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A Google developer was recently fired for revealing that the tech giant’s AI bot had a mind of its own. The trigger that made him realize that the technology was sentient was a joke it made about Israel not belonging to any religion. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, former Google developer Blake Lemoine explained how he arrived at the conclusion that Google’s AI system, LaMDA was sentient and how a witty response about Israel being run by a philosophy based on a science fiction movie. As part of the process, Lemoine would continually challenge artificial intelligence with nuanced questions...

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Concerned that "unauthorized political speech constitutes a kind of pollution that erodes the foundations of democracy," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeking legislation that would introduce strict government regulation of what can be said about government policies in public forums. "Many of those, particularly on the political right, aren't really qualified to comment on what the government does," the Prime Minister asserted. "As a result voters can easily be misled by enemies of the state to oppose policies that are for their own good. I feel strongly that it is my responsibility as the elected leader of this country to...

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I have been asking people to watch 2000 Mules. Several response are, essentially it is too expensive. I understand it is a commercial movie. Are there any sites where people can watch it without having to register, for little or no cost? If anyone knows, someone on freerepublic knows.

On July 7th, 2022, Julie Kelly posted a screenshot on twitter of an amendment to the NDAA put forth by Adam Schiff. Here is Julie’s 3 tweets on the topic: . Her commentary is mostly accurate but there is something about this that everybody is missing. We need to look closer at specifically what Adam Schiff’s proposed amendment would actually be amending. ...more..

In the wake of Elon Musk’s decision to pull out of his Twitter purchase because of the social media giant’s hesitation to share information on bot accounts, one has to wonder, what are they anyway? What do they do, and why are they so important that Hillary Clinton partially blamed her 2016 election loss on Russian bots?In late April, Twitter estimated that fake accounts and spam “accounted for less than 5 percent of its daily active users in the fourth quarter of 2021.” However, with a user base of at least 330 million, that’s still an awful lot of non-human...

We saw Twitter suspend author and psychologist Jordan Peterson in June because he “deadnamed” transgender actor Elliot Page.Twitter told him he could get back his account if he deleted the tweet in question. The tweet said, “Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.” But Peterson said he would “rather die” than do so. His daughter wrote about it.Wow. @jordanbpeterson got a twitter strike. No more twitter until he deletes the tweet. Definitely not a free speech platform at the moment @elonmuskpic.twitter.com/YuBTwnjz5W— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaFuller) June 29, 2022Then Dave Rubin...

The CEO of one of the largest Big Tech companies in the world appeared on Communist Chinese state-affiliated media to praise China for its “inspiring” and “innovative” app development scene.

I moved to Florida, and want to change my sidebar from US:Washington to US:Florida, but I cant find the setting

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database hit another milestone as Big Tech continues its agenda to silence free speech online at a steady pace. MRC Free Speech America has now logged 4,000 cases of censorship in MRC’s unique CensorTrack database. These cases include censorship of both people and organizations across multiple Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled TikTok.

Former White House Covid-19 response coordinator Deborah Birx admitted recently that the enforced narrative from government and Big Tech that Covid vaccines could stop Covid transmission was based on “hope,” not knowledge or science. Except Big Tech platforms have been censoring people for over a year for saying just that—and Big Tech is still pretending that Covid vaccines’ efficacy is settled science. This was never about “science.”

Former President Donald Trump is not the only member of his family targeted by Big Tech. Meta-owned Instagram flagged Donald Trump Jr.’s account for supposedly spreading “false information.” MRC Free Speech America confirmed that Instagram made it more difficult for users to follow or mention Trump Jr.’s account. “Are you sure you want to follow donaldjtrumpjr?” an Instagram pop-up asked an MRC employee attempting to follow the account. A subsequent attempt to mention the account in an Instagram post triggered a pop-up asking, “Do you want to @mention this account?” Despite these hurdles, users can still follow or mention the...

Eight House Republicans on Tuesday joined their Senate counterparts in proposing legislation aimed at curbing left-wing political bias in email services’ spam filters. The House bill, like its Senate companion, would require email companies like Gmail to release quarterly transparency reports.

In a surprise move, the Democrat Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said he would be joining Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social in a bid to “call out Republican lies.” “I just joined Trump’s Truth Social,” said Newsom in a tweet from his official account. “Going to be on there calling out Republican lies. This could get…interesting.” “Hey everybody, it’s Governor Gavin Newsom, and I know we’re all on this platform in search for the ‘truth,’ but the truth is, I’ve not been able to find a simple explanation for the fact that we have a red state murder problem....

A 25-year-old YouTuber and boxer seems to have found a new political punching bag: President Joe Biden.

The largest newspaper chain in the US has told its editors to modify their op ed publication policy. CEO Mike Reed cited reader complaints for the policy shift, saying “our effort to fit in with the unity theme of the Biden Administration has not set well among our readers. They don’t want our papers to tell them how to think. They suggest that we hire writers who are not left-wing activists.” “The big problem is that the number of subscribers is declining,” Reed continued. “While 80% of our readers who are Democrats express trust and confidence, only 35% of our...

The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts.After a weeks-long impasse, Twitter’s board plans to comply with Elon Musk’s demands for internal data by offering access to its full “firehose,” the massive stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the state of negotiations. The move aims to end a standoff with the billionaire, who has threatened to pull out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter unless...

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