Internet Censorship: So it continues... [Archive] - The Project Avalon Community Forum

Ioneo

18th March 2015, 01:20

This is relevant for Americans.

THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER - Net “Neutrality,” or, How To Regulate the Internet to Thunderous Applause
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
March 14, 2015

Everything is marketing. Observe.

Want to overturn basic protections from unlawful government searches and seizures? Just write some new laws and bundle them up in something called the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.” The media will universally and unquestioningly refer to it as the USA PATRIOT Act and you can paint any would-be detractors as disloyal terrorists. Bingo. Done.

Want to do damage control after the illegal surveillance activities of your National Security Agency have been revealed to the general public? Simple. Get some of the agency’s biggest critics in the House to forward a bill that promises to protect everyone from the illegal surveillance. Call it the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act” so everyone gets the idea that this about protecting USA FREEDOM. Then add a bunch of provisions during the passage of the bill that hardwire in all the worst surveillance abuses and make sure no one will ever be held accountable for them. No sweat. Done.

Want to implement total federal regulatory control over the internet? No problem. Just call it “Net Neutrality” and watch trendy internet activists blindly rally around the idea, even though they can’t read the actual laws underlying it. Piece of cake. Done.

For those who aren’t up on their lingo, “net neutrality” refers to a network (in this case, the internet) in which all data is treated equally. In practical terms, this means that your ISP can’t form a special deal with a big company like Netflix to let their data pass through the network more quickly (prioritizing traffic) or relegate other sites to an internet “slow lane” where data passes to users more slowly (throttling traffic). It also means that ISPs can’t interfere with traffic based on protocol (like when Comcast tried to block peer-to-peer file sharing), perform “deep packet inspection” to censor certain types of data (like that employed in the national censorship schemes in Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Iran and elsewhere), or favoring private networks (like Comcast did in a special deal with Microsoft).

Now let’s make one thing clear: net neutrality is a good thing for the average internet user and it’s only the real-life grinches at the cable companies or certain misguided libertarians who think that throttling won’t be used against them who argue otherwise. But it’s easy to get everyone (or basically everyone) to agree on the goal. It ends up being much more important how you get there.

Before we get into the specifics of the FCC regulation that has just radically transformed the ISP industry in the United States, let’s just take a moment to review who it is that is supposedly championing the little guy by implementing it.

wheelerFirstly we have Tom Wheeler, the current FCC Chairman. Even that bastion of truthiness Wikipedia has it right when it describes him as “an American businessman and politician” in that order and in that many words. He is the chairman of the FCC, and, as such, the “defender of the public interest” entrusted with regulating the cable companies and telecoms. So what did he do before becoming FCC Chairman? Oh, that’s right, he’s the former President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and the former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. Yes, the man who has presided over the most significant regulatory framework ever imposed on the internet in the history of the United States is a lifelong lobbyist for the very industry he is supposedly regulating (the only ever double inductee of the Wireless Hall of Fame and the Cable Television Hall of Fame, no less).

But the regulatory plan that the FCC ultimately adopted wasn’t Wheeler’s. In fact, it was proposed by the Liar-in-Chief himself, Obama, last November. That’s right, the same man who was against warrantless wiretapping before he was for it. The same man whose second largest campaign donor was Goldman Sachs and who supported the bank bailouts from the get go. The same man who promised to close Guantanamo and promised not to appoint any lobbyists to his administration. The same man who oversees a secret presidential kill list that allows him to mark anyone on the planet (even American citizens) for death without so much as a court trial. But trust him on this one, guys. He’s got your back.

“But all of this is circumstantial,” the dear trusting internet activists will argue. “Show us the proof that these net neutrality rules aren’t what they say they are!” Would that it could have been refuted before it was voted on. Sadly, in an all-too-familiar repeat of the we-passed-the-PATRIOT-Act-without-reading-it syndrome and the “you’ll have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it” disease, the new FCC regulations, too, were held secret from the public until after the plan was voted on last month. It was finally published (all 400 pages of it) on the FCC’s website earlier this week, but before that all that was available was a five-page press release of fluffy rhetoric about “preserving the internet.” In other words: “Trust us. Have we ever lied to you?”

So what did the FCC actually do? It reclassified internet service providers as common carriers under Title II of the Federal Communications Act of 1934, as well as Title III of the same Act and Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Previously, cable modem service and wireless broadband service had been classified under the far less regulated status of “information services” under Title I of the Communications Act. Now the FCC has the authority (even if it claims it won’t use it at the moment) to regulate the practices and agreements that ISPs engage in and even the rates which they charge their customers.

Or, translating from legalese gobbledygook: the internet is now classified by the U.S. government as a public utility and treated in the same way that the phone system was treated back in the days of Ma Bell. Yes, US ISPs are now subject to the same regulations that created the AT&T monopoly and arguably held back advancements in the telecommunications industry by half a century or more.

What does this mean?

It means that the US ISP industry is now in a “whack-a-mole” environment of uncertain regulations that will be subject to massive litigation for years to come.

It means that local, state and federal fees that apply specifically to Title II services will create billions of dollars in new charges that will be shunted on to American internet users.

It means that ISPs and wireless providers who are already struggling to break into a competition-adverse market will have an even harder time as a host of new legal roadblocks and pitfalls are placed in their way, and lawyers and consultants become necessary to ensure compliance with industry standard practices.

fccinternetBut most chillingly of all it means that any future bunch of FCC commissioners (or even this particular bunch if they so desire) will be able to wield broad powers to enforce vaguely-written rules over any service on the internet in any way they see fit. In effect, the keys to the future of the internet have just been handed over to the FCC, not just today, not just this group, but anyone who ever steps into that position. Ever.

And it’s not just fringe conspiracy theorists like me that think the FCC has just given itself far too much power to regulate the internet as it sees fit. Even the EFF, one of the main (Soros-funded) groups arguing for net neutrality in the first place wrote a letter to the FCC arguing against the vague, ominous “general conduct” provision that allows the FCC to regulate against anything it decides will cause “harm” to consumers or content providers. The clause is so nebulous as to allow any FCC Commission to effectively attempt to regulate against any practice, standard or company it wishes in the future.

Don’t worry, though, the FCC promises it won’t use most of the power its given itself…at this point. Just like Obama promised he wouldn’t use the indefinite detention clause in the 2012 NDAA. Just like Bush promised all that NSA wiretapping business was above board and legal. Go on, trust them. Has a politician ever lied to you?

Oh, and to top it all off the FCC slips this little gem into their new rule package: obligations for ISPs to conform to rules like the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act “could in some circumstances intersect with open Internet protections,” but don’t worry. “Most commenters recognize the benefits of clarifying that these obligations are not inconsistent with open Internet rules,” they insist. That’s probably because most commenters have no idea what CALEA is or how it hard wired backdoor access to the internet and telecom equipment two decades ago.

If the problem is the threat of an overly restricted internet, does anyone really think that the answer is another layer of government bureaucracy operating with a 400-page instruction manual to micromanage the most pervasive and free network ever devised using a carte blanche “general conduct” clause?

And if that isn’t the answer, is there an alternative way of ensuring net neutrality? One that doesn’t require government “regulation” by bought-and-paid for corporate lobbyists?

As a matter of fact, there is. It doesn’t take an economics professor to realize that the best way to ensure the consumer gets what he/she wants is to foster competition for services. In that regard, the average American household is stuck with, at best one or two major broadband providers, and has to take what they’re given…

radio…Unless, that is, they create their own competition. I’ve talked before on The Corbett Report about wireless mesh networking as an alternative to the existing internet backbone. Although this technology truly does offer the promise of an alternate infrastructure that evades the current NSA track-and-control matrix and could be configured to be as neutral (or not-neutral) as its users want, the idea of a wireless mesh network that could truly rival the scope and penetration of the existing internet is not realistic in the short term. In the meantime, though, mesh networking could still be used to harness an already untapped potential of available bandwidth: unlicensed spectrum, i.e. the wi-fi connections that remain locked away behind passwords by their owners. As Peter van Valkenburgh writes in a compelling Wired op-ed, the combination of bitcoin micropayments, traffic encryption, and peer routing could create a mesh network that would in effect be a ready-to-go competition to the broadband monopoly giants. In effect, a community of interest could set up its own broadband network by pooling together the resources of its constituent members. The best part about this plan? It’s the peer-to-peer economy at play in the process of providing peer-to-peer connections through a peer-to-peer network itself. Talk about Inception.

Of course, now that we have Title II regulation of the internet, the FCC could regulate that such community broadband efforts are against the interests of the public and thus impermissible. And so here we find ourselves yet again subject to the whims and fancies of a bunch of bureaucrats and their political puppetmasters.

Whatever else there may be to say about this subject, there’s at least one important lesson to take from this: everything is marketing. Just calling the wholesale regulation of the internet “net neutrality” made it possible in the first place. Perhaps the freedom movement can do some marketing of its own to sell the idea that freedom is the answer to every political question.

Anyone got a catchy slogan?

Hervé

19th March 2015, 14:19

[...]
My bet: "Quenelles" sites are soon to follow:

Look who's paranoid now! (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?67181-Look-who-s-paranoid-now-&highlight=paranoid)

How predictable:

French comedian sentenced for ‘condoning terrorism’ in FB post (http://rt.com/news/242045-french-condoning-terrorism-facebook/)

Published time: March 19, 2015 00:06
Edited time: March 19, 2015 04:57 Get short URL (http://rt.com/news/242045-french-condoning-terrorism-facebook/)

http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/3b/17/d0/00/comedian-sentenced-facebook-terrorism.si.jpg
French controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)

Amid a crackdown on hate speech and “condoning terrorism” online, a French court has handed out a two-month suspended prison sentence to prominent comedian and political activist Dieudonne over a Facebook post in the wake of Charle Hebdo attack.

The 49-year-old Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, or simply Dieudonne has been convicted for being “an apologist for terrorism” over a Facebook post he made following attacks in France that killed 17 people.

“I feel like Charlie Coulibaly,” he wrote in a coined phrase on Facebook on January 11, four days after the Charlie Hebdo attack, allegedly making a mockery of the slogan “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) a global rallying cry against extremism. The second part of the phrase mimicked the name of Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed four people at a Paris kosher supermarket.

Prosecutor Annabelle Philippe argued that Dieudonne is guilty of presenting “in a favourable light the acts committed by Amedy Coulibaly.”

“The feeling of hostility towards the Jewish community that Dieudonne kept up in front of a public attracted by his charisma increases his responsibility,” the court argued. The prosecution was seeking a harsher sentence of up to 7 years in prison and a potential 100,000 euro ($106,000) fine.

Dieudonne, who was not present at court during the sentencing on Wednesday, was also fined €30,000 ($35,000), which, if not paid, will result in a prison term.

According to French daily, 20minutes, Dieudonne argued in court on January 28 and February 4 that he has condemned the Charlie Hebdo attacks “without restraint and without any ambiguity.” Dieudonne also claimed at the hearing that he wished to participate in the march in Paris against the extremism, but the Interior Ministry had requested that he be “excluded” and treated as a “terrorist.”

The comic’s case was the most prominent case of several dozen investigated in France in connection to hate speech and allegations of “condoning terrorism.”

The comedian is known for his extreme right views and has been credited with inventing a hand gesture called the “quenelle,” interpreted by many as an inverted Nazi-like salute. He had previously been found guilty seven times for slander or anti-Semitic statements. A Paris court has also recently banned the sale of a DVD featuring Dieudonne on the grounds that it is anti-Semitic, condones the Holocaust and “collaboration with the enemy”.

Amid fierce debates in France over whether the authorities are guilty of double standards on freedom of speech, France blocked (http://rt.com/news/241333-france-blocks-terror-sites/) five websites suspected of condoning terrorism and spreading hate speech earlier in March. It marked the first usage of new anti-terrorism powers approved by parliament last year that allow such bans without court orders.

France is still on high alert under Operation Sentinel which mobilized over 10,000 troops on French soil to protect 682 sensitive sites across the country including religious sites, railway stations, airports, and tourist attractions in the wake of a rise in religious tensions following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January.

Read more

http://img.rt.com/files/news/36/67/30/00/235235357.n.jpg (http://rt.com/news/222835-france-crackdown-hate-speech/)
French authorities accused of double standards over hate speech crackdown (http://rt.com/news/222835-france-crackdown-hate-speech/)

arwen

20th March 2015, 19:18

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And here in South Africa, they have an even more novel approach.

Bear in mind that 65% of South African households have NO access to the Internet, and of the 35% that do, only 10% have Internet access from home (Other access points are from work, educational institutions, or Internet cafes)

From Right2Know (http://www.r2k.org.za/):

The Right2Know Campaign calls on the public to reject the Film and Publications Board’s (FPB) proposals to censor the internet in South Africa. The FPB wants broadly defined powers to police everything published on the Internet – including blogs, personal websites and Facebook pages.

The Right2Know Campaign demands that the Film and Publications Board to scrap the Draft Online Regulation Policy (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0FOi7Ay2OZ6ZU1fZnI3NEQ4UTQ/view) document gazetted on Wednesday, 4 March 2015. The FPB must desist from any attempt to exercise pre-publication censorship of Internet content...

According to the document, anyone wishing to publish or distribute content will have to first apply for a digital publisher’s online distribution agreement with the FPB, which will require a subscription fee. Once paid, the publisher would have to submit the content to the FPB for classification prior to publishing. This effectively is a specific form of pre-publication censorship, which is not acceptable.

Moreover, the time spent on the pre-classification of content would undermine one of the most valuable traits of the internet – its immediacy. There is also a very real threat that in the future, organisations lacking in resources and unable to afford costly subscription fees, such as community-oriented news outlets and civil society groups, will be severely hampered by the unnecessarily bureaucratic regulations envisioned by the FPB. These online media outlets provide a valuable contribution to the diversity of the South African media landscape. The FPB draft regulations will disenable this diversity.

Worryingly, the regulations would allow the FPB to “dispatch classifiers to the distributors’ premises for the purposes of classifying digital content.".

Full article: #HandsOffOurInternet! (http://www.r2k.org.za/2015/03/10/statement-stop-the-film-and-publications-boards-attempt-to-censor-the-internet/)

If this actually goes through, I will not be able to post anything to the Internet anywhere anymore, as I am not prepared to pay an already ragingly corrupt government ONE CENT towards my own censorship.

Only in South Africa, where you pay them to censor you. :tape:

You gotta admit, Avalonians, that's pretty hard to beat! :rolleyes:

Rozzy

6th April 2015, 05:29

I am in Canada and I am having a lot of trouble using my more controversial sites and no trouble using the usual sites. I am unable to use my seen.is page at all, the CTM page at seen.is I can not use either, when I log onto Caravan To Midnight all the weird stuff starts there too! Other sites I get the ERROR message, site does not exist etc. even though I know they are still there. Some books I perused and went back to purchase just disappeared altogether like they do not exist. I ordered a perfectly legit item from a U.S. supplier and was put on the DEA suspect list, this came first hand to me via the RCMP who have since dealt with that for me. Apparently freedom is over even in the mundane day to day things I/we do.

Rozzy

25th April 2015, 21:08

It continues
I use Google, Bing, whatever, go to the usual news sites, local weather etc, all is well. Then I go to Beforeitsnews, seen.is, CTM, etc, my computer screen cuts in and out, slows down, locks up, becomes totally unusable.
Example:
I tried to open a page on Jade Helm, WAM, everything locks up. I have to not only shut down (if possible) but also unplug the computer from the wall power source. I come to Project Avalon, no problem. :confused:

Daughter of Time

25th April 2015, 22:16

Whenever I have tried to log in to PA while using google chrome, unlike Firefox or Internet Explorer, it has not let me in.

GoogleChrome blocks Project Avalon with the caption "unsafe site" and it will simply not navigate to the log in page.

arwen

25th April 2015, 22:23

I have not the bandwidth to watch this yet (I have to wait for next month for more quota), but this looks like a very relevant and pertinent discussion to this thread, with some impressive participants.

Topic: Big Brother out of control

Sacha Stone and Paul Seils from New Earth Nation spoke with:

Foster Gamble (Creator and producer of the THRIVE movie)
Noam Chomsky (MIT Linguistics professor and political commentator)
Paul Craig Roberts (author, economist and former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration)
Max Igan (Australian filmmaker and radio host)
Pippa King (advocate for protecting children from in-school bio metric invasion of privacy)
Gerald Celente (founder of the astoundingly accurate Trends Journal)

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Frenchy

2nd May 2015, 19:33

Thanks !
Would like to hear peoples opinions on Foster Gamble; I did watch all of THRIVE, but was left with idea that, as a Multi (Billion... ) -Millionaire, he and the Missus, have jumped on a very nice, lucrative bandwagon ?

As Stalin pointed out, best way to Control opposition , is to lead it............ I cannot put my finger on it, it's a little like trusting Mr. Farage, with dismantling government and Banksters....

Hervé

2nd May 2015, 19:58

To any and all who follow(ed) this thread, see this other one for the why behind all these connections difficulties:

Is the deprecation of insecure HTTP an attack on alternative media? (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?81938-Is-the-deprecation-of-insecure-HTTP-an-attack-on-alternative-media)

arwen

24th May 2015, 10:29

Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could be Coming to South Africa

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your rights in the digital world

May 21, 2015 | By Jeremy Malcolm

Only once in a while does an Internet censorship law or regulation come along that is so audacious in its scope, so misguided in its premises, and so poorly thought out in its execution, that you have to check your calendar to make sure April 1 hasn't come around again. The Draft Online Regulation Policy recently issued by the Film and Publication Board (FPB) of South Africa is such a regulation. It's as if the fabled prude Mrs. Grundy had been brought forward from the 18th century, stumbled across hustler.com on her first excursion online, and promptly cobbled together a law to shut the Internet down. Yes, it's that bad.

But don't just take our word for it—read some of its provisions for yourself. First, the regulation applies, in the first instance, to films and games (regardless of subject matter), as well as to publications containing certain loosely-described forms of sex, violence and hate speech.

Full article can be read here. (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/africas-worst-new-internet-censorship-law-could-be-coming-south-africa)

rgray222

24th May 2015, 12:04

Want to implement total federal regulatory control over the internet? No problem. Just call it “Net Neutrality” and watch trendy internet activists blindly rally around the idea, even though they can’t read the actual laws underlying it. Piece of cake. Done.

Censorship of the internet has arrived and we have not even witnessed the tip of the iceberg. Over the coming months and years, we will start to feel and see the impact of net neutrality laws in both Europe and the USA.

Regulating the Internet as a public utility is a terrible mistake. The Internet is full of possibilities we haven’t even imagined yet. Leave it to politicians and bureaucrats to believe they are smart enough to control something as dynamic and ever-changing as the Internet. Politicians fear what they can't control, especially the flow of information. Most politicians have learned over years to view catastrophic events as opportunities to pass unpopular legislation. These new laws and regulations (many passed under public duress) ensure that only the big boys with enough money can play in the game, exactly as pubic utilities have been setup. It is much easier to control a handful of big companies with money than thousands of small companies just trying to start up and succeed.

As these internet laws and regulations unfold and morph into what the government wants I am afraid they will become a very popular topic on Avalon..............that is if Avalon is "allowed" to continue.

Michelle Marie

9th August 2018, 18:01

Microsoft threatens to take down Gab:

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And so it continues...

MM

A Voice from the Mountains

10th August 2018, 01:46

My bet: "Quenelles" sites are soon to follow:

Look who's paranoid now! (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?67181-Look-who-s-paranoid-now-&highlight=paranoid)

Good old Mr. Shoahnanas. :bigsmile:

I'm not really a fan of EU immigration policies as a whole, inasmuch as they follow the Kalergi Plan, but in this case you guys found a real gem. Congrats. :)

"Tu me prends par la Shoah, je te prends par l'ananas…." I laugh every time.

Michelle Marie

26th August 2018, 23:37

Denise/Dizi

27th August 2018, 01:33

This is troubling on so many levels.

It is with the tools that we have, and created over time, that we owe our existence here on this planet. Whether it be the tool of communicating to alert others to danger, or the tools to build our homes, or the tools or weapons we create to protect ourselves.

The "Tool" of the day is open communications across boundaries, or the internet... When society gets to the point where they take away ANY of the tools of the day.. That we face a serious issue as a whole...

Denise/Dizi

27th August 2018, 01:47

Anyone got a catchy slogan?

"Just can't wait for Neural Lace and The Neural Net!"
NOT

Innocent Warrior

27th August 2018, 02:14

Soros' Role in Social Media Censorship
August 26, 2018
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/soros-role-social-media-censorship-exposed-leaked-document

Leaked document
http://theduran.com/leaked-49-page-memo-documents-how-george-soros-is-behind-social-media-censorship/

Media Matters founder, David Brock, working at Soros behest.

MM

Original source, tells a little about the meeting it came from - Read the Confidential David Brock Memo Outlining Plans to Attack Trump (https://freebeacon.com/politics/david-brock-memo-attack-trump/) (Jan 26, 2017).

* * *

For a broader look at Soros’ worldwide network of influence and how he does it...

DCLEAKS WEBSITE DOWN, TWITTER SUSPENDED AFTER RELEASING SOROS DOCS (http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/27/dcleaks-has-website-shut-down-twitter-suspended-after-releasing-soros-docs/) (Aug 27, 2016).

The Soros section of DCLeaks is still gone and their Twitter is still suspended but The Wayback Machine captured 6,838 URLs for that domain, HERE’s (https://web.archive.org/web/*/soros.dcleaks.com/*) the list (give it a few moments to load).

For example, here’s a sample: US Sourcing and Grantmaking Practicalities (https://web.archive.org/web/20170721141413/http://soros.dcleaks.com/download/?f=/1%20u%20s%20sourcing%20and%20grantmaking%20ed.pptx&t=us), copyrighted by OSI (Soros is founder and chair).

KiwiElf

27th August 2018, 03:00

No wonder our two "primary" TV Stations for "NEWS" (aka TV1 & TV3 and their subsidiaries) are so anti-Trump, basically parroting everything the Fakestream media tell them to - guess who "runs" them here in NZ? :facepalm:

Innocent Warrior

27th August 2018, 03:56

Hervé

8th September 2018, 14:40

EU in 'final stages' of crafting bill forcing big tech censorship (http://planetfreewill.com/eu-enters-final-stage-crafting-bill-forcing-big-tech-censorship/)

Joseph Jankowski Planet Free Will (http://planetfreewill.com/eu-enters-final-stage-crafting-bill-forcing-big-tech-censorship/)
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:36 UTC

https://www.sott.net/image/s24/487070/large/Vera_Jourova_hate_speech_800x4.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s24/487070/full/Vera_Jourova_hate_speech_800x4.jpg)
EU Commissioner in charge of Justice, Consumers and gender equality, Věra Jourová , speaks at a news conference on a second monitoring of the illegal online hate speech code of conduct in Brussels, Belgium, 1 June 2017. © Olivier Hoslet/EPA

The European Union is in the final stages of crafting legislation that will force big tech and internet companies to censor "extremist" content and cooperate with law enforcement, Reuters reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-internet-content/eu-seeks-to-require-internet-firms-to-remove-extremist-content-idUSKCN1LL1ID?il=0).

The bill is expected to be released by the end of the month and will absolutely require companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter to swiftly remove any content considered terroristic from their platforms.

In March, the European Commission told such companies that they had three months to show they were removing "extremist" content more rapidly or face legislation forcing them to do so.

EU recommendations were sent out at the time regarding the speedy removal of all content including terrorist content, incitement to hatred and violence, child sexual abuse material, counterfeit products, and copyright infringement.

The threat eventually led to the creation of an online "code of conduct" aimed at fighting racism and xenophobia across Europe (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/31/facebook-youtube-twitter-microsoft-eu-hate-speech-code), an effort both the EU and big tech collaborated on.

According to European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova, that an existing code of conduct to counter hate speech could remain voluntary.

"(But on) terrorist content, we came to the conclusion that it is too serious a threat and risk for European people that we should have absolute certainty that all the platforms and all the IT providers will delete the terrorist content and will cooperate with law enforcement bodies," Jourova said on Wednesday.

"Yes, this is in the final stage," she added, addressing the new bill.

While details of the new legislation remain hidden, the Financial Times in August learned (https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/20/eu-draft-law-forces-sites-to-remove-extremist-content/) that law enforcement will be in charge of flagging content for censorship.

EU security commissioner Julian King also had mentioned last month that the bill will "likely" turn the agreed upon "code of conduct" into mandatory law, placing the prediction by Jourova that it will remain voluntary on shakey grounds.

The big tech - EU code of conduct establishes "public commitments" for tech companies, including the requirement to review the "majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal hate speech" in less than 24 hours. It was also crafted to make it easier for law enforcement to notify firms directly of any unwanted content.

Within the code is a narrow explanation of "hate speech," being defined as "all conduct publicly inciting to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin."

The nature of enforcing censorship based on a narrow and subjective term such as "hate speech" is likely to keep suspicions high that these types of decision aren't about creating a safer world, but rather a world in which superstates like the EU control the content people see online for political purposes.

Related:

'Please spare us the thought police!'' Top-selling German newspaper says new online hate speech law should be abolished (https://www.sott.net/article/373125-Please-spare-us-the-thought-police-Top-selling-German-newspaper-says-new-online-hate-speech-law-should-be-abolished)

Under new German law, social networks could be hit with hefty fines for 'hate speech' (https://www.sott.net/article/355167-Under-new-German-law-social-networks-could-be-hit-with-hefty-fines-for-hate-speech)

Germany's new hate speech law quickly results in collateral damage - exactly as journalists warned (https://www.sott.net/article/373467-Germanys-new-hate-speech-law-quickly-results-in-collateral-damage-exactly-as-journalists-warned)

Some countries fighting 'fake news' with the law (https://www.sott.net/article/390905-Some-countries-fighting-fake-news-with-the-law)

Hervé

12th September 2018, 15:04

EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet 'link tax' and 'upload filter' (https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved)

James Vincent The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved)
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:12 UTC

https://www.sott.net/image/s24/487655/large/EU_lock.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s24/487655/full/EU_lock.jpg)

The European Parliament has voted in favor of the Copyright Directive (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR12103/parliament-adopts-its-position-on-digital-copyright-rules), a controversial piece of legislation intended to update online copyright laws for the internet age.

The directive was originally rejected by MEPs in July (https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/5/17535874/eu-copyright-law-article-11-13-rejected-first-vote) following criticism of two key provisions: Articles 11 and 13, dubbed the "link tax" and "upload filter" by critics. However, in parliament this morning, an updated version of the directive was approved, along with amended versions of Articles 11 and 13. The final vote was 438 in favor and 226 against.

The fight is far from finished
The fallout from this decision will be far-reaching, and take a long time to settle. The directive itself still faces a final vote in January 2019 (although experts say it's unlikely it will be rejected). After that it will need to be implemented by individual EU member states, who could very well vary significantly in how they choose to interpret the directive's text.

The most important parts of this are Articles 11 and 13. Article 11 is intended to give publishers and papers a way to make money when companies like Google link to their stories, allowing them to demand paid licenses. Article 13 requires certain platforms like YouTube and Facebook stop users sharing unlicensed copyrighted material.

Critics of the Copyright Directive say these provisions are disastrous (https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/19/17480344/eu-european-union-parliament-copyright-article-13-upload-filter). In the case of Article 11, they note that attempts to "tax" platforms like Google News for sharing articles have repeatedly failed (https://www.politico.eu/article/plan-to-make-google-pay-for-news-hits-rocks-copyright-reform-european-commission/), and that the system would be ripe to abuse by copyright trolls.

Article 13, they say, is even worse. The legislation requires that platforms proactively work with rightsholders to stop users uploading copyrighted content. The only way to do so would be to scan all data being uploaded to sites like YouTube and Facebook. This would create an incredible burden for small platforms, and could be used as a mechanism for widespread censorship. This is why figures like Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee came out so strongly (https://www.eff.org/files/2018/06/13/article13letter.pdf) against the directive.

The Copyright Directive is set to reshape the internet globally
However, those backing these provisions say the arguments above are the result of scaremongering by big US tech companies, eager to keep control of the web's biggest platforms. They point to existing laws and amendments to the directive as proof it won't be abused in this way. These include exemptions for sites like GitHub and Wikipedia from Article 13, and exceptions to the "link tax" that allow for the sharing of mere hyperlinks and "individual words" describing articles without constraint.

In remarks following the vote in Parliament this morning, MEP Axel Voss, who has led the charge on Articles 11 and 13, thanked his fellow politicians "for the job we have done together." "This is a good sign for the creative industries in Europe," said Voss. Opposing MEPs like Julia Reda of the Pirate Party described the outcome as "catastrophic."

Despite these disagreements, what's clear is that if the Copyright Directive receives final approval by the European Parliament in January, it will have a huge, disruptive impact on the internet, both in the European Union and around the world. Exactly how the legislation will be interpreted will be up to individual nations, but the shift in the balance of power is clear: the web's biggest tech companies are losing their grip on the internet.

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SOTT Comment: But it's far from only the web's biggest tech companies that will suffer under these draconian new rules. This will fundamentally change how people are able to use the internet, and it's hard to see any positives. Far from being an empowering platform on which people are free to creatively express themselves, under these new rules, the internet could potentially become a limited platform that places overly restrictive limits on what one is able to publish. The only ones who benefit from these new rules will be big media monopolies. Essentially, they're trying to turn the internet into TV.

