Posted on 08/19/2018 8:20:00 AM PDT by Perseverando
What’s become abundantly clear over the past few months is that liberals are now jumping on the anti-fake news bandwagon and using it as an excuse to censor political speech that doesn’t align with their radical agenda. This strategy is perhaps most prominent on social media and various websites across the Internet, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and is implemented by teams of leftists and extremists like George Soros who show zero regards for the freedom of speech outlined in the First Amendment. It’s as if the ability to control what information is spread across the Internet and what information gets suppressed is more important than the United States Constitution, which completely contradicts everything that our country was founded upon.
It appears that the most recent Internet-based assault on the First Amendment comes from the popular web browser Mozilla Firefox, which just days ago announced that it would be launching an effort to combat what it considers to be “fake news” and misinformation.
According to Business Insider, Mozilla said that it was launching a Mozilla Information Trust Initiative, or MITI. The web browser explained that it is going to be “investing in people, programs and projects” to “disrupt misinformation online.”
Mozilla went on to say that the “internet’s ability to power democratic society suffers greatly” as a result of fabricated stories like “Pope endorsing Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency” or “Dead FBI agent killed in a mysterious fire with information on former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.” While both of these articles turned out not to be true, it is still a wonder why Mozilla believes it has the authority to censor stories like these in the first place.
“You only have to look at the number of initiatives that have risen up to address this challenge [of fake news], either by tech companies or other organizations to see how worrying this phenomenon is to so many,” said Mozilla’s innovation director Katharina Borchert in a recent interview with AFP.
What many of these websites and Internet-based companies don’t understand is that the United States Constitution is the law of the land, and no person or group of people is above it. The freedom of speech is an inalienable right, meaning that man didn’t give it to us and man can’t take it away either. Mozilla makes the argument that the spread of fake news on the Internet causes our democratic society to suffer, but in reality, it’s the suppression of these news articles that is the real threat. The truth is that each time an article or a website gets censored by companies like Mozilla, liberty erodes and America takes one step closer to an authoritarian state.
Not all web browsers and Internet-based companies are going in this direction, however. One of these companies is Brave, a relatively new Internet browser that was founded by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich. On their website, Brave states that its goal is “to transform the online ad ecosystem with micropayments and a new revenue-sharing solution to give users and publishers a better deal, where fast, safe browsing is the path to a brighter future for the open web.”
Incredibly, Brave was able to raise $35 million from its Initial Coin Offering, or ICO, in under 30 seconds back in June, according to a report put together by Tech Crunch. For more information about Brave web browser, visit Brave.com.
As the United States begins to look more and more like George Orwell’s famous book 1984, the American people are desperately trying to hold on to as much of their individual liberty as they possibly can. Censorship has become all too common, and if we don’t put an end to it and stand up for the Constitution, it’s only going to get worse.
done. testing vivaldi so far so good.
” Censorship has become all too common, and if we don’t put an end to it and stand up for the Constitution, it’s only going to get worse.”
This issue has nothing to do with the Constitution.
i’ve used firefox for a decade- what other browsers do Freepers suggest?
Is it a real database that Firefox refers to? If so, you could blackhole the url in your hosts file.
I haven’t used Firefox in years.
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I blame Firefox for making me double post! LOL.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
I already have Brave downloaded, but use Firefox. However, once someone shows me that Firefox is banning legit news, I AM GONE!
Bookmarked
I use Palemoon, Brave .....Me2 ! For many months now....
That's debatable. 1st Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and freedom of the press (protected from interference by Congress.)
Is the press then free to block the truth or dissenting opinions on their public sites without forewarning the public of what they are doing, as in the case of Twitter shadow banning conservative speech? Sounds like a 1st Amendment related issue to me. I'm not a lawyer, but maybe we should consult one or two.
I’m testing Vivaldi now too....having trouble with the right sidebar down arrow...won’t Stop where I want it to...keeps running down.
Why wait? Mozilla is run by leftists and favor the so called net neutrality.
I put brave on my laptop a few days ago. I use it in my android phone. One of the annoying problems with brave is the lack of ability to synchronize or import bookmarks from device to device. I just got a new phone and i can’t import bookmarks from the brave app on the old phone. Nor can i import them from the phone to the pc. I cant even find the json file on the phone when connected to the computer. When you have hundreds of bookmarks as I do, the inability to xfer bookmarks is a big issue.
Furthermore, brave doesn’t seem to ne doing a very good of blocking ads. I am NOT going to pay a ransom to stop ads. There’s already plenty of software out there that can do that freely. Its also something that can be done by the user with a little know how. But brave doesnt allow use of these aps.
Finally, brave doesn’t format pages well, or consistently from web site to web site. It does ok on some, terrible on others. For example, i need to use a larger print, but i have to scroll from side to side to read because the margin formatting gets lost in the print size adjustment.
I do like the browser over all, and I do use it, bit folks do need to know in advance that there are a few issues, what those issues are and therefore decide if those minor issues are acceptable.
cluttered for a long time. Need to clean it out.
You’re very welcome. Discoverthenetworks is an exceptionally helpful, informative site
I did not know David Horowitz was part of it
but he IS, indeed, himself .. another exceptionally helpful, positive force in exposing the amazing network of dangerous, seditious and/or outright treasonous persons and their front organizations in today’s society
Alternative configuration to avoid corporate censorship:
DNS replacement: Cloudflare DNS primary 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9 (Quad9) for the secondary.
Alternate web browser: https://www.slimjet.com/?source=sbr
Alternate search engine: duckduckgol.com
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