not just directly pressuring, or “communicating with” – as current White House officials like to put it, social sites; reports are now emerging about companies getting hired to make massive databases of supposedly unlawful speech that are compiled thanks to users effectively spying and reporting on each other on messaging platforms like WhatsApp.
Former State Department official, now executive director of Foundation For Freedom Online, Mike Benz, calls this “a snitch network of citizen informants.” Information thus obtained is then analyzed using some form of AI, resulting in identification of “misinformation trends.”
One of these companies is Algorithmic Transparency Institute. The money comes from firms that receive government funds and congressionally chartered organizations.
The need to resort to “old school” citizen-informant methods arises from the nature of the platforms the government would like to spy on, and get content flagged and eventually censored. It’s the likes of WhatsApp and Telegram, where, due to the nature of (particularly encrypted) private messaging, the now established forms of “monitoring” places like Facebook or YouTube cannot be used.
Critics of this euphemistically (and confusingly) dubbed “civic listening” draw parallels with how authoritarian regimes famously employ(ed) people spying on each other even before the digital age, while some continue to do so.
Now, the spying “format” once used by the likes of Stalin, the Nazis, etc., has reached America. The principle is simple: where the hand (and the ears) of the government can’t reach, private chat apps’ users themselves are encouraged to report on what’s being said.
That flagged “misinformation” data goes into what are by now likely the standard cogs of the censorship machine: creation of databases, “AI” analyses, etc.
Foundation For Freedom Online singles out US-based non-profit Meedan as being “at the forefront of creating this snitch network.”
Things go from bad to worse once it is revealed that the group received $5.7 million as a grant from the US authorities (and taxpayers), specifically, via the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Among the things flagged by some of these “useless (informant) idiots,” as one might call them, are memes, and, “claims.”
Read the full report here.
https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/civic-listening-political-informants-and-citizen-spies-rebranded/
Good Lord.
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Well, America wanted “Made in China”!
“Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can’t stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, “Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so.” And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself, and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984
BTTT
YA..... what they want to be “miss-information” ....the TRUTH!
We need a campaign to overwhelm the system with what they say is false information. Lead them on a wild goose chase.
1984 Ping!.........................
Yeah, but we only do it because our side is fighting for Feedom. ‘N democracy ‘n stuff.
One must have a plan, and be prepared to execute it BEFORE they get to YOU.
Why wasn’t the 6 years of trump Russia collusion story ever flagged as misinformation?
“Misinformation” has become a term for subjects that the government wants to silence you on.
Now we see why the libs want to empty the prisons, they want to fill them up with other folks.
And of course there will be full acceptance and Self-flagellation to protect the Children at all costs of liberty.
Constitution? What Constitution?
“One must have a plan, and be prepared to execute it BEFORE they get to YOU.”
Now IS the time... Right now... It is almost too late.
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