protecting consumers from what, some facts, likely truth? sorry NZ that’s not protection even if you call it so.
Bring back the BBS!
suggesting that they follow European proposals for hyper-vigilant policing of content for the sake of ‘protecting consumers.’
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How nice, they are concerned about us.
Even Netflix thinks I'm in Florida.
Final? Somehow, with this inexorable push toward Marxism, I think the “progressives” have only just begun. By contrast, those of us who value our freedom have yet to begin...
Elites in all countries look at the ChiCom Great Firewall with extreme envy.
Twitter and Facebook should be shut down due to the mosque shooting.
The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter used Gab as a platform to broadcast his lunacy. As a result Gab was immediately shut down.
So why not the same treatment for Facebook and Twitter? Because leftists use double standards, that’s why.
I wonder if they could use that Tor browser. I heard/read it mentioned on FR.
Free Republic is http://209.157.64.200
Adjust your bookmarks. One day your ISP will ban www.FreeRepublic.com
Here in Canada, tried to mention the 200 dead in Nigeria, and had my post disabled, on the National Post. So did others.
The Autocrat’s New Tool Kit
The next generation of repressive technology will make past efforts to spread propaganda and quash dissent look primitive.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-autocrats-new-tool-kit-11552662637
Chinese authorities are now using the tools of big data to detect departures from “normal” behavior among Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region—and then to identify each supposed deviant for further state attention. The Egyptian government plans to relocate from Cairo later this year to a still-unnamed new capital that will have, as the project’s spokesman put it, “cameras and sensors everywhere,” with “a command center to control the entire city.” Moscow already has some 5,000 cameras installed with facial-recognition technology, and it can match faces of interest to the Russian state to photos from passport databases, police files and even VK, the country’s most popular social media platform.
...Many of these advances will give autocrats new ways to spread propaganda, both internally and externally. One key technology is automated microtargeting. Today’s microtargeting relies on personality assessments to tailor content to segments of a population, based on their psychological, demographic or behavioral characteristics.
...In a widely viewed TED Talk in 2017, techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci described a world where “people in power [use] these algorithms to quietly watch us, to judge us and to nudge us, to predict and identify the troublemakers and the rebels.”
...For years, the Chinese government has employed what’s known as the “50 Cent Army”—thousands of fake, paid commenters—to post online messages favorable to Beijing and to distract online critics. In the future, bots will do the work of the current legions of regime-paid desk workers.
...Facebook now uses similar techniques to examine linguistic nuances in posts that might flag users who are contemplating suicide. Smaller companies are working to score individual social-media posts based on attitude, emotion and intent.
[ The Final Level of Censorship is Here: The Banning of URLs ]
First, they came for Alex Jones....
ping.
I haven’t seen the video, but I may choose to do so. I have seen comments that after seeing the video, it is obvious that someone with a gun could have stopped the shooter early on. That is what they are trying to suppress.
More than 130 European businesses tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective
On Articles 11 and 13.
Not to worry. the massacre of hundreds of Christians is also blocked - by media non-coverage.
Dead Christians=indifferent
Christians=radicals
Dead muslims=bad
Muslims=victims
Have to resort to IP address, then.
Free Republic is 209.157.64.200.
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