Posted on 08/07/2018 3:34:15 AM PDT by markomalley
Following the removal of Alex Jones from Facebook, Apple and YouTube, for violating “hate speech” policies, Democrat Senator Chris Murphy tweeted “Infowars is just the tip of a giant iceberg.”
Monday afternoon Murphy tweeted, “I know Facebook and Apple and YouTube have gotten so big they sometimes seem like the government. But they aren’t. They are private companies that shouldn’t knowingly spread lies and hate. They took a good first step today removing Infowars. Infowars is just the tip of the iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and Youtube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.”
Senator Murphy did not clarify just exactly who, or what outlets make up the rest of the “giant iceberg of hate and lies” — and many conservatives are leery where this may be going.
Earlier this year, Twitter announced it would start using an algorithm to crack down on “hate speech.” One of the key components of the algorithm would collapse abusive or potentially “low quality” tweets by detecting certain phrases and patterns. The algorithm would also tweak search results, to downgrade abusive tweets.
So far it appears that the new algorithm may be targeting conservatives. On Sunday, conservative commentator Candace Owens temporarily had her account suspended. Twitter later restored her account, claiming that it was an “error.” Last month, Vice News reported that several prominent Republican officials were not being featured in Twitter search results. This tactic has been referred to as “shadow banning.”
Twitter’s new algorithm has many conservatives leery where this may be going — their concern? Who gets to determine what constitutes hate speech?
HAT TIP POLITICALJUNKIETOO) That is what Zuckerberg sold to investors when he went public with Facebook. Is that what is happening now? Doesn’t the prospectus describe “a public forum where all viewpoints are equally tolerated?”
From Facebook’s IPO Prospectus dated May 3, 2012: Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.
People use Facebook to stay connected with their friends and family, to discover what is going on in the world around them, and to share and express what matters to them to the people they care about.
Developers can use the Facebook Platform to build applications (apps) and websites that integrate with Facebook to reach our global network of users and to build products that are more personalized, social, and engaging.
Advertisers can engage with more than 900 million monthly active users (MAUs) on Facebook or subsets of our users based on information they have chosen to share with us such as their age, location, gender, or interests. We offer advertisers a unique combination of reach, relevance, social context, and engagement to enhance the value of their ads.
We believe that we are at the forefront of enabling faster, easier, and richer communication between people and that Facebook has become an integral part of many of our users’ daily lives. We have experienced rapid growth in the number of users and their engagement.
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How We Create Value for Users
Our top priority is to build useful and engaging products that enable you to:
Connect with Your Friends. With more than 900 million MAUs worldwide, our users are increasingly able to find and stay connected with their friends, family, and colleagues on Facebook.
Discover and Learn. We believe that users come to Facebook to discover and learn more about what is going on in the world around them, particularly in the lives of their friends and family and with public figures and organizations that interest them.
Express Yourself. We enable our users to share and publish their opinions, ideas, photos, and activities to audiences ranging from their closest friends to our 900 million users, giving every user a voice within the Facebook community.
Control What You Share. Through Facebook’s privacy and sharing settings, our users can control what they share and with whom they share it.
Experience Facebook Across the Web. Through apps and websites built by developers using the Facebook Platform, our users can interact with their Facebook friends while playing games, listening to music, watching movies, reading news, and engaging in other activities.
Stay Connected with Your Friends on Mobile Devices. Through the combination of our mobile sites, smartphone apps, and feature phone products, users can bring Facebook with them on mobile devices wherever they go.
Foundations of the Social Web
We believe that the web, including the mobile web, is evolving to become more social and personalized. This evolution is creating more rewarding experiences that are centered on people, their connections, and their interests. We believe that the following elements form the foundation of the social web:
Authentic Identity. We believe that using your real name, connecting to your real friends, and sharing your genuine interests online create more engaging and meaningful experiences. Representing yourself with your authentic identity online encourages you to behave with the same norms that foster trust and respect in your daily life offline. Authentic identity is core to the Facebook experience, and we believe that it is central to the future of the web. Our terms of service require you to use your real name and we encourage you to be your true self online, enabling us and Platform developers to provide you with more personalized experiences.
Social Graph. The Social Graph represents the connections between people and their friends and interests. Every person or entity is represented by a point within the graph, and the affiliations between people and their friends and interests form billions of connections between the points. Our mapping of the Social Graph enables Facebook and Platform developers to build more engaging user experiences that are based on these connections.
