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Microsoft forms coalition to censor “disinformation” online
reclaimthenet.org ^ | February 22, 2021 |  Rick Findlay

Posted on 02/22/2021 6:06:33 PM PST by lowbridge

Together with a few other tech and media corporations, Microsoft has formed a coalition focused on fighting “disinformation” and fake news. The other founding members of the coalition are Truepic, Intel, BBC, Adobe, and Arm.

Disinformation and fake news have become prevalent buzzwords to create a justification to censor in this digital age.  It’s now very easy for people to formulate and spread falsehoods, according to the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity.

“There’s a critical need to address widespread deception in online content — now supercharged by advances in AI and graphics and diffused rapidly via the internet. Our imperative as researchers and technologists is to create and refine technical and sociotechnical approaches to this grand challenge of our time. We’re excited about methods for certifying the origin and provenance of online content. It’s an honor to work alongside Adobe, BBC and other C2PA members to take this critical work to the next step,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the coalition.

According to Microsoft, the C2PA will “develop content provenance specifications for common asset types and formats to enable publishers, creators and consumers to trace the origin and evolution of a piece of media, including images, videos, audio and documents.”

Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been a big supporter of modern moves to censor more on social media.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigtech; freespeech; internet; lol; microsoft; narrativeenforcement; technotyranny
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To: lowbridge

So this applies to the lies the environmentalist whackos put online. I know they’ll ban BLM and Antifah.


21 posted on 02/22/2021 6:35:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: lowbridge

Indian-dominated companies. Indians don’t believe in free speech like you or I do.

They grew up with socialist governments and speech codes.

And we imported them here by the planeload


22 posted on 02/22/2021 6:36:18 PM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: KC_Lion

Bump To The Top!


23 posted on 02/22/2021 6:43:44 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Lazamataz
I'll post here what I posted on another thread; I think it applies here too:


"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of 'doublethink'."

-Nineteen Eighty-Four: ©George Orwell; 8June1949 -

24 posted on 02/22/2021 6:45:57 PM PST by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: lowbridge

Let’s start with disinformation from Microsoft. They push “Microsoft Teams” as a viable collaboration tool but that’s disinformation because it’s not. It’s worse than software from decades ago.


25 posted on 02/22/2021 6:46:38 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: lowbridge
To those of you still running Windows, I have one question:

WHY?!

Dump Microsoft. Switch to Linux.

26 posted on 02/22/2021 6:48:46 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Lazamataz
I dumped Microsoft a long time ago. I run Linux.

Stop supporting Fascists like Bill Gates, Microsoft, Amazon, Twatter, Fascistbook, BlewTube, etc..

27 posted on 02/22/2021 6:50:06 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: lowbridge
Microsoft forms coalition to censor “disinformation” online

Microsoft forms coalition to PROMOTE “disinformation” online

28 posted on 02/22/2021 6:52:19 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: dalight

I don’t see Google or Alphabet in this coalition.


29 posted on 02/22/2021 6:52:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: Lazamataz

Yes, I believe they are planning on calling their coalition the Ministry of Truth or Minitrue in Newspeak.


30 posted on 02/22/2021 6:58:30 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: lowbridge

The sun rises in the west.
Epstein is alive.


31 posted on 02/22/2021 7:01:06 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: ifinnegan; Mariner

“Provide the quotes or documentation for this.”

https://news.microsoft.com/2021/02/22/technology-and-media-entities-join-forces-to-create-standards-group-aimed-at-building-trust-in-online-content/


32 posted on 02/22/2021 7:04:28 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

No, pull the pertinent quote.


33 posted on 02/22/2021 7:06:15 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lowbridge
They are all Stolen Election Deniers!
34 posted on 02/22/2021 7:06:29 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: ifinnegan

The first paragraph pretty much covers it.


35 posted on 02/22/2021 7:07:03 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: MAGAthon

Rather ironic that the Beeb is in on it since Orwell was a Brit and foretold all of this.


36 posted on 02/22/2021 7:09:29 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Life is short, and work long, opportunity fleeting, experiments dangerous, and judgment hard)
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To: usconservative

WHY?!

Dump Microsoft. Switch to Linux.
—————

Can’t work using an Linux which has ABSOLUTELY no decent support for any applications only available on Windows or MacOS

This includes the Adobe suite, Autodesk 3D content creation apps, video editing, game engines, digital audio workstations (stuff I use everyday for content creation) and about 99.9% of all games (for pleasure)


37 posted on 02/22/2021 7:11:42 PM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: lowbridge
Then why did the Tech's develop filters for Zoom Calls?

Is not a cat or emu disinformation?

38 posted on 02/22/2021 7:14:04 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: NobleFree

“The first paragraph pretty much covers it.”

Ok. So paste it in. I will read it.


39 posted on 02/22/2021 7:15:04 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lowbridge

With those oddball tech nerds in charge of deciding what I can say or read I feel so safe. NOT.


40 posted on 02/22/2021 7:15:28 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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