Related:

European Parliament votes down controversial copyright rules that could have banned memes - final decision only delayed (https://www.sott.net/article/390282-European-Parliament-votes-down-controversial-copyright-rules-that-could-have-banned-memes-final-decision-only-delayed)
Proposed EU 'Copyright Directive' could make memes and remixes illegal to share (https://www.sott.net/article/388518-Proposed-EU-Copyright-Directive-could-make-memes-and-remixes-illegal-to-share)
Campaigners warn memes 'will be banned' under new EU copyright law (https://www.sott.net/article/388027-Campaigners-warn-memes-will-be-banned-under-new-EU-copyright-law)
All your memes are belong to us: Is Europe trying to put an end to memes? (https://www.sott.net/article/388678-All-your-memes-are-belong-to-us-Is-Europe-trying-to-put-an-end-to-memes)

Hervé

12th September 2018, 17:02

Jim Stone's take on the above:

Europe to force tech giants to censor EVERYTHING (http://82.221.129.208/.ye4.html)

EVERYTHING, from memes to music to news will be outlawed

I had to make sure this was not from one of the alt media sites I shun before I posted it, because it is THAT outrageous, but this time it is real: Europe is going to force the tech giants to continuously scan all news the MSM or anyone else produces, all pictures the MSM or anyone else produces, all music, video, the whole 9 yards, and then cross check that text and video and pictures against what people are uploading. If it matches what anyone else uploaded it will be blocked from uploading.

The direct goal is to stop things from going viral on the web, and getting out of control of the powers that be. If the tech giants detect the same text, only the original copy will be allowed to exist. No more viral E-mails, because they will all be scanned and if they are duplicates of one someone else is sending, adios.

Most likely this is being done to stop social movements that are related to exiting the EU or stopping mass immigration. They want any "information disasters" to be contained within small clusters of people and for all information networking to stop, unless it comes from an official source, and is the original copy.

They do not want re-posts of MSM reports, because when people re-post they are able to put their own commentary along with the report and undermine it. Most likely, for all appearances, the material will be "allowed to post" and then be shadow banned, so people don't realize they have been silenced.

I have more detail above than what is in this CNBC report (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/eu-lawmakers-pass-controversial-digital-copyright-law.html) because I have been paying attention to this for a while.

The law behind all of this is stated to "protect original content developers" but the problem is, for example, that even though this web site says right on it that anything on it can be posted by anyone anywhere, the filters that will be put in place will automatically detect a duplicate and prevent anyone from re-posting, with permission or not. They will probably manage special tokens for sites like AP to make sure those reports can exist on multiple MSM outlets at the same time, but as for the rest of us, ADIOS.

NO MORE:

Viral cop beating videos,

evidence leaking out and spreading everywhere,

loss of control of the official narrative,

WHO CARES if only 50 people see Aunt Judy's cat trick, Aunt Judy, a stolen child, and a frazzledrip expose' can just go to hell, "we" dont want that, we are in control, and you will see what we desire you to see and NOTHING ELSE.

Valerie Villars

12th September 2018, 17:21

How are they going to handle things already up, like this forum? In other words, is it going to retroactively delete things on here which aren't "original"?

I remember reading a post by Bill which basically said it would get to the point we could only talk about ourselves and nothing else. Will cutting and pasting work?

I can't believe we have gotten to this point. :facepalm:

norman

12th September 2018, 17:23

The direct goal is to stop things from going viral on the web, and getting out of control of the powers that be.

The best and most concise article I've seen on this yet.

It could even be reduced to the above selection.

Foxie Loxie

12th September 2018, 18:43

Why do the Big Tech Co's have to obey the EU? Is that why Apple went to China? You can tell I am clueless! :sun:

Valerie Villars

12th September 2018, 18:54

Why do the Big Tech Co's have to obey the EU? Is that why Apple went to China? You can tell I am clueless! :sun:

They do if they want to operate there, Foxie. So, we're caught in the net with the rest of the fish. Everyone in EU countries are using the big tech companies just like we are.

Flash

12th September 2018, 20:18

It is time to create similar to facebook and all else, located in small countries, to avoid censorship.

Incredible, the banana republic small countries may become the free ones while they often have been dictatures. And Europe and North America are becoming the thought dictatures as China already is v

Hervé

12th September 2018, 21:59

Why do the Big Tech Co's have to obey the EU? Is that why Apple went to China? You can tell I am clueless! :sun:
Because when dealing with EU sites and material, they have to abide by the EU rules.

norman

18th September 2018, 01:23

The EU Internet legislation even tried to ban selfies with copyrighted objects in the background, and crowd photos of sports events !

A report on the Alex Jones Show (5 minutes)

MP3
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Hervé

6th February 2019, 18:18

France and Germany just cut a deal to save the EU's appalling #CopyrightDirective -- and made it much, much worse (https://boingboing.net/2019/02/05/death-sentence-for-the-web.html)

Cory Doctorow BoingBoing (https://boingboing.net/2019/02/05/death-sentence-for-the-web.html)
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:15 UTC

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The EU's on-again/off-again Copyright Directive keeps sinking (https://boingboing.net/2019/01/19/axel-voss-hostage-freed.html) under its own weight: on the one side, you have German politicians who felt that it was politically impossible to force every online platform to spend hundreds of millions of euros to buy copyright filters to prevent a user from infringing copyright, even for an instant, and so proposed tiny, largely cosmetic changes to keep German small businesses happy; on the other side, you have French politicians who understand that the CEOs of multinational entertainment companies won't stand for any compromise (https://boingboing.net/2019/01/18/ultras-vs-windowdressing.html), or even the appearance of compromise, and so the process fell apart.

That is until Chancellor Merkel and President Macron sat down to broker a deal (https://boingboing.net/2019/01/31/save-eu-fix-copyright.html), in which Merkel caved on every single measure that even looked like it might protect small businesses, co-operatives, nonprofits, and individuals, ending up (https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/) with a deal that guarantees that every existing small platform will be destroyed and no new ones can be started, leaving Europe in the hands of US Big Tech -- forever.

Under the new deal, any platform where the public can communicate will have to buy copyright filters to intercept all public communications and compare them to a database of so-called "copyrighted works" (which anyone, anywhere, can add anything to), and then block anything that appears to be a match.

Not only will these cost hundreds of millions of euros to develop and maintain, they will also block mountains of legitimate speech -- speech that uses copyrighted works but falls under fair dealing, speech that is incorrectly identified as containing copyrighted works, speech that is deliberately suppressed by trolls, censors and frauds who deliberately claim ownership over works in the public domain, or works that other people hold the copyright to.

The "compromise" that Merkel has agreed to is this: platforms don't have to add the filters until they have been in business for three years, or until they make €10m in a single year. That means that every single existing online forum that has been in operation for three years or more must immediately buy filters, even if it's a small online community run by volunteers, or a commercial site with a tiny niche -- like this little, longstanding community (http://www.getreeled.com/) for people who like to fish. Even Patreon -- which exists solely to get artists paid! -- would have to buy filters or pull out of Europe.

But it gets even worse: under the terms of this deal, once a platform makes €5,000,000 in a year, it will be obligated to implement "notice and staydown" -- that is, copyright filters by another name.

And it gets even worse: the new deal requires that every site, no matter how small, noncommercial, or public spirited, must demonstrate that it has taken 'best efforts' to license anything their users might conceivably upload, which means that any time a rightsholder offers you a license for content your users might use, you are obliged to buy it from them, at whatever price they name.

This is the end of the internet as we know it, and the beginning of an era in which all our communications, all our familial relations, political engagements, educational activities, employment-related work, romantic questing, everything, is subordinated to turning the internet into a cable TV system, where the only materials available are those that multinational entertainment corporations approve of. Remember when cable operators promised a digital future where "500 channel universe" of entertainment options were on tap? It's arrived. We just had to kill the web -- the "two billion channel universe" -- to get it.

All is not lost: the next step will be a rubber-stamp where national negotiators for EU member states approve the deal, and then it will go for a vote in the European Parliament, who will have the final say, right before they stand for re-election in European elections this May.

In other words, of all the times that a catastrophic plan could come before Parliament, this is the best (or the least-worst): the moment at which Parliamentarians are most sensitive to their constituents' wishes.

What's more, Europeans hate this: so much so that the petition opposing it is now the the largest petition (https://boingboing.net/2019/01/25/nein-nein-nein.html) in European history, and within spitting distance of being the largest petition in the history of the human race.

There's lots more to come on this, getting people to contact (https://saveyourinternet.eu/) their MEPs ahead of the vote. This is a terrible state of affairs, but at least it is now so obviously, visibly terrible that it's gotten a lot easier to explain to people on the sidelines. Mobilise your friends and family now: the future of our planetary-scale, species-wide electronic nervous system is at stake.

Related:

The EU is about to destroy the Internet (https://www.sott.net/article/387244-The-EU-is-about-to-destroy-the-Internet)

European Parliament votes down controversial copyright rules that could have banned memes - final decision only delayed (https://www.sott.net/article/390282-European-Parliament-votes-down-controversial-copyright-rules-that-could-have-banned-memes-final-decision-only-delayed)

EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet 'link tax' and 'upload filter' (https://www.sott.net/article/395733-EU-approves-controversial-Copyright-Directive-including-internet-link-tax-and-upload-filter)

If you share this you might get sued - EU's new copyright law could kill the free internet (https://www.sott.net/article/396693-If-you-share-this-you-might-get-sued-EUs-new-copyright-law-could-kill-the-free-internet)

YouTube says EU copyright rules could see people banned from uploading videos and poses 'threat' to way site works (https://www.sott.net/article/399039-YouTube-says-EU-copyright-rules-could-see-people-banned-from-uploading-videos-and-poses-threat-to-way-site-works)

Campaigners warn memes 'will be banned' under new EU copyright law (https://www.sott.net/article/388027-Campaigners-warn-memes-will-be-banned-under-new-EU-copyright-law)

norman

6th February 2019, 19:17

My hope is that the EU internet grab is their final move before the people wake up to them and reject them completely.

What this move means is that a huge number of NEW people will wake up and be very angry. People who, until now, have had nothing to do with conspiracy theories and tin foil hat people.

bogdan9310

9th February 2019, 18:46

Censorship is the worst human invention ever, and memes are the best. That's why they want to ban them.

Hervé

16th February 2019, 01:30

European Parliament passes controversial "meme ban" under cover of copyright law (https://futurism.com/this-robot-took-over-as-director-for-a-new-documentary)

Victor Tangermann Futurism (https://futurism.com/this-robot-took-over-as-director-for-a-new-documentary)
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC

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NPC EU

Copyright Directive
The doomsday clock is ticking for European internet users.

Last night, the European Parliament approved (https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1095783373728112640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1095783373728112640&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Feu%2F2019%2F02%2F14%2Feus-final-copyright-reform-upholds-disastrous-upload-filters%2F) the final text of a controversial online copyright law that would force internet platforms to filter everything users upload for copyright - including memes - and charge news aggregators to link to news publications.

The move comes after months of adjustments to the Parliament's proposed Copyright Directive (https://futurism.com/copyright-directive-european-law). Parliament members will gather for a final vote later this year.

Most contentious of all are two Articles included in the proposed Copyright Directive:

Article 11
This rule, dubbed the "link tax," would force news aggregators - including heavyweights like Google News - to get a license from news publishers (https://qz.com/1387466/article-11-and-article-13-the-eu-copyright-law-that-could-overhaul-the-internet/) and remunerate them for linking to their articles.

Parliament member Julia Reda, a prominent opponent of the new law, has argued (https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/extra-copyright-for-news-sites/) that small publishers with less brand recognition could lose out - and that the law could boost fake news by discouraging the sharing of reputable news that would charge more.

Article 13
Arguably even more controversial is Article 13, which some publishers (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-article-13-article-11-european-directive-on-copyright-explained-meme-ban) have called a "meme ban." This rule would force major platforms like YouTube to filter every single upload to prevent copyright infringement.

That could end up severely limiting the freedom of expression and could end up force big corporations to install monitoring and surveillance technology, Reda argued (https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/censorship-machines/). It could also spell doom for meme culture, according to critics.
"Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet, from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users," inventor of the internet Tim Berners-Lee declared in an open letter (https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/delete-article-thirteen-open-letter/13194).
Vague Text
Many critics of the Directive argue that the vague wording (https://thenextweb.com/eu/2018/06/19/the-eus-disastrous-copyright-reform-explained/) could allow for overreaching new rules that could restrict freedom of speech even further. The Parliament's answer: the memes will live on (https://twitter.com/Europarl_EN/status/1095979233283919872).

A lot is at stake for European internet users. The rules that govern what is and what isn't copyright infringement are already hard to discern - and this law could make it even more difficult.

Comment: While we still can...

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ThePythonicCow

16th February 2019, 01:50

Parliament member Julia Reda, a prominent opponent of the new law, has argued (https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/extra-copyright-for-news-sites/) that small publishers with less brand recognition could lose out - and that the law could boost fake news by discouraging the sharing of reputable news that would charge more.
In my cynical view, the arguments that Reda presents will motivate the EU Parliament to vote in favor of this new legislation.

Seabreeze

20th March 2019, 17:24

I just recognized the other day - the destroying of the internet is going on and on.......everything is just totally mixed up.

It use to be easy to look for certain informations by just typing in one or two words into the search engine, but it is not llike this anymore. All kind stuff pops up now, which does not have anything to do with what you did typ in at the first place.

It is sad.

And youtube is getting ruined too...by adds and stuff. And they took of the subtitles section which use to be there for a setting tool. If you want a translation of something now - you have to make your own translation by a seperate translation tool.

This is all backwards by now - steps backwards insteed of forwards.

Back to more complicated and time wasting....not to talk about all the other manipulations and censorships they run on the net today......:frusty:

RunningDeer

20th March 2019, 20:08

Back to more complicated and time wasting....not to talk about all the other manipulations and censorships they run on the net today......:frusty:

Speaking of a time waster, in the last couple of days I noticed with some videos there are two ads to click off before it'll play.

https://i.imgur.com/F8DcMlm.gif...........https://i.imgur.com/f3YN0e3.gif

Hervé

25th March 2019, 01:39

Tens of thousands rally against EU copyright bill (https://www.rt.com/news/454621-eu-copyright-bill-protests/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/454621-eu-copyright-bill-protests/)
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 11:19 UTC

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© People protest against the planned EU copyright reform in Berlin REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Tens of thousands of protesters marched all across Europe to vent their anger at the controversial EU copyright bill critics say will curb freedom to upload content on social media platforms like YouTube or Tumblr.

Europe saw massive rallies on Saturday with countless protesters united by a motto 'Save our Internet'. In Germany alone, as many as forty demonstrations took place. Munich and Berlin were the venues for the largest protests, with 40,000 and 30,000 people taking part.

Many were seen holding hand-made banners that read "We are not bots," "Make art not articles" or "Yes to copyright, not to censorship."

tSxo-TTsyYE

The rallies took place as the European Parliament is set to vote for the EU Copyright Directive. The bill brings existing copyright legislation up-to-date with the demands of the digital age but features clauses that courted controversy among users.

One clause, Article 13, in the directive demands that various online platforms be legally responsible for users that upload copyright-infringing content. Critics argue that the only way to do so is to scrutinize content before it is uploaded, leading to installing filters that will likely be prone to errors.

The rallies specifically targeted Article 13 and addressed fears that filtering content will eventually lead to censorship.

Other European cities have also hosted similar rallies with people uploading photos under a #SaveTheInternet hashtag.

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@Matthijs85, @PP_amsterdam, @Code__Oranje : please RT #SaveYourInternet DEMO DAY 23 maart en 27 april

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(https://twitter.com/falsel_net)Frequently-visited websites and online services followed suit earlier this week protesting the controversial changes. German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak Wikipedias went dark (https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/20/four-wikipedias-to-black-out-over-eu-copyright-directive/) for one day to take a stand on the kind of issue that "may impact Wikipedia and the broader free and open internet."

Meanwhile, any users uploading content on Reddit are shown the following notice.

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From now till 3/23, EU redditors will get a glimpse of what's in store if the new EU Copyright Directive passes.

TL;DR: It sucks.

Learn more about how to contact your MEP and what else you can do to #saveyourinternet (https://twitter.com/hashtag/saveyourinternet?src=hash): https://bit.ly/2ugfFRt (https://t.co/rAk40t5WdN)

1:00 AM - Mar 21, 2019 (https://twitter.com/reddit/status/1108503484633100289)
Adding to the website blackouts and the demonstrations, more than five million netizens (https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet) have signed a Change.org petition calling to withdraw Article 13.

ExomatrixTV

26th March 2019, 17:35

The EU Just Destroyed The Internet #Article11 (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Article11) #Article13 (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Article13)
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⚠️ George Orwell & Aldous Huxley are rolling in their graves ...
'1984' & 'Brave New World' were not suppose to be "instruction manuals".

Valerie Villars

26th March 2019, 17:46

ExomatrixTV

26th March 2019, 17:53

David Icke Talks About Article 13 & The EU (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj5qPbOrqDhAhXOyKQKHQJrCnQQtwIwAHoECC8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKNDVlerkg2o&usg=AOvVaw0JhRvrOGg-88Z2uh311Kph)
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Gerard Batten speaks against Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive
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What is Article 13 and will it Kill Memes? WIRED Explains
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Article 13 Has Been Passed! The Darkest Day in Internet History
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ExomatrixTV

26th March 2019, 18:06

What Happens If Article 13 Passes?
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YouTube is Changing: Article 13 Explained
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The End of the Internet… Death by Article 13 Law
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ExomatrixTV

26th March 2019, 18:12

PLEASE WATCH THIS WITH CC ENGLISH SUB-TITLES:
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ExomatrixTV

26th March 2019, 18:17

Bill Ryan (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?6-Bill-Ryan) Am really saddened that my
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106429-The-EU-Just-Destroyed-The-Internet-Article11-Article13 (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=YfgrI-t455Dzx_J40ow0VizlInl8MTU1MzcxMDIzMEAxNTUzNjIzODMw&stzid=UgyaHzQo_hBMs8v0Unh4AaABAg&q=http%3A%2F%2Fprojectavalon.net%2Fforum4%2Fshowthread.php%3F106429-The-EU-Just-Destroyed-The-Internet-Article11-Article13&event=comments) is "moved" (merged) as a SUB-SECTION to this thread :(
@BillRyan most likely you will defend this admin/moderator decision unless you can see why I think it is very important to have a separate post as intended by me!

Hervé

26th March 2019, 18:18

The EU Just Destroyed The Internet #Article11 (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Article11) #Article13 (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Article13)
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Hello Exo, I merged your recently posted thread with this pre-existing one that's on the same and similar subject and which could have been found with a forum search looking for the phrase "Article 13".

@BillRyan most likely you will defend this admin/moderator decision unless you can see why I think it is very important to have a separate post as intended by me!

See post # 42 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-began...&p=1282531&viewfull=1#post1282531)

ExomatrixTV

26th March 2019, 18:48

@Hervé

You do not get it ... I have a vast network of platforms that I promote my new created post ... now it is "somewhere" ... but not that obvious anymore for my people coming via my original intended link ... very sad :|

ExomatrixTV

26th March 2019, 18:55

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Kristin

26th March 2019, 20:04

Tintin

27th March 2019, 10:12

I remember another thread about this and someone asking Bill what it would mean, should the EU adopt the above articles. Bill said it meant that essentially we would only be able to talk about ourselves.

So Paul or Herve, what's going to happen to this site? Is it all going to be scrubbed clean? All of this wonderful, varied information.

What does this mean for the future of this forum?

Hi Val (and Paul/Hervé may be better skilled with the technicalities here)

I imagine that the forum ought to be/remain reasonably largely unaffected by this, at least at the moment, as the newly passed 'bill', which will not take real effect for a few weeks/months - it isn't mandatory yet as it will still need to be enshrined in nation member states law - applies only to material posted or circulated on platforms within EU member countries (around 28 out of approx 45 European countries).

Our host for the site resides in the US where this, at least I think, wouldn't be applicable.

That's my understanding of the situation, but, would appreciate clarification too as I could have overlooked something possibly quite obvious here.

Tintin

27th March 2019, 11:35

Just for a little clarity, here's what David Icke helpfully outlined in his video (from Dec 2018) that Exomatrix linked to here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-began...&p=1282741&viewfull=1#post1282741).

Obviously things have moved on a little (!) but does provide a guide to the process for those unfamiliar with the workings of the EU. I've sub-edited certain parts as will be obvious.

“The directive will now enter informal negotiations between the European Commission Council and Parliament. (…) organizations will decide on the final wording of the legislation before presenting it to the EU Legal Affairs Committee at some point, most likely around December.

In January 2019 the directive will go back to the European Parliament for a vote on the wording. This is just ahead of elections to the European Parliament (this Spring 2019 - my edit: TQ) so MEPs may well start paying attention to vocal constituents as they start to consider the prospect of their re-election. Assuming the directive passes [yes, this week: TQ] Member States of the EU (28 as at today: TQ) then have two years to pass laws that will bring their law in line with the new regulations. EU directives aren't laws in themselves but simply compel nation governments, national governments, to pass their own laws that make the directives a reality. In other words, they are European law.” [<<not yet national government law per se - TQ]

[edit to add @ 11:51GMT]

Open Rights Group website: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2019/european-parliament-approves-controversial-copyright-directive

"Article 13 (now renamed Article 17 - my edit: TQ) makes Internet platforms directly liable for all user content, giving them no choice but to scan all content with upload filters. To avoid penalties they will err on the side of caution and overblock.
Algorithms fail to grasp context, which is needed to recognise legal exceptions to copyright. That means important research, commentary, creative works and parodies will be mistakenly identified and blocked along with copyright violations."

Hervé

27th March 2019, 13:40

I remember another thread about this and someone asking Bill what it would mean, should the EU adopt the above articles. Bill said it meant that essentially we would only be able to talk about ourselves.

So Paul or Herve, what's going to happen to this site? Is it all going to be scrubbed clean? All of this wonderful, varied information.

What does this mean for the future of this forum?
Wherever there is a flow of anything, there'll always be some Rockefeller or JP Morgan one can count on to install a tap and a counter on it and start levying taxes... like some sort of a TVA/VAT (https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Value+added+tax) system most of the world is using.

Yeah, one wonders what would happen to a site like Biblioteca Pleyades (https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_tema.htm) ?

One solution would consist of turning the site to "Private" with no public access... which is counter the aim of Avalon... and yes, we would just be talking to ourselves with no clues as to what's going on in the world but by accredited MSM.

When Orwell published his 1948 book, deep states around the world had started implementing it... whereas run-of the-mill folks did nothing to counter-act Orwell's nightmarish, prophetic vision but to complain once it became obvious it had become implemented in real reality. God fearing souls, law abiding citizens and... "Gilets Jaunes"... hope of the world?

Praxis

27th March 2019, 13:51

Hervé

27th March 2019, 14:26

ExomatrixTV

27th March 2019, 19:09

EU Approves Article 13 to Try and Destroy the Internet
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ExomatrixTV

27th March 2019, 21:47

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ExomatrixTV

27th March 2019, 23:21

Article 13 Cometh (#SaveYourInternet (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23SaveYourInternet))

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ExomatrixTV

27th March 2019, 23:27

President Trump just met with Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai to discuss the company’s dealings with China as well as “political fairness,” which suggests the president brought up online censorship.

Interestingly, the meeting was not on the president’s schedule; according to a report (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-27/trump-says-he-and-pichai-talked-military-political-fairness), Pichai had initially planned to meet with General Joseph Dunford on Wednesday, who recently blasted Google’s work in China by stating it “indirectly benefits the Chinese military.”

“Typically if a company does business in China, they are automatically going to be required to have a cell of the Communist Party in that company,” he recently stated (https://www.defensenews.com/smr/cultural-clash/2019/03/21/dunford-to-meet-with-google-for-debate-on-chinese-ties/). “And that is going to lead to that intellectual property from that company finding its way to the Chinese military.”

“It is a distinction without a difference between the Chinese Communist Party, the government and the Chinese military.”

These statements by Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, must have caught the president’s attention.

It’s not yet clear if Dunford was at the meeting or if Pichai had met with him separately.

The meeting apparently didn’t revolve entirely around China; the president also indicated that he talked to Pichai about “political fairness” in the US.

Google has been routinely accused of political bias, most recently by the Washington Free Beacon which reported (https://freebeacon.com/politics/google-downplays-searches-for-news-of-no-new-indictments-in-mueller-probe/) evidence suggesting that the search giant was steering users away from the news that the Mueller probe would not lead to any new indictments:

Using Google search on multiple browsers and on private-browsing mode, the Free Beacon found Google search had an aversion to the search term “indictment.”
Using either “Trump” or “Mueller” as the subject, the following word “indictment” was not suggested even after spelling out most of it. For example, putting “Trump indi” into Google’s search bar does not lead to “Trump indictment” but rather to “Trump India,” “Trump India Pakistan,” Trump India tariffs,” and “Trump Indiana.”
This problem did not occur with Google’s search engine competitors, Yahoo and Bing. Those search engines suggested news about the indictments when you typed in the related words.

source (https://www.infowars.com/trump-meets-with-googles-pichai-to-talk-about-political-fairness/)

ExomatrixTV

27th March 2019, 23:52

Article 13 and 11 become the law in EU, the final death blow to fair use
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A Voice from the Mountains

28th March 2019, 02:29

The future of EU Internet after the anti-meme law:

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Praxis

30th March 2019, 15:27

Herve,
I would argue that Orwell was not a future visionary, but he was actually describing the current situation he found himself in. He placed it in the future as to not discomfort people too much.
Why don't you re-read this:

When Orwell published his 1948 book, deep states around the world had started implementing it...

yeah and had started implementing makes it feels like they were just now starting but it was in full swing for at least thirty years prior if not since at least Teddy Roosevelt.

Do you even get why he split the republican ticket with the Bull moose party? Who was elected after that. What did that guy do in 1913?
And then by the mid 30s you have the business plot trying to straight up overthrow the UNited States government using Smedley Butler,

This is not "had started implementing" in 1948, That is full blown in operation, especially considering the National Security act having been passed in 1947 which was essentially putting in legal writing the coup that did happen with the business plot but just went into shadows.

But keep being spicy.

Hervé

2nd April 2019, 14:32

Can the EU survive its own censorship? (https://tomluongo.me/2019/03/27/can-the-eu-survive-its-own-censorship/)

Tom Luongo Gold, Goats 'n Guns (https://tomluongo.me/2019/03/27/can-the-eu-survive-its-own-censorship/)
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:01 UTC

https://www.sott.net/image/s25/516411/large/article_13_eu_parliment_memes.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s25/516411/full/article_13_eu_parliment_memes.jpg)

The EU's new, comprehensive new Copyright Directive passed the European Parliament ensuring the way we use the Internet will change in the future.

And not for the better.

The controversial parts are Articles 11 and 13, the "link tax" and the "upload filter" requirements. For a good run down of how terrible these new rules are look anywhere on the internet but this article at Gizmodo (https://gizmodo.com/the-end-of-all-thats-good-and-pure-about-the-internet-1826963763) (who I hope doesn't charge me a link tax for doing so!) will do.

I would also watch this video from Dave Cullen, a resident of Ireland, i.e. the EU, as to what he thinks this means.

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Dave makes a number of fantastic points about the ramifications of Articles 11 and 13 which I will not dispute.

The arrogance and pig-headedness of EU MEPs to push this through without even listening to arguments for Amendments speaks volumes as to how much this legislation was bought and paid for.

And you know who was doing the buying. The same folks currently behind destroying Brexit - The Davos Crowd. I don't want to put too fine a point on this now, since I've covered all this recently (here (https://tomluongo.me/2019/03/20/censorship-government-control-christchurch/)) and in the past (here ). (https://tomluongo.me/2017/12/16/net-neutrality-the-end-of-googles-biggest-subsidy/)

Controlling The Wire
But there are very valid reasons why this push for control of information flow from the EU is yet another example of their desperations to keep control of what I've in the past called (https://tomluongo.me/2018/11/18/can-we-escape-control-of-the-wire/) The Wire: (https://tomluongo.me/2018/11/18/can-we-escape-control-of-the-wire/)
In short, The Wire is the main conduit through which we communicate with each other. Even money is The Wire. What are prices if not information about what we are willing to part with our money in exchange for?

Without The Wire modern society fails. So, government can't shut it down but neither can it allow unrestrained access to it.

Electricity, commerce, communications, everything, goes over The Wire.

This isn't a radical concept but like all important ideas, once it is presented to you you can't unsee it. Control of The Wire is the only fight that matters or has ever mattered in society. The Internet is The Wire writ large. Therefore, it only makes sense that control of it is paramount to maintaining any control over society at large.

The corporate oligarchs are in fear for their projects. They want desperately to maintain control. They've worked for decades to evolve the nation-state into the new shiny transnational superstate the EU exemplifies.

The new Copyright Directive is designed to erect barriers-to-entry and shut down opposition speech by outsourcing the enforcement to the platforms hosting the material.

And those platforms are only too happy to do this because they get to crowd out any potential competition. So, while their costs increase slightly, they are now immune to the competition which would grind out their margins to zero over time, as any unfettered market would.

Remember, that in all human endeavors profit is an ever-elusive thing. With incentives properly aligned someone is always attracted to the profit someone else is achieving and will figure out a way to build a better mousetrap, as it were, grinding out that profit.

If you can short-circuit this process via control of The Wire then you can guarantee a profit for your past work for far longer than you would otherwise.

This is known as rent.

Fake Property, False Choices
This is why the music and film industry want their IP protected from 'fair use' policies. They see the plummeting margins and want to continue charging on a per use/listen/view basis things they retain the copyright to far beyond the public's willingness to pay them.

It's too expensive for these companies to go after us individually. That doesn't work except in very limited ways. Yes, they can de-platform Alex Jones or Sargon of Akkad ad hoc but with predictable backlash against it.

Enshrining it in law takes this, however, to another level. And it is a yet another Hobson's Choice put before people to either accept regulation of these companies as public utilities - ensuring their monopoly status - or render the internet unusable.

