Posted on 01/11/2021 5:22:16 AM PST by Red Badger
There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6.
Since then there has been significant focus on the deplatforming of President Donald Trump. By all means the question of when to deplatform a head of state is a critical one, among many that must be addressed. When should platforms make these decisions? Is that decision-making power theirs alone?
But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality. Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.
Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms.
Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:
Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.
Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.
These are actions the platforms can and should commit to today. The answer is not to do away with the internet, but to build a better one that can withstand and gird against these types of challenges. This is how we can begin to do that.
Political actors took over Mozilla. They did this by going after the man who ran it after he defended marriage.
I deplatformed Mozilla a couple of ears ago.
Started using Brave
Is it similar?..................
Brave.
CEO took a brave stand.
I had been using Firefox for years. Yesterday, I uninstalled it and switched to Brave. I find it to be quite similar to Firefox. Good ad blocking. It also has Tor capability, which is going to be important for conservatives as we are banned from clearnet places.
They are going to try to kill us. Every one of us. Even if you were a rollover and take it up the gumper type from the lincoln project or national review.
Small consolation, but after they genocide us, they will turn their attention to the blm/antifa terrorists. The latter just doesn't know it yet.
The global police state is neither left, nor right. Call it FeudalFascism. If you aren't one of the elite families, and you aren't a useful worker drone/servant to one of the families, you will be exterminated.
I'm betting that it's going to happen before this year is out.
Not had much time to explore, https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump?fbclid=IwAR3acfVhEhb6CT4P1_gn582HJ08kycAUQuXnp24Dr6lLAdT-I96BBLvulqs
While I wholeheartedly agree with everyone’s sentiments that Mozilla is now marked, understand that Mozilla is also the only privacy browser on the market. There’s a reason the TOR browser is based on Mozilla. Chromium is not up to the task.
I’m going to seriously curtail my use of Firefox in lieu of Chromium Edge, but TOR is the only browser you can trust to obfuscate your browsing sufficiently for anonymization.
I just downloaded ‘Brave’ browser. I AM using it now.
I was easy.........................
Brave is Chromium-based. Again, I’m not dismissing the need to go to another browser, but the browser made by the TOR Project is based on Firefox for a reason.
All my bookmarks are in Chrome but 1, it takes EDGE.
Plus I use gift cards to buy with, all that is seen is the purchase of a gift card. Limited choices though.
"..... Like identifying Trump supporters, making them wear armbands, rounding them up, putting them in cattle cars, and transporting them for orderly liquidation."
".... it is the Final Solution."
Hey look at me, group policy to uninstall Mozilla based products throughout my domains. Took 10 minutes.
Hey, look at me, Anti-malware settings that classify Mozilla products as viruses and deletes them in my domains. Took 1 minute.
Why would anyone think its appropriate to put this sort of spyware into a browser? All its going to result in is a drop in the use of the browser as enterprises take steps to disallow it from spying on their traffic and users.
Keep in mind that tor is not entirely without its own faults although those faults are not based on the politics of the developers, but on understanding how it works and getting around the anonymity aspects by looking at traffic flows. Point is, its not 100% safe to use, but then nothing really is.
TOR
Switched to Brave yesterday. Very easy switch, similar feel, and it works faster. It is a step up in performance.
Likewise. I'm trying Dissenter.
So then, if I am a conservative who runs say a power company that provides power to Amazon, Apple, Twitter, facebook etc, or if I run the data center that throughputs their backbone communications would it be proper that I cut their power or disable their circuits if I didn’t agree with their content? Just wondering! Not that I am suggesting that anyone should disrupt their service but it could be done very easily if we wanted to be pricks like they are!
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