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A majority of likely voters – including a near-majority of Democrats – say social media companies will censor information harmful to the Biden campaign in the lead-up to next week's election, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. A total of 57% likely voters say that scenario will likely occur, while 29% disagree. The remaining 14% was unsure....

Key quote:But it's even worse than all of that. The time-frame of particular interest overlaps the Obama-Biden administration and early Trump administration, which also overlaps the origins and early phases of the anti-Trump conspiracy and rolling coup d'etat against the Trump presidency. In other words, while the FBI and CIA turned blind eyes to the Bidens and their corruption by and with America's enemies & rivals, the FBI and CIA were simultaneously staging, fabricating and investigating the Trump family and political team in order to drive the president from office and overturn an election. -- It is a special corruption...

Click through to the North Carolina map. It is a different flavor than the Florida map - this one is not for live updating so much, it's for browsing and playing with demographic data. Note that the 'database' is entirely client side (compressed from 5GB to 4MB). It seems to work OK on my cell phone but a little lag is expected in the initial load and again on the queries.

Anew social media platform launched this week is touting its commitment to refrain from censoring users' content while allowing them the chance to engage in meaningful political and social discourse. Clouthub, which operates out of Irvine, California, will offer users "a purpose-driven, multi-functional platform that moves beyond the self-serving 'look at me' nature of social networking," the company said in a news release this week. Criticizing what it called "the most extraordinary examples of censorship and free speech suppression by the giant social media platforms" that have occurred in recent weeks, the company said it will "empowe[r] users to address...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden expressed his regret that "the muting of the microphones at the debate didn't go as I thought it would. Before the debate I thought it was a good idea. Giving the moderator the opportunity to cut off my mic when I started to wander off topic could save me from embarrassing myself. It was only later that I realized that Kristen wasn't doing this. She was focused on muting Trump's mic. This saved him from making a fool of himself, but left me dangling in the wind." "My people are now telling me that I...

Are there any other US government employees having issues connecting to their Google email (.gmail.com) account since the DoJ announced the anti-trust lawsuit on 20 October?

John Paul Mac Isaac, computer repair store owner receives laptop in April 2019, contacted someone who contacted the FBI in September 2019 who confiscated the laptop after a few weeks. When he stopped hearing from the FBI, he contacted several members of congress who did not respond, and his intermediary reached out to Giuliani’s attorney, Robert Costello.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-emails-computer-repair-store-owner-john-paul-mac-isaacDate?Senate report: Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concernshttps://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf9/24Mr. Johnson said that on Sept. 24, the day after his committee issued a report on how Hunter Biden profited from his father, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, “a...

These are the faces on the other end of Jeffrey Toobin’s zoom call

Facebook is demonetizing the Christian, political satire page “The Babylon Bee” after they published an article satirizing Sen. Mazie Hirono’s comments during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings in a fictional depiction. The Bee’s CEO Seth Dillon announced the demonetization on Tuesday in a tweet, claiming that the big tech company pulled down the article based on a “regurgitated joke from a Monty Python movie.” “So after a manual review, Facebook says they stand by their decision to pull down this article and demonetize our page. I’m not kidding,” he wrote. “They say this article ‘incites violence.’ It’s literally a regurgitated...

Google’s video platform, YouTube, doesn’t want people to know the Michigan kidnapping plot’s alleged ringleader considered President Trump an “enemy.” The man, now in federal custody, is named Brandon Caserta, and he made a series of videos while preparing his kidnapping plot against Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In one such video, Caserta expounds on his anarchist philosophy, calling President Trump an enemy. “Trump is not your friend, dude,” Caserta says. “And it amazes me that people actually, like, believe that, when he’s shown over and over and over again that he’s a tyrant. Every single person that works for government...

Hunter Biden's hard drive. The biggest news story of last week (and perhaps the whole year!) and the gift that keeps on a-giving. Late Thursday (10/16/2020) evening, Rudy Giuliani granted an exclusive interview to the Daily Caller. Here's what we learned. The journey of Hunter's hard drive data did not run smoothly. It also took more time than one would assume and has been vetted more thoroughly than the Left wants you to know. According the Left, the data came from a computer hack. Not even remotely true. But even if it did, the data is still sound. If it...