This Directive is pure protectionism of legacy media producers be it news, music, film, etc. whose business models haven't just collapsed they're literally now subsidized by other profitable industries, i.e. the Washington Post is, effectively, an Amazon company.

So, in effect, Article 11 and 13 are just typical corporatist honey pots, at least in theory.

But it is all bad? Is the future to be this and more laws and controls like this?

Likely not.

IP Deflation
Let's look specifically at the link tax. To do this we have to look at a worst-case scenario where the EU disregards all cross-border treaty and tax-enforcement issues and our governments go along with this nonsense.

So, I want to link to an article in Der Speigel to make some point about Angela Merkel.

To do so now, under Article 13, I have to get a license to link from them and pay a fee. Let's call that fee €100. Instead of paying that fee my natural reaction would be to not link to it and just make reference to it.

I'll quote it and not put in a link.

If that doesn't work and WordPress takes my post down, I'll screencap the relevant section of the article (4chan-style) and then not link to it. This requires a more sophisticated sniffer to figure out what I did.

And in the worst case if they figure that out, I'll simply not even quote them anymore. And I'll write the article in such a way that I don't need to. They don't get the traffic anymore. They never got the license fee.

The result is they fall in the Google search rankings.

And I get to keep my traffic up and my audience happy.

Who wins here? Me or them?

Me.

Especially if I keep my link license fee set for my content at what it's worth, zero.

To me a link is free advertising. I know that each one is a gift that pays huge dividends. I cherish people who contact me for permission to scrape my work.

The whole point of what I do is to reach as wide an audience as possible. Why would I put up barriers to that?

You have to put this in perspective. Ninety five percent of the news you read is a restatement of a government or corporate press release. If you think someone can't reprint government or corporate press releases for less than €100 a head you are crazy.

Just like it is in retail sales. Amazon is killing local retailers because easily cross-shopped items are simply more efficiently delivered without a brick and mortar storefront. The costs of maintaining it and people going to the central location is a waste of scarce, precious capital.

It's an old model without a future.

News organizations that don't add anything but only disseminate the same stuff but with a slightly different spin on it won't be able to charge a dime for links. Functionally, for 95% of news, is there any difference between Yahoo!, MSN, CNN or FOX?

No.

If you produce something that is value-added people will figure out a way to justify to themselves paying for it. Advertising covers some of that cost. If they don't it isn't lost revenue, it was revenue you never had in the first place at that price.

In the Internet business eyeballs are everything. Losing eyeballs for link taxes is just bad business.

The Last War
So the EU just gave these sclerotic, dying industries everything they've ever wanted. But, in the long run, it will be their undoing as it will incentivize an entire generation of citizen journalists to fill in the niches and do primary research.

Moreover, it will be unenforceable at any practical level, as Dave Cullen points out. The EU will itself cause a cratering of traffic to and from its IP ranges.

As the cost of The Wire drops on a per megabyte basis, think 5G, so too does the cost to resist control of it. Lower bandwidth costs makes possible peer-to-peer networking and decentralized autonomous organizations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization) that even the most hardened crypto-enthusiast haven't conceived of yet.

And once there are no middle men to go after and turn into the copyright police, we're back to them going after individuals again. At that point it's game over.

That's a long way off at this point and the present will be difficult, at best, to navigate. But we're not flat-footed here. I do feel for guys like Dave Cullen who build great content and now are looking at real constraints.

I don't envy them in the slightest.

But to me this feels like just another desperation move by old men fighting the last war to hold onto The Wire that's slipping out of their fingers, writing laws out of date before they are even implemented.

Related:

EU copyright law kills free speech online - that's a feature, not a bug (https://www.sott.net/article/409942-EU-copyright-law-kills-free-speech-online-thats-a-feature-not-a-bug)

EU Copyright Directive: Europe just voted to change the face of the internet, backing new wildly unpopular laws (https://www.sott.net/article/409939-EU-Copyright-Directive-Europe-just-voted-to-change-the-face-of-the-internet-backing-new-wildly-unpopular-laws)

Tens of thousands rally against EU copyright bill (https://www.sott.net/article/409787-Tens-of-thousands-rally-against-EU-copyright-bill)

Largest public petition in Europe's history rails against Article 13 - which will allow for an internet "oligopoly" in the name of copyright infringement (https://www.sott.net/article/408530-Largest-public-petition-in-Europes-history-rails-against-Article-13-which-will-allow-for-an-internet-oligopoly-in-the-name-of-copyright-infringement)

European Parliament passes controversial "meme ban" under cover of copyright law (https://www.sott.net/article/407346-European-Parliament-passes-controversial-meme-ban-under-cover-of-copyright-law)

The EU Copyright Directive spells the end of a free and open Internet - you could tip the balance (https://www.sott.net/article/405127-The-EU-Copyright-Directive-spells-the-end-of-a-free-and-open-Internet-you-could-tip-the-balance)

norman

3rd April 2019, 15:40

Beyond Censorship: Destroying Free Thought Online

Nothing you don't already know, instinctively, but the commentary language needs burning in so we can string better groups of words together on the battlefield of ideas and memes, assuming we still have one.

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norman

9th April 2019, 12:33

Welcome to the GOOGLAG

The Myth of the Unbiased Search Engine

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WildOrchid

9th April 2019, 18:01

Election film that tells the truth about Finland and Europe banned from cinemas due to “racism”.
Still available on YouTube...Nuj9OE_ykHY
Read full article...https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/election-film-that-tells-the-truth-about-finland-and-europe-banned-from-cinemas-due-to-racism

Sophocles

11th April 2019, 16:17

New Leak Reveals Google Manually Manipulates News Blacklist (https://pjmedia.com/trending/new-leak-reveals-google-manually-manipulates-news-blacklist/?fbclid=IwAR3kbYaQn-gy2mLNJelYuZQUfX5AbT88acc3CDaUV47BdDEg0PqwOgXoltk)

By Tyler O'Neil
April 9, 2019
pjmedia.com (https://pjmedia.com/)

https://static.pjmedia.com/trending/user-content/51/files/2018/05/Google-Logo.sized-770x415xt.jpg
Google logo. (Photo: Sipa France via AP Images)

New documents confirm that Google maintains and manually alters a news media blacklist that has targeted conservative outlets.

Two official policies called the "misrepresentation policy" and the "good neighbor policy" contribute to the company's "XPA news blacklist," maintained by Google's Trust & Safety team, The Daily Caller's J. Arthur Bloom reported (https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/google-news-blacklist-search-manipulation/) Tuesday. "T&S will be in charge of updating the blacklist when there is a demand," one of the documents reads.

Many search features use "the deceptive_news domain blacklist" to filter out sites that violate the misrepresentation and good neighbor policies, according to the document The Daily Caller unearthed. It was approved by Ben Gomes, Google's head of search, Google Fellow Pandu Nayak, and software engineer Paul Haahr. Haahr is also involved in "fringe ranking: not showing fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, or science/medical/history denial unless we're sure that's what the user wants."

The blacklist aims "to bar the sites from surfacing in any Search feature or news product. It will not cause a demotion in the organic search results or de-index them altogether." Targeted sites are not be removed from the "ten blue links" of the search results, but they are removed from most other search features.

A section of the memo describes the types of results impacted: results that show content from news publishers, results that give single answers, and results that show content owned, licensed, or edited by Google.

A memo about the deceptive news blacklist, last edited on December 3, 2018, describes how a site can be blacklisted for deceptive news. Bloom noted one important sentence: "The investigation of the watchlist is done in the tool Athena, the Ares manual review tool, and intakes signals from Search, Webspan, and Ares in order to complete reviews."

Bloom emphasized the "manual review tool" involved in maintaining the blacklist. This shows that Google employees manually alter the blacklist. He claimed this contradicted Google CEO Sundar Pichai's testimony (https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/12/flaherty-google-pichai/) before the House Judiciary Committee on December 11: "This is working at scale, we don't manually intervene on any particular search result."

Dr. Robert Epstein, a Ph.D. psychologist who studies tech engine manipulation, insisted this means Pichai lied to Congress. "We also have further confirmation that Google's CEO lied to Congress," he told PJ Media. He said he knows about ten blacklists, and there are likely more.

Just out: another leak from #Google (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Google?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) showing that the company manually adjusts what we see in search results & that G's CEO lied to Congress. It's done by #blacklisting (https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklisting?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw), as I explained in 2016 here: https://t.co/THZqV4LBN5 (https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated) The new leak is described here: https://t.co/bRj4mUmk8J (https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/google-news-blacklist-search-manipulation/)

— Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) April 9, 2019 (https://twitter.com/DrREpstein/status/1115720824395321344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

After Bloom published his story at The Daily Caller, a Google spokesperson responded to his request for comment. "We do not manually determine the order of any search result, nor do our algorithms or policies attempt to make any judgement on the political leanings of a website," the statement read. "Our Google News inclusion policies are publicly available online. They provide guidelines on content and behaviors for matters like sponsored content, deceptive practices, and more."

"Sites that do not adhere to these policies are not eligible to appear on news surfaces or in information boxes in Search," the Google spokesperson added. "These policies do not impact the way these sites appear in organic blue-link Google Search results."

UPDATE: A Google spokesperson has provided the following statement to @DailyCaller (https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw), which has been added to the story https://t.co/bzGvm3k2nr (https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/google-news-blacklist-search-manipulation/) pic.twitter.com/9HJfZH6LrN (https://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom/status/1115725165910994945/photo/1)

— J. Arthur Bloom (@j_arthur_bloom) April 9, 2019 (https://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom/status/1115725165910994945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

This statement did not contradict the document Bloom had uncovered. Google does manually choose which websites go on the blacklist, and that blacklist does determine many Google Search results. It seems Google emphasizes the distinction between selecting sites on the blacklist and "manually intervening in any particular search result."

Google's liberal bias is well-known and well documented. PragerU sued Google (https://pjmedia.com/trending/round-2-prageru-lawsuit-claims-google-youtube-violated-calif-law-on-free-speech-discrimination/) for viewpoint discrimination and former Google software engineer James Damore filed a lawsuit (https://pjmedia.com/trending/james-damore-sues-google-discriminating-white-men/) for discriminating against white men. He told PJ Media liberals at Google search for conservatives to get them fired (https://pjmedia.com/trending/james-damore-google-leftists-dig-through-a-private-conservative-mailing-list-to-get-people-fired/), and terrified conservatives are "in the closet" (https://pjmedia.com/trending/terrified-conservatives-at-google-are-in-the-closet-james-damore-says/) at Google.

A Google executive bragged about helping (https://pjmedia.com/video/google-exec-boasted-about-helping-hillary-clinton-by-boosting-latino-turnout-in-2016/) to increase Latino turnout in 2016, hoping it would help Hillary Clinton. Epstein's research has concluded that Google bias may account for all of Clinton's 2016 popular vote margin (https://pjmedia.com/trending/new-movie-claims-google-handed-the-popular-vote-to-hillary-clinton-in-2016/).

As for the blacklist itself, it includes many conservative sites, including Gateway Pundit, Matt Walsh's blog, Gary North's blog "teapartyeconomist.com," Caroline Glick's website, Conservative Tribune, and the American Spectator.

Source (https://pjmedia.com/trending/new-leak-reveals-google-manually-manipulates-news-blacklist/?fbclid=IwAR3kbYaQn-gy2mLNJelYuZQUfX5AbT88acc3CDaUV47BdDEg0PqwOgXoltk)

norman

15th April 2019, 14:48

Hmm . . whatever happened to this idea ?

The Stop Social Media Censorship Act

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Stop Social Media Censorship Act (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJOLTKYdICsS9o-30bwmXYg)
Published on 12 Sep 2018

Understanding the Stop Social Media Censorship Act stopsocialmediacensorshipact.com

This is a bill that will force website giants like Facebook and Twitter to stop censoring users for religious and political reasons. By Special Forces Of Liberty.

Franny

16th April 2019, 05:52

As for the blacklist itself, it includes many conservative sites, including Gateway Pundit, Matt Walsh's blog, Gary North's blog "teapartyeconomist.com," Caroline Glick's website, Conservative Tribune, and the American Spectator.

...and it's also censoring a number of liberal websites, you know, the kind that agree on many issues with...conservatives! Maybe we could sorta come together, maybe be friends kinda? Kinda step on the social engineering divide and rule thing that wants us to look for some reason to despise the 'other'?

greybeard

19th April 2019, 11:00

Censorship requires that "they" know everything you do online.
Now this may be off topic but received this today via @
from Talktalk
"Hi,
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Very caring but how do they know?
I switch the router off when I dont need the internet--its off all night too.
If I watch TV through their box I have it on.
Most times I watch TV is on my laptop.

Just as well Im not paranoid.

Chris

Valerie Villars

19th April 2019, 12:18

Next they will be sending messages that say "Hi, we noticed you may want to change your underwear and trim those nose hairs." Spooky.

Delight

19th April 2019, 16:48

Some of us belong to multiple forums and what I experienced on one small forum is IMO evidence that people have been brain washed and now are policing themselves and all they can influence. Something is eroding the ability for people to tolerate any view that does not suit their own beliefs. Once lined up on a belief, they will go to extremes and willingly shut down others' speaking against "them".

The contant refrain that we all are being assaulted by nut case conspirators (EVEN in this supposed free thought world of the "alternative" view) is changing people's mind. Even those who think they are open-minded succomb to being agents of the thought police.

What happened in my case is that I created a thread where I hoped to link free speech assaults on two fronts that IMO show the same mode and evidence. IMO government has been overcome by corporatocracy and the show down is our basic right to share the truth. The two examples I used are the arrest of Julian Assange (evidence of the shut down of free speech in journalism) and shut down of free speech concerning vaccine skepticism by journalists and ordinary people.

The first example is evidence that even when a journalist uncovers true crime committed against innocent people (care of the military industrial complex)... this will no longer be tolerated so journalists BEWARE.

The second is that the pharmaceutical industrial owns government public health policy and that dissent in the case of mandatory vaccination is being eliminated.
In both cases mainstream media (including social media like youtube) is managed by the power of the corporate machine.

That is my hypothesis. Perhaps I am mistaken but I would seek reasoned arguments. There IS credible information supporting my view that vaccine hesitant viewpoints are not because I am part of an Anti-Vax Crazy conspiracy. there are many saying that arrest of Assange heralds a chilling trend for journalistic freedom.

What shocked me is to have the forum moderator write that the forum would need to declare its OFFICIAL disclaimer and that depending on the thrust of my posts, place the thread under known hoaxes and mis-information. How dare I link these two topics? Vaccines have been proven safe and effective.

Seems proof of my concerns. I am beginning to like the meme "Hindsight is 2020".

norman

4th May 2019, 00:48

This woman is as funny as she is intelligent . . I love her to bits . . .

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norman

4th May 2019, 00:58

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norman

4th May 2019, 12:25

What can I say, Tucker Carlson has been banging the nails square for quite a while, and this is no exception.

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Delight

4th May 2019, 16:51

"They will come after everyone".

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norman

6th May 2019, 23:29

My current guess is that the last minute brick in the wall be to ban Trump from Twitter in the last month or two of the 2020 campaign.

The later the better. That will give he and his followers the least amount of time to recover from the hit before polling day.

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ThePythonicCow

7th May 2019, 00:21

My current guess is that the last minute brick in the wall be to ban Trump from Twitter in the last month or two of the 2020 campaign.

The later the better. That will give he and his followers the least amount of time to recover from the hit before polling day.

Or perhaps Twitter will selectively shadowban Trump near the November 2020 election date, allowing those whose minds are probably already made up, either way, to see Trump's twitters, and allowing anyone to directly link to them, but not proactively telling likely swing voters of new Trump tweets.

norman

7th May 2019, 12:37

This video, might at first not seem to be about the topic of this thread, and as the title of this thread uses the word 'internet' rather than 'social media', it's technically true.

But, I do wonder if the issue covered in this video will extend as far as social media companies.

Remains to be seen.

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It’s the NSD that is tasked with enforcing the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law passed by Congress that requires all persons working on behalf of a foreign government or entity to disclose that by registering and affirming they are representing foreign and not U.S. interests in their influencing activities.

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norman

11th May 2019, 00:22

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Delight

11th May 2019, 00:42

I think this goes here... The media is being censored and we are censoring ourselves via "political correctness". The end is planned where we will not be able to see or hear anything the authorities do not want us to access.

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ThePythonicCow

11th May 2019, 04:26

Franny

11th May 2019, 18:48

Beyond Censorship: Destroying Free Thought Online

Often, when listening to a video I'm doing something in the house, painting recently, or out for a walk so I don't always catch everything. When I first listened to this video I was also occupied and missed a few things. So in looking for something on censorship to send to a friend I remembered this one and was re-listening to it last night while putting UV film on some windows.

At 16:56, first Mr Obama, then Mr Trump along with Mr Gates here and there, give their views on information and the internet. But the whole vid is worthwhile. It's about 50 minutes so you may want to be painting also :)

Mr Trump's frustration with his late ordeal shows. But one thought leads to another and it reminded me of a Florida court decision about 10 - 12 years ago regarding the reporting of news. The court ruled that the media did not have an obligation to tell the truth in reporting.

The case originated with a team of reporters from Fox investigating the dangers of bovine hormone rGBH in milk. After the report was read on the news, Monsanto got in touch with the station and requested it be withdrawn with an apology. The reporters refused citing their ethics and obligations to report the truth.

They were then offered a financial package deal to withdraw and apologize then leave their positions but they refused and were fired. It went to court and that decision has been used as a precedent ever since.

Addressing this issue would be a step in the right direction.

But I digress, here's the video on censorship.

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ThePythonicCow

11th May 2019, 20:06

But one thought leads to another and it reminded me of a Florida court decision about 10 - 12 years ago regarding the reporting of news. The court ruled that the media did not have an obligation to tell the truth in reporting.

The case originated with a team of reporters from Fox investigating the dangers of bovine hormone rGBH in milk. After the report was read on the news, Monsanto got in touch with the station and requested it be withdrawn with an apology. The reporters refused citing their ethics and obligations to report the truth.

They were then offered a financial package deal to withdraw and apologize then leave their positions but they refused and were fired. It went to court and that decision has been used as a precedent ever since.
I presume you are reminded of this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wilson_(reporter)

ThePythonicCow

11th May 2019, 20:10

But I digress, here's the video on censorship.
See also Post #66 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-began...&p=1283997&viewfull=1#post1283997), earlier in this same thread, where norman posted this as well.

Franny

11th May 2019, 22:24

Ah...thanks. I did a search on the video and the title and did not find it on the forum so posted it.

Bill Ryan

11th May 2019, 22:27

Jon Rappoport's Wordpress blog has been suspended.

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com

This is NOT a good omen — for any of us.

The last archive is here, as of 2 days ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190509171103/https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com (https://web.archive.org/web/20190509171103/https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/)

His own site http://nomorefakenews.com (http://www.nomorefakenews.com/) is still up and running, so presumably he'll soon tell us just what happened.

Franny

11th May 2019, 22:33

Jon Rappoport's Wordpress blog has been suspended.
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com
This is NOT a good omen — for any of us.

The last archive is here, as of 2 days ago.

This is not good.

Oddly I was wondering just a few days ago if he would be suspended. He has the free blog and WP has no hesitation it seems, in dropping dissenters.

Hervé

11th May 2019, 23:55

"... I told you so..." from Jim Stone:

I have stated repeatedly that if you are not on your own platform, you will be de-platformed (http://82.221.129.208/.wl7.html)

How many times over the years? A couple times a year at least - more than 10 times - and worse, if your OWN web site is using Wordpress just because it was a Cpanel feature that came along with it, they will deplatform those also. Probably the only safe thing to use is Weebly site builder that is also in Cpanel from most providers, but I don't use that either, I am just straight hand typed code. Weebly is supposed to be OK for a novice. ANYWAY -

I will once again repeat what I have said all along. Wordpress, Blogger and ALL of these other venues (need I mention Faceplant?) were set up to trap conservatives and others going against the leftist status quo, with great service provided for years for FREE, - great service that made it unnecessary to know how to run a web site (so many opted to not spend a couple weeks and learn it) and instead posted to these TRAPS that made it all look well. And the trap has now sprung.

This web site is not exactly invisible I'd say, for years it was well above Popular Science, the SPLC and many other well known sites (and probably still is) so it is not like my warning was invisible.

But, was it believed?

[...]

Anyway -

to anyone else out there who thinks Wordpress and others are going to be there for them tomorrow - if you really think so, you are blind as a bat in total darkness and flying in an anechoic chamber.

Reality is going to hit you like the wall. You had damn well better get your site moved NOW and if places like Blogger could handle you, a shared server will work fine. Do it cheap. You'll be OK. Preferably in Iceland. Look up Orangewebsite and set up there. You'll at least have a chance.
If you don't heed this warning and end up gone, you never realized just how bad the situation is, obviously. And that will reflect STRONGLY on the legitimacy of your reporting - if you did not see this coming who the * are you anyway? Had to say it. Not polite. Had to say it.

So many are gone now that there are few left to save. But it is not like I did not warn people, I did, in spades.

Don't expect tomorrow to not bite your *ss like a starved piranha, you had better move off enemy provided platforms like your butt is getting chewed or you won't have a place at all.
ONCE YOU DON'T HAVE A PLACE, YOU CAN'T TELL PEOPLE WHERE YOU WENT. You'll be starting from ABSOLUTE ZERO with total search engine censorship.

You'll be erased.

You will not be "starting over".
GET OFF YOUR BUTT NOW AND PREVENT YOUR ERASURE.

ThePythonicCow

12th May 2019, 04:41

Jon Rappoport's Wordpress blog has been suspended.
Those of us who were on Jon's email list received the following about 14 hours ago now. This is the last I've seen or heard of or from Jon, since then.

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http://thepythoniccow.us/jon_rappaport_nomorefakenews.png

How Exit From The Matrix could change your life

by Jon Rappoport

One way or another, 99.99999999% of the world's "spiritual systems" get around to denying individual power. Eventually, they all proclaim that power is coming from someplace else.

Modern science is no better. It defines the mind as the brain and nothing more.

On top of all this, individuals limit their own power, which, if exercised, would exceed reality.

Imagination is the often-forgotten force in the core of the human being.

In putting together my mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix (http://marketplace.mybigcommerce.com/exit-from-the-matrix/), I laid out two decades of work in developing specific techniques and exercises that expand the scope and range of the imagination.

These exercises make the creative power of the individual available.

This is the journey from What Already Exists to What Could Exist.

Not just in theory, but through action, through employing untapped reservoirs of power and energy.

For a brief time there was a key in ancient Tibet, where practitioners and students committed themselves to the expansion of imagination in unprecedented ways.

Before the doldrums of top-down rule set in, these adventurous souls practiced techniques that liberated the creative impulse to an extraordinary degree.

I found clues and used them. Applied them to the world we live in now.

Exit From The Matrix is the realization of those clues, fleshed out, clarified, and embedded in techniques and exercises anyone can do on a daily basis.

===============

Hervé

12th May 2019, 11:10

That's also his last entry at: https://nomorefakenews.com/

Exit From The Matrix: unlimited power of imagination (https://nomorefakenews.com/)
by Jon Rappoport May 11, 2019

One way or another, 99.99999999% of the world’s “spiritual systems” get around to denying individual power. Eventually, they all proclaim that power is coming from someplace else. Modern science is no better. It defin...
which links to the "Suspended" page by WordPress.

ThePythonicCow

12th May 2019, 17:11

Four days ago now, on May 8, 2019, Steve Hargadon of the Future of Education (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyFzU-2lzonYuWakz0HqEA) Youtube channel uploaded this interview with Jon Rappoport, which has a focus on education (not surprisingly, given Hargadon's focus):
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arwen

12th May 2019, 18:05

Jon Rappoport posted this on his Facebook profile 3 hours ago, with a link to his Blog which shows the suspension notice:

Jon Rappoport
3 hrs ·

"[Digital] libraries burn down during [info] wars." -- Alex Jones (August 11, 2018)

For the latest developments, sign up for my email list, here: https://j.mp/1HvKCU1

https://nomorefakenews.com/

Someone found the archived version of his blog, linked here (https://web.archive.org/web/20190511071426/https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/).

ThePythonicCow

12th May 2019, 19:30

As best as I can tell, Google search engine seems to censoring search results from projectavalon.net for Jon Rappoport.

Google returns just 1 hit, dated back in June 25, 2018, for site:projectavalon.net "jon rappoport", between June 1, 2018 and today May 12, 2019.

Yandex returns 513 hits for "projectavalon.net" "jon rappoport" between June 1, 2018 and today May 12, 2019.

About a half hour ago, I used my Google Search Console Webmaster account for projectavalon.net to request that Google run their run their crawler over this specific page. So far this page, or any other page since June of 2018 on our site mentioning "Jon Rappoport" is not showing up in Google's search index.

Google is crawling other pages on ProjectAvalon.net, so they still know and admit that we are here. They can return many, some quite recent, results for the search site:projectavalon.net "corey goode"

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P.S. -- Hey GoogleBot -- I dare you to index this comment :).

ThePythonicCow

12th May 2019, 20:40

About a half hour ago, I used my Google Search Console Webmaster account for projectavalon.net to request that Google run their run their crawler over this specific page. So far this page, or any other page since June of 2018 on our site mentioning "Jon Rappoport" is not showing up in Google's search index.
I was able to get the Google Bot to look at this page, with the above efforts.

It has now been about an hour and a half since Googlebot loaded this page.

Google still cannot return any results for site:projectavalon.net "jon rappoport" that are more recent than June 25, 2018.

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So, not only is Jon Rappoport "off the air", any effort to start a wider discussion about this amongst other websites, or to share information with others searching for information about the suspension of Jon Rappoport's blog, is also hindered.

Constance

12th May 2019, 20:47

For a brief time there was a key in ancient Tibet, where practitioners and students committed themselves to the expansion of imagination in unprecedented ways.

A complete utterance of truth, right there.

Thanks for sharing Paul. :heart:

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan

Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. Steven Spielberg

The man who has no imagination has no wings. Muhammad Ali

ThePythonicCow

12th May 2019, 21:28

So, not only is Jon Rappoport "off the air", any effort to start a wider discussion about this amongst other websites, or to share information with others searching for information about the suspension of Jon Rappoport's blog, is also hindered.
Looking at the Avalon server logs to see who has visited this page, I see that about half the visitors are Avalon members, and that the other half are guests who appear to be browsing our forum, sampling a few threads that look interesting to them, including it happens this thread.

I did not see anyone who came directly to this thread from a search engine.

A year or two ago, another person I follow, Miles Mathis, had his website go down for a day, due to technical issues. I posted that outage here, and Miles happened on my post, from a Google search for any reports of his website outage. He sent me an update to post on his website's status, and a correction to what I had already posted.

No such connections will happen this time, for Jon Rappoport will not find this thread with a Web search.

It's not just Google. For various reasons, no search engine that I can find so far has found these posts of the last day on this thread about Jon Rappoport.

Hervé

12th May 2019, 21:37

[...]
So, not only is Jon Rappoport "off the air", any effort to start a wider discussion about this amongst other websites, or to share information with others searching for information about the suspension of Jon Rappoport's blog, is also hindered.
As Jim Stone stated:

[...]
ONCE YOU DON'T HAVE A PLACE, YOU CAN'T TELL PEOPLE WHERE YOU WENT.

You'll be starting from ABSOLUTE ZERO with total search engine censorship.

You'll be erased.
[...]

Caliban

12th May 2019, 23:01

I went to Rappoport's site https://nomorefakenews.com/ (which is coming up # 1 when you put his name in Google) to link to his latest Wordpress blog post only to discover he's been suspended. As of now, he doesn't have his blog writings on his main site. But at least that's still showing up when you search the Google deity.

He's still got an active Twitter going too.

That Wordpress has suspened or cancelled his blog is astonishing. Jon is a very measured guy, no Jones type ranting or speculating. Jon presents facts--as he knows them and has discovered them. If he "speculates," it's only in the areas of imagination and mind expansion which is also a favorite of his.

I would venture to guess that what did it is his writings on Vaccines, which he's done extensively. It's clear they're ramping up that that propoganda big time so it's time to go Jon boy. What is next? Will the ISPs now start to delete the sites of its customers based on a totally arbitrary and 1st amendment rights violating bs story? We're watching those rights get shredded right now.

ThePythonicCow

12th May 2019, 23:35

As Jim Stone stated:

[...]
ONCE YOU DON'T HAVE A PLACE, YOU CAN'T TELL PEOPLE WHERE YOU WENT.

You'll be starting from ABSOLUTE ZERO with total search engine censorship.

You'll be erased.
[...]

Appearing on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Senator Chuck Schumer famously said, “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you".4Py25LPuv-c

Well, Google, as owner of (1) the premier browser, (2) the premier search engine, (3) the premier email service, (4) the premier video sharing service, (5) the premier automatic language translation service, (6) the premier mapping service, (7) the premier mobile operating system, (8) the premier CAPTCHA bot detector, (9) the premier HTTPS "secure" website certificates standards setter, (10) the premier user tracking and location services, and one of (11) the premier DNS services ... has (did I leave any out?) eleven ways from Sunday to get back at you, all synergistically entwined for improved "effect."

Oh - and Google and their parent company Alphabet are rumored to be closely connected to the "intelligence community" that Chuck Schummer was speaking of, above.

norman

13th May 2019, 00:55

Oh - and Google and their parent company Alphabet are rumored to be closely connected to the "intelligence community" that Chuck Schummer was speaking of, above.

And it doesn't stop there either. Keep going till you get to China.

