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I’m looking for some computer help. I(n the past, I've used Mozilla Thunderbird as an email vacuum, so that every time I run it it’s soaks up all the email in my regular email account, and then deletes those from my regular web mail account. I’ve done it like this in the past, but I had a system crash, and I’m reinstalling Thunderbird on one of my machines so that I can use it again to soak up email and then delete it from my email account. I’ve got it so that duplicates emails from my account, but can’t seem...

Facebook is censoring posts and videos that it has decided “support” (Kyle Rittenhouse) and has designated the accused Kenosha gunman a dangerous individual, before there has been a trial. Conservative YouTuber Mark Dice told numerous news outlets and his own social-media followers Wednesday that Facebook had Rittenhouse. “Facebook just removed a video I posted showing Kyle Rittenhouse offering help to a wounded protester in Kenosha and are threatening to delete my entire account,” he wrote on Twitter as he posted the (video) there.(Lawyers cast Kenosha shooter as 'brave patriot': 'Kyle Rittenhouse will go down in American history')

The Justice Department is expected to bring an antitrust action against Google in coming weeks, focusing on its dominance in online search and whether it was used to stifle competition and hurt consumers, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press Thursday. The department also is examining Google’s online advertising practices, said the person, who could not discuss an ongoing investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Antitrust officials at the department briefed state attorneys general Thursday on the planned action against Google, seeking support from states across the country that share concerns about Google’s conduct. The...

A new case study illustrates clearly that Facebook should reevaluate its partnership with PolitiFact, which does not operate as a responsible fact-checking organization. Challenged over its vague ruling on a new ad targeting the Equality Act from the American Principles Project PAC, PolitiFact refused to muster a serious defense of the decision, choosing instead to brush aside fair questions.“Our story is complete and accurate, and the ad is most certainly missing context. I could expound on those points, but it is not necessary, so I have nothing more to add,” Editor-in-Chief Angie Holan told The Federalist on Thursday.Holan sent...

- U.S. competition enforcers are preparing a possible antitrust lawsuit against Facebook Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. The Federal Trade Commission has been investigating Facebook for more than a year over whether the social media giant has harmed competition and could file a case by the end of the year, said the person, who was granted anonymity because the inquiry is confidential. No final decision has been made, the person added. A lawsuit by the FTC would mark another major escalation by U.S. officials in their campaign against America’s technology giants, which have come under intense...

In the U.S., at least three of every four people now own a smartphone. And one estimate suggests that Americans touch their mobile devices more than 2,600 times a day on average. But what do all those pings and buzzes, scrolls and swipes actually add up to?.. Initial data from a $300-million study by the National Institutes of Health, for example, now provides evidence that a child's brain may indeed develop differently with heavy use of digital devices. Those of us whose brains matured before the first iPhone came to market in 2007 may also be vulnerable to mental changes....

The violent Rose City Antifa group has a Facebook page despite the tech giant’s recently expanded Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy that promised to “address organizations and movements that have demonstrated significant risks to public safety.” “Facebook vowed to crack down on political violence and election interference, but the result is far less than advertised. The platform allows Antifa organizations to organize and share content in apparent conflict with Facebook’s official policies,” Media Research Center’s Alexander Hall wrote in a report published Thursday. Last month, Facebook posted a lengthy update on how it planned to take action against movements and...

An upcoming bombshell book from Breitbart News investigative reporter Allum Bokhari interviews a source that has worked at both Google and Twitter, who exposes how the AI algorithms used by Big Tech platforms are being trained to target conservatives. The book, #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, will be published by Center Street on September 22, and is currently available for preorder. Sources close to Google and other tech giants say the book will “shake the foundations of Silicon Valley.” One former Twitter and Google employee, who spent over a decade working in...

Guest Piece by America’s History Teacher, Larry Schweikart Today, with a host of conservative websites producing exceptional; content that the Hoax News media refuses to cover, including uncoverdc.com, Breitbart, TheLibertyDaily, Hot Air, and others, it is useful to remember that at one time there was really only one such site. When conservatives had not been vocal, let alone active, www.freerepublic.com (http://www.freerepublic.com) became both the mouthpiece and the gathering place for activism for conservatives. It’s hard today, with the hundreds of on-line news and commentary sites, to imagine a time when there were few opposition voices to the liberal media. CNN...