Social Distribution. Over time, people are consuming and creating more kinds of information at a faster pace across a broader range of devices. The growing volume of information makes it challenging to find meaningful and trusted content and to effectively make your voice heard. Facebook organizes and prioritizes content and serves as a powerful social distribution tool delivering to users what we believe they will find most compelling based on their friends and interests.
Express what matters to them?
Richer communication between people?
Integral part of users’ daily lives?
Discover and learn more about what is going on in the world around them, particularly in the lives of their friends and family and with public figures and organizations that interest them?
We enable our users to share and publish their opinions, ideas, photos, and activities to audiences ranging from their closest friends to our 900 million users, giving every user a voice within the Facebook community?
The growing volume of information makes it challenging to find meaningful and trusted content and to effectively make your voice heard. Facebook organizes and prioritizes content and serves as a powerful social distribution tool delivering to users what we believe they will find most compelling based on their friends and interests?
ACTION NOW——FACEBOOK NEEDS TO GET THOUSANDS OF LETTERS FROM USERS
USERS ARE COMMISSIONING INDEPENDENT AUDITS OF THEIR ACCOUNTS.... .for the following reasons:
According to the Association of CPA’s, an audit is a systematic and independent examination of books, accounts, statutory records, documents and vouchers of an organization (non-profit or publicly-held) to ascertain authenticity of financial statements as well as non-financial disclosures and to codify that the account presents a true and fair view of the issues at hand.
An audit also attempts to ensure that the account is properly maintained as required by federal and state law. The auditor perceives and recognises the issues, and conducts a examination, obtains evidence, evaluates the same, and formulates an opinion on the basis of informed judgement which is communicated through an audit report.
Issues such as selling ads based on account-holders, collection monies on behalf of an account-holder, disposition of monies, billing procedures, and the detailed reporting of these issues to principles and stake-holders.
This includes the federal government, state government, the SEC, liability companies, as well as the account holder.
Areas commonly audited include: compliance audits, internal controls, quality management, project management, and collection and disposition of monies. As a result of an audit, principles and stake-holders may effectively evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, for the edification of the account-holder and the relevant federal and state governance agencies with a financial stake in the subject matter.
Financial audits are commonly performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information, as well as to provide an assessment of a system’s internal control. As a result of this, each party can have an accounting given on financial statements based on on the audit evidence obtained.
Due to constraints and limitations that might be placed on the auditor, an audit seeks to provide reasonable assurance that the statements are free from material error. In the case of financial audits, a set of financial statements are said to be true and fair when they are free of material misstatements – a concept influenced by both quantitative (numerical) and qualitative factors.
Copies of the audit are to be provided to principles and stake-holders including legal oversight agencies, liability companies and oversight agencies, and officials of the state and federal government deemed stakeholders in the resultant financial accounting.
I appreciate your honesty, candor, and civility. You are to be commended.
Truthfully, I don't know the specific contours of "success" to this problem. In many ways, FB and Google are like the Westboro Baptists. They are acting perfectly within the letter of the law - they even got an 8-1 SCOTUS ruling in their favor - yet most sane folk want to clock them. They continue to this day, merrily offending the sensibilities of humanity.
Many have offered up non-violent, legal means of confronting this scourge of the earth. Some listed here are goofy. Some are clever. One is illegal. But they all reflect some time and thought and effort. THAT is what's needed here, IMHO, and not a reach for the benevolence of Leviathan (which, remember, has lots of Deep Staters that, as I wrote elsewhere, could twist things to REQUIRE Americans to use FB and Google or else face a fine a-la Obamacare).
A similar situation existed at the founding of America, between Loyalists and Patriots. To be sure, there was violence in this battle - many Loyalists found their property vandalized, looted, and burned - but per this article, the Patriots were much more successful attracting support. American patriots won the war of propaganda. Committees of Correspondence persuaded many fence-sitters to join the patriot cause. Writings such as Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" stirred newfound American nationalism.Patriots subjected Loyalists to public humiliation and violence. The patriots controlled public discourse. Woe to the citizen who publicly proclaimed sympathy to Britain.
