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.
I just installed Brave. It loads websites very quick and has a handy ad blocker button on the toolbar that you can turn off for those sites that block you.
It froze up on me already so may not be perfected yet.
Where do you get add-ons for Brave?
#6 Brave browser has an easy import feature for bookmarks.
https://brave.com/features
It does seem to be still in the early stages and I prefer Vivaldi over Brave. One of my pet peeves with Brave is the hot key to close the browser isn’t CTRL SHIFT Q like most other browsers and doesn’t have a user defined way of doing this. I haven’t added any add-ons yet.
I note that this Mozilla Initiative is over a year old. This is not new news.
I use Firefox every day at work and home on a dozen different computers, each with various flavors of Linux, Mac and Windows, because it's seamlessly portable between them.
I haven't seen any evidence of it doing anything untoward, not that it can't or couldn't, just saying, it hasn't stopped me from doing or seeing anything. I'm on FR everyday and no sign of trouble.
Just sayin', I think they're blowing smoke -- virtue-signalling if you will -- this Initiative hasn't done a thing I'm aware of. :-)
Faster, less intrusive and faster.
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Thank you! I’ve been using DuckDuckGo.com and FrontPage.com to Search thanks to Kim Komando and her tips. I’m finding Gmail is reading emails and, if the subject is political, they mess with the email. If one makes the subject Chocolate Cake, the email goes. LOL
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One of my big pet peeves as well, that you cant use the backspace button to go back. I asked the Brave forum if they will allow users to be able to activate this option in a future version and they didn’t give me any confidence they were even considering it.
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“I use Firefox and it blocks nothing.”
agreed. this whole thread is complete rubbish, typical of the crap being posted (and taken seriously by too many ignorant Freepers) ...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1171726
It’s that “Natural News” website.
Total and complete garbage for the dumb.
Worse, another half dozen websites will reference and quote it.
But hey, they’re all getting their clicks and getting paid, so who am I to judge?
It just goes to show you that a website dedicated to Martians secretly living among us would also get rich.
>Thank you! I’ve been using DuckDuckGo.com and FrontPage.com to Search thanks to Kim Komando and her tips. I’m finding Gmail is reading emails and, if the subject is political, they mess with the email. If one makes the subject Chocolate Cake, the email goes. LOL
>Comments anyone?
If you use gmail, and you use a pc based client like Thunderbird or some other analog, make sure you are fetching them off the server by using pop3 and not using IMAP which keeps them on Google’s servers. THEN log into the gmail web interface and delete them from your inbox periodically, flush them out of the trashcan also so they have no obvious repository to go back and catalog all the metadata. This is just a suggestion, be careful implementing it, make sure you have the means to back up your emails before you take on something like this. Always use DuckDuckGo and I mean always. Never use Google as your search engine
You know that really disturbed me at the time. I'd almost let it slip my mind. Looks like I'll be giving Brave a whirl. Poetic justice I'd say.
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