ThePythonicCow

13th May 2019, 02:24

Rappoport posted the following on his twitter feed (https://twitter.com/jonrappoport), which is apparently something similar to what arwen reported in Post #95 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-began...&p=1291162&viewfull=1#post1291162) above that Rappoport posted on his Facebook page -- a simple announcement of the suspension of his Blog, without any hint of his plans.

http://thepythoniccow.us/jon_rappaport_wordpress_blog_twitter.png

Hervé

13th May 2019, 11:05

Jon's blurb at the top of his https://nomorefakenews.com/ column:

SIGN UP FOR EMAIL LIST HERE (https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001ud8mz_jvjBTzOkGbZdiJBo46JUQr27arzc7iB14AY5JhIaw72kpP6Pri-HboC7JwdJNF19nlyXqkqdjbXK0dCOw_S_ORPVSimGeG4mEiVHo%3D).

On May 11, 2019, WordPress suddenly took down my blog after 10 years of continuous operation.

There was no warning or advance notice of any kind.

For the latest developments, sign up for my email list (https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001ud8mz_jvjBTzOkGbZdiJBo46JUQr27arzc7iB14AY5JhIaw72kpP6Pri-HboC7JwdJNF19nlyXqkqdjbXK0dCOw_S_ORPVSimGeG4mEiVHo%3D).

Hervé

13th May 2019, 11:17

We probably won't hear of the others who have fallen under the Wordpress hatchet... (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-began...&p=1291190&viewfull=1#post1291190)
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1790281240/henry-makow_bigger.jpg Henry Makow‏ @HenryMakow (https://twitter.com/HenryMakow)

Henry Makow Retweeted TRAD NEWS
I can't understand why so many conservative sites used Wordpress. I don't.

Henry Makow added,

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TRAD NEWS @AffirmativRight
#ChateauHeartiste site erased by Wordpress https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2019/05/chateau-heartiste-blog-shut-down-by.html …

3:40 PM - 12 May 2019
1 reply 4 retweets 8 likes

petra

13th May 2019, 14:31

#ChateauHeartiste site erased by Wordpress [URL]https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2019/05

They linked to archive.org at the bottom of the article, with an ominous little "Enjoy it while you can"

https://web.archive.org/web/20190510123726/https://heartiste.wordpress.com/

Hervé

13th May 2019, 18:59

Update via Henry Makow tweeter:

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1790281240/henry-makow_bigger.jpg Henry Makow‏ @HenryMakow (https://twitter.com/HenryMakow)

Jon Rappoport: This past Saturday, WordPress suddenly took down my blog after 10 years. This is outright censorship. We are attempting to restore service to the blog. Meanwhile, the situation is this: You can still access the home page of my site, http://NoMoreFakeNews.com (https://t.co/1LAAr63i1W).

8:22 AM - 13 May 2019
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ThePythonicCow

13th May 2019, 23:42

DeDukshyn

13th May 2019, 23:49

Google returns just 1 hit, dated back in June 25, 2018, for site:projectavalon.net "jon rappoport", between June 1, 2018 and today May 12, 2019.
Well, apparently Google took seriously my requests to them to put this thread back in its search index.

Now a search for site:projectavalon.net "jon rappoport" returns zero hits - none whatsoever, in the history of this Avalon forum.

Good work, Googlebot. Your responsiveness is to be commended.

</sarcasm>

If its any consolation ... I still get one. :)

DuckDuckGo has same problem ... Bing doesn't (and I expect Yahoo doesn't either). I assume DuckDuckGo uses Googles base engine?

RunningDeer

14th May 2019, 01:34

Google returns just 1 hit, dated back in June 25, 2018, for site:projectavalon.net "jon rappoport", between June 1, 2018 and today May 12, 2019.
Well, apparently Google took seriously my requests to them to put this thread back in its search index.

Now a search for site:projectavalon.net "jon rappoport" returns zero hits - none whatsoever, in the history of this Avalon forum.

Good work, Googlebot. Your responsiveness is to be commended.

</sarcasm>

This evening there are 29 pages on Google for Project Avalon site: projectavalon.net "jon rappoport”. When I googled it yesterday, there were only a handful of links anywhere.

https://i.imgur.com/pz104VV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pQqo7wA.jpg

ThePythonicCow

14th May 2019, 02:18

This evening there are 29 pages on Google for Project Avalon site: projectavalon.net "jon rappoport”. When I googled it yesterday, there were only a handful of links anywhere.
Yes - I am seeing hits on site:projectavalon.net "jon rappoport" again now too, including the most recent Google hit from June 25 2018.

Perhaps my not seeing any hits in my previous post was an error on my part.

I also see many more hits, some more recent, when searching on Google for site: projectavalon.net "jon rappoport". Notice the space after the "site: " prefix. In those searches, some of the results are not from projectavalon.net. In my experience, having a space after the "site: " prefix nullifies the site constraint.

ThePythonicCow

14th May 2019, 02:24

.
Jon Rappoport has just sent out two email messages to his email list subscribers.

The first message:

======================

My blog has been taken down!

(To read about Jon's mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here (http://marketplace.mybigcommerce.com/the-matrix-revealed/).)

by Jon Rappoport

This past Saturday, between 2 and 3 PM Eastern Time, WordPress suddenly took down my blog after 10 years of continuous operation. There was no warning or advance notice of any kind.

This is outright censorship.

We are attempting to restore service to the blog. Meanwhile, the situation is this:

You can still access the home page of my site, NoMoreFakeNews.com.

On that page, you can order products by clicking on the "Matrix" graphics on the right side of the page.

Please consider forwarding this email to those you know letting them know what happened. They can then go to NoMoreFakeNews.com and sign up for the email list at the upper left of the home page. They will then get my output of new articles in their email.

I thank you for your support all these years---NoMoreFakeNews has existed for 18 years. I need that support more than ever at this time.

Make your response to this censorship known to WordPress.

======================

The second message:

======================

THEY TOOK DOWN MY BLOG, PART 2

(To read about Jon's mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here (http://marketplace.mybigcommerce.com/the-matrix-revealed/).)

by Jon Rappoport

I say, "Dear Parents, All over the world they are injecting your children, from the day of their birth, with poisonous chemicals and germs, and they're calling it a miracle. But it isn't. It's devastating."

And then, someone somewhere behind a curtain who's hidden his name-badge in his underpants says, "Censor that man. Cut off his expression. He has no right to say what he's saying."

The Soulless Ones are at it again.

Many of you now know that, last Saturday, WordPress took down my blog without warning or notice. After 10 years---boom. Gone. We are in the process of restoring the blog through "other means." Meanwhile, my home page at NoMoreFakeNews.com is still up, and you can let others know to go there to sign up for the email list to receive my articles in their inbox on a regular basis. You can also order products at that same home page.

I strongly suspect that my articles criticizing vaccines triggered the censorship move. The justification would be: well, we must protect the health of the public and your influence could be quite negative in that regard, etc.

Information, evidence, opinion are all now subject to the preferences of "those in charge," who of course "only have the best interests of The People at heart." Sure.

The reality is: when there is something called official science, then unofficial science must be trampled on and stamped out---the word "official" tells you that authorities are pushing lies down on people's heads and those lies must be maintained and never doubted. Unofficial science becomes dangerous. It contains repressed truth.

I've learned that first-hand over the past 35 years working as a reporter. All my major investigations have been "unofficial," and in every one of those cases, there was someone standing in the middle of the road behind barricades shooing people away and warning that there was nothing OFFICIAL to see by going farther.

THE RIGHT TO HAVE AND EXPRESS AN OPINION OR VIEW OR FINDING are under attack. Structures that would enable persons to express an opinion publicly are censoring certain voices. They don't have to give a reason. They just do it.

They might say a writer "violated community standards." What community, and what standards? Oh, the ones they make up and pretend exist. Those communities and standards. Or perhaps "the community" they're talking about is some collection of goody two-shoes robotic idiots they've convinced to form an organization and make a so-called mission statement in line with official truth. Blank minds, blank stares, earnest faces.

The age of rational argument and debate, if it ever existed, appears to be over. Now it's just FIND THE CONTRARY VIEW and silence it.

Of course, I'm not the first person to be censored recently. And I've noticed that the black-listing hasn't worked. Those independent reporters and analysts and editorialists and activists are still talking and writing. I'll do the same.

You can help. Spread my articles any way you can. Get others on my email list. Consider ordering my three MATRIX collections. Get in touch with WordPress and let them know how you feel and what you think. Refuse to obey the Law of Silence.

There is a WE here. It isn't a collection of dumb know-nothings. It's many individuals who happen to have arrived, separately, at a similar place: the crossroad where a choice is made for justice and against surrender.

If you're not already there, get there. If you're there, make your presence count.

The game isn't lost. It isn't over.

It's never over.
======================

RunningDeer

14th May 2019, 03:21

.
Jon Rappoport has just sent out two email messages to his email list subscribers.

The first message:

======================[My blog has been taken down!...

Rest in Peace, Dr. Laura Thompson.

...I wasn’t with you at the clinic when you died. I’m told a nurse was combing your hair and singing to you when you stopped breathing, when you’d had enough suffering...

Jon Rappoport has a poem on MadHouseNews.com (https://madhousenews.com/2019/03/poem-on-the-passing-of-my-wife/). The first and second poem to/for his wife was on his blog as well.

There are approximately 100 articles (https://madhousenews.com/?s=Jon+Rappoport) written from November 10, 2018 - May 10, 2019 posted @ MadHouseNews.com (https://madhousenews.com/?s=Jon+Rappoport).

https://i.imgur.com/F5VZkI8.gif

Poem on the Passing of My Wife

Laura Thompson, 1952-2019
by Jon Rappoport
March 21, 2019

Did a great Nothing swallow you whole, my darling?

Have you gone to ashes, buried next to the walnut tree in New Jersey, in the back yard of your family?

Is the same swelling of the legs that immobilized you creeping up my body?

I sat on our front porch smoking a cigarette looking at the wild cherry tree full of pink buds—this is your spring coming on in the hills of Carolina.
Were you a collection of elements driven by unknown forces? Have you gone back to the beginning? What beginning?

This is not my season for reassurances.

I don’t rest in full knowledge that your essence is still whole somewhere brimming.

Spring is relentless in the hills around our home—fat cardinals are building a nest near an upstairs window. Is that you orchestrating a message? I’m told I need to drink more water and stop eating salt, when all I want is salt.

I wasn’t with you at the clinic when you died. I’m told a nurse was combing your hair and singing to you when you stopped breathing, when you’d had enough suffering. You had many plans—the house is full of your things. I think a stray thought and by habit it refers to you. This is not the season for reassurances. This is not the time for a life without you. Are you in some cottage by the sea waiting for us?

In a week or so our wild cherry tree will be spilling with white flowers from every branch. Will you be there? For me, yes. Our house is surrounded by high deep forest. Hundreds of trees. As a boy, trees were my first love. You are my second—and much greater love. My darling.

Jon Rappoport

Delight

14th May 2019, 04:08

I did not know about Jon Rappoport"s beloved. She was a healer. I had not been able to face the possibility in the past but I am now beginning to accept that perhaps it is true? All who stand up as healers may be in danger of being shoved off (I do not say killed off as I know death is a lie) the planet. IMO the silencing of those who speak up for values dear to human beings (the first being the right to know truth) is happening in real time. Those who step in to help people in real ways are being removed from our access.

“If I could give one tip for people – it’s not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It’s to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don’t get you in shape. It’s your accountability to your word.” ~ Brett Hoebel

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Dr. Laura Thompson died yesterday. Laura was my nutritionist and my friend. Laura had a natural gift for healing. I almost always got off the phone or left a meeting with Laura inspired with an attitude of “Yes, we can.”

I met Laura through her husband, Jon Rappoport. I was struggling to detox from a series of poisonings that occurred during my litigation with the federal government. Jon said to me, “you know you need Laura – she has a history of solving and saving people in these impossible situations. Like many gifted healers Laura was someone who could help you to wellness on an integrated pathway – you could discuss all aspects of your situation – whether physical, energetic or spiritual – and find solutions.

Laura and Jon were deeply in love. It was remarkable to be in their presence and their home – a reminder of the magic that comes with the deep and long lasting love of a man and a woman.

I am asking for prayers for Laura and Jon and their family. For those of you who have not discovered Laura’s work, it is invaluable and timeless. Here are links to her Solari Reports: here (https://home.solari.com/in-honor-of-dr-laura-thompson/)

So what is a good step tonight to withstand the fear that one might feel in this moment? Everyone who counts themselves the sovereign self has to amp up one's inner strength.

Related Idea: (from Katherine's blog)

I spoke with Jon today. He reminded me that Laura’s inspiration for her Vitamin Love website was to get everyone to write a love letter to themselves. So, if you feel like honoring her, why not do that and write a love letter to yourself. If you would rather, write one to Jon and I will make sure he sees it.

arwen

14th May 2019, 13:08

norman

14th May 2019, 14:00

From Jon Rappoport's Facebook profile:

Jon Rappoport
30 mins ·

Today at 1pm ET, I'll be on-air live with the most banned radio talk show host in America.

Alex and I will talk Censorship, my de-platforming (Censorship), and more (Censorship).

Be sure to tune in, you won't want to miss it.No link provided, but presumably one can wander over to Alex's cyperspot to tune in.

IF you have a media player that you can put a stream URL into, here are three versions of the Alex Jones Show stream URLs:

DON'T CLICK ON THESE LINKS, They don't work like that. You have to copy and paste them into a media player stream address entry box.

http://stream-aac.infowars.com/

http://stream-mp3.infowars.com/

http://www.infowars.com/infowars.asx

I generally go for the MP3 version when I have a choice.

ThePythonicCow

14th May 2019, 15:20

Earlier today, as I was glancing at this thread, I was wondering to myself what the (deep-state provided) "Solution" to this "Problem" would be. This thread is clearly the part of the "Reaction" phase. We all agree that Orange Man Big Tech Censorship Bad.

Well, James Corbett comes to the rescue. He is back from vacation and has just posted his views of where this is headed. He expects that the Tech Giants will continue to work toward "better" regulation of the Internet, to filter out fake news and prohibit censorship. Unfortunately, these coming regulations will be controlled by the deep pocket Tech Giants, and end up further empowering them, while closing the door on potentially competitive upstarts.

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For those of us, or our ancestors, who have seen the problems with the wrongful use of guns, medicines, debt-money, and various other such weaponizable mechanisms against innocents, and who have empowered our Governments to "solve" these problems, by allowing, even begging, our Governments to become the sole or primary authorized user or regulator of guns, medicines and other such means ... how has that worked out for us?

I oppose monopolies and oligopolies ruling over our free speech. Solving the Google/Youtube/Facebook/Twitter/Wordpress oligopoly by having them bribe Government legislators and regulators to "fix" the problem ... only makes the problem worse ... much worse ... for potentially much longer.

onawah

14th May 2019, 16:51

There actually was a link provided: https://www.newswars.com/stream/live/

From Jon Rappoport's Facebook profile:

Jon Rappoport
30 mins ·

Today at 1pm ET, I'll be on-air live with the most banned radio talk show host in America.

Alex and I will talk Censorship, my de-platforming (Censorship), and more (Censorship).

Be sure to tune in, you won't want to miss it.No link provided, but presumably one can wander over to Alex's cyperspot to tune in.

IF you have a media player that you can put a stream URL into, here are three versions of the Alex Jones Show stream URLs:

DON'T CLICK ON THESE LINKS, They don't work like that. You have to copy and paste them into a media player stream address entry box.

http://stream-aac.infowars.com/

http://stream-mp3.infowars.com/

http://www.infowars.com/infowars.asx

I generally go for the MP3 version when I have a choice.

norman

14th May 2019, 17:08

Tomorrow ( Wednesday ) at 3pm central, a new docu' film is being premiered at:

https://youcantwatchthis.com/
[hosted by Vimeo, I think, which is bad news for me]

Here's a chunk of it that's about Paul Watson's desire to live a more conventional life:

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Kryztian

14th May 2019, 17:27

Well, Google, as owner of (1) the premier browser, (2) the premier search engine, (3) the premier email service, (4) the premier video sharing service, (5) the premier automatic language translation service, (6) the premier mapping service, (7) the premier mobile operating system, (8) the premier CAPTCHA bot detector, (9) the premier HTTPS "secure" website certificates standards setter, (10) the premier user tracking and location services, and one of (11) the premier DNS services ... has (did I leave any out?) eleven ways from Sunday

(12) the premier news aggregator (Google News)
(13) the premier repository for your personal contact and schedule information (Contacts and Calendar)

in a few more years this list will be 10 times as long and they will probably have the best home pizza delivery service too, if Jeff Bezos doesn't beat them to it.

norman

14th May 2019, 17:50

This evening there are 29 pages on Google for Project Avalon site: projectavalon.net "jon rappoport”. When I googled it yesterday, there were only a handful of links anywhere.

Most people don't do site specific searches. Most people don't even know this site exists.

How many results do you get from this site if all you do is search for a news headline with no parameters at all, just a general Internet search looking for information on a subject that has suddenly got your attention ?

I used to get lots of PA results a few years back. Where are they now?, I never see one ( unless I do what you did, to force it ).

arwen

15th May 2019, 15:18

The link to the archived 26 minute interview by Alex Jones with Jon Rappoport on the takedown of his WordPress Blog is here:

https://assets.infowarsmedia.com/videos/bffb5b55-4ae4-4a83-8aea-b48d8f22ba1e.mp4

ThePythonicCow

15th May 2019, 20:53

.
"Our own" mgray, who posts over on our main Q thread, as well as on Twitter and on his own Wordpress blog, has been shadow banned on Twitter, as he reports in The Qanon posts -- Post #9712 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100318-The-Qanon-posts-and-a-Very-Bad-Day-Scenario-for-some-elite-swamp-critters&p=1291553&viewfull=1#post1291553).

DeDukshyn

15th May 2019, 23:59

norman

16th May 2019, 01:20

Thanks DeDukshyn and onawah for the tips.

Being a guy with a semi paranoid base line of logic I tend to want to be able to function even if the HTML/S internet gets broken. If those web pages vanish for any reason, the links I posted will still get you connected to the radio channel and keep the information flowing.

Saving a text file of my post with the links is a worthwhile thing to do.

A broken internet does in fact seem to be where we are heading right now.

norman

16th May 2019, 12:40

Alex Jones has Soph on as a guest. If you don't know who Soph is yet, she's a 14 year old girl who has the great honor of being clobbered on her Youtube account.

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https://yt3.ggpht.com/a/AGF-l7_rqxvg7iW7spCGREB7x6jk2-s543s-0z_F5g=s48-mo-c-c0xffffffff-rj-k-no (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXjvO3RVm7rcVVAeEZGe7IQ)Count Dooku (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXjvO3RVm7rcVVAeEZGe7IQ)
Published on 15 May 2019

The lady who runs Forbidden Knowledge TV ( who's name I can never remember ) wrote a natty little note about this video on her site, where I found it in the first place.

Soph is the 14-year-old girl who's just a hair's breadth away from being de-platformed by YouTube and who's potty-mouthed right wingery was decried by BuzzFeed, earning her 100,000 new subscribers overnight.

Many who have criticized Soph claim without any evidence that she's being exploited by her parents and that her father writes her material but her parents, both Liberal Hillary voters have nothing to do with her content and she doesn't consider herself old enough to even be political. She explains that like many other members of her cohort of Generation Z aka Zoomers born after 2000, they are reacting against the Fascist PC agenda that's being rammed down their throats.

It remains to be seen if by my posting this video to Facebook, if I will be de-platformed from that venue, as this social media giant has threatened to do to anyone who posts material that includes Alex Jones.

Delight

16th May 2019, 14:29

onawah

17th May 2019, 05:12

There are a LOT of interesting news stories about censorship, monopoly busting and more in the current issue of The Corner, newsletter of Open Markets Institute here: https://openmarketsinstitute.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/j/A12B59F62A4E6D0C2540EF23F30FEDED/DCF86AF024252BA44936C359EC0425C0

petra

17th May 2019, 15:44

Flash

17th May 2019, 15:54

A broken internet does in fact seem to be where we are heading right now.

Pretty sure it's already broken, and the reason that I say so is because most if the internet is being controlled by arrogant assholes... Then again, that could just be my cynicism talking.

Well, Putin (and Russia) wants to create a parallel internet independent from western platform and system.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-putin/russia-must-build-own-internet-in-case-of-foreign-disruption-putin-idUSKCN1Q92EQ

When I read that, I thought "great, American and Westerner will be able to create alternative everything sites on the russian internet without being censured, since it will serve the russian propaganda in some ways with even the truth at times, while russian will continue being on western platforms for the reverse reason. How crazy does it get when the only thing people want, on both sides namely russian and western, is the truth".

petra

17th May 2019, 16:48

A broken internet does in fact seem to be where we are heading right now.

Pretty sure it's already broken, and the reason that I say so is because most if the internet is being controlled by arrogant assholes... Then again, that could just be my cynicism talking.

Well, Putin (and Russia) wants to create a parallel internet independent from western platform and system.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-putin/russia-must-build-own-internet-in-case-of-foreign-disruption-putin-idUSKCN1Q92EQ

When I read that, I thought "great, American and Westerner will be able to create alternative everything sites on the russian internet with being censured, since it will serve the russian propaganda in some ways with even the truth at times, while russian will continue being on western platforms for the reverse reason. How crazy does it get when the only thing people want, on both sides namely russian and western, is the truth".

All I can think is "Sweet Jesuscuseme..."

Just when I think it can't get any worse, it gets worse!

PS: Glad to see you back Flash! Thought we might have lost you for good :)

happyuk

18th May 2019, 11:32

And so it continues... Quite pathetic when you consider how deeply insecure these people doing the censure must be.

The latest is Richard D Halls presentation on the Fake Manchester bombings: now taken down by YouTube for supposedly violating their
terms and conditions:

https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=269&part=1&gen=99

Didgevillage

18th May 2019, 17:20

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Candace_Owens_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg/430px-Candace_Owens_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg

Black America must wake up to the great liberal hoax.
White supremacy is not a threat.
Liberal supremacy is.
--- Candace Owens

And she got suspended from Facebook for this post. Goes to show who runs "liberal supremacy," doesn't it?

"The USA/Saudi/Israel alliance" has no substance and constantly needs an enemy or two, be it Iran or Russia. The populations of the USA and Saudi Arabia do not support such an alliance but fall for the mainstream propaganda.

We cannot underestimate the power of the mainstream/liberal brainwash machines: TV and school education

ThePythonicCow

18th May 2019, 20:23

The latest is Richard D Halls presentation on the Fake Manchester bombings: now taken down by YouTube for supposedly violating their
terms and conditions
An anonymous source has shared with me the Terms and Conditions (T&C) of Youtube:

The following are prohibited:

Exposing the party's leaders.
Disagreeing with the party's line.
Upsetting the party's censors.
Publishing these Terms and Conditions.
In compliance with the first of these prohibitions,
these T&C do not state who or what is the "party".

happyuk

20th May 2019, 09:08

ThePythonicCow

20th May 2019, 11:40

Have a listen to this very interesting video and see if you notice a single iota of bullying.
Do you refer to this episode of the Rich Planet: https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=269 ?

https://vimeo.com/337105816

PART 1 OF 1 - Fake Manchester Attack

This is a 42 minute extract from Richard D. Hall's 2019 UK tour, where evidence
from the 2017 Manchester Arena "bombing" is forensically examined, showing beyond
reasonable doubt that the event was fabricated. Mainstream media are publishing
disgraceful propaganda already in readiness for the 2nd anniversary.

happyuk

20th May 2019, 11:49

Franny

21st May 2019, 07:10

James Corbet is feeling the sting of censorship. In this 4 min video he covers the absurdity of his rejected video - before it uploaded. No worries, for now anyway, he's on dTube and Voat.

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Franny

21st May 2019, 07:19

Just for some great entertainment Truthstream Media cover Bilderberg. Oddly, 2019 has not been announced so we know not when or where it is located this year. So they do an overview of a few others, especially noting some past Bilderberg discussions of how to limit what we the Commoners will be permitted to see and hear on the net. The discussions involve what we have been seeing since with the increasing de-platforming and censorship.

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Hervé

23rd May 2019, 13:58

UKIP's European election candidate Carl Benjamin designated as 'hate agent' in secret Facebook list - report (https://www.rt.com/uk/460046-ukip-facebook-hate-list/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/uk/460046-ukip-facebook-hate-list/)
Thu, 23 May 2019 09:15 UTC

https://www.sott.net/image/s26/523387/large/Sargon.png (https://www.sott.net/image/s26/523387/full/Sargon.png)
© YouTube / UKIP Official Channel

Carl Benjamin, British candidate to the European Parliament, best known under his YouTube handle 'Sargon of Akkad'.

Carl Benjamin, a British candidate in the European Parliament elections, has reportedly been labelled a 'hate actor' by Facebook including for 'neutral representation' of a Proud Boys member.

Benjamin's inclusion on the 'blacklist' was reported by Breitbart on Wednesday, mere hours before the kickoff of the UK portion of the European elections. Benjamin, mostly known as a prolific political commentator on his YouTube channel 'Sargon of Akkad,' stepped into offline politics last year when he joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and is now vying for a seat in the European legislature.

According to the excerpts from the internal Facebook document, as cited by Breitbart, the social networking site's censors are keeping a detailed log of Benjamin's behavior both on and off the platform, such as voicing support for a member of the right-wing Proud Boys group or hurling a homophobic slur.

The online snooping is encouraged by Facebook, which allegedly tells its employees to collect various "signals" of individuals' 'bad behavior', even outside the platform. The entries are then used to determine whether the person should be included on the 'hate agent' list.

The examples provided by Breitbart show how laboriously Facebook's thought police documents not only "hate signals" but also takes note of "borderline" content by Benjamin and others. It has a long memory, too, apparently looking at content posted as early as three years into the past. These are "Level Three" signals. "Level Two" and "Level One" signals are, respectively, two and one years old.

Benjamin is on notice for "Level Two" and "Level Three" signals. In one particularly instance, Benjamin is given a black mark for giving a "neutral representation of John Kinsman, member of Proud Boys" on October 21 last year. Despite its admitted neutrality, the instance was filed by Facebook under "praise or support for a designated Hate Entity."

Controversial 'hate monitor' group the Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Proud Boys as an "extremist" and "hate" group known for "anti-Muslim and misogynistic" rhetoric. Contrary to initial media reports, it was not (https://www.rt.com/usa/445597-proud-boys-fbi-not-extremist/) designated as "extremist" by the FBI last year.

Benjamin was also found to have run afoul of Facebook guidelines for posting a screenshot of a homophobic slur (https://www.facebook.com/sargonofakkad100/photos/a.1671883446160631/1994533307228975/?type=3&theater) directed at himself, reposting a commenter's anti-German rant with a seemingly neutral comment (https://www.facebook.com/sargonofakkad100/photos/a.1671883446160631/1873441906004783/?type=3&theater) of his own, which Facebook considered support for a "statement of inferiority against Germans," and a post mocking (https://www.facebook.com/sargonofakkad100/photos/a.1671883446160631/1995669733781999/?type=3&theater) the ideology of ethnostate, which for some reason was flagged as promotion of the creation of an ethnostate by an overzealous Facebook censor.

Some of the content is marked as "borderline", and most of the examples are suggested for deletion. Apart from "hate signals," there are also notes that highlight controversial content published by Benjamin, including a provocative cartoon on Islam (https://www.facebook.com/sargonofakkad100/photos/a.1671883446160631/1741825792499729/?type=3&theater) listed as "cartoon violence against vulnerable people" and a Hitler meme. (https://www.facebook.com/sargonofakkad100/photos/a.1671883446160631/1928946210454352/?type=3&theater)

Breitbart reported earlier that while the list includes some left-wing figures, it is mostly filled with right-wing personalities including Tommy Robinson and Candace Owens.

Facebook, as well as its fellow social media giant Twitter, have been widening their apparent crackdown on non-establishment figures amid accusations of targeting predominantly right-wing users. Launched (https://www.rt.com/usa/441040-facebook-deplatforms-political-pages/) ahead of the US mid-term elections last October, it saw over 800 political pages being removed, sparking concerns of censorship and election interference.

Benjamin's election campaign Twitter account was also recently terminated (https://www.rt.com/news/457660-twitter-bans-tommy-sargon/), prompting outcries of meddling in the vote.

Related:

Facebook shuts down, then reinstates, popular low-carb support group (https://www.sott.net/article/413542-Facebook-shuts-down-then-reinstates-popular-low-carb-support-group)

Facebook bans then un-bans Candace Owens over post on 'liberal supremacy' threat to black America (https://www.sott.net/article/413343-Facebook-bans-then-un-bans-Candace-Owens-over-post-on-liberal-supremacy-threat-to-black-America)

Facebook's Zuckerberg praises French hate speech plan as social media model for EU (https://www.sott.net/article/412914-Facebooks-Zuckerberg-praises-French-hate-speech-plan-as-social-media-model-for-EU)

Paul Joseph Watson reacts to Facebook ban: 'No future for dissidents' (https://www.sott.net/article/412909-Paul-Joseph-Watson-reacts-to-Facebook-ban-No-future-for-dissidents)

Facebook co-founder calls for break up of company because Zuckerberg has 'unilateral control of speech' (https://www.sott.net/article/412732-Facebook-co-founder-calls-for-break-up-of-company-because-Zuckerberg-has-unilateral-control-of-speech)

"Digital gulag": Facebook censorship rundown, Trump reacts, conservatives push back, liberals plead for more (https://www.sott.net/article/412404-Digital-gulag-Facebook-censorship-rundown-Trump-reacts-conservatives-push-back-liberals-plead-for-more)

Modern day book-burning: Facebook's most recent purge and the attack on free speech (https://www.sott.net/article/412364-Modern-day-book-burning-Facebooks-most-recent-purge-and-the-attack-on-free-speech)

A Faceboog/NSA ancestor: East German Stasi files open to public online for first time (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11336288/East-German-Stasi-files-open-to-public-online-for-first-time.html)

ThePythonicCow

24th May 2019, 02:58

Another ridiculous Facebook banning ...

