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Big Tech ‘Counterterrorism’ Org Shifts Focus from Islamic Extremism to ‘Far Right’
breitbart ^
| 26 Jul 2021
| ALLUM BOKHARI
Posted on 07/26/2021 5:15:11 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Verizon, Airbnb, and Mailchimp will expand a project of collusion on “counterterrorism” efforts that target domestic right-wing organizations.
The organization, which initially focused on building a database on content shared by Islamic extremists linked to Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban, will now shift focus to right-wing groups including the Proud Boys.
Via Reuters:
A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos — often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence — and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The news comes on the same day that PayPal announced it would work with the far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to monitor and suppress alleged right-wing extremists and would share the data it collects with law enforcement.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bigtech; farright
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To: MarvinStinson
To: MarvinStinson
We saw this on the horizon.
And now they’re coming.
3
posted on
07/26/2021 5:17:11 PM PDT
by
Celerity
What is the far right? I have never met one, and I have been to 49 states and 36 countries. What exactly is the definition of far right?
4
posted on
07/26/2021 5:20:01 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
To: MarvinStinson
Everyone is still believing we aren’t in a civil war. Just one side blasting the other to smithereens.
5
posted on
07/26/2021 5:20:36 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: MarvinStinson
Photo caption.....
When I was a baby my mom told me I was the cutest little thing and I never forgot it. Now I’m King of the World.
6
posted on
07/26/2021 5:21:51 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: MarvinStinson
What is a good non political preferrably unhackable email system?
Excluding proton mail, which has some disbelievers.
7
posted on
07/26/2021 5:24:04 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Critical Race Theory: black behavior is so bad it must be whitey's fault.)
To: frank ballenger
Put a narrow little dark mustache under that big nosey nose of his and it’ll be correct.
Hey! Fellow frogs! How’s the water?
8
posted on
07/26/2021 5:25:38 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(BLA socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.p)
To: frank ballenger
I think they are playing for all the marbles too early, which is happily a strategic mistake.
The left can be overwhelmed by the people if the Stupid Party hangs them with two words:
INFLATION
CRIME
9
posted on
07/26/2021 5:26:49 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Critical Race Theory: black behavior is so bad it must be whitey's fault.)
To: MarvinStinson
“suppress alleged right-wing extremists”
prior restraint
innocent until proven guilty
no law having been broken
thought crimes
10
posted on
07/26/2021 5:29:07 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Critical Race Theory: black behavior is so bad it must be whitey's fault.)
To: dsrtsage
I haven’t seen any far right groups fly planes into skyscrapers, nor behead those who disagree with them.
Or burn them alive.
Nor torture them and drag their mutilated bodies through the streets like trophies.
11
posted on
07/26/2021 5:29:15 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
To: Uncle Miltie
Hmm.
Been online on newsboards since 2001
Don’t recall any focus on domestic Islamic Jihadies ..
Recall A lot of defending the head loopers
with the term workplace violence
and accusations of islamaphobia though.
Did tech ever pull beheading vids ?
Nope.
I find their sincerity doubtful.
Spit.
12
posted on
07/26/2021 5:30:35 PM PDT
by
cuz1961
(USCGR Veteran )
To: dsrtsage
Q: “What exactly is the definition of far right?”
A: Posting on FReeRepublic
13
posted on
07/26/2021 5:30:58 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
To: cuz1961
Head Lopers
Head choppers
Beheaded
Loopers? ( ihac)
14
posted on
07/26/2021 5:32:33 PM PDT
by
cuz1961
(USCGR Veteran )
To: Uncle Miltie
I think they are playing for all the marbles too early, which is happily a strategic mistake. A huge mistake IMO.
The "far Right" (normal American Citizens) can easily defend themselves against Islamic extremists and they know it.
The Islamic extremists also know it and will adjust their targeting to the weak leftists who will be first used and then subjugated as the virtue-signaling self-flagellating progs that they are.
When the Islamic extremists have gotten everything they can from them they will destroy them.
.
15
posted on
07/26/2021 5:39:20 PM PDT
by
TLI
(ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: MarvinStinson
How long before they have their own private army?
16
posted on
07/26/2021 5:43:29 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them )
To: MarvinStinson
July 26, 2021 | Sundance |
This is a rather bold public admission. They are saying the quiet part out loud and absolutely confirming what we have been writing about in our Fourth Branch of Government series. Remember, the Fourth Branch is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus.

Today, the biggest names in Big Tech announce they have partnered with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can access it.
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus. I can’t believe they admit this sentence in the release (emphasis mine):
[…] “The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”
Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are “adding to” the pre-existing list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already have access to the the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a pre-existing list created by the Five Eyes consortium.
Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.
When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data-mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.
The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a warrent; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted today is exactly that pre-existing partnership. The difference today is that Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.

The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What is being announced today is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
July 26 (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)

All is not lost. There is a way to stop the Intelligence Branch, but it requires some outside-the-box thinking and reliance on the Constitution as a tool to radically change one element within government. We will be covering this in the near future.
In the interim, we must remain focused on the three tiers that we need for success.
♦ Tier One is “tactical civics” at a local level. Engaged and active citizen participation at the community, city, town and hamlet level of society. This is what might be described as grassroots level. School Board level; City Council level; County Commissioner level.
♦ Tier Two is “extreme federalism” at a state level. Engaged and active citizen participation through your State House and State Senate representative. This is state level assembly and action demands upon the House, Senate and State Governor.
♦ Tier Three the challenge of “federal offices” on a national level. This is where CTH will present an action that can be taken way upstream that allows the first two tiers to take control over federal offices. This is where we throw the One Ring into the fire of Mordor.
I am confident that ultimately We The People will win. Details will come soon; in the interim, tactical civics and extreme federalism are doable right now, in this next election cycle.
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posted on
07/26/2021 5:46:02 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: dsrtsage
A White male that isn’t a Democrat.
18
posted on
07/26/2021 5:48:01 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: MarvinStinson

According to a news release this morning, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has joined with PayPal on a research partnership to monitor how extremists use financial platforms to fund criminal activity.
According to the release, the partnership will focus on “uncovering and disrupting the financial pipelines that support extremist and hate movements” by targeting “actors and networks spreading and profiting from all forms of hate and bigotry.” Their findings will be “shared broadly across the financial industry and with policymakers and law enforcement.” (read full press release here)
Earlier today it was announced that Big Tech will monitor the internet, create a database of extremists, and report content they do not approve to the United State Intelligence Community for further action (DEPLATFORMING). This latest notification from ADL would be a step in using the lists created by Big Tech to notify financial institutions of who needs to be blocked from banking services (DEMONETIZING).



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posted on
07/26/2021 5:50:49 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: cuz1961
"So I get on as a looper."
"What's a looper?"
"You know, a pro jock, a caddy..."
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posted on
07/26/2021 5:52:15 PM PDT
by
EEGator
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