Posted on 10/17/2020 9:41:35 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
....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 Biden himself demanded that those companies remove President Trump's statements about voting fraud as fake news. Academics have lined up to support calls for censorship, too. Recently, Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Arizona law professor Andrew Keane Woods called for Chinese-style internet censorship and declared that "in the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong."
It turns out traditional notions of journalism and a free press are outdated, too, and China again appears to be the model for the future. Recently, Stanford communications Professor Emeritus Ted Glasser publicly denounced the notion of objectivity in journalism as too constraining for reporters seeking "social justice." In an interview with The Stanford Daily, Glasser insisted that journalism needed to "free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice." He said reporters must embrace the role of "activists" and that it is "hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity." Problem solved....
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The leftist oligarchy obviously needs to protect their underlings from having to think.
Social media and other media is already state media - for the Chinese and Russian states.
LIBERATE TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE SERVERS!
Of course, that wouldn't stop me from shelling out fifty bucks for the video...
How about obliterate?
Trump is going to mention all of this in the debates. At least I feel quite sure he will.
At least they haven’t deleted or blocked his account that reaches 70 million. I’m sure they would love to
>How about obliterate?
Look up liberate in the socialist lexicon. I’m being clever.
"State media" in the Orwellian "1984" sense of the term.
The days of censoring are over. These goofballs have been subpoenaed and there is more to come.
the best thing about a slow, steady drip of Hunter Biden information over an extended period is that with every release and every subsequent denial or blockage, the fascist tech monopolists and the mainstream media will look more and more stupid.
4chan needs to hack Biden’s teleprompter so he reads things like:
“I will randomly blow up people’s houses, just to keep everybody on their toes.”
“the best thing about a slow, steady drip of Hunter Biden information over an extended period is that with every release and every subsequent denial or blockage, the fascist tech monopolists and the mainstream media will look more and more stupid.”
No, no. They’re much smarter than the rest of us. Just ask them. And they can’t be Fascists, because they called their opponents that first. They have dibs. And if you keep it complaining, their boot’s stamping right down on your face, forever.
22 Apr 2016: The Intercept: The Android Administration
Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts
by David Dayen
The Intercept teamed up with Campaign for Accountability to present two revealing data sets from that forthcoming project: one on the number of White House meetings attended by Google representatives, and the second on the revolving door between Google and the government.
As the interactive charts accompanying this article show, Google representatives attended White House meetings more than once a week, on average, from the beginning of Obama’s presidency through October 2015. Nearly 250 people have shuttled from government service to Google employment or vice versa over the course of his administration.
No other public company approaches this degree of intimacy with government...
The “revolving door” data, displayed in the above visualization, reveals 55 cases of individuals moving from positions at Google into the federal government, and 197 individuals moving from positions inside the government to jobs at Google. The data includes positions at firms that Eric Schmidt owns or controls — Civis Analytics, The Groundwork, and Tomorrow Ventures — along with two law firms and three lobbying firms that have represented Google. On the government side, staffers at Obama for America and a handful of other political campaigns were included.
The data includes individuals from Google appointed to government boards while maintaining their positions at the tech firm...
Google alums work in the departments of State, Defense, Commerce, Education, Justice, and Veterans Affairs. One works at the Federal Reserve, another at the U.S. Agency for International Development. The highest number — 29 — moved from Google into the White House. The State Department had the next highest with just five. The moves from Google to government got more frequent in the later Obama years; 11 occurred in 2014 and 16 in 2015, after only 18 in the entire first term.
On the other side, former staffers from 36 different areas across the government have found a willing employer at Google since 2009. Johanna Shelton was a senior counsel on the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee. Joshua Wright, a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, rotated into a top position at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of the law firms that has represented Google.
Nineteen researchers and scientists at NASA, senior analysts at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an “information assurance expert” at the National Security Agency, and 32 separate officials with the Obama for America campaign found their way to Google.
Former employees of 12 of the 15 cabinet agencies (Energy, Justice, Defense, Education, State, Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture, Labor, HHS, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs) now work at the tech company or its affiliates, led by 16 former Pentagon staffers. The exodus ramped up in the second term, hitting 41 in 2014, compared to just six in 2009.
Seven individuals made a full revolution through the revolving door, either going from Google to government and back again, or from government to Google and back again. This includes Julia Duncan, who left her job as White House personnel officer to go work in Google’s finance department in 2013, and a year later moved to the State Department’s Office of Food Security.
Nathan Parker, a staff software engineer at Google, did a stint in the U.S. Digital Service for four months before returning to Google HQ in Mountain View. Austin Lau was a planner and tech lead for Google India, then became a foreign service officer at the State Department before returning to Google to work on social impact partnerships.
A few individuals are listed twice: The aforementioned Mikey Dickerson moved from Google to the Obama campaign, back to Google, and then to the U.S. Digital Service, for example.
The government and Google shared engineers, lawyers, scientists, communications specialists, executives, and even board members. Google has achieved a kind of vertical integration with the government: a true public-private partnership.
Ex-Google staffers may not be directly involved in setting policy that affects Google, but they have access to decision-makers. They maintain ties to their former bosses. And Google employees with government experience have a network of friends and colleagues at federal agencies, House and Senate offices, the West Wing, and practically everywhere else.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/
This.
Hunter and Joe Biden with Kazakhstan oligarch Kenes Rakishev (far left).
Between 2012-14, Hunter worked as a sort of go-between for Rakishev.
Rakishev is married to the daughter of a former mayor of the country's capital city (recently re-named 'Nursultan,' after the elderly despot), who later served as its Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. All in all it was an intriguing nexus.
Fast forward to 2012 and Rakishev had just joined Forbes magazine's top-15 list of Kazakhstan's 'most influential' tycoons, with estimated assets of some $332 million. Like many an oligarch in possession of a huge fortune, Rakishev was now looking for a safe place to park it, so had come to America in search of new places to invest his hard-earned roubles.
Sadly, things hadn't gone entirely smoothly. For in the highly-regulated world of Western capitalism, Rakishev discovered that blue-chip investment partners were often reluctant to take his cash.
To blame? The fact that no one was entirely sure where his wealth actually came from.
For example, the leaked emails obtained by the Mail show that the International Finance Corporation, a highly respectable sister organisation of the World Bank, held preliminary talks with Rakishev about a business collaboration, before deciding to pull out.
I can reveal that the IFC then politely informed the oligarch that it 'cannot invest with him' because its 'very deep due diligence processes' had established that he had some 'connections' involving the 'president's family' that 'are a liability to us.' Seemingly outraged, Rakishev responded that he would ensure that the organisation 'never works in Kazakhstan with anyone.'
The United States Department of Justice then took an interest in Rakishev. It soon dragged him into an investigation of potential breaches the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act related to 'an investment in the oil and gas industry in Kazakhstan'.
Though Rakishev immediately denied all wrongdoing, and no charges were ever filed, in September 2013 he decided to hire a notoriously expensive U.S. law firm called Greenberg Traurig to deal with incoming fire related to the probe......two attorneys who led a team working the Kazakh's case, John Pappalardo and Stanford Saunders, charged him in the region of $1,000 and $700 per hour respectively.
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Re Hunter Biden telling the truth to the media and the media even asking him about the emails. He would walk away singing his theme song, “Would I Lie To You?”
And we would ask the media “Would you lie to us?” to which they would say in unison, “Of course, we are the media” (re the old fable of the scorpion and the frog).
We have always been at war with East Asia!
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