From https://www.prisonplanet.com/facebook-suspends-raheem-kassam-over-11-year-old-post.html we learn that:

Some eleven years ago, Human Events editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam posted on Facebook: "men cannot be women". He was just banned from Facebook today, apparently because that post violated their transgender guidelines.

ThePythonicCow

5th June 2019, 23:04

Youtube strikes again: YouTube To Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views (Slashdot.org) (https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/06/05/1639221/youtube-to-remove-thousands-of-videos-pushing-extreme-views?sbsrc=md):

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YouTube said on Wednesday that it plans to remove thousands of videos and channels that advocate for neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies in an attempt to clean up extremism and hate speech on its popular service. From a report:

The new policy will ban "videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion, (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb9px8/youtube-is-finally-banning-nazis-holocaust-denial-and-sandy-hook-truthers)" the company said in a blog post (https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/06/our-ongoing-work-to-tackle-hate.html). The prohibition will also cover videos denying that violent incidents, like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, took place. YouTube did not name any specific channels or videos that would be banned. "It's our responsibility to protect that, and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence," the company said in the blog post. The decision by YouTube, which is owned by Google, is the latest action by a Silicon Valley company to stem the spread of hate speech and disinformation on its site. A month ago, Facebook evicted seven of its most controversial users, including Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and founder of InfoWars. Twitter banned Mr. Jones last year.

The companies have come under intense criticism for their delayed reaction to the spread of hateful and false content. At the same time, President Trump and others argue that the giant tech platforms censor right-wing opinions, and the new policies put in place by the companies have inflamed those debates. The tension was evident on Tuesday, when YouTube said that a prominent right-wing creator who used racial language and homophobic slurs to harass a journalist in videos on YouTube did not violate its policies. The decision set off a firestorm online, including accusations that YouTube was giving a free pass to some of its popular creators.

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A company powerful enough to determine "for us" what speech should be prohibited, is powerful enough to determine that what we speak should be prohibited.

Franny

6th June 2019, 03:10

Like a virus, censorship is spreading. Australia, France, San Francisco...

After Assange’s Espionage Act Indictment, Police Move Against More Journalists for Publishing Classified Material

Less than two months after the arrest of journalist Julian Assange, and two weeks after his indictment under the Espionage Act, emboldened governments have sent the police after journalists who’ve challenged the state. Joe Lauria reports.

By Joe Lauria
in Sydney, Australia
Special to Consortium News

Following the arrest and Espionage Act indictment of Julian Assange a number of police actions against journalists for publishing classified information and other journalistic activity has heightened fears among mainstream journalists that they could be next.

Police in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday raided the offices of the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation, copying thousands of files related to a 2017 ABC broadcast that revealed allegations of war crimes (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-11/killings-of-unarmed-afghans-by-australian-special-forces/8466642) by Australian special forces in Afghanistan.

Three Australian Federal Police officers and three police technicians entered ABC’s Sydney headquarters with a search warrant that named two ABC investigative journalists and the network’s news director. The police demanded to look through the journalists’ emails, ABC reported.

David Anderson, the ABC managing director, said it was “highly unusual for the national broadcaster to be raided in this way”.

“This is a serious development and raises legitimate concerns over freedom of the press and proper public scrutiny of national security and Defence matters,” he said. “The ABC stands by its journalists, will protect its sources and continue to report without fear or favour on national security and intelligence issues when there is a clear public interest.” John Lyons, ABC’s executive editor and head of investigative journalism, tweeted:

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Lyons said the federal police were going through dozens of emails with the authority to delete or even change their content. Protagonist Winston Smith’s job in Orwell’s 1984 was to rewrite news archives.

“I recall writing ages ago about Australian legislation giving the Australian govt power to ‘add, alter or delete’ targeted material,” Australian psychologist and social critic Lissa Johnson told Consortium News. “The msm barely batted an eyelid at the time. Now that power is being wielded against the ABC.”

Gaven Morris, ABC’s news director, said: “Journalism is not a crime.”

“Our journalists do a really difficult job, I’m proud of what they do, they do it in the public’s interest,” he said. “I’d say to all the journalists at the ABC and all the journalists across Australia, don’t be afraid of the job you do.”

Marcus Strom, president of Australia’s journalists’ union, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, called the raid “disturbing.”

“It should chill the public as well as journalists,” he said.”These raids are all about intimidating journalists and intimidating whistle blowers so that mistakes made by the Government, including potential crimes, by the military, remain covered up, remain secret, and don’t fall in to the public domain.”

Political Editor’s Home Raided

On Tuesday morning in an unrelated case, Canberra police entered the home of the political editor of the Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph. “Journalist Annika Smethurst opened her front door to find seven AFP officers waiting for her. All because she dared to do her job and keep the nation informed on what its government was doing,” the Telegraph said in an editorial.

Ironically, the Smethhurst article in April 2018 that raised the ire of the government “revealed the departments of Defence and Home Affairs were considering new powers allowing Australians to be monitored for the first time,” The Telegraph reported. “Her original article included images of top secret letters between Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo and Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty.”

French Journalists Arrested

Assange was arrested in London on April 11. Police in Paris arrested two journalists who were covering Yellow Vest protests on April 20. One of the journalists, Alexis Kraland, said he was taken into custody after refusing to be searched and to turn his camera over to police at Gare du Nord train station. The largest journalism union in France demanded an explanation from police.

SF Police Raid Journalists’ Home

And on May 10 in San Francisco, police using sledgehammers to break down the door, raided the home of Bryan Carmody, a freelance journalist, to get him, while handcuffed, to reveal the source who leaked him a police report into the sudden death of the city’s elected public defender. Police took away computers, cameras, mobile phones and notes.

San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said initially that Carmody had “crossed a line” with his report. After a public outcry and demands that Scott resign, the police chief issued an apology.

Fears Justified

While there is no direct connection between Assange’s arrest and indictment for possessing and disseminating classified material and these subsequent police actions, a Western taboo on arresting or prosecuting the press for its work has clearly been weakened. One must ask why Australian police acted on a broadcast produced in 2017 and an article published in April only after Assange’s arrest and prosecution.

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Within hours of Assange’s Espionage Act indictment (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/23/assange-indicted-under-espionage-act-on-17-new-counts/) on May 23, major publications and media figures, who have harshly treated Assange, began lining up in his defense out of self-interested concern (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/27/tide-of-public-opinion-is-turning-in-assanges-favor/) that the government could apply the same prosecutions to them for also routinely publishing classified information.

Their fears are beginning to be realized.

Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Sunday Times of London and numerous other newspapers. He can be reached at joelauria@consortiumnews.com and followed on Twitter @unjoe .

onawah

6th June 2019, 04:56

Google Busted
SGTreport
Published on Jun 2, 2019

"The Brave browser is 2X FASTER than Chrome and Safari, it's FREE & it's PRIVATE plus you'll earn rewards for using it!
https://brave.com/sgt200

Google is finally facing long overdue scrutiny from the DOJ, hopefully the blatant censorship and tortious interference by Google and You Tube against content creators around the world, will be brought to a quick end. Thanks for tuning in, LIKING and sharing this link."
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arwen

9th June 2019, 17:26

Mike Adams joins the Deplatformed from FaceBook. (His YouTube channel was wiped 9 months ago (https://www.brighteon.com/5837855096001)). As of June 9, 2019. From his personal FB:

Mike Adams
1 hr ·

Natural News (facebook.com/healthranger) has been de-platformed by Facebook.

His response appears in the video here (https://www.brighteon.com/6046230309001?fbclid=IwAR1d2DhFr6L6CXdsP8z2ms381z_i_9i_JkosdLgdIqWfXL4jhh2fg_2ymS8)

Hervé

11th June 2019, 14:44

Google CEO: YouTube Will Begin Targeting 'Content Which Doesn't Exactly Violate Policies' (https://www.dailywire.com/news/48210/google-ceo-youtube-will-begin-targeting-content-james-barrett?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=chabanais)

By James Barrett (https://www.dailywire.com/authors/james-barrett)
June 10, 2019

https://www.dailywire.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_full/public/uploads/2019/06/steven_crowder.png?itok=lie7dMfC
Louder with Crowder

A day after acknowledging that his videos did not violate its policies, YouTube decided to demonetize all of conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder's videos in response to a left-wing Vox employee complaining that Crowder repeatedly made fun of him because of his identity. On the same day, YouTube announced (https://www.dailywire.com/news/48090/youtube-announces-mass-ban-all-hateful-content-james-barrett) a mass ban on all content promoting one group as superior to another "in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status."

In an interview with Axios (https://www.axios.com/interview-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-youtube-8b2d17fe-1db6-4492-a8b0-af1b5e08697a.html?stream=technology&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_technology) published Sunday but filmed before YouTube's unveling of its new policy last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai signaled YouTube's crackdown and its plans to expand the ban to include "borderline content."

"Look, we aren't quite where we want to be," Pichai told "Axios on HBO." While YouTube is improving on eliminating content it deems problematic, he suggested, they are still working toward even more extensive content-controlling measures.

Google, said Pichai, "rank[s] content based on quality." They plan to apply that same approach to YouTube. "And so we are bringing that same notion and approach to YouTube so that we can rank higher quality stuff better and really prevent borderline content," he said.

Pichai then offered a definition of what he means by "borderline content." "Content which doesn't exactly violate policies, which need to be removed, but which can still cause harm," he said, in language echoing YouTube's statement to Crowder days later.

The issue is "a hard computer science problem," said Pichai, but an even harder "societal problem because we need better frameworks around what is hate speech, what’s not, and how do we as a company make those decisions at scale, and get it right without making mistakes."

As The Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/48090/youtube-announces-mass-ban-all-hateful-content-james-barrett) reported, amid the Crowder controversy last week, YouTube announced sweeping changes to how it handles content.
"YouTube has always had rules of the road, including a longstanding policy against hate speech," YouTube said Wednesday in a statement.

"Today, we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status."

"We will begin enforcing this updated policy today; however, it will take time for our systems to fully ramp up and we'll be gradually expanding coverage over the next several months," the platform explained.
Earlier this year, YouTube said it was going to crack down on channels that "repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies" by barring them from working with the YouTube Partner ad program.

The announcement came the same day YouTube told Crowder that it had decided to demonetize all of the videos of his popular channel — a decision that came less than 24 hours after the company admitted his videos "don’t violate our policies."
"Even if a creator's content doesn't violate our community guidelines, we will take a look at the broader context and impact, and if their behavior is egregious and harms the broader community, we may take action," YouTube said in a statement (https://www.dailywire.com/news/48089/watch-steven-crowder-youtube-demonetizing-him-james-barrett) Wednesday.

"In the case of Crowder's channel, a thorough review over the weekend found that individually, the flagged videos did not violate our Community Guidelines. However, in the subsequent days, we saw the widespread harm to the YouTube community resulting from the ongoing pattern of egregious behavior, took a deeper look, and made the decision to suspend monetization. In order to be considered for reinstatement, all relevant issues with the channel need to be addressed, including any videos that violate our policies, as well as things like offensive merchandise."

Related:

WATCH: Steven Crowder On YouTube Demonetizing Him: Here's What This Is Really About (https://www.dailywire.com/news/48089/watch-steven-crowder-youtube-demonetizing-him-james-barrett)

Former Facebook Security Chief Says Mark Zuckerberg Should Resign As CEO (https://powr.com/video/4OMQoi5XQM)

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Pretty soon they'll use "Minority Report" pretended tools as arguments... "You haven't thought of it yet but you were going to!"... "Clank!"

ThePythonicCow

11th June 2019, 15:48

Tintin

12th June 2019, 13:01

As the extracted paragraph from this Natural News article (below) does attest, it's a problem, a BIG one.

A little tricky to know whether this article should reside just here, on this thread, or over here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88051-The-Problems-with-Facebook/page11): perhaps both.

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"Facebook’s banning of Natural News for “off-platform” content means the social media platform believes it has the right to monitor the speech of its users no matter where they speak, and if that speech is found to be offensive to Facebook’s censors, the entire channel is wiped out."

BREAKING: Facebook banned Natural News for “off-platform” article that Natural News never posted to Facebook
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 by: Mike Adams

(Natural News) Just days after being banned and deleted by Facebook, Natural News has now learned that Facebook banned Natural News because of an opinion article that Natural News never posted to Facebook. The article in question — “LGBT progressivism horrors” — warned against children being physically and chemically disfigured by parents pushing an LGBT indoctrination agenda onto their own children.

It can be read here (https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-11-facebook-banned-natural-news-for-off-platform-article-lgbt.html)

Related post: @Arwen, here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-began...&p=1296193&viewfull=1#post1296193)

Belle

12th June 2019, 14:47

Whatever happened to "free speech"? Was it ever really free?

Can you imagine what the world would be like if we all had the ability to censor anything and everything we don't agree with and/or don't want others to hear? The silence would be deafening.

Bill Ryan

13th June 2019, 15:43

An informative discussion about just this between Richard Dolan and Jimmy Church, on Richard's radio show. The date was 20 May, 2019.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8VZ-lGQXl4

Delight

14th June 2019, 23:52

YouTube and Twitter Censor Project Veritas EXPLAINED
Published on Jun 14, 2019

Project Veritas has recently learned that Pinterest insider Eric Cochran has been placed on administrative leave.

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arwen

20th June 2019, 11:14

Mailchimp Shuts Down GreenMedInfo's Newsletter for "Anti-Vaccine" Content

Wednesday, June 19th 2019

"Mailchimp, one of the world’s most widely used email marketing services, and CDC Foundation partner, has shut down the account of GreenMedInfo.com for “anti-vaccine content...GreenMedInfo has used Mailchimp as an email service provider for over 10 years, with an account in good standing and excellent compliance relative to the industry statistics. They’ve charged us, on average, $3,000 a month to send out our free newsletter to a global subscriber base of over 300,000, all who voluntarily opted into our list to receive our content. Since 2007, they have been paid a total of $145,944.77 in exchange for sending out hundreds of millions of free newsletter emails to over 200 countries around the world. We have never sent content to individuals without their consent, nor without them first asking us to do so."

Full article here (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/mailchimp-shuts-down-greenmedinfos-newsletter-anti-vaccine-content?fbclid=IwAR3FNFaCR56VrAFYiNnpmhHeTguET_p_kU9x_cfkWzSc9TG_Cz6dRISF4Ac)

Hervé

20th June 2019, 11:45

...

Tells one who is holding all these outfits' strings... Kind of like:

"Listen: If you want to remain a member of our exclusive Faculty Club, you'd better align with our wishes..."

Related:

Who Owns the US Congress, Really? (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106374-Who-Owns-the-US-Congress-Really&highlight=congress)

Delight

21st June 2019, 20:40

There is a huge amount of attention needed to the ramifications of the social credit system. The strange feature of how it is rolling out in my experience with the US, even for someone who was always considering oneself "liberal": the values being promoted in the name social welfare seem truly upside down. I am definitely not a religious person IMO and it is PARAMOUNT to protect everyone's rights to their own path, to practice religion, to be protected by freedom of expression and to allow the discourse.

Obviously every day this is more blatantly undermined. Why people think this censorship will not be their problem proves that denial is not a river in Egypt.

Notice that youtube actually seems to be wiping out parts of this video and a high pitched alarm sound is used during parts of the video....

R_twL2a3-DQ

muxfolder

25th June 2019, 13:37

https://i.imgur.com/nrtlL2A.png

Link to the Twitter post (https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1143330626784960512)

• Insider: Google "is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again."
• Google Exec Says Don't Break Us Up: "smaller companies don't have the resources" to "prevent next Trump situation"
• Google Head of Responsible Innovation Says Elizabeth Warren "misguided" on "breaking up Google"
• Insider Says PragerU And Dave Rubin Content Suppressed, Targeted As "Right-Wing"
• LEAKED Documents Highlight "Machine Learning Fairness" and Google’s Practices to Make Search Results "fair and equitable"
• Documents Appear to Show "Editorial" Policies That Determine How Google Publishes News
• Insider: Google Violates "letter of the law" and "spirit of the law" on Section 230

Video (https://www.bitchute.com/video/re9Xp6cdkro/)

:facepalm:

Sophocles

16th July 2019, 19:07

Franny

16th July 2019, 20:38

Obviously every day this is more blatantly undermined. Why people think this censorship will not be their problem proves that denial is not a river in Egypt.

Notice that youtube actually seems to be wiping out parts of this video and a high pitched alarm sound is used during parts of the video....

R_twL2a3-DQ

I took a look at the video on YT and they posted a response. Now we can hear it all!:

This video has been re-uploaded. Due to privacy complaints, some of the investigative journalism in this report has been censored. You can view the full, un-redacted version on our website: https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/0.. (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projectveritas.com%2F2019%2F06%2F11%2Ftech-insider-blows-whistle-on-how-pinterest-listed-top-pro-life-site-as-porn-bible-verses-censored%2F&v=R_twL2a3-DQ&redir_token=JmG5nSQIgU8aleF4kQIo5lh8Bqd8MTU2MzM5NTYyM0AxNTYzMzA5MjIz&event=video_description).

Hervé

26th July 2019, 10:45

More than one way to "deplatform" accurate information provider:

British state censor fines RT UK quarter million dollars for reporting truth (https://www.rt.com/news/465118-ofcom-fine-rt-court/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/465118-ofcom-fine-rt-court/)
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:46 UTC

https://www.sott.net/image/s26/531619/large/5d3ac65dfc7e93c64c8b45b6.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s26/531619/full/5d3ac65dfc7e93c64c8b45b6.jpg)

Ofcom, aka the British Ministry of Objectionable Materials

British broadcast regulator Ofcom slapped RT with a six-figure fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. It comes before a pending Judicial Review and dwarfs fines imposed on media outlets that gave air to hate speech.

Last December, Ofcom said that in seven instances over the year RT failed to adhere to the British impartiality rules when covering controversial issues like the Skripal poisoning case in the UK or the role played by the US in the war in Syria. RT believes the decision to be wrong and has challenged it in court. Last month, London High Court allowed the case to proceed despite Ofcom (https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/131159/Issue-369-Broadcast-and-On-Demand-Bulletin.pdf) claiming that RT's case had no merit.

On Friday, the regulator announced its decision to slap a £200,000 ($250,000) fine on RT as sanction for the alleged 2018 violations. The penalty seems "particularly inappropriate and disproportionate per Ofcom's own track record," RT's press service said in response.
"It is very wrong for Ofcom to have issued a sanction against RT on the basis of its breach findings that are currently under Judicial Review by the High Court in London. RT went to court over Ofcom's December findings against our network because we believe that they were reached in a manner contrary to the law and were wrong. Last month we received confirmation from a judge at a hearing in the High Court that, despite Ofcom's opposition, our case against Ofcom should proceed. And while we continue to contest the very legitimacy of the breach decisions themselves, we find the scale of proposed penalty to be particularly inappropriate and disproportionate per Ofcom's own track record. It is notable that cases that involved hate speech and incitement to violence have been subject to substantially lower fines." In 2016, Ofcom fined (https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0032/93866/Peace-TV-Urdu-Sanctions-Decision.pdf) Peace TV Urdu £65,000 for airing public lectures, in which the Jewish people were called a "cursed race" possessing "evil genius" that wants "to bring the world to heel through the global banking network."

The same year Noor TV was fined (https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/96124/Noor-TV.pdf) £75,000 for airing a sermon, during which a speaker said that killing a Jew would be an act of devotion to the will of Prophet Muhammed.
"It is astonishing that, in contrast, Ofcom sees RT's programmes - which Ofcom thought should have presented more alternative points of view - as worthy of greater sanction than programmes containing hate speech and incitement to violence."We are duly considering further legal options," RT press service said.

Pam

26th July 2019, 12:02

I received this email yesterday regarding the censorship of Tulsi Gabbard, a democratic candidate for president. Apparently Google isn't just meddling with conservatives. They must be manipulating outcomes for someone specific.

TULSI 2020

Pamela —

On June 28th, 2019 in the immediate hours following the first Democratic Presidential debate, millions of Americans were searching online for information about Tulsi Gabbard. In fact, according to multiple news reports, Tulsi was the most searched candidate on Google. Then, without any explanation, Google suspended Tulsi’s Google Ads account.

For hours, Tulsi’s campaign advertising account remained offline while Americans everywhere were searching for information about her. During this time, Google obfuscated and dissembled with a series of inconsistent and incoherent reasons for its actions. In the end, Google never explained to us why Tulsi’s account was suspended.

Google controls 88 percent of all internet search in the United States – essentially giving it control over our access to information. That’s one reason why Tulsi has been a vocal proponent of breaking up the tech monopolies. And no matter what the motivation was for doing so, Google’s arbitrary and capricious decision to suspend Tulsi’s Google Ads account during a critical moment in our campaign should be of concern to all political candidates and in fact all Americans. Because if Google can do this to Tulsi, a combat veteran and four term Congresswoman who is running for the nation’s highest office, Google can do this to any candidate, from any party, running for any office in the United States.

Big Tech’s dominance represents a clear and present danger to our democracy. That’s why Tulsi is fighting back, and has filed a lawsuit against Google in federal court. Today’s New York Times reported on the lawsuit filed by our campaign against Google.

Tulsi gave this statement to the NYT: “Google’s discriminatory actions against my campaign are reflective of how dangerous their complete dominance over internet search is, and how the increasing dominance of big tech companies over our public discourse threatens our core American values. This is a threat to free speech, fair elections and to our democracy, and I intend to fight back on behalf of all Americans.”

Please join Tulsi in her fight for our core American values of free speech and fair elections. The Big Tech companies need to be held accountable for their actions, and that’s why we need Tulsi in the White House!

-TULSI2020

Tintin

26th July 2019, 12:09

An astonishing double-standard at play here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-began...&p=1306804&viewfull=1#post1306804) from OfCom.

If ever there was an organisation that should be called to account on breaking impartiality rules, it would be the BBC, as prime suspect number one. There are too many actual instances to be able to cite all of them here.

From the BBCs Royal Charter (http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/about/how_we_govern/2016/charter.pdf), and I quote:

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6. The Public Purposes
The Public Purposes of the BBC are as follows.
(1) To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and
engage with the world around them: the BBC should provide duly accurate and
impartial news, current affairs and factual programming to build people’s understanding of all parts of the United Kingdom and of the wider world. Its content should be provided to the highest editorial standards.

It should offer a range and depth of analysis and content not widely available from other United Kingdom news providers, using the highest calibre presenters and journalists, and championing freedom of expression, so that all audiences can engage fully with major local, regional, national, United Kingdom and global issues and participate in the democratic process, at all levels, as active and informed citizens.

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A good example to view that demonstrates this kind of breaching very clearly would be the following documentary:

London Calling
Released 2016 - dir. Alan Knight

Source: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/london-calling/

Overview
The divide between hard news and propaganda has become murkier than ever in recent years. Audiences from both sides of the aisle have observed an insidious media bias at play whether they consume their news online, in the morning papers or on the nightly networks. The presentation of alternative facts has inspired a palpable sense of disillusionment and mistrust among viewership. The documentary London Calling, based on the popular book of the same name by author GA Ponsonby, recounts one of the egregious examples of bias as it targets the BBC and their role in defeating the 2014 referendum for Scotland's independence.

The 'Yes' campaign for independence was rightfully viewed as an underdog, but public support was growing. In the lead up to the vote, however, much of the media seemed chilly to their movement. This was definitely the case with the BBC, a large and long-respected organization that many credit with propelling the downfall of the movement. Key figures within the campaign, media insiders and ordinary voters give voice to the frustrations of the 'Yes' campaigners who experienced defeat both in the voting booth and in the promise of an impartial media.

Do they have a point? The evidence points to much more than just sour grapes. The film is littered with instances of bias committed by the BBC. Opponents cite a series of deceitful headlines, cheap tactics that provoked fear in the outcome of a yes vote, and coverage that failed to find a balance between both sides of the issue. The organization willfully evaded the lingering questions, scandals and controversies that marked the campaign to vote against the independence measure. Meanwhile, leaders in the 'Yes' campaign were tormented by manufactured character assassinations and a barrage of exaggerated negative reporting. Pro-union interests who stood against the quest for independence were given a dominant role in programming while many Scots with a different point of view were given short shrift.

For their part, the BBC claims they adhered to the strictest ethical standards of impartiality in their reporting. But the damage seems to have already been done as more viewers consume their media with increasingly discerning eyes. London Calling exposes the importance of an impartial press that is truly representative of the people, and the democratic catastrophes which can occur in its absence. It's a scary potential that we all must struggle against.

Pam

26th July 2019, 12:13

Paul Joseph Watson: - Facebook Put a Fatwa On Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8YnsBJeywE)

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Source (https://resett.no/2019/07/13/facebook-lov-a-true-med-vold-og-drap-mot-farlige-individer-og-organisasjoner/) (in Norwegian)

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A former Norwegian MP just had his post deleted from FB this morning. It was supporting "a dangerous individual" (Tommy Robinson).

Norwegian MP Calls for Asylum for Embattled Tommy Robinson, Attacks Facebook's 'Censorship' (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201907121076220770-norwegian-mp-calls-for-asylum-for-embattled-tommy-robinson-attacks-facebooks-censorship/)

Related:

Breitbart: Facebook Sanctions Violent Threats Against ‘Dangerous Individuals’ (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/07/09/facebook-sanctions-violent-threats-against-dangerous-individuals/)

Sophocles, Thanks for posting this most important information. The fact that Facebook is testing the waters, basically stating that it's ok to make threats to those they deem dangerous is really, really terrifying. They are symbolically stating that we will tell you who you should dislike and it is ok to throw stones at them. Weird coming from Zuckerburg, considering he is of Jewish ancestry.Maybe he needs to review his history. Apparently their are still enough people that can think and complained enough that this "community guideline" was removed. They were putting out feelers to see just how far they can go..

Delight

31st July 2019, 02:11

The Information War is Over and We Have Lost. Change My Mind.

"The ability to view alternative ideas and contrary opinions and come to our own conclusions is the basis of cognitive liberty. Big tech is now turning the screws and making sure that no one using their platforms will find these alternative viewpoints. Sure, there will be ways to get this information out, but most people will never even know that it exists. This battle in the information war has been lost. Change my mind."
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Delight

8th August 2019, 01:10

Published on Jul 19, 2019
Dr. Robert Epstein's testimony before the Senate concerning Google's search manipulation and its impact on elections.

