Posted on 02/28/2019 6:33:37 AM PST by Red Badger
Insider, Formerly Responsible for Content Review in Facebook’s Intellectual Property Dept Speaks Out, Loses Job Facebook Engineers Plan to “demote bad content” Conservative Facebook Page Livestreams Secretly “deboosted,” No Notice to Page Owners Facebook Can Classify Users as Trolls Based on Their Vocabulary, Then Punish By Limiting Bandwidth, Blocking Comments… Facebook Engineer: “‘hateful’ content is coming from right-leaning sites.” “Special features” Triggered “leading up to important elections” Bizarre View of “hate speech” Includes Content from Conservative Commentator
(Update: In the video, we said Steven Crowder’s “livestream was dethrottled,” when in fact his entire page was “dethrottled.”)
(UPDATE 2: FACEBOOK RESPONDS “We fired this person a year ago for breaking multiple employment policies and using her contractor role at Facebook to perform a stunt for Project Veritas,” a spokesperson told The Verge. “Unsurprisingly, the claims she is making validate her agenda and ignore the processes we have in place to ensure Facebook remains a platform to give people a voice, regardless of their political ideology.”)
(Update 3: Project Veritas has included captions on original images in this article to avoid reader confusion.)
(San Francisco) Project Veritas has obtained and published documents and presentation materials from a former Facebook insider. This information describes how Facebook engineers plan and go about policing political speech. Screenshots from a Facebook workstation show the specific technical actions taken against political figures, as well as “[e]xisting strategies” taken to combat political speech.
(Other brave individuals who feel compelled to expose wrongdoing they witness can contact Project Veritas here.)
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said that to expose dishonesty and censorship in big tech companies, he will be relying upon more insiders, informants and leakers in the future:
“Our future depends on those who are willing to give up everything for what they believe.”
(Excerpt) Read more at projectveritas.com ...
In today’s marketplace, competitors interact in many ways, through trade associations, professional groups, joint ventures, standard-setting organizations, and other industry groups. Such dealings often are not only competitively benign but procompetitive. But there are antitrust risks when competitors interact to such a degree that they are no longer acting independently, or when collaborating gives competitors the ability to wield market power together.
For the most blatant agreements not to compete, such as price fixing, big rigging, and market division, the rules are clear. The courts decided many years ago that these practices are so inherently harmful to consumers that they are always illegal, so-called per se violations. For other dealings among competitors, the rules are not as clear-cut and often require fact-intensive inquiry into the purpose and effect of the collaboration, including any business justifications. Enforcers must ask: what is the purpose and effect of dealings among competitors? Do they restrict competition or promote efficiency?
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/dealings-competitors
And they call US fascists!
History will show that organizing Big Tech into a quasi-governmental institution with unwavering allegiance to the Democratic Party was Barack Obama’s crowning achievement as President.
Just walk away from Fakebook.
I don’t give a damned what they do....I don’t go there, ever.
self ping
The people running Facebook are just very bad people.
I have had my own experience trying to alert them about criminals on their site who were trying to exploit a family member.
They could not have cared less. Almost no bad end would be too bad for them.
Write 10000 times:
Thou Shall Not Insult The Democrat Demigoddess.
The real issues are not anti-trust.
1A. They are committing consumer fraud by applying their Terms of Service - a legal contract - selectively and deceptively. Users are their ultimate source of revenue, their raisin d’etre. No users equals no revenue.
2A. They are engaging in corporate malfeasance by knowingly, wilfully creating scandals that adversely affect brand name and stock value. (Cause and effect is rather blatant in some of these instances.)
3A. They are violating their status as neutral, non-publisher (non-editorial) open platforms by actively editing - choosing - what content to promote or not to promote.
1B.These are not free sites; they are consumer sites. The users (customers) pay with their traffic and metadata; the site is obliged in return to provide their services in an ethical and impartial manner.
They are subject to Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection authority regarding fraudulent business practices.
2B. These are not private companies; they are publicly-traded corporations. (Operating in the private sector does not equal being a private company.)
They are regulated by the Securities Exchange Commission, and subject to punitive action - and civil lawsuit - on behalf of stockholders, whose shares lose value as a result of corporate misconduct.
3B. These are not closed platforms; they are open platforms.
They are regulated by the Communications Decency Act of 1996 Section 230, and are given Federal liability protection in exchange for being laissez faire on content (beyond general Federal Communications Commission restrictions). Acting as content editors voids that liability protection.
We do not have a free market; we have a massively regulated market. However, the biggest players buy and bribe their way out of any accountability - with an eagerly complicit Congress. If we had rule of law, these abuses could be addressed without invoking anti-trust, and without adding new regulations, but we do not have rule of law - as the slow-motion coup in plain sight has shown.
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