Posted on 10/10/2018 2:22:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Opinion: Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook, Google now a direct threat to U.S. freedom, democracy
By now, pretty much everyone on the Internet knows that a number of Silicon Valley tech giants have banned and censored Alex Jones Infowars in a move that many believe was coordinated. Not only has Jones been banned from posting links to social media outlets, companies like MailChimp are targeting his basic business operation, preventing him from sending emails to subscribers.
cristina lópez g. ✔ @crislopezg BREAKING: MailChimp has also dropped Infowars. Jones just compared his deplatforming to being sent to an "electronic ghetto." 11:49 AM - Aug 7, 2018 286 169 people are talking about this
Not content with destroying and censoring Infowars, anti-free speech liberals are signaling their desire to do the same thing to Fox News and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Ct., has said there needs to be even more censorship. All in the name of saving democracy. If that sounds rather Orwellian, thats because it is.
Despite all their ballyhoo about supporting free speech online, the fact is that Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter are now a direct threat to freedom and democracy as we have known it for more than two centuries.
As weve documented here many times, Facebook the site once called the worlds most dangerous censor by Breitbart has repeatedly banned users and yanked pages for extremely questionable reasons, falsely claiming the content violates their nebulous community standards. Meanwhile, other posts which clearly violate their standards have been allowed to stand.
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Stole his business idea
Stole all the shares from his BEST friend
Secretly sold users data
Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are "dumb-f*cks".
Married in the community proprety state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.
Requested nude photos of users to protect them against the risk of revenge porn.
Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data so I can help cure diseases.
Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you'd been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING. Struck down after lengthy legal battles.
De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn't agree with their views, couldn't define hate-speech when asked by Congress.
Secretly requested banks give him his users' financial data, including transactions, so my users can check their balances on my site."
Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like "handicapped" , "mobility scooter" and "guidedog".
Admonished that people "build bridges instead of walls", all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of.
Established a "trustworthiness index" for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.
Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.
Revered Augustus Caesar, leader of Rome who assured 200 years of peace via harsh rule, possibly arranging the execution of his own grandson. On a wedding anniversary trip to Rome, Zuck gushed so effusively over sculptures and monuments dedicated to Augustus that his wife joked that three people, not two, were on their trip.
For years, Zuck traditionally closed high-level Facebook executive meetings by shouting, "DOMINATION..!", perhaps half-jokingly.
Proposed installation in the homes of FB users special Facebook cameras that would follow and monitor users around as they went about their private lives inside their homes. But the cameras, Zuckerberg assured, would come with privacy settings which Facebook would, like, totally respect, or something.
Asked for user telephone numbers for 2 factor authentication but within weeks used that data for marketing purposes. If users chose to share their entire contact list, Facebook also shared that data with advertisers, even phone numbers of people who NEVER had a facebook account! After the Cambridge Analytica scandal FB pleged to reinvigorate user privacy but neither of these practices has stopped.
Total, real Robber Baron.
Awhile back, someone had posted a pic of all the big-tech executives meeting with odongo and his filthy ilk. They’ve been planning this for a long time. Now, is the time start breaking these leftist giants up.
Jeffy ...Jeffy Sessions......please wake up.....phone is ringing in the antitrust division.....Jeffy?
I couldn’t agree more with this opinion. Google removed itself from the U.S. military cloud computing contract competition because the contract doesn’t align with company values, yet are willing to work with the CHINESE GOVERNMENT on a censoring app!
When reflecting on this for a moment this morning, I wondered why we are allowing a company such as Google to exist (flourish) in the U.S. that is openly supporting the oppression of the Chinese people by working hand in hand with the Communist government, yet feels that the U.S. military needs don’t align with their company values?
Any and ALL contracts Google has with the U.S. government should be cancelled immediately!
JMHO...
Buy the Facebook Portal Spy Tablet and be watched all the time ,the camera even follows you around the room ,LOL
break up google like they did ma bell. force them to lease their data centers to competing search engines.
All of this would be over with in a second if our President would just say “You choose the content on your sites, you have statements in your user agreements saying you get to do stuff with the content, so it’s your content and you’re responsible for ALL OF IT and here’s the EO to prove it!” Then let the lawsuits fly. I’m generally the last to advocate suing anyone into oblivion but this has got one-way street has got to end.
Google it seems to me could be sued into bankruptcy by their copyright violations alone. They’ve single-handedly oblirated the music industry. Pirate sites didn’t do that, Google did. Nobody buys records anymore, you can stream or download anything off Youtube for free and they have just about every song, album ever recorded on that site and the copyright holders get squat not to mention their stuff is uploaded without their permission. How the hell is that legal?
Indeed, Apple, Alphabet (Google/YouTube), Facebook, Twitter and Verizon (Yahoo!) could all face serious scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities & Exchange Commission should the Trump Administration decide to go after the tech companies for censorship online, because these companies have stock traded on US stock exchanges.
Same thing with Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets, and they listen to everything with Alexa. Can’t turn it off.
What is needed is a peer to peer distributed network of computers that doesn’t rely on big data centers.
Latency and bandwidth would be a bit of a problem.
could someone PLEASE HELP me
get ProtonMail working.
also, we need to embrace
Inrupt
thanks for any comments.
Rocky
Watch the crotch
Obama is the poster boy for the Marxist movement in the United States of Amrerica. This video proves that Michelle Obama is actually a man, that Barack Obama is married to a dude, that Barack Obama likes boys, that Barack Obama has a weakness for penis, that Barack Obama is a complete and total fag. Not very respectable. And they know it. And they are very very afraid of this becoming common knowledge.
If it becomes common knowlede that "Michelle" Obama is a dude, Obama's influence will be measurably diminished. And the momentum they think they have going for Marxist domination will also be affected. They want to shut this this info down bad.
Alex Jones had over a million followers on YouTube. And those million plus people know millions more people by assoication. No man is an island. You think the Marxist Mob is worried about millions of people hearing about UFO conspiracy theories, 911 troother conspiracy theories or CIA operation conspiracy theories?
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