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Transcript of Testimony by Dr. Robert Epstein before the Senate committee with focus on Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME)

I AM, INDEED, DR. ROBERT EPSTEIN. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR YOU TO KNOW OF ME IS THAT I'M THE FATHER OF FIVE WONDERFUL CHILDREN. AS IT HAPPENS, I'M A RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGIST AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY. I HAVE BEEN CENTER, CENTER LEFT MY WHOLE ADULT LIFE. BUT I VALUE MY COUNTRY AND DEMOCRACY MORE THAN I VALUE ANY PARTY OR CANDIDATE. THAT IS WHY I'M SPEAKING OUT TODAY. I'M HERE TO EXPLAIN WHY GOOGLE POSES A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY, HOW MONITORING SYSTEMS CAN PROTECT US FROM COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE AND HOW CONGRESS CAN IMMEDIATELY END GOOGLE'S WORLDWIDE MONOPOLY ON SEARCH. MY PLAN FOR ENDING THAT MONOPOLY WAS PUBLISHED JUST YESTERDAY IN "BUSINESS WEEK." I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT MY ARTICLE BE ENTERED INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, IT'S ATTACHED TO MY FULL TESTIMONY. Show Less Text
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>> I'VE BEEN A RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGIST FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS, MY M.Ph.D IS FROM HARVARD. MY FOCUS HAS BEEN ON GOOGLE, ITS CENSORSHIP CAPABILITIES AND UNPRECEDENTED ABILITY TO MANIPULATE THE THINKING OF 2.5 BILLION PEOPLE, SOON TO BE 4-PLUS BILLION. I'VE WRITTEN ARTICLES ABOUT GOOGLE FOR "TIME" MAGAZINE, "USA TODAY," THAT KIND OF THING. BUT ALSO FOR "THE DAILY CALLER" AND EVEN RUSSIA'S "SPUTNIK NEWS." I REACH OUT TO DIVERSE AUDIENCES BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE THREATS POSED BY GOOGLE AND TO A LESSER EXTENT FACEBOOK ARE SO SERIOUS THAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THEM. HERE ARE JUST THREE DISTURBING FINDINGS FROM MY RESEARCH, WHICH ADHERES TO THE VERY HIGHEST STANDARDS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY. NUMBER ONE, IN 2016, GOOGLE'S SEARCH ALGORITHM LIKELY IMPACTED UNDECIDED VOTERS IN A WAY THAT SHIFTED AT LEAST 2.6 MILLION VOTES TO HILLARY CLINTON, WHOM I SUPPORTED. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I PRESERVED MORE THAN 13,000 ELECTION-RELATED SEARCHES PRIOR TO ELECTION DAY AND GOOGLE'S SEARCH RESULTS WERE BIASED IN FAVOR OF SECRETARY CLINTON. I KNOW THE NUMBER OF VOTES THAT SHIFTED BECAUSE I'VE CONDUCTED DOZENS OF CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS THAT MEASURE HOW OPINIONS SHIFT WHEN SEARCH RESULTS ARE BIASED. I CALL THIS SHIFT THE. BIASED SEARCH RESULTS CAN EASILY PRODUCE SHIFTS IN THE OPINIONS AND VOTING PREFERENCES OF UNDECIDED VOTERS BY UP TO 80% IN SOME DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS, BECAUSE PEOPLE BLINDLY TRUST HIGH-RANKING SEARCH RESULTS OVER LOWER ONES. THIS IS AN ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS FORM OF INFLUENCE BECAUSE IT IS, IN EFFECT, SUBLIMINAL. IT ALSO LEAVES NO PAPER TRAIL FOR AUTHORITIES TO TRACE. IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF A SHORT-LIVED OR, QUOTE, EPHEMERAL EXPERIENCE. YOU'LL FIND THAT IN INTERNAL EMAILS THAT HAVE LEAKED RECENTLY FROM GOOGLE. I'M NOT STUDYING SEVEN SUCH MANIPULATIONS AND UNLIKE BILLBOARDS OR THOSE RUSSIAN-PLACED ADS, THESE MANIPULATIONS ARE INVISIBLE AND NONCOMPETITIVE. THEY'RE CONTROLLED ENTIRELY BY BIG TECH COMPANIES AND THERE IS NO WAY TO COUNTERACT THEM. NUMBER TWO. ON ELECTION DAY IN 2018, THE GO VOTE REMINDER THAT GOOGLE DISPLAYED ON ITS HOME PAGE GAVE ONE POLITICAL PARTY AT LEAST 800,000 MORE VOTES THAN IT GAVE THE OTHER PARTY. THAT REMINDER WAS NOT A PUBLIC SERVICE, IT WAS A VOTE MANIPULATION. NUMBER THREE. IN THE WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE 2018 ELECTION, BIAS IN GOOGLE'S SEARCH RESULTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED UPWARDS OF 78.2 MILLION VOTES SPREAD ACROSS MANY RACES, TO THE CANDIDATES OF ONE POLITICAL PARTY. THIS NUMBER IS BASED ON BIAS IN DATA CAPTURED BY MY 2018 MONITORING SYSTEM WHICH PRESERVED MORE THAN 47,000 ELECTION-RELATED SEARCHES CONDUCTED BY A DIVERSE GROUP OF AMERICAN VOTERS. I KNOW HOW TO STOP BIG TECH IN ITS TRACKS, AND THAT BRINGS ME, BRIEFLY HERE, TO MONITORING SYSTEMS AND THE PROPOSAL I PUBLISHED YESTERDAY. A 2015 PHONE CALL FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISSISSIPPI PROMPTED ME TO START A YEAR'S LONG PROJECT IN WHICH I HAVE LEARNED HOW TO CAPTURE ONLINE EPHEMERAL EXPERIENCES. IN EARLY 2016, I DEPLOYED A SYSTEM THAT ALLOWED MY TEAM TO LOOK OVER PEOPLE'S SHOULDERS AS THEY CONDUCTED ONLINE SEARCHES, WITH THEIR PERMISSION. I DEPLOYED A MORE SOPHISTICATED SYSTEM IN 2018 AND I'M RAISING FUNDS NOW TO BUILD A MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM IN 2020, ONE THAT WILL ALLOW US TO CATCH BIG TECH IN THE ACT TO INSTANTLY SPOT WHEN FACEBOOK IS BIASSING NEWS FEEDS OR WHEN TWITTER IS SUPPRESSING TWEETS SENT BY ANN COULTER OR ELIZABETH WARREN. THIS SYSTEM MUST BE BUILT TO KEEP AN EYE ON BIG TECH IN 2020, BECAUSE IF THESE COMPANIES ALL SUPPORT THE SAME CANDIDATE, THEY WILL HAVE THE POWER TO SHIFT 15 MILLION VOTES TO THAT CANDIDATE. TO LET BIG TECH GET AWAY WITH SUBLIMINAL MANIPULATION ON THIS SCALE WOULD BE TO MAKE THE FREE AND FAIR ELECTION MEANINGLESS. FINALLY, REGARDING YESTERDAY'S ARTICLE, CONGRESS CAN QUICKLY END GOOGLE'S WORLDWIDE MONOPOLY BY DECLARING GOOGLE'S MASSIVE SEARCH INDEX, THE DATABASE THE COMPANY USES TO GENERATE SEARCH RESULTS, TO BE A PUBLIC COMMONS, ACCESSIBLE BY ALL. JUST AS A 1956 CONSENT DECREE FORCED AT&T TO SHARE ALL ITS PATENTS. THERE IS PRECEDENT IN BOTH LAW AND GOOGLE'S BUSINESS PRACTICES TO JUSTIFY TAKING THIS STEP, WHICH WILL MAKE ONLINE SEARCH COMPETITIVE AGAIN AND DRAMATICALLY DIMINISH GOOGLE'S POWER WORLDWIDE. IN 1961, EISENHOWER WARNED ABOUT THE POSSIBLE RISE OF A TECHNOLOGICAL ELITE THAT WOULD CONTROL PUBLIC POLICY WITHOUT PEOPLE'S AWARENESS. THAT ELITE NOW EXISTS AND YOU MUST DETERMINE WHERE WE GO FROM HERE. CHAIRMAN CRUZ, RANKING MEMBER HIRONO, MRS. BLACKBURN, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, DEMOCRACY AS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED CANNOT SURVIVE BIG TECH AS CURRENTLY EMPOWERED

Hervé

9th August 2019, 14:41

Killing Free Speech in France, Germany and on the Internet (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14678/free-speech-france-germany-internet)

by Judith Bergman (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Judith+Bergman)
August 8, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14678/free-speech-france-germany-internet

In early July, France's National Assembly adopted a draft bill designed to curtail online hate speech. The draft bill gives social media platforms 24 hours to remove "hateful content" or risk fines of up to 4% percent of their global revenue. The bill has gone to the French Senate and could become law after parliament's summer recess. If it does, France will be the second country in Europe after Germany to pass a law that directly makes a social media company censor its users on behalf of the state.

Knowing that a mere Facebook post could end you up in front of a judge in court is very likely to put a decisive damper on anyone's desire to speak freely.

If Facebook's agreement with France is replicated by other European countries, whatever is left of free speech in Europe, especially on the internet, is likely to dry up fast.

While Facebook eagerly claims to be fighting hate speech online, including claiming to have removed millions of pieces of terrorist content from its platform, according to a recent report from the Daily Beast, 105 posts of some of Al Qaeda's most notorious terrorists are still up on Facebook, as well as YouTube.

When will Facebook -- and YouTube -- make it a priority to remove material featuring the terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, whose incitement has inspired actual terrorists to kill people?

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In May, France called for (https://www.france24.com/en/20190510-france-facebook-law-mark-zuckerberg-president-macron-internet-regulation-internet) increasing government oversight over Facebook. Now Facebook has agreed to hand over to French judges the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform, according (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-give-data-on-hate-speech-suspects-to-french-courts-minister-idUSKCN1TQ1TJ) to France's Secretary of State for the Digital Sector, Cédric O.

Previously, according (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-give-data-on-hate-speech-suspects-to-french-courts-minister-idUSKCN1TQ1TJ) to a Reuters report,

"Facebook had refrained from handing over identification data of people suspected of hate speech because it was not compelled to do so under U.S.-French legal conventions and because it was worried countries without an independent judiciary could abuse it".
Until now, Reuters noted, Facebook had only cooperated with the French judiciary on matters related to terrorist attacks and violent acts by transferring the IP addresses and other identification data of suspected individuals to French judges who formally demanded it.

Now, however, "hate speech" -- as speech that fails to comply with current political orthodoxy is conveniently labelled -- appears to have become comparable to terrorism and violent crime. How autocratic, yet Cédric O apparently loves it:

"This is huge news, it means that the judicial process will be able to run normally".
It is highly probable that other countries will want to have a similar agreement with Facebook; it also appears likely that Facebook would comply. In May, for instance, as France was debating legislation that would give a new "independent regulator" the power to fine (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/10/reuters-america-update-2-facebooks-zuckerberg-hails-french-hate-speech-plan-as-eu-model.html) tech companies up to 4% of their global revenue if they do not do enough to remove "hateful content" from their network, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented (https://www.france24.com/en/20190510-france-facebook-law-mark-zuckerberg-president-macron-internet-regulation-internet):

"I am hopeful that it [the French proposal] can become a model that can be used across the EU".
France is the first and so far only country to have entered into such an agreement with Facebook.

The new agreement could signal the de-facto end of free speech on Facebook for French citizens. Self-censorship in Europe is already widespread: a recent survey in Germany (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14362/germany-self-censorship) showed that two thirds of Germans are "very careful" about what topics they discuss in public -- Islam and migrants being the most taboo. Knowing that a mere Facebook post could end you up in front of a judge in court is very likely to put a decisive damper on anyone's desire to speak freely.

French authorities are already in the process of setting an extremely public example of what can happen to those who use their freedom of speech on the internet. Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally Party, was recently ordered to stand trial (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/world/europe/marine-le-pen-isis-tweets.html) and could face a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($85,000) for circulating "violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity". In 2015, she had tweeted images of atrocities committed by ISIS in Syria and Iraq to show what ISIS was doing.

If Facebook's agreement with France is replicated by other European countries, whatever is left of free speech in Europe, especially on the internet, is likely to dry up fast.

In early July, France's National Assembly adopted a draft bill (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-regulation/french-lawmakers-vote-to-target-online-hate-speech-in-draft-bill-idUSKCN1U01UQ) designed to curtail online hate speech. The draft bill gives social media platforms 24 hours to remove "hateful content" or risk fines of up to 4% percent of their global revenue. The bill has gone to the French Senate and could become law after parliament's summer recess. If it does, France will be the second country in Europe after Germany (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11205/germany-official-censorship) to pass a law that directly makes a social media company censor its users on behalf of the state.

Also in early July, in Germany -- where the censorship law (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11205/germany-official-censorship), known as NetzDG, also requires Facebook to remove content within 24 hours or face fines of up to 50 million euros -- the Federal Office of Justice imposed a €2 million regulatory fine on Facebook

"for the incomplete information provided in its published report [the publication of its transparency report for the first half of 2018 required under NetzDG] on the number of complaints received about unlawful content. This provides the general public with a distorted image both of the amount of unlawful content and of the social network's response".
According (https://www.bundesjustizamt.de/DE/Presse/Archiv/2019/20190702_EN.html;jsessionid=BD47B34BA57A2F20685AA496ACD931DB.1_cid370?nn=3449818) to Germany's Federal Office of Justice, Facebook does not inform its users sufficiently of the option to report "criminal content" in the specific "NetzDG reporting form":
"Facebook has two reporting systems in place: its standard feedback and reporting channels on the one hand, and the 'NetzDG reporting form' on the other. Users who wish to submit a complaint about criminal content under the Network Enforcement Act find themselves steered towards the standard channels, since the parallel existence of standard channels and the 'NetzDG reporting form' is not made sufficiently transparent, and the 'NetzDG reporting form' is too hidden...Where social networks offer more than one reporting channel, this must be made clear and transparent to users, and the complaints received via these channels are to be included in the transparency report. After all, procedures to handle complaints of unlawful content have a considerable impact on transparency."
In response, Facebook said (https://www.dw.com/en/germany-fines-facebook-for-underreporting-hate-speech-complaints/a-49447820):
"We want to remove hate speech as quickly and effectively as possible and work to do so. We are confident our published NetzDG reports are in accordance with the law, but as many critics have pointed out, the law lacks clarity."
While Facebook claims to be fighting hate speech online, including claiming to have removed millions of pieces (https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/08/facebook-removed-14-million-pieces-of-terrorist-content-this-year-and-the-numbers-are-rising/) of terrorist content from its platform, according to a recent report (https://www.thedailybeast.com/al-qaedas-master-terrorists-are-still-on-facebook-and-youtube) from the Daily Beast, 105 posts of some of Al Qaeda's most notorious terrorists are still up on Facebook, as well as YouTube.

The terrorists include Ibrahim Suleiman al-Rubaish, who was imprisoned for more than five years in Guantanamo Bay for training with al Qaeda and fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan against the United States, and Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born terrorist, both killed by American drone strikes. According to one US counter-terrorism official, speaking (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anwar-al-awlaki-radical-cleric-inspiring-terror-beyond-grave-n651296) in September of 2016:
"If you were to look at people who had committed acts of terrorism or had been arrested and you took a poll, you'd find that the majority of them had some kind of exposure to Awlaki."
Awlaki was preaching (http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/08/10/the-myth-of-anwar-al-awlaki/) and spreading his message of jihad in American mosques as early as the 1990s. At the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque in San Diego, between 1996-2000, two of the future 9/11 hijackers attended (http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-anwar-alawlaki-paris-attack-san-diego-link-2015jan09-htmlstory.html) his sermons. He is also reported (http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-anwar-alawlaki-paris-attack-san-diego-link-2015jan09-htmlstory.html) to have inspired several other terrorists, such as the Fort Hood terrorist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, with whom he exchanged emails, and the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-radicalized-anwar-al-awlaki-expert-article-1.2160612) the 2013 Boston marathon. Apparently, that sort of activity does not bother Facebook: The Daily Beast reportedly found the videos through simple searches in Arabic using only the names of the jihadists.

That Facebook appears to be "creatively" selective in how it chooses to follow its own rules is nothing new. As previously reported (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13583/facebook-blasphemy-laws) by Gatestone Institute, Ahmad Qadan in Sweden publicly raised funds for ISIS (https://www.thelocal.se/20180325/swedish-isis-fundraiser-statuses-were-on-open-facebook-page-for-two-years-before-deletion) for two years. Facebook only deleted (https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/hans-is-insamling-lag-kvar-pa-facebook-i-tva-ar/) the posts after the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) approached Facebook. In November 2017, Ahmad was sentenced (https://www.thelocal.se/20180325/swedish-isis-fundraiser-statuses-were-on-open-facebook-page-for-two-years-before-deletion) to six months in prison for using Facebook to collect money to fund weapons purchases for the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terror groups and for posting messages calling for "serious acts of violence primarily or disproportionately aimed at civilians with the intention of creating terror amongst the public."

In September 2018, Canadian media exposed (https://globalnews.ca/news/4442869/toronto-terrorist-on-social-media/) that a Toronto terrorist leader, Zakaria Amara, while serving a life sentence for plotting Al Qaeda-inspired truck bombings in downtown Toronto, nevertheless had a Facebook page on which he posted prison photos and notes about what made him a terrorist. Only after Canadian media outlets contacted Facebook to ask about the account did Facebook delete (https://globalnews.ca/news/4442869/toronto-terrorist-on-social-media/) Amara's account "for violating our community standards."

When will Facebook -- and YouTube -- make it a priority to remove material featuring the terrorist Awlaki, whose incitement has inspired actual terrorists to kill people?
Judith Bergman, a columnist, lawyer and political analyst, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.

Tintin

9th August 2019, 15:13

“Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power and to withhold
from them information, without which power is abused. A people who mean to be their
own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. A popular
government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue
to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”

—James Madison

Delight

11th August 2019, 18:13

About the EU copy right directive as a way to regain total control of information.....

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Delight

15th August 2019, 03:25

Google “Machine Learning Fairness” Whistleblower Goes Public, says: “burden lifted off of my soul”
(https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/08/14/google-machine-learning-fairness-whistleblower-goes-public-says-burden-lifted-off-of-my-soul/)

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BREAKING: Google Caught Burying Vaccine Safety Info (https://thehighwire.com/breaking-google-caught-burying-vaccine-safety-info/)

Is advocating for safer vaccines a “fringe” idea? Google’s algorithms seem to think so. In recently leaked documents, Google identified the search query “do vaccines cause autism” to be demoted/hidden using its algorithmic censorship methods.

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Project Veritas reports:

“(San Francisco, CA) A Google insider who anonymously leaked internal documents to Project Veritas made the decision to go public in an on-the-record video interview. The insider, Zachary Vorhies, decided to go public after receiving a letter from Google, and after he says Google allegedly called the police to perform a “wellness check” on him.”

Along with the interview, Vorhies asked Project Veritas to publish more of the internal Google documents he had previously leaked. Said Vorhies:

“I gave the documents to Project Veritas, I had been collecting the documents for over a year. And the reason why I collected these documents was because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I realized that there were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States.”

Project Veritas reported that, “After having been identified by an anonymous account (which Vorhies believes belongs to a Google employee,) on social media as a “leaker,” Vorhies was approached by law enforcement at his residence in California. According to Vorhies, San Francisco police received a call from Google which prompted a “wellness check.”

Vorhies described the incident to Project Veritas:

“they got inside the gate, the police, and they started banging on my door… And so the police decided that they were going to call in additional forces. They called in the FBI, they called in the SWAT team. And they called in a bomb squad.”

“[T]his is a large way in which [Google tries to] intimidate their employees that go rogue on the company…”

“Partial video of the incident was provided to Project Veritas. San Francisco police confirmed to Project Veritas that they did receive a “mental health call,” and responded to Vorhies’ address that day.”

To date, Google has been publicly exposed for attempting to sway the 2020 U.S. election and its removal of certain news organizations from its rankings and searches. However, Google’s censorship efforts have also extended into the health and food information sectors. Investigations have shown Google’s ‘machine learning fairness’ and algorithmic discrimination to heavily favor industry talking points and actively defend Big Pharma and Big Ag products from open debate, justified scrutiny, and scientific facts that may cast products in an unsavory light.

Google’s manipulation doesn’t stop with the vaccine debate. Bayer AG has been involved in three high-profile cases, with over 18,000 more waiting in the wings, to defend their Roundup herbicide from litigation claiming it caused cancer. During the course of all three trials and up to present day, Google’s autocomplete results are purposely hindering the public from finding truths about Roundup. Looking at the data and facts, one could deduce that Google is siding with Bayer AG to actively steer online traffic away from connections between Roundup, cancer and information about Bayer’s lawsuits.

When typing in the words “Roundup” into Google search engine, their autosuggest option returns “Roundup for lawns” as the top suggestion.

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When referencing another Google product, Google Trends, you can see there are more people who are looking for information on both “roundup cancer” and “roundup lawsuit” compared to “roundup for lawns.”

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In the era of ‘fake news’, how far will Google’s effort run to hide the facts about vaccine safety, from a world starving for the truth.

Hervé

15th August 2019, 13:51

Google now taking sides on key issues like medicine, cancer, vaccines, GMOs, climate change and more, and working to obliterate all views that Google doesn’t endorse (https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-08-14-google-taking-sides-on-medicine-cancer-vaccines-gmos-climate-change.html)

by: Ethan Huff (https://www.naturalnews.com/author/ethanh)
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

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(Natural News (https://www.naturalnews.com)) With the most recent Google “Core” update, which took place in June, substantial changes were made to the search results that users pull up when querying topics like vaccine safety, genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), cancer, pharmaceuticals, and climate change – with Google, as you probably well know, now actively censoring (https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/google-takes-position-controversial-vaccine-safety-debate) independent viewpoints that run contrary to the controlled narrative on these and other controversial issues.

Quite obviously veering from its “don’t be evil” motto of old, Google has decided to now be only evil by willfully manipulating the information that the world is allowed to access through its platform. Rather than encourage free thought and open debate, in other words, Google wants you and everyone else to simply accept what the government and media claim is true about medicine, food, and weather patterns.

While it was once the case that Google fomented an internet culture of freedom and honest expression, its new fascist policies aim to ensure that everyone thinks exactly the same as everyone else about concepts like “herd immunity” and “science-based medicine.” There’s simply no room for independent thought when it comes to such topics, at least according to Google’s new “thought police,” which are working overtime to make sure that internet users are only able to access pre-approved propaganda.

What this has led to is the systematic removal of websites, pages, and channels that take what you might call an “alternative” approach to accessing and processing news and other information. Natural News, for instance, was recently de-platformed (https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-04-natural-news-is-now-de-platformed-by-twitter-youtube-and-google.html) not only by Google, but also by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, the latter of which is owned by Google.

“Websites [that] promote or provide a platform for critical perspectives of vaccine safety, questioning the lack of safety studies or vaccine efficacy, found that Google has unilaterally removed the search traffic they once enjoyed, without engaging in any debate or providing any notice, or any explanation!” explains GreenMedInfo.

Rather than censor politically incorrect information, why doesn’t Google fund the science necessary to end the vaccine debate once and for all?

Google has been trying extra hard to whitewash this digital “book-burning” by claiming that it’s necessary to “save lives” and prevent users from accessing “misinformation” that might harm them. With vaccines, as perhaps the most prominent example, Google doesn’t want anyone to question either their safety nor effectiveness, because any honest inquiry outside of Big Pharma’s own “studies” and claims allegedly puts public health at risk.

“Are mottos like ‘don’t be evil’ or ‘make the world better’ compatible with unilaterally and secretly deciding what specific information is made available to the public by removing honest disagreements and controversial sources of information (claimed to be misinformation), while quietly choosing which narrative will prevail?” asks GreenMedInfo about how Google is somehow trying to justify this tyranny.

This would seem to be the first time in Google’s history that the company has taken a side with regards to information, as opposed to simply providing the information that people want, no questions asked. Since the multinational corporation has clearly changed course, and is now acting as a content publisher rather than a content provider, it’s more than time for this Silicon Valley conglomerate to be held accountable for breaking antitrust laws, among other crimes.

“Because it has not been proven scientifically that there are no extra risks (with vaccines), the only way to settle this debate is to do the science, not [compel] large tech companies to do the bidding of the vaccine companies,” GreenMedInfo contends.

“This cannot bode well for their reputation which is already on shaky ground, especially if in the future, scientific studies end up proving the risks are higher than currently accepted.”

For more related news, be sure to check out Censorship.news (http://censorship.news).

Sources for this article include:

GreenMedInfo.com (https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/google-takes-position-controversial-vaccine-safety-debate)

NaturalNews.com (https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-04-natural-news-is-now-de-platformed-by-twitter-youtube-and-google.html)

waves

15th August 2019, 22:01

I made a very important clarification to that great image.

https://i.postimg.cc/L6QCd8Xx/g-on-a-hill1.jpg

Delight

2nd September 2019, 15:19

Slow drip drip drip of censorship

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Sue (Ayt)

3rd September 2019, 06:34

A year or two ago, another person I follow, Miles Mathis, had his website go down for a day, due to technical issues. I posted that outage here, and Miles happened on my post, from a Google search for any reports of his website outage. He sent me an update to post on his website's status, and a correction to what I had already posted.

No such connections will happen this time, for Jon Rappoport will not find this thread with a Web search.

It's not just Google. For various reasons, no search engine that I can find so far has found these posts of the last day on this thread about Jon Rappoport.

I follow Miles Mathis also, and he has not had an update since July 1. Wondering if anyone knows what has happened with him?
Miles Mathis Updates (http://mileswmathis.com/updates.html)
:confused:

Franny

7th September 2019, 18:32

WaPo Warns USA Needs More Narrative Control As Pentagon Ramps Up Narrative Control

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/09/05/wapo-warns-usa-needs-more-narrative-control-as-pentagon-ramps-up-narrative-control/WaPo Warns USA Needs More Narrative Control As Pentagon Ramps Up Narrative Control (https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/09/05/wapo-warns-usa-needs-more-narrative-control-as-pentagon-ramps-up-narrative-control/)

by Caitlin Johnstone

Do you lay awake at night terrified that the Russians are able to control your mind with information warfare while the US government's slavish devotion to democratic values leaves it powerless to stop them? Me neither. But according to The Washington Post, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor (https://www.alternet.org/2013/12/owner-washington-post-doing-business-cia-while-keeping-his-readers-dark/) and Pentagon board member (https://www.alternet.org/2013/12/owner-washington-post-doing-business-cia-while-keeping-his-readers-dark/) bent on hijacking (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xpgvx/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy) the underlying infrastructure of the economy, we should be.

WaPo columnist David Ignatius, who has been one of the more hyperbolic promulgators (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xpgvx/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy) of western Russia hysteria in written media, has published an article titled "Why America is losing (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xpgvx/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy) the information war to Russia" about a new book by former State Department undersecretary for public diplomacy Richard Engel. Engel and Ignatius engage in a joyful Red Scare frolic with the exuberance of two little boys with a box of spray paints, each trying to one-up the other in hysterical apocalyptic ominousness about the way evil, authoritarian governments like Russia have been able to weaponize information while freedom-loving democracies can only look on in passive despair.

"The cruel paradox of the Internet, once hailed as a liberating force, is that it empowers governments that control information and enfeebles those that let it run free," warns Ignatius.

"[Authoritarian governments] have gone from fearing the flow of information to exploiting it," cautions Engel. "They understand that the same tools that spread democracy can engineer its undoing.”

Unsurprisingly, at no point during this brotherly romp does Ignatius bother to make mention of the fact that Engel is actually on record (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xpgvx/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy) saying he supports the use of propaganda and believes the US government should be using it on its own citizens.

"Basically, every country creates their own narrative story and, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the ‘chief propagandist’ job," Engel said last year (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xpgvx/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy) at an event organized by the shockingly ubiquitous narrative management (https://thefreethoughtproject.com/wikileaks-cfr-media-control/) firm Council on Foreign Relations.

"I’m not against propaganda," Engel said. "Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population, and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful."

When an audience member objected to what he'd just heard (https://youtu.be/xOPmx1LCzwY?t=65), Engel curtly dismissed him and ended the talk.

So anyway, that's what the CIA/Pentagon/plutocracy-tied Washington Post wants you to be sure of: that evil governments are controlling your mind with information warfare, and that the US government is struggling to rescue you from that fate. Lucky for you, this report just so happens to be coming out at the same time as we're learning that the Pentagon is already currently working on a program to protect you from wrongthink by controlling your access to information.

Congratulations to "online disinformation" alarmists who gave implicit approval to this new Pentagon initiative to "detect malicious intent and prevent viral fake news from polarizing society" https://t.co/LDQcNld55y

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) September 3, 2019 (https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1168929767875317761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

A recent Bloomberg article titled "U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-31/u-s-unleashes-military-to-fight-fake-news-disinformation)" reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding a new project called the Semantic Forensics program with which "the military research agency hopes it can spot fake news with malicious intent before going viral."

"If successful, the system after four years of trials may expand to detect malicious intent and prevent viral fake news from polarizing society," Bloomberg reports.

DARPA (formerly ARPA) is a top contender among some very stiff competition for the absolute creepiest of all US government agencies. Journalist Yasha Levine has done a lot of work documenting the way the agency has been intimately involved in internet surveillance (https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/961256995176271872?lang=en) since before the internet was even really a thing, beginning in the 1960s with its ARPANET program (https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/yes-the-internet-was-always-intended-to-spy-on-us) whose technologies went on to form the foundation (https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html) of the World Wide Web. DARPA is also engaged in such charming activities as exploring ways (https://singularityhub.com/2019/06/05/darpas-new-project-is-investing-millions-in-brain-machine-interface-tech/) to knit AI into human neurology, funding programs to control America's election infrastructure (https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-electionguard-a-trojan-horse-for-a-military-industrial-takeover-of-us-elections/258732/), pouring billions of dollars into the creation of a robot army (https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-u-s-military-will-have-more-robots-than-humans-by-2025/237725/) and constructing robotic insect (https://twitter.com/WevolverApp/status/1163616731115528192)s which can crawl up walls.

Futurists have long envisioned a utopia where mankind reaps the benefits of soaring technological innovations which will overcome our every obstacle and lead us to an unprecedented state of human thriving. What they failed to account for was sociopathic government agencies like DARPA being intimately involved in those technologies from the very beginning.

Let’s please ban the word “narrative” from our discussion of the news and this president. There is only one version of the facts and the truth. Full stop.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 26, 2019 (https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1165978671481573376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Power is being able to control what happens. Absolute power is being able to control what people think about what happens. If you can control what happens, you can have power until the public gets sick of your bull**** and tosses you out on your ass. If you can control what people think about what happens, you can have power forever. As long as you can control how people are interpreting circumstances and events, there's no limit to the evils you can get away with.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Governments understand this and so do their propagandists, and so, increasingly, do the rank-and-file public. Which is why you've now got establishment narrative managers like CNN's Jim Sciutto saying things like (https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1165978671481573376) "Let’s please ban the word 'narrative' from our discussion of the news and this president. There is only one version of the facts and the truth." Mass media propagandists would like nothing better than to have people cease paying attention to the concept of narrative and go back to believing that when they turn on CNN they are receiving objective truth from the authoritative arbiters of absolute reality.

But that cat's out of the bag. What has been seen cannot be unseen. A large number of people are aware that there are some very powerful forces who have a vested interest in controlling the thoughts that are in their head, and that number is growing every day. These powerful forces have responded to this new development by becoming increasingly ham-fisted in regulating the public's access to ideas and information, and now it's a race to see if they can slam the gates on us before we escape our cage forever.

Franny

12th September 2019, 19:55

Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align With The US Empire? (https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/09/12/have-you-noticed-how-social-media-purges-always-align-with-the-us-empire/)

by Caitlin Johnstone

Twitter has suspended (http://archive.is/ZG1Y7) multiple large Cuban media (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1171929274661658625.html) accounts for reasons the social media platform has yet to justify as of this writing, a move which journalist Dan Cohen has described (https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1171983818703671297?s=20) as "the equivalent of silencing CNN, Fox, WaPo and NPR’s accounts" for that nation. The Union of Cuban Journalists has denounced (http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2019/09/11/declaracion-de-la-upec-twitter-censura-masivamente-a-periodistas-y-medios-en-cuba/#.XXn5OJMzbq2) the move as censorship.