I don't think Roosevelt was thinking Nukes on December 8, 1941. We likely don't know what will be THE solution to this problem today...but I bet with some Deplorable thought and creativity, we will get there without sacrificing our morals and values.
You are right. It is the canary in the coal mine.
Now wikipedia is banning any mention of Sarah Jeong’s racists tweets in her page.
(Mike Brest, Daily Caller)
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You’ve been saying that for years and yet we sheep still get hand fed our daily orders.
IMHO, CWII not going to happen...
It has. Right it is a “cold one” IMHO.
It has. Right it is a “cold one” IMHO.
Best alt so far for FB would be mewe.com
Already got a Free Republic Group formed up and rolling.
Let’s start a conversation with these questions about Sandy Hook – can you handle them?
1. What is the name of the Doctor who declared all of the victims dead in the first eleven minutes counting from the first 911 dispatch at 09:35?
2. Why did the medical examiner bar the parents from seeing their dead children?
3. Why were NO medical technicians or 1st responders allowed inside of the school?
4. Why are there NO students visible evacuating the school?
5. Why did Newtown Police and a state trooper park down the driveway instead of going to the school?
6. What is the name of the bio-hazard clean-up company that processed the crime scene?
7. What are the names of the 26 Sandy Hook children and the music teacher who performed at the Super Bowl in January 2013?
Several FReepers are signed up over at mewe.com and there a Free Republic Group already established. Check in, join the group and say “Hi.” NOTE: Since users go by actual names, there, I haven’t figured out the best way for FReepers to cross-link with their screen names here. Just have to play it by ear, in the short run.
Let’s start a conversation with these questions about Sandy Hook – can you handle them?
1. What is the name of the Doctor who declared all of the victims dead in the first eleven minutes counting from the first 911 dispatch at 09:35?
2. Why did the medical examiner bar the parents from seeing their dead children?
3. Why were NO medical technicians or 1st responders allowed inside of the school?
4. Why are there NO students visible evacuating the school?
5. Why did Newtown Police and a state trooper park down the driveway instead of going to the school?
6. What is the name of the bio-hazard clean-up company that processed the crime scene?
7. What are the names of the 26 Sandy Hook children and the music teacher who performed at the Super Bowl in January 2013?
“There have been sites like Facebook setup, but none of them are remotely successful.”
There’s already a Free Republic Group formed up over at mewe.com and getting regular content from a couple of dedicated FReepers. I wouldn’t call the overall site “successful” except that it isn’t rigged to work like FB; ever Group is it’s own silo, and your individual feed content is comprised only of what you’ve opted into by letting specific users post to it.
It’s sort of an inverse FB. On FB you have to explicitly opt OUT to ensure NOT getting content from a specific source. On mewe you explicitly opt IN or you won’t get content from the specific source. MeWe does not do suggestions; there’s no “People you may know” feature.
So, “successful” is hard to gauge. What I do know is; if you have connected to specific people, and given them permission to post to your feed, you’ll never miss their content. And if you’re in a Group with a bunch of others, you’ll always see everything that others post to the Group.
Sorry to be so harsh, then.
What is the Free Republic group called? I tried searching for “Free” and only found three groups that I am certain are not Free Republic.
I hear you but that is a should, not a would. In other words we *should* take organized torches and pitchforks action but we probably won’t. More likely we will just grumble and hope the market provides an alternative. That’s basically how the Microsoft/Netscape thing played out. The question is do we have the luxury of waiting this time and will the market really come through for us. Also, I don’t think anyone loves the idea of enlisting Leviathan to help out. Instead it’s seen as the less bad option compared to waiting and letting the left box us in.
all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such...
...companies that behave despotic-like.
As I wrote elsewhere, as with the Westboro Baptists who got an 8-1 SCOTUS ruling backing their venom, there ARE things that even the laziest of us can do to help "the cause." But it is likely many will grumble but continue feeding these beasts.
In and of itself, that cognitive dissonance raise an important moral dilemma akin to the gun control debate. That is, just as we ridicule statists who preach confiscation while they're protected by armed guards, how should we feel about conservatives who cry for federal action on their Twitter feeds and FB pages?
Yes, I *am* opposed to federal action in this situation. But I would likely feel different in my opposition if every Deplorable canceled their FB and Google accounts and switched to other platforms.
Maybe these companies should be declared Public Utilities and then lets see what happens.
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