T.J. L’Heureux, Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly’s deputy press secretary, called police “worthless f–ing pigs” in a tweet posting. This week, under pressure from the campaign, he apologized saying “I deeply regret my comment and apologize for what I wrote. My comment does not reflect who I am or what I believe. I have deleted the tweet.” Afterward L’Heureux lamented what he called “the disturbing trend in our society that forces a person to have to apologize for his personal opinions. It’s not as if I was tweeting something that any loyal Democrat would disagree with, but the climate...

....The tech companies' actions are an outrageous example of open censorship and bias. It shows how private companies effectively can become state media working for one party. This, of course, was more serious than deleting coughs, but it was based on the same excuse of "protecting" the public from distractions or distortions. Indeed, it was the realization of political and academic calls that have been building for years. Democratic leaders from Hillary Clinton to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) have long demanded such private censorship from social media companies, despite objections from some of us in the free speech community; Joe...

Are Jack Dorsey, who has lied to Congress, and Mark Zuckerberg, who has no love fot freedom, democracy, and the Constitution, Russian assets? President Donald Trump was accussed of being a Russian asset because Moscow’s operatives tried to influence American opinion by buying a few thousand dollars of Facebook ads while fake Twitter accounts planted dubious stories. So how is Twitter and Facebook not meddling in our elections by suppressing a major American niewspaper’s URL for a story deemed harmful to one candidate in a presidential election? If there ever was any doubt that the social media tech giants Twitter...

ouTube has scrubbed many popular “QAnon” and independent news channels from its platform after announcing new rules that prohibit what it deems to be “harmful conspiracy theories.” The channels collectively had millions of subscribers and some of the many channels that were removed during this purge include: X22 Report (952,000 subscribers) SGTreport (630,000 subscribers) Edge of Wonder (467,000 subscribers) Praying Medic (391,000 subscribers) And We Know (385,000 subscribers) Amazing Polly (375,000 subscribers) Joe M (367,000 subscribers) Dollar Vigilante (304,000 subscribers) Mouthy Buddha (296,000 subscribers) JustInformed Talk (281,000 subscribers) RedPill78 (269,000 subscribers) The Patriot Hour (248,000 subscribers) In Pursuit of Truth...

Some PlayStation 4 users who downloaded the latest 8.0 update got an unwelcome surprise this morning: their console informed them that Sony had the right to record their voice for moderation purposes. Here is Sony’s exact language: Following this update, users are seeing a notification about Party Safety and that voice chats in parties may be recorded. Voice chat recording for moderation is a feature that will be available on PS5 when it launches, and will enable users to record their voice chats on PS5 and submit them for moderation review. The pop up you’re seeing on PS4 right now...

Imagine if we could put every area of America on an even playing field when it comes to high-speed internet. https://t.co/JqdSWsJDgY— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) October 2, 2020 Today’s internet is as critical—if not more so—to our nation’s economy and security as roads and highways were in Eisenhower’s time. https://t.co/Md4sjHXowB— Slate (@Slate) October 2, 2020

Cameras are everywhere... Do you have a cell phone? Unless it’s an old antiquated flip phone, there’s a camera. Public parks, roadways, the parking garage at your favorite shopping center, police officers wearing body cameras, school…they are everywhere. There was a time when Americans viewed the presence of security cameras in a private business as a creepy Orwellian intrusion into their private lives. They didn’t want to be recorded and watched as they did their shopping or when they went into the bank to cash their paychecks. Those days came and went and Americans accepted and adapted those cameras. Then...

The Biden campaign announced that it is hiring Facebook executive Jessica Hertz to join his transition team as general counsel in charge of ethical issues. This is the Campaign’s second “big tech” addition to the transition team. Earlier, Twitter’s Director of Public Policy, Carlos Monje, was hired to co-chair the transition team’s infrastructure policy committee. A spokesperson for the Campaign called the hires “a natural consequence of both Twitter’s and Facebook’s anti-Trump policies. Rather than hew to an out-dated notion of impartiality, both of these highly influential information gatekeepers have actively identified content that lies outside the accepted progressive narrative...

Open source RF hardware has been under development for several years, a boon for ham radio operators and academics. Open Research Institute anticipates that the Commerce Department will find that these technologies are unrestricted under the carve-out for open source in the EAR.