Last month we saw Twitter suspend hundreds (https://archive.is/6m6UJ) of accounts which it claims originated in mainland China for engaging in "covert, manipulative behaviors" against the Hong Kong protests, with Facebook (https://archive.is/xbVGg) and Google/YouTube (https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/maintaining-integrity-our-platforms/) following suit in the creepy, uniform coordination we've come to expect (https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/10/13/internet-censorship-just-took-an-unprecedented-leap-forward-and-hardly-anyone-noticed/) between these social media giants. In June of this year Twitter removed (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-iran-idUSKCN1TE2I9) thousands of accounts it claims were associated with the governments of Iran, Russia and Venezuela, as well as 130 accounts reportedly tied to the Catalan independence movement in Spain. In May Twitter removed 2,800 of what it claimed were "inauthentic accounts (https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1133448387657736192?s=20) originating in Iran." Earlier this year, Twitter and Facebook coordinated (http://web.archive.org/web/20190201023821/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/facebook-and-twitter-removed-hundreds-of-accounts-linked-to-iran-russia-and-venezuela) with each other to remove hundreds of accounts they claim were tied to "coordinated influence operations" in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

Cuba, China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and the Catalan independence movement. Noticing a pattern here?

Twitter just suspended the accounts of the biggest media outlets in Cuba and has given no reason. This is the equivalent of silencing CNN, Fox, WaPo and NPR’s accounts, but Cuba is a target of the empire so these arbitrary suspensions don’t generate outrage. https://t.co/0fgEiX8bjL

— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) September 12, 2019 (https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1171983818703671297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

If you've been paying any attention at all to the dynamics of empire, you will immediately recognize all of these purges as having targeted groups which are not aligned with the US-centralized power alliance. There have been no comparable mass social media purges of groups that are aligned with the US-centralized empire; a few accounts critical of Beijing were accidentally suspended (https://www.france24.com/en/20190602-twitter-apologises-suspending-accounts-critical-china) from Twitter in June and replaced with a hasty apology, and a few Saudi bots were removed for defaming Jamal Khashoggi (https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181020-twitter-suspends-fake-accounts-defaming-khashoggi/) after his death, but that's as close as you'll find to any non-empire-aligned purge.

"But Caitlin!", you may protest. "That's because the US and its allies are free democracies which never engage in propaganda or coordinated influence operations. Those other governments that got their accounts purged are evil authoritarian regimes whose dishonest manipulations must be curtailed!"

And to you my hypothetical friend I say bull boogers. I can prove to you that propaganda and coordinated influence operations are at least as prevalent in the so-called free democracies of the western empire as they are in the so-called authoritarian regimes of unabsorbed nations, and I can do it without even looking up from the story I'm already reporting on.

Cuba denounces suspension of multiple official media Twitter accounts during a live TV address by President Diaz-Canel https://t.co/ktBMrfXZTJ (https://t.co/ktBMrfXZTJ)

— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 12, 2019 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1172044836066586624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

See that hyperlink I put at the beginning of this essay when I first told you about the suspended Cuban media accounts? It links to an article that as of this writing is the only report in written English-language media on that story. The archived link says it's from Yahoo News, but that's actually just the outlet that picked it up; the story itself was from the news agency AFP, which is one of the mere three news agencies (https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/) that are responsible for most of the news media reports in the western world.

This very AFP report claims that "Cuba is regularly criticized by watchdogs for exerting excessive control over the internet," citing to substantiate this claim an organization called Freedom House, which the report describes only as "New York-based". Freedom House, which self-brands (https://freedomhouse.org/about-us) as an "independent watchdog organization", is in reality a narrative management firm that is funded by powerful plutocrats (https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_House#Funding) and has the bulk of projects paid for by the National Endowment for Democracy. The National Endowment for Democracy (https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_House) is funded directly by the US government (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy#Source_of_funding), and was set up in 1983 to do overtly what the CIA (http://www.iefd.org/articles/trojan_horse.php) had been doing covertly up until that point, namely effecting regime change (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/28/the-dirty-hand-of-the-national-endowment-for-democracy-in-venezuela/) in sovereign nations. (https://mises.org/wire/us-democracy-promotion-destroys-democracy-overseas)

So to recap, the narrative management operation which calls itself a "watchdog" claimed that "watchdogs" criticize Cuba for internet censorship, and that "watchdog" organization is in fact funded by the US government, yet the news agency disclosed only that their source is "New York-based". In an article about internet censorship.

To put it another way, one of only three news agencies responsible for generating most western news media asked a US government-funded PR firm that was specifically created to make news-friendly propaganda which literally meddles in other countries' governments to validate the claim that the news of a country that they target conducts propaganda, while omitting the fact that it is a propaganda organization.

This is Inception-level propaganda. This article, the only one available as of this writing to anyone who is interested in Twitter's censorship of Cuban media outlets, is infinitely recursive, fractal, nesting doll-level propaganda, a pure coordinated influence operation, from top to bottom. And yet all the parties known to have been involved in crafting this piece of propaganda still have their Twitter accounts up, from Yahoo News (https://twitter.com/YahooNews), to AFP (https://twitter.com/AFP), to Freedom House (https://twitter.com/freedomhouse), to the National Endowment for Democracy (https://twitter.com/NEDemocracy). Because the free democracies of the west do not engage in propaganda.

Again, that's just literally the first example I reached for because of the story I happen to be writing about here. It's one of endless possible examples, because it's happening constantly.

We need to stop pretending FB & Twitter aren't arms of the US state. For over a year they've deleted accounts of Iranians, Venezuelans, Russians, & Chinese simply for daring to voice opinions different from the imperialist narrative, under the aegis of combating "disinformation." pic.twitter.com/bML58Ufpe0 (https://t.co/bML58Ufpe0)

— Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) August 20, 2019 (https://twitter.com/LavenderNRed/status/1163866831330918407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Whenever I criticize these Silicon Valley tech giants for de-platforming voices which dissent from establishment narratives, I always get a deluge of pushback from establishment loyalists and capitalism cultists who insist that Twitter, Facebook and Google are private organizations who are free to do as they like with their personal property, and, since they are not government bodies, what they are doing cannot strictly be labeled censorship. But we see time and time again that their behavior absolutely does fall in line with the agendas of the CIA and the US State Department, and continually discover more and more evidence of extensive overlap between these corporations and government power.

"And these big tech giants… have basically gotten into bed with the US state," journalist Alan MacLeod recently told The Canary's (https://www.thecanary.co/feature/2019/08/08/author-speaks-about-how-big-tech-giants-have-basically-gotten-into-bed-with-the-us-state/) Slava Zilber. "I mean, we’ve seen Facebook partnering with (https://fair.org/home/media-ignore-government-influence-on-facebooks-plan-to-fight-government-influence/) the Atlantic Council, which is an offshoot of NATO, whose board (https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of-directors) includes people like Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and six or seven different former or current heads of the CIA. That’s the group that’s deciding what is ‘fake news’ and what is ‘real news’, and how the algorithms that dictate how billions of people around the world are going to see news. That’s who’s deciding what you see and what you don’t."

Journalist Morgan Artyukhina noted this past May (https://twitter.com/LavenderNRed/status/1133504342936424448?s=20) that FireEye, the very cybersecurity firm that Facebook and Twitter are relying upon to determine which accounts are inauthentic and require removal, was in fact "founded in 2004 with money from the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel." As noted in 2016 by journalist Yasha Levine, FireEye itself feeds into anti-Russia (https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/812264792698351616?s=20) narratives while simultaneously funding neoconservative narrative management firms (https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/812270043975270400?s=20) which are hawkish toward Russia. As Sputnik noted last year, (https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201808231067403827-CIA-Firm-Facebook-Accounts/) FireEye also happens to be "one of the few cyber firms to forensically analyze the alleged hack of the Democratic National Committee."

"We need to stop pretending FB and Twitter aren't arms of the US state," Artyukhina said in a popular Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/LavenderNRed/status/1163866831330918407?s=20) last month after another purge. "For over a year they've deleted accounts of Iranians, Venezuelans, Russians, and Chinese simply for daring to voice opinions different from the imperialist narrative, under the aegis of combating 'disinformation'."

"These reports often claim the accounts were 'used to promote content from inauthentic news sites,' but that simply refers to outlets like PressTV and TeleSUR, which don't toe the Western MSM line," Artyukhina added. "As always, it's only propaganda when somebody else does it."

"Inevitably, when the US targets a country for standing up to it, we're bombarded with stories of evil deeds to justify US action against them," Artyukhina continued. "This is not propaganda, to them, it's simply 'facts.' However, try to counteract the massive MSM infowar - that's disinformation."

In a corporatist system of government, which has no meaningful separation between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is government censorship. There are manifold distortions that have been put in place to mask the reality that the same power structures which control the US government are also dictating the behaviors of the handful of social media platforms upon which the public has become dependent for networking and gathering information about what's going on in the world, but that is indeed the reality and we do indeed need to regard it as such.

Just because there are no official connections between these corporations and the government doesn't mean we have to make believe we can't see actual connections right there in front of our faces, plain as day. There is no legitimate reason to go on pretending that these plutocratic Silicon Valley institutions are meaningfully separate from the US government. The only way to keep that illusion in place would be to continue swallowing all the lies that the propagandists have been shoving down our throats.

Delight

1st October 2019, 20:47

The panopticon is watching us 24/7/365

Google Whistleblower Zach Vorhies & Tiffany FitzHenry Discuss His Document Leak to Project Veritas

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Delight

2nd October 2019, 00:54

This is actually an interesting idea presented....

In this video, Dr. Shiva discusses the Real Solution to the Real Problem of Big Tech Censorship. This is a solution that Dr. Shiva has been talking about since 1997 and as a part of this solution, Dr. Shiva proposes that the USPS, which guarantees privacy of one's communication should be used to counter Big Tech Censorship. Watch the video to learn all about it!

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Bill Ryan

2nd October 2019, 12:43

The panopticon is watching us 24/7/365

Google Whistleblower Zach Vorhies & Tiffany FitzHenry Discuss His Document Leak to Project Veritas

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And here's Zach Vorhies talking to Alex Jones, 21 August 2019.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-nGNUPLac

Bill Ryan

2nd October 2019, 13:00

Here's the Project Veritas document dump. (950 pages of leaked documents)

https://projectveritas.com/google-document-dump

Delight

2nd October 2019, 14:22

And here's Zach Vorhies talking to Alex Jones, 21 August 2019.

I am not sure if the extended time on the two following videos is due to commercials (?) but FYI, here are two long videos with Alex Jones and Eric Vorhies. His is really important testimony!!!

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Delight

2nd October 2019, 14:46

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Tintin

3rd October 2019, 11:51

Here's a message from James O'Keefe (Project Veritas) received in my inbox today which at least contains some more positive news regarding (US) constitutional matters.

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Veritas doubles down in fight for First Amendment

Dear Tintin,

Not long ago, Massachusetts law prohibited and criminalized the undercover recording of conversations. This was a blatant intrusion on your First Amendment rights.

Undercover recording for newsgathering and reporting purposes is at the very heart of what Project Veritas does.

This is why Project Veritas Action Fund(“PVA”) began the fight to sue the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and challenge the constitutionality of the law that prohibited undercover audio recordings, known as “Section 99”.

Christmas came early for PVA in December of 2018 when the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts declared Section 99 unconstitutional as it related to secretly recording government officials performing their duties in public.

Chief United States District Judge Patti B. Saris concluded that:

“Section 99 may not constitutionally prohibit the secret audio recording of government officials, including law enforcement officials, performing their duties in public spaces, subject to reasonable time, manner, and place restrictions.”

When the initial ruling came down last year I stated:

“Project Veritas has made First Amendment history. With the summary judgement in this case being entered in our favor, PVA v Conley becomes the first case in United States history to hold that secretly recording government officials is protected by the First Amendment.”

While this was a monumental victory for PVA and the First Amendment, the Court unfortunately dismissed another claim we made that recording nonpublic officials was also protected by the First Amendment. PVA has appealed this ruling, arguing that recording ordinary people for newsgathering purposes must be protected.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has also appealed the ruling that went in our favor. According to the website Law360:

“Boston District Attorney Rachael Rollins, now a defendant in this lawsuit, “called on the First Circuit to revive Massachusetts' blanket ban on secret recording, saying the lower court ruling could harm unwitting third parties.”

This battle is far from over, and Veritas is on the front lines. With our appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, Project Veritas is effectively challenging the notion of arbitrary state restrictions on legitimate newsgathering.

The First Amendment plays a central role in preserving this American republic. It is the key anchor for keeping public institutions accountable to the public. But when government imposes barriers to the newsgathering process, accountability declines and the free flow of information is hindered.

As Winston Churchill said “Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”, and that is exactly what we are doing. Project Veritas refuses to back down from this fight.

Be Brave,

James O'Keefe III
President & CEO

Delight

27th October 2019, 01:26

GreenMedInfo.com
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onawah

2nd November 2019, 19:15

See: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106821-The-US-Vaccine-issue-is-more-than-just-about-the-Shots-it-is-about-totalitarian-tiptoe&p=1321783&viewfull=1#post1321783

Delight

3rd November 2019, 07:20

Hervé

4th November 2019, 17:18

'Break IT monopoly of few companies & countries or risk losing the right to have a say in your future' - Medvedev to ASEAN (https://www.rt.com/news/472514-medvedev-it-monopoly-asean/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/472514-medvedev-it-monopoly-asean/)
Sun, 03 Nov 2019 13:58 UTC

https://www.sott.net/image/s27/544095/large/5dbece6485f54010b03a63fe.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s27/544095/full/5dbece6485f54010b03a63fe.jpg)
Dmitry Medvedev speaks at 2019 ASEAN Summit © RIA Novosti / Dmitry Astakhov

Russia wants the demonopolization of "a few corporations" that dominate the IT market, because countries without their own hi-tech solutions risk losing the "right for future," Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told an ASEAN summit.

"Companies and whole countries are increasingly dependent on hardware and software [provided by] several corporations that actually dominate the market," Medvedev stated as he spoke at a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok. He didn't give names but mentioned three American and two Chinese entities.

That domination hampers "healthy competition" and affects bringing brand new ideas to life, the prime minister noted, along with other, more serious challenges.

States that don't have their own digital platforms can lose, if not sovereignty, but most of the opportunity - as well as the right for [a] future in the changing world. If you don't own technology, you don't develop yourself.

Therefore, Russia champions a shared effort to demonopolize this industry, synchronize technologies and enable laws covering cyber security and privacy, Medvedev explained. Russia, a country where 85 percent of the population has access to the internet, stays ready to share its own digitization experience with Asian nations, he offered.

Russia has recently taken steps to ensure sustainability of its own computer networks. Just this week, it enacted legislation called the 'Sovereign Internet Bill' which requires internet companies to install locally-produced equipment that would make traffic flow only through servers located and registered on Russian soil.

The measure seeks to allow communication and exchange of data between Russian users to go on unhindered if they suddenly become cut off from servers located abroad.

Related:

Trump loses more than just battle over Nordstream 2 (https://www.sott.net/article/423027-Trump-loses-more-than-just-battle-over-Nordstream-2)

'Who knows what they have in mind?' Putin tells press that Russia could be cut off from global internet (https://www.sott.net/article/407758-Who-knows-what-they-have-in-mind-Putin-tells-press-that-Russia-could-be-cut-off-from-global-internet)

Huawei looks to Russian technology to replace Google's Android, testing under way (https://www.sott.net/article/414791-Huawei-looks-to-Russian-technology-to-replace-Googles-Android-testing-under-way)

Bill Ryan

15th November 2019, 13:32

Tintin

15th November 2019, 13:44

Bill Ryan

15th November 2019, 13:56

I was informed yesterday by YouTube that my most excellent 2008 video interviewing Jim Humble, the creator of MMS, which had had hundreds of thousands of views, has been removed for 'violating community guidelines.'

Much of the interview was about Jim Humble's most interesting life. It wasn't a medical-technical presentation. What that all means is that YouTube has decided that MMS must not be promoted or discussed in any form.

:silent:

Bill: is this the video? I've just done a search and it still seems to be available, unless I've missed a beat somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjUp1zoov8

It was the follow-up that was taken down (actually, published in 2009). That was on my own channel, AlphaZebra, and was a little shorter.

The one above is on Camelot's channel — and is actually more important, with over 520,000 views. (I wonder how long it'll stay there!)

waves

15th November 2019, 17:38

THE DECEMBER 10 END OF YOUTUBE AS WE'VE KNOWN IT

People have been given notice that December 10 there's going to be some big youtube purge of content that's not 'commercially viable' or something vague like that.
https://mashable.com/article/youtube-new-terms-of-service-no-longer-commercially-viable/

To me censoring/isolating/destructive things are coming from all sides worldwide very methodically in a super escalated manner over the last two years, especially the last year.
I'm sensing a grand culmination to come in the not too distant future blindsiding the world who didn't notice the sneaky bits and bits being bulldozed into their lives from ALL sides.

Franny

16th January 2020, 20:12

Under US Pressure, Social Media Companies Suspend Venezuelan, Iranian & Syrian Accounts

By Ben Norton
January 12, 2020
Grayzone (https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/12/us-pressure-social-media-censoring-suspending-venezuela-iran-syria/)

As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts with Washington’s pro-war narrative. The Grayzone spoke to several people silenced in these social media purges.
By Ben Norton

In the first two weeks of January, Twitter suspended dozens of accounts run by real, live people — not bots — in Venezuela, Iran, and Syria. Those erased from the website included heads of state, numerous state institutions, media outlets, and many average people who do not work for their governments.

The supreme leader of Iran, president of Syria, and leader of Venezuela’s National Assembly have all had their Twitter accounts temporarily suspended or restricted in recent days. Numerous alternative media outlets have suffered the same fate.

At the same time, Facebook, and its subsidiary Instagram, has announced that it will be censoring content that it deems to be supportive of Iran’s top General Qassem Soleimani (https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/03/us-war-iran-iraq-rania-khalek/), who was assassinated in a U.S. act of war on Jan. 3.

The Big Tech giant said this censorship of users’ free speech will be done in order to comply with Washington’s suffocating sanctions on Iran (https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/tech/instagram-iran-soleimani-posts/index.html).

This draconian crackdown on social media comes while the Trump administration is aggressively expanding its economic and diplomatic warfare against these independent countries, in hopes of ultimately overthrowing their sovereign governments.

The Grayzone spoke with some of the Venezuelan and Iranian civilian activists who do not work for their governments but who had their Twitter accounts suspended. They all said they were not given any warning, notice, or even an explanation why they were blocked from the platform.

As The Grayzone has previously reported, Big Tech corporations (https://thegrayzone.com/category/big-tech/) are closely linked (https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/04/facebook-public-policy-manager-ukraine-kateryna-kruk/) to the U.S. government (https://thegrayzone.com/2018/10/23/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-says-top-neocon-insider/), and have increasingly acted as an extension (https://thegrayzone.com/2019/04/07/american-internet-companies-are-privatized-instruments-of-american-geopolitical-power-and-theyre-not-even-hiding-it/) of it, purging the accounts of officials (https://thegrayzone.com/2019/04/18/instagram-us-bans-iranian-officials-irgc-terrorist/) from foreign governments that are targeted by Washington for regime change, also including China, Russia, Cuba (https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1171940962072956928), Palestine (https://twitter.com/Raja48/status/1190429888060280833) and beyond.

In early 2020, this social media warfare dramatically escalated.

Twitter Purges Venezuelan Accounts

Twitter has on numerous occasions suspended hundreds of accounts (https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/956058709314162689) run by Venezuelans (https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1108732555275190272), in a series of purges (https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1091100507345747968) targeting not only government-linked profiles but also those run by civilian activists from the leftist Chavista movement.

The social media giant has done this while simultaneously verifying and promoting the accounts of U.S.-backed opposition activists and coup-mongers, like Juan Guaidó (https://thegrayzone.com/2019/01/29/the-making-of-juan-guaido-how-the-us-regime-change-laboratory-created-venezuelas-coup-leader/) and his rapidly fading shadow regime (https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/03/the-citgo-conspiracy-opposition-figures-accuse-guaido-officials-of-scam-to-liquidate-venezuelas-most-prized-international-asset/).

The Grayzone has previously reported on how Twitter relies on organizations funded by the U.S. government and European allies (https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/24/twitter-relying-on-us-european-gov-funded-regime-change-groups-to-crack-down-on-foreign-states/) to crack down on foreign state media and suspend accounts that challenge Washington’s narratives.

On Jan. 7, the Big Tech corporation carried out yet another round of suspensions. When The Grayzone contacted with the company with a request for comment, it did not give a clear reason.

In this latest purge, Twitter suspended the official accounts of Venezuela’s National Guard (http://archive.ph/tsdsf), Navy (http://archive.md/m3LAs), Air Force (http://archive.ph/sZe7a), Strategic Command (http://archive.ph/edJGJ), Petroleum Ministry (http://archive.ph/LbsD2), Penitentiary Services Ministry (http://archive.md/l53rc), National Commission of Information Technology (http://archive.ph/EsweN), and Foundation Engineering Institute (http://archive.ph/sGv2O).

The office of the government of the Capital District (http://archive.ph/hCGj4), the office of the vice president of the economy, (http://archive.ph/m8IrT) and the press office of the armed forces (http://archive.ph/7GN1j) also had their accounts removed by Twitter.

Together, these blocked accounts had millions of followers.

The accounts of Venezuela’s Central Bank and Ministry of Economics and Finance were temporarily taken down, but later restored.

Venezuelan media outlets that challenge the right-wing narratives pushed by the major corporate media networks and Washington were also censored. Twitter suspended the accounts of the major radio station La Radio del Sur (http://archive.ph/f156R); the popular news website Red Radio Venezuela (http://archive.ph/CFVhL); and Ciudad CCS (http://archive.ph/G9ioT), the newspaper of the municipality of Caracas, the capital of the country.

Twitter has on numerous occasions suspended the accounts of Venezuela’s elected President Nicolás Maduro (https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/06/interview-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro/), although in response to widespread outrage it later brought them back.

But not all the Venezuelans who were deplatformed worked for state-backed institutions. Popular Chavista activists like Patricia Dorta (http://archive.ph/iPABu), who had nearly 40,000 followers; and Yepfri Arguello (http://archive.ph/uiRI7) had their accounts suspended, without explanation, in the Jan. 7 purge.

Individual government officials were targeted as well. Twitter suspended the accounts of Víctor Clark (http://archive.ph/180qo), the governor of the state of Falcón from the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV); Jesús Suárez Chourio (http://archive.ph/HRsR8), the former general commander of Venezuela’s military; and Hugbel Roa, (http://archive.ph/Jm6dU) an elected represented in the National Assembly also from PSUV.

Kenny Ossa (http://archive.ph/ZKXkE), a prominent activist advocating for technology education and freedom of access to information who serves as the president of Venezuela’s National Center of Information Technology, had his account removed for the second time.

Twitter also suspended the profile of prominent Venezuelan activist Freddy Bernal (https://twitter.com/FreddyBernal), a leader in the Chavista movement who helps oversee the government’s CLAP food program, which provides some 7 million families receive large boxes of food for a few pennies. His account was however later restored.

In its series of purges, Twitter has almost without exception targeted Venezuelans from the leftist Chavista movement, which Washington has tried to crush since it first came to power in the 1998 election of President Hugo Chávez.

But in what appears to be a first, Twitter went after a major right-wing Venezuelan opposition politician in its Jan. 7 purge.

The social media corporation restricted the account of Venezuelan lawmaker Luis Parra (https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/08/final-episode-juan-guaido-surreal-regime-change-reality-show/) days after he was elected president of the National Assembly. Unlike the others censored by Twitter, Parra is from Primero Justicia, a right-wing opposition party that is backed by the U.S. government.

The restriction of a right-wing Venezuelan opposition leader at exactly the moment when that figure was condemned by Washington is among the clearest indications of the US government’s influence over Twitter.

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The Grayzone spoke with Dhaymi Peña, who manages the station La Radio del Sur whose account was suspended by Twitter. She said the social media worker who runs the account was sent a notice that their profile was taken down, and provided a link to Twitter’s guidelines. “But there was not a direct reason,” Peña said, “rather just the general rules.”

“It is difficult for us,” she commented, noting that other Venezuelan media outlets have also suffered from these suspensions.

Vanessa Gutiérrez, a Venezuelan journalist (https://twitter.com/vgutierrezf) who hosts a show on La Radio del Sur, has also had her own personal Twitter account suspended twice. She told The Grayzone that her profile was suspended for the second time in October 2019, but after numerous petitions to the company, it was later restored.

“There was a massive attack against accounts run by the government and media outlets,” Gutiérrez said. “It seems like they were trying a test run.”

“When they suspend the accounts, they always direct you to the rules. But they don’t give you proof of the ‘infraction,'” she explained.

The Venezuelan journalist added, “There is no excuse given, they simply silence us.”

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Twitter suspends Iranian media outlets and civilian activists

Iran has also faced a wave of social media censorship at precisely the same time it has come under the gun of the US government. Iranian officials, media outlets, and activists have been censored by Twitter in an accelerated purge this month.

The Grayzone has previously documented how Google, Facebook, and Twitter (https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/24/big-tech-corporations-censoring-iranian-social-media-accounts-banned-student-journalist/) have removed social media accounts of real-life Iranians, including journalists.

In the wake of the Trump administration’s execution of Iran’s top general Soleimani, a clear act of war, Twitter moved to restrict the account of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Twitter has also in the past suspended Khamenei’s Spanish-language account (http://archive.ph/18yY5). And it has also banned an account that posted videos and excerpts of speeches of Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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In the days after the US airstrike that killed Soleimani, Twitter likewise suspended the official account of HispanTV, an Iranian government-backed Spanish-language media outlet that is popular in Latin America.

After a massive backlash, however, the Big Tech corporation agreed to restore HispanTV’s profile.

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In addition to HispanTV, Twitter has suspended the account of the Iranian state-backed media outlet Al-Alam News.

Many individual Iranians have been targeted as well. Users posted lists of dozens of Iranians (https://twitter.com/mTalebid1/status/1213560139275325440) who had their accounts taken down (https://twitter.com/marziieh_banoo). These included many prominent activists (https://twitter.com/Namira_hatmieh), journalists, and researchers who challenged Western propaganda and disinformation against their country.

Ahmad Nozoori (https://twitter.com/noroozee), an Iranian researcher and political analyst who does not work for his government, had his Twitter account suspended after spending years building up his following.

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“I couldn’t believe they did this,” Noroozi told The Grayzone. “In fact, I hardly use Twitter on an every day basis. My usage was limited to follow some friends and journalists.”

“The world has to know what is really going on,” Noroozi said. “Secretary Pompeo was with the idea that people of Iran and Iraq would cheer the assassination [of Soleimani]. The US media was promoting the same nonsense and depicting martyrdom of Soleimani as a good thing. What is the benefit of citizen journalism if you can’t use social media platforms to tell the reality?”

“I tried to update my followers over Twitter about the situation with both my eyewitness reporting – mostly with my own taken images and videos – and the news Iranian media provided about the retaliatory attack on the US base,” he explained. “It is clear the mind-controllers didn’t like that I do my reporting in English. They would rather keep everything in the dark and spread their one-way narrative.”

Twitter suspends the Syrian president’s account
It is not just government institutions, media outlets, and activists who have been targeted by Twitter’s purge. The Big Tech corporation has even gone after foreign heads of state whom Washington has been trying to overthrow.

Syria has also been targeted in these Twitter crackdowns.

On January 4, Twitter temporarily suspended the official Twitter account of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. A few days later, amid backlash, it restored the account.

Twitter has repeatedly suspended and restricted the profile of Syria’s president, forcing the country’s presidential office to create multiple accounts (https://twitter.com/sy_presidency) (neither of which has verified by the company).

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As with Iran and Venezuela, Syria’s government is internationally recognized and sits at the United Nations. But the United States and its allies have been committed to toppling all of these governments and replacing them with right-wing opposition factions that are subservient to Western interests. And social media corporations have dutifully catered to Washington’s agenda, stiffing free speech in the process.

The Grayzone contacted Twitter with a detailed request for comment responding to the main points made above.

A spokesperson from the company responded with just two boilerplate sentences: “Twitter has proactive systems which aim to detect platform manipulation at scale as part of our focus to improve the health of conversations on the service. Sometimes this might result in false positives, which can be appealed by any account owner.”

Facebook and Instagram join Twitter as the US empire’s Thought Police
Twitter is by no means the only social media corporation targeting the US government’s Official Enemies. Instagram and its owner Facebook have also suspended hundreds of Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts, expressly citing US government sanctions as the justification. (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/11/facebook-says-us-sanctions-responsible-for-removal/)

Days after Facebook censored a video from The Grayzone (https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/09/paypal-blocks-donations-iran/) that reported factually on the speeches of Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei and Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, the Big Tech company took down a video of a Syrian Christian pastor who praised Iranian General Soleimani (https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/07/iran-hezbollah-civilians-trump-cultural-sites/) for defeating ISIS and other Takfiri extremists.

Lebanese researcher Hadi Nasrallah translated and published a video of the Syrian Christian reverend Ibrahim Naseir, whose church was destroyed by Western-backed Salafi-jihadists that occupied the city of Aleppo.

In his post, Hadi Nasrallah wrote “Q*ssem S*leim*ni,” afraid that using the late general’s full name would trigger Facebook’s algorithm. But his video and post were still removed, showing how the US-based social media corporation is stifling the speech of people thousands of miles away in Lebanon.

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These increasingly authoritarian crackdowns show more and more how Big Tech corporations act as an arm of the US government and its foreign policy.

In 2018, when Facebook removed the pages of alternative media outlets that challenged Washington’s narratives, Jamie Fly, a US government-backed neoconservative operative, promised that it was “just the beginning (https://thegrayzone.com/2018/10/23/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-says-top-neocon-insider/).” (Fly soon after became the president and CEO of the US government’s propaganda arm Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL (https://pressroom.rferl.org/a/rferl-appoints-jamie-fly-as-new-president/30046300.html).)

Fly’s vow came true in the early weeks of 2020, as the US military-intelligence apparatus pushed social media giants to suppress the viewpoints of millions of people across the globe, especially those living in designated enemy states.