BREAKING: Facebook takes down right-wing group Patriot Prayer’s page, also its leader, Joey Gibson. "They were removed as part of our ongoing efforts to remove Violent Social Militias from our platform

Twitter has locked the account of another member of the legal team of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year old who is facing murder charges after killing two members of a mob of rioters that attacked him in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Pierce, who as Rittenhouse’s attorney, is expected to defend the reputation of his client, said on Twitter that “Kyle Rittenhouse will go down in history alongside that brave unknown patriot at Lexington Green who fired ‘The Shot Heard Around The World’ on April 19. 1775.” Twitter promptly locked his account, requiring that he delete the tweet before being allowed back on the...

Attorney General William Barr overruled career lawyers in the Department of Justice (DOJ), setting a deadline for federal prosecutors to file an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet—the parent company of Google—by the end of the month, The New York Times reported on Thursday. According to the report, the team of attorneys who have been working on the case for more than a year strongly oppose the deadline as being too soon to bring a strong case against the tech giant. They worry that Barr is more concerned about filing the high-profile lawsuit before November’s presidential election than allowing the department to...

“Cancel culture” with increasingly enter more areas of life if unstopped, warned Breitbart News Senior Tech Reporter Allum Bokhari, author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, offering his comments on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. Marlow forecasted the progression of Internet censorship to enforce political compliance with left-wing orthodoxy. He predicted denials of banking, subscription video services, and employment will occur if the momentum of leftist political coercion is unstopped. “All of this, I think, is in play in the next five to 10 or 20...

So this morning I watched a webcast of the latest SpaceX Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral, some times I can see the rockets from my house....and I'm well over 100 miles away..... It's pretty cool to watch in less than 20 minutes you get to see the launch, first stage separation, the landing of the first stage booster on the barge at sea and then the release of the 60 satellites.... Two more launches are scheduled by late September or early October, which will put them over 800 satellites in orbit.... I would be happy with 100mb download speed and...

The high-profile attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with fatally shooting two people in Kenosha, said he was locked out of his Twitter account Tuesday after posting about raising money for Rittenhouse's legal defense. L. Lin Wood argued the action against his account is the latest example of Twitter censorship of conservative voices and he intends to file a lawsuit against the social media giant and its CEO Jack Dorsey. "I'm going to take Jack Dorsey's ass down," Wood told Fox News. "He has been abusing the First Amendment of this country for his own agenda." Wood was blocked...

Facebook is censoring links to crowdfunding campaigns for the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In detail: Facebook users attempting to share a link to the fundraiser for Rittenhouse launched at the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo are being blocked for posting it. When they attempt to share the link, a pop-up informed them that it violates the platform’s community standards. The pop-up doesn’t offer any further explanations. Other GiveSendGo fundraisers can be posted to the social media platform.

Twitter has locked the account of Lin Wood, the lawyer who is representing and advocating for Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha shooter who is charged with murder after shooting dead two individuals during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. As video of the incident is widespread on social media, Lin Wood is arguing self-defense, after even the New York Times reported Rittenhouse was being pursued by those he shot. Twitter has been locking the accounts of those who have supported Rittenhouse and those saying that he acted in self-defense, even though this is his official legal defense. Twitter has now even gone...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration on Saturday said it fired an employee for posting “divisive images and statements” on Facebook regarding the shooting of protesters in Kenosha, Wis. Arthur “Mac” Love IV served as deputy director of the Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives, which "connects Marylanders to economic, volunteer, and human service opportunities" and oversees the governor’s ethnic and cultural commissions, according to the Washington Post. Love's social media posts were reportedly in support of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who is accused of fatally shooting two people and wounded another after traveling to Kenosha to protect businesses following the police shooting...

In a world where everything is becoming politically correct, pedophiles on social media have seized a new opportunity to rebrand themselves as MAPS (“minor-attracted-people”). The MAP community and movement are growing in size and picking up steam particularly on social media apps like Twitter, where the problem is becoming increasingly worse. They’ve constructed their own flag and often describe their attraction to children as a sexual orientation, rather than the scientifically recognized mental illness that pedophilia is. The goal is the MAP community is to normalize pedophilia and convince those who are “woke” enough to begin to accept them and...

A Brookfield resident who earlier this month made comments against masks and social distancing and who criticized Elmbrook School Board member Mushir Hassan has filed a lawsuit against the Elmbrook School District. Heidi Anderson, whose children attend school in the district, filed the lawsuit Aug. 24 in the U.S. Eastern District Court of Wisconsin.(snip) Anderson claims the district violated her right to freedom of speech, right to vote, rights as a parent of both minor plaintiffs, due process rights and right to equal protection.(snip) Hansen said it was "truly unfortunate" that Anderson's conduct forced the district to establish the protocols.(snip)...