This is government censorship by proxy, demolishing civil rights in order to conceal inconvenient facts from the public.

Ben Norton
Ben Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He is the assistant editor of The Grayzone, and the producer of the Moderate Rebels podcast, which he co-hosts with editor Max Blumenthal. His website is BenNorton.com and he tweets at @BenjaminNorton.

Tintin

16th January 2020, 23:56

Frank V

17th January 2020, 00:12

We've a Twitter account here on Avalon. Perhaps we should just shut it down.

"A spokesperson from the company responded with just two boilerplate sentences:

“Twitter has proactive systems which aim to detect platform manipulation at scale as part of our focus to improve the health of conversations on the service. Sometimes this might result in false positives, which can be appealed by any account owner.” "

What on Earth, or even just a little bit not on Earth, is this very strange practically unintelligible statement supposed to mean?

It feels a little Klingon to me - nothing against Klingons of course - but what does this actually mean?

Well, there has been manipulation of Twitter by swarms of bots and hired shills ─ that has been proven. So I guess they're using some kind of A.I. or another type of heuristics algorithm to detect that sort of manipulation and shut it down. "False positives" means that the system might be triggered to shut down ─ i.e. mute and/or delete ─ an account that was actually innocent.

onawah

17th January 2020, 19:04

Rep.Schiff Sued by Physicians for Censoring Vaccine Debate
https://aapsonline.org/rep-adam-schiff-sued-by-physicians-for-censoring-vaccine-debate/
1/15/20

"On Jan 15, 2020, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, along with Katarina Verrelli, on behalf of herself and others who seek access to vaccine information, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs allege that Defendant Adam Schiff has abused government power and infringed on their free-speech rights.

“Who appointed Congressman Adam Schiff as Censor-in-Chief?” asks AAPS General Counsel. “No one did, and he should not be misusing his position to censor speech on the internet.”

In February and March 2019, Rep. Schiff contacted Google, Facebook, and Amazon, to encourage them to de-platform or discredit what Schiff asserted to be inaccurate information on vaccines. He then posted the letters and press release on the House.gov website.

Within 24 hours of Schiff’s letter to Amazon dated Mar 1, 2019, Amazon removed the popular videos Vaxxed and Shoot ’Em Up: the Truth About Vaccines from its platform for streaming videos, depriving members of the public of convenient access.

Under a policy announced in May 2019, Twitter includes a pro-government disclaimer placed above search results for an AAPS article on vaccine mandates: “Know the Facts. To make sure you get the best information on vaccination, resources are available from the US Department of Health and Human Services.” The implication of this disclaimer is that if information is not on a government website, then it is somehow less credible.

On Facebook, a search for an AAPS article on vaccines, which previously would lead directly to the AAPS article, now produces search results containing links to the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Visits to the AAPS website have declined significantly since March 2019, both in absolute terms and relative to the decline that would result from a story’s losing its recency.

“The internet is supposed to provide free access to information to people of different opinions,” stated AAPS Executive Director, Jane Orient, M.D.

Dr. Orient continues, “AAPS is not ‘anti-vaccine,’ but rather supports informed consent, based on an understanding of the full range of medical, legal, and economic considerations relevant to vaccination and any other medical intervention, which inevitably involves risks as well as benefits.”

AAPS argues in the complaint against Rep. Schiff: “The First Amendment protects the rights of free speech and association. Included within the right of free speech is a right to receive information from willing speakers. Under the First Amendment, Americans have the right to hear all sides of every issue and to make their own judgments about those issues without government interference or limitations. Content-based restrictions on speech are presumptively unconstitutional, and courts analyze such restrictions under strict scrutiny.”

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943."

TomKat

26th January 2020, 13:36

RunningDeer

26th January 2020, 14:34

TomKat

26th January 2020, 15:46

The Keiser Report is an alternative economics show on RT TV. I download them to mp3 for later listening during the day. But Youtube has "de-searched" The Keiser Report. It's still there, but you can't find it by searching. You have to go to https://www.keiserreport.com/. If you click on the youtube icon on the video, it will take you to the video on youtube. But searching won't get you there. My downloader only works with youtube, so that's what I do.

I subscribe to the Keiser Report YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQmW1ZcPKiAZ2ZP_3naA1kA/videos). It comes up in my newsfeed.

I ran a search (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Keiser+Report&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) and all his info comes up, i.e. YouTube, bitcoin, podcast, SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter, website, etc. Maybe it depend on the preference settings in your browser and/or search engine. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/noidea.gif

I get old episodes by searching. I just don't get the NEW (last week) ones. I generally download the week's episodes on Sunday, in this case episodes 1491 - 1493.

I don't subscribe to any channels. I go to youtube from a VPN with no cookies and don't have a youtube account. Maybe if you login, subscribe, use cookies, etc., you will see those new episodes automatically. Would be curious if you see them via search and not logged in, with no cookies (I have my browser delete cookies on exit).

RunningDeer

26th January 2020, 16:30

I don't subscribe to any channels. I go to youtube from a VPN with no cookies and don't have a youtube account. Maybe if you login, subscribe, use cookies, etc., you will see those new episodes automatically. Would be curious if you see them via search and not logged in, with no cookies (I have my browser delete cookies on exit).

It’s the same results when I’m logged out for the search engine and direct YouTube search. I use the TotalAV, which includes web security, cookie and history removal, antivirus.

https://i.imgur.com/F5mNCcu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/F5VZkI8.gif

https://i.imgur.com/OACvSpL.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/F5VZkI8.gif

https://i.imgur.com/ll8fyGw.jpg

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Chester

26th January 2020, 17:41

We've a Twitter account here on Avalon. Perhaps we should just shut it down.

I deactivated mine yesterday. I still have a Facebook page though, where I post maybe twice a year. The reason I have not deactivated my Facebook page is because one of my sons is constantly failing to pay his phone bill and never checks his e-mail, yet always gets my messages and promptly replies when I message him. I am seeking now a way we can reliably stay in touch so I can deactivate my Facebook page. All I will have left is Linkedin (for professional purposes) and am close to shutting that down too.

TomKat

26th January 2020, 19:47

RunningDeer

26th January 2020, 21:26

TomKat

27th January 2020, 02:03

Looks like you're not getting the latest 3 episodes either...

Current Keiser Report Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPszygYHA9K0lwJo35wu2A0J3RYt-Atla)without signing in.

https://i.imgur.com/Q9c1khA.jpg

OK. Guess I have to go directly to their channel. I used to just do a search and it would give me the latest, followed by the next to the latest, etc. But now if I search for it, I just get the old ones. And that's a form of censorship, same as they do on the Google search engine.

cannawizard

28th January 2020, 01:20

“I do not want to see sites that could lead people to take up arms on the Internet,” -- funny hearing that from the land where revolution/rebellion took root in the modern age~

:flower:

onawah

10th February 2020, 21:25

GOOGLE WHISTLEBLOWER TELLS ALL
Feb 10, 2020
The HighWire with Del Bigtree
67.8K subscribers

"Zach Vorhies, former Google engineer-turned-whistleblower, joins Del in-studio where he reveals what he found while working there, and why he had to sound the alarm on the tech giant."msXkupMrkZw

Richter

17th February 2020, 04:54

UK Government Approves Net Censorship – British Free Speech Dies
by Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/14/2020

The United Kingdom has become the first Western nation to move ahead with large-scale censorship of the internet,
effectively creating regulation that will limit freedom on the last frontier of digital liberty. In a move that has the nation
reeling, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled rules that will punish internet companies with fines, & even imprison-
ment, if they fail to protect users from 'harmful and illegal content.'

CONTINUE: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-government-approves-net-censorship-british-free-speech-dies

onawah

9th March 2020, 20:32

Vimeo censors my interview, in which Catherine Austin Fitts and I discuss coronavirus and vaccines
Vimeo also removed another Fitts interview with a distinguished attorney, on the subject of mandated vaccines
They’re meddling with you, and deciding for you
by Jon Rappoport
March 9, 2020
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/03/09/vimeo-censors-my-interview-in-which-catherine-austin-fitts-and-i-discuss-coronavirus-and-vaccines/
Or see: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?109753-The-Wuhan-Coronavirus-COVID-19&p=1339912&viewfull=1#post1339912

Sue (Ayt)

17th March 2020, 15:55

It actually appears that the extreme censorship on Google may have been lifted late last night.

I did some searches for "forbidden" subjects and people, and they are actually coming up on the first page.
For example, I typed in "miles mathis on charles manson". Mathis has been censored for a long time.
I also tried "Dr. Mercola", and his site and picture pop right up as #1.
Just tried "Catherine Austin Fitts". She pops right up too, along with her videos.

Sue (Ayt)

17th March 2020, 16:06

Very strange, whatever is happening on Google.
Typed in "Bill Ryan", and Bill - your picture pops up right away, but with the wrong wikipedia bio.
Check it out!

edit to add - Can't believe that "China will catch a cold" is the first video that comes up!

Chester

17th March 2020, 21:36

It seems this was posted yesterday -

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Understand, I don't always catch everything... especially something from prior to 2012... "wow!"

Note that this was the third video down the list in what Google returned to me.

Gwin Ru

19th May 2020, 18:47

What critical thinking? Wayback Machine is now complicit in Big Tech censorship (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/489118-wayback-machine-big-tech-censorship/)

RT
19 May, 2020 17:50

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By Elliot Leavy, former editor of the technology and innovation magazine maize and editor of culture magazine BOZO. He has written for numerous publications around the world focussing on technology, belief systems, and culture.

The webpage archive service Wayback Machine’s decision to additionally label already-deleted articles as ‘disinformation’ is internet history revisionism that comes at a time when critical thinking is desperately needed.

Earlier this month, Wayback Machine took heed of MIT Technology Review’s protests that they are breathing life into debunked coronavirus ‘hoaxes’, and took to retroactively labelling past web pages and content removed from their original pages with warnings decrying the information presented as false.

The pages in question come from popular platforms such as Medium which, in theory, were launched to allow users to create content without it being editorialised by the powers that be. By redefining content after it has already been removed, Wayback Machine is adding a level of editorialisation atop of another — adding insult to injury by obfuscating original messages and overlaying them with a warning of disinformation. Disinformation being defined as misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive.

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Throughout the big tech sphere, this is nothing new: censorship by the new arbiters of truth is now the norm. However, with coronavirus in full swing, the mission creep toward mass-censorship has become more of a lurch. We are no longer allowed to critically think for ourselves. Instead we are offered one of three options: information, misinformation or disinformation, with the latter hidden away from view lest we get any bad ideas. Nuance, in effect, is no longer an option.

The obvious problem here is that conflicting information surrounding the virus is as widespread as the virus itself. When the world is full of unknowns, who is to say what is and is not disinformation, and where honest miscalculation or tentative prediction ends and malicious intent begins? Why is it that some opinions are removed, whilst others — some proven to be incorrect — are not?

For example, at the end of last month, research collated by the paediatric blog Don’t Forget The Bubbles, together with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), found (https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-no-child-known-to-have-passed-covid-19-to-adults-global-study-finds-11981111) that, globally, there is no evidence of children having passed Covid-19 to adults, and that children have much less severe symptoms and often do not have any at all.

Despite this fact, reports across some media outlets in the UK have parroted (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52650259) teacher unions’ cries that it is “Not safe to reopen schools.” Contrary to the evidence then, is this not disinformation? The unions of course have an agenda, so why is this information not labelled as disinformation? Or at the bare minimum, misinformation?

Then there is the tweet (https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152) by the World Health Organisation published in January that stated that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus.” Two months later, the WHO declared a global pandemic. At the time of writing, there is still no signalling that this was, in fact, deeply incorrect. Why has it not been removed and/or changed? Was this not disinformation?

The list goes on. In February, Forbes quoted (https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/02/29/no-you-do-not-need-face-masks-for-coronavirus-they-might-increase-your-infection-risk/#36816dec676c) a doctor who claimed that wearing masks would in fact increase the chances of transmitting the virus. If one today uses the Wayback Machine internet archiving service on the Forbes article in question, there lies no mark of shame decrying it as a hoax, which begs the question, why not? It is possible to read this as at least misinformation if you ignore intent; so why the difference in standards? Are the results not the same?

The answer, one must assume, has nothing to do with what is or is not true. Instead, it seems that this censorship presumes nefariousness upon some, whilst assuming ignorance in others. It is not only the content that is being judged — else the WHO tweet would have been removed or at least labelled — but the author. Gone are the days where we did not shoot the messenger, now both him and the message are fair game.

By towing the censorship line like it has, Wayback Machine — which has offered a valuable service up until this point — is now complicit. The division and disparity in the enforced rules between different voices reveals that behind the mask lies an agenda.

By tarnishing some — but not all — voices with the disinformation brush, much of the media, academia, and (predominantly) big tech are putting ideological allegiances before anything else. Now, as ever, is not the time for that. Once we know more, we can evaluate what is wrong and what is right. However, if we continue to censor the past, attaching intent to some but not to others, we will be unable to evaluate anything at all.

norman

21st May 2020, 19:00

Joe Rogan is going to war with big tech media in September, his first 2 guests on his new Spotify show will be Alex Jones and Elon Musk.

https://banned.video/watch?id=5ec5f625c7d2dc0030369125

edit:

I've got a couple of questions on my radar since posting that:

Will Rogan live until September ?

What if Soros and the gang buy a controlling share in Spotify?

Gwin Ru

24th May 2020, 18:55

Google Drive takes down user's personal copy of Judy Mikovits' Plandemic previously flagged by Washington Post (https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-plandemic/)

Tom Parker
Reclaim the Net (https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-plandemic/)
Wed, 20 May 2020 09:03 UTC

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© YouTube/Buzzfeednews.com/KJN

Google is now applying its controversial coronavirus misinformation policies to users' personal files. Ever since Big Tech platforms started cracking down on what they deem to be coronavirus misinformation, the media has been willfully flagging alleged violations to social media companies and getting content taken down.

And now the file storage and sharing service Google Drive has started to take down users' files in response to media complaints about them containing coronavirus misinformation.

In an article reporting on the takedown (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/20/misinformation-coronavirus-plandemic-workaround/), The Washington Post's Silicon Valley Correspondent Elizabeth Dwoskin complains that after the coronavirus documentary Plandemic was censored on social media (https://reclaimthenet.org/plandemic-youtube-removed-judy-mikovits-mikki-willis/), some YouTube clips were telling users how to access "banned footage" from the documentary via Google Drive.

She then notes that after The Washington Post contacted Google, Google Drive took down a file featuring the trailer for the Plandemic documentary.

Dwoskin frames users sharing files containing the Plandemic trailer with each other as:
"A wave of seemingly countless workarounds employed by people motivated to spread misinformation about the virus — efforts that continue to thwart social media companies' attempts at preventing hoaxes and conspiracy theories from spreading amid the greatest public health crisis in decades." Dwoskin also writes that The Washington Post reported 12 videos to YouTube, 61 Facebook posts and Instagram links to Facebook, and 24 videos to TikTok for featuring the Plandemic trailer.

In response, YouTube removed five of the videos, Facebook removed nine of the posts, and TikTok said it removed most of the videos.

The Plandemic trailer isn't the only file that's been censored on Google Drive in recent months.

After SpaceX and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk linked to what Dwoskin describes as a "questionable study" about the efficacy of the drug hydroxychloroquine in March (https://reclaimthenet.org/google-censors-google-doc-hydroxychloroquine/), Google blocked access to the document.

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Elon Musk © Mike Blake/Reuters

For many Google Drive users, the service is their only file storage solution and they use it to save copies of videos and posts that have been deleted or censored on other platforms.

If this precedent continues, it could mean these users have their only copy of content that has been scrubbed from social media platforms taken down because they shared a link to those files with other people.

According to Google Drive's policies (https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?visit_id=637256004092724506-3619940695&hl=en&rd=1), distributing what Google deems to be "misleading content related to civic and democratic processes," "misleading content related to harmful health practices," "manipulated media" is prohibited with possible exceptions when the content is used in an "educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic context."

Google "doesn't go into details" about how those policies are enforced" or whether it scans files to ensure compliance.

The takedown of the Plandemic file is reflective of the increasingly aggressive moderation standards big tech companies are employing when it comes to what users are allowed to say about the coronavirus.

At first, these strict moderation standards applied to public posts on their social media platforms.

Now just a few months after these policies were introduced, these big tech companies are already starting to dictate which documents and files users are allowed to share with others and taking down the files when users don't comply.

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The importance of the Avalon Library is skyrocketing... and it better be well protected from all directions.

Tintin

24th May 2020, 19:34

The importance of the Avalon Library is skyrocketing... and it better be well protected from all directions.

Thank you :bearhug: :highfive:

Yes, we are very well aware of that and rest assured everything is backed up securely in multiple places

A kindly well meant urgent reminder to ALL:

For your own records: please do NOT use cloud storage services as your only method of backing up files. or at all, if that can be avoided. Invest in a laptop computer - don't rely on a smartphone for everything you do - and buy at least one or preferably more external hard drives on which you store facsimiles/copies of everything. :flower: Yours, Tintin.

norman

24th May 2020, 20:12

External hard drives are vanishing from the retail market place. For 12 months there have been lots of obvious signs that the big retailers were clearing their stock.

The current "Food Only" policy is as good as already gone, actually. It feels a bit like a war tactic.

Gwin Ru

30th May 2020, 19:57

Anyone heard about this?

It seems that finally a spanner was just thrown in:

Video (https://www.fort-russ.com/type/video/) Anglo 5 (https://www.fort-russ.com/category/anglo-5/) Headline News (https://www.fort-russ.com/category/headline-news/) Opinions (https://www.fort-russ.com/category/opinions/)

BREAKING: FULL TEXT – TRUMP PLACES YOUTUBE TWITTER FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM – UNDER PUBLIC CONTROL (https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/05/breaking-full-text-trump-places-youtube-twitter-facebook-instagram-under-public-control/)

Trump Decrees that these are part of the 'Public Square'

By FRN Editorial Board
(https://www.fort-russ.com/author/aaron-bixly/)
Last updated May 30, 2020

May 29, 2020 – Late in the day on May 28th, 2020 Donald Trump announced and signed an Executive Order titled ‘Preventing Online Censorship‘.

As an independent, citizen journalism outfit, FRN fully endorses President Trump’s bold move in the direction of digital democracy and protecting speech. As our world and our lives become more digitized, with more time online, our existences themselves become more digitized. Democratic rights within a constitutional republic cannot stop when we turn our computers on. The virtual sphere of social media is absolutely the new public sphere, and must be a commons that all can enjoy and express themselves, exchange ideas and pertinent information, to challenge authority and speak truth to power.

A decade ago it would have been unthinkable that a Republican administration would carry out such a sweeping reform in this direction. Given the massive events over the last few years, no new things really surprise us anymore, even though they are no less amazing.

We look forward to this new era of digital freedoms, and we support the efforts of AG Barr, and those in the Congress who will move proactively in support of this undoubtedly popular and timely EO.

In a careful reading of the Order, below, it is clear about two main points that other media has failed to interpret, however, which indeed justifies our very headline.

The social media giants named, act as essentially features of the public square. This is a tremendous statement to include in the preambulatory remarks, because it has democratized social media.

Social media will be treated as a publisher if they publish, and as a platform if they platform. In either event, they must either give fair hearing to a robust debate or they must simply not censor self-publishers (users). This places them, either way, under a public control that forces them to be avenues used by the public in the public interest.

Fox News in the US broadcast most all of the president’s presentation of the Order.

Below it is the full text.

FRN EDITORIAL BOARD

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PREVENTING ONLINE CENSORSHIP
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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Section 1. Policy. Free speech is the bedrock of American democracy. Our Founding Fathers protected this sacred right with the First Amendment to the Constitution. The freedom to express and debate ideas is the foundation for all of our rights as a free people.
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In a country that has long cherished the freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand pick the speech that Americans may access and convey on the internet. This practice is fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic. When large, powerful social media companies censor opinions with which they disagree, they exercise a dangerous power. They cease functioning as passive bulletin boards, and ought to be viewed and treated as content creators.
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The growth of online platforms in recent years raises important questions about applying the ideals of the First Amendment to modern communications technology. Today, many Americans follow the news, stay in touch with friends and family, and share their views on current events through social media and other online platforms. As a result, these platforms function in many ways as a 21st century equivalent of the public square.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube wield immense, if not unprecedented, power to shape the interpretation of public events; to censor, delete, or disappear information; and to control what people see or do not see.
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As President, I have made clear my commitment to free and open debate on the internet. Such debate is just as important online as it is in our universities, our town halls, and our homes. It is essential to sustaining our democracy.
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Online platforms are engaging in selective censorship that is harming our national discourse. Tens of thousands of Americans have reported, among other troubling behaviors, online platforms “flagging” content as inappropriate, even though it does not violate any stated terms of service; making unannounced and unexplained changes to company policies that have the effect of disfavoring certain viewpoints; and deleting content and entire accounts with no warning, no rationale, and no recourse.
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Twitter now selectively decides to place a warning label on certain tweets in a manner that clearly reflects political bias. As has been reported, Twitter seems never to have placed such a label on another politician’s tweet. As recently as last week, Representative Adam Schiff was continuing to mislead his followers by peddling the long-disproved Russian Collusion Hoax, and Twitter did not flag those tweets. Unsurprisingly, its officer in charge of so-called “Site Integrity” has flaunted his political bias in his own tweets.
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At the same time online platforms are invoking inconsistent, irrational, and groundless justifications to censor or otherwise restrict Americans’ speech here at home, several online platforms are profiting from and promoting the aggression and disinformation spread by foreign governments like China. One United States company, for example, created a search engine for the Chinese Communist Party that would have blacklisted searches for “human rights,” hid data unfavorable to the Chinese Communist Party, and tracked users determined appropriate for surveillance. It also established research partnerships in China that provide direct benefits to the Chinese military. Other companies have accepted advertisements paid for by the Chinese government that spread false information about China’s mass imprisonment of religious minorities, thereby enabling these abuses of human rights. They have also amplified China’s propaganda abroad, including by allowing Chinese government officials to use their platforms to spread misinformation regarding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to undermine pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
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As a Nation, we must foster and protect diverse viewpoints in today’s digital communications environment where all Americans can and should have a voice. We must seek transparency and accountability from online platforms, and encourage standards and tools to protect and preserve the integrity and openness of American discourse and freedom of expression.
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Sec. 2. Protections Against Online Censorship. (a) It is the policy of the United States to foster clear ground rules promoting free and open debate on the internet. Prominent among the ground rules governing that debate is the immunity from liability created by section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act (section 230(c)). 47 U.S.C. 230(c). It is the policy of the United States that the scope of that immunity should be clarified: the immunity should not extend beyond its text and purpose to provide protection for those who purport to provide users a forum for free and open speech, but in reality use their power over a vital means of communication to engage in deceptive or pretextual actions stifling free and open debate by censoring certain viewpoints.
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Section 230(c) was designed to address early court decisions holding that, if an online platform restricted access to some content posted by others, it would thereby become a “publisher” of all the content posted on its site for purposes of torts such as defamation. As the title of section 230(c) makes clear, the provision provides limited liability “protection” to a provider of an interactive computer service (such as an online platform) that engages in “‘Good Samaritan’ blocking” of harmful content. In particular, the Congress sought to provide protections for online platforms that attempted to protect minors from harmful content and intended to ensure that such providers would not be discouraged from taking down harmful material. The provision was also intended to further the express vision of the Congress that the internet is a “forum for a true diversity of political discourse.” 47 U.S.C. 230(a)(3). The limited protections provided by the statute should be construed with these purposes in mind.
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In particular, subparagraph (c)(2) expressly addresses protections from “civil liability” and specifies that an interactive computer service provider may not be made liable “on account of” its decision in “good faith” to restrict access to content that it considers to be “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable.” It is the policy of the United States to ensure that, to the maximum extent permissible under the law, this provision is not distorted to provide liability protection for online platforms that — far from acting in “good faith” to remove objectionable content — instead engage in deceptive or pretextual actions (often contrary to their stated terms of service) to stifle viewpoints with which they disagree. Section 230 was not intended to allow a handful of companies to grow into titans controlling vital avenues for our national discourse under the guise of promoting open forums for debate, and then to provide those behemoths blanket immunity when they use their power to censor content and silence viewpoints that they dislike. When an interactive computer service provider removes or restricts access to content and its actions do not meet the criteria of subparagraph (c)(2)(A), it is engaged in editorial conduct. It is the policy of the United States that such a provider should properly lose the limited liability shield of subparagraph (c)(2)(A) and be exposed to liability like any traditional editor and publisher that is not an online provider.
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(b) To advance the policy described in subsection (a) of this section, all executive departments and agencies should ensure that their application of section 230(c) properly reflects the narrow purpose of the section and take all appropriate actions in this regard. In addition, within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary), in consultation with the Attorney General, and acting through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), shall file a petition for rulemaking with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting that the FCC expeditiously propose regulations to clarify:
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(i) the interaction between subparagraphs (c)(1) and (c)(2) of section 230, in particular to clarify and determine the circumstances under which a provider of an interactive computer service that restricts access to content in a manner not specifically protected by subparagraph (c)(2)(A) may also not be able to claim protection under subparagraph (c)(1), which merely states that a provider shall not be treated as a publisher or speaker for making third-party content available and does not address the provider’s responsibility for its own editorial decisions;
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(ii) the conditions under which an action restricting access to or availability of material is not “taken in good faith” within the meaning of subparagraph (c)(2)(A) of section 230, particularly whether actions can be “taken in good faith” if they are:
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(A) deceptive, pretextual, or inconsistent with a provider’s terms of service; or
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(B) taken after failing to provide adequate notice, reasoned explanation, or a meaningful opportunity to be heard; and
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(iii) any other proposed regulations that the NTIA concludes may be appropriate to advance the policy described in subsection (a) of this section.
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https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/05/breaking-full-text-trump-places-youtube-twitter-facebook-instagram-under-public-control/

Sec. 3. Protecting Federal Taxpayer Dollars from Financing Online Platforms That Restrict Free Speech. (a) The head of each executive department and agency (agency) shall review its agency’s Federal spending on advertising and marketing paid to online platforms. Such review shall include the amount of money spent, the online platforms that receive Federal dollars, and the statutory authorities available to restrict their receipt of advertising dollars.
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(b) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the head of each agency shall report its findings to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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(c) The Department of Justice shall review the viewpoint-based speech restrictions imposed by each online platform identified in the report described in subsection (b) of this section and assess whether any online platforms are problematic vehicles for government speech due to viewpoint discrimination, deception to consumers, or other bad practices.
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Sec. 4. Federal Review of Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices. (a) It is the policy of the United States that large online platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, as the critical means of promoting the free flow of speech and ideas today, should not restrict protected speech. The Supreme Court has noted that social media sites, as the modern public square, “can provide perhaps the most powerful mechanisms available to a private citizen to make his or her voice heard.” Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730, 1737 (2017). Communication through these channels has become important for meaningful participation in American democracy, including to petition elected leaders. These sites are providing an important forum to the public for others to engage in free expression and debate. Cf. PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74, 85-89 (1980).
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(b) In May of 2019, the White House launched a Tech Bias Reporting tool to allow Americans to report incidents of online censorship. In just weeks, the White House received over 16,000 complaints of online platforms censoring or otherwise taking action against users based on their political viewpoints. The White House will submit such complaints received to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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(c) The FTC shall consider taking action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to prohibit unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, pursuant to section 45 of title 15, United States Code. Such unfair or deceptive acts or practice may include practices by entities covered by section 230 that restrict speech in ways that do not align with those entities’ public representations about those practices.
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(d) For large online platforms that are vast arenas for public debate, including the social media platform Twitter, the FTC shall also, consistent with its legal authority, consider whether complaints allege violations of law that implicate the policies set forth in section 4(a) of this order. The FTC shall consider developing a report describing such complaints and making the report publicly available, consistent with applicable law.
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Sec. 5. State Review of Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices and Anti-Discrimination Laws. (a) The Attorney General shall establish a working group regarding the potential enforcement of State statutes that prohibit online platforms from engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices. The working group shall also develop model legislation for consideration by legislatures in States where existing statutes do not protect Americans from such unfair and deceptive acts and practices. The working group shall invite State Attorneys General for discussion and consultation, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law.
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(b) Complaints described in section 4(b) of this order will be shared with the working group, consistent with applicable law. The working group shall also collect publicly available information regarding the following:
(i) increased scrutiny of users based on the other users they choose to follow, or their interactions with other users;
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(ii) algorithms to suppress content or users based on indications of political alignment or viewpoint;
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(iii) differential policies allowing for otherwise impermissible behavior, when committed by accounts associated with the Chinese Communist Party or other anti-democratic associations or governments;
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(iv) reliance on third-party entities, including contractors, media
organizations, and individuals, with indicia of bias to review content; and
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(v) acts that limit the ability of users with particular viewpoints to earn money on the platform compared with other users similarly situated.
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Sec. 6. Legislation. The Attorney General shall develop a proposal for Federal legislation that would be useful to promote the policy objectives of this order.
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Sec. 7. Definition. For purposes of this order, the term “online platform” means any website or application that allows users to create and share content or engage in social networking, or any general search engine.
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Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
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(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
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(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
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DONALD J. TRUMP
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THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 28, 2020.

Philippe

30th May 2020, 21:38

And here are the Health Ranger views on what has happened. Dramatic times ask for dramatic statements. But this one is not an exaggeration in announcing a game changing : Prepare for a mass uprising… it’s time to tear down the Berlin Wall of censorship and free humanity

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-05-30-tech-giants-fake-news-media-panic-over-trump-sec-230-censorship.html

Sarah Rainsong

10th July 2020, 21:14

Richter

10th July 2020, 21:34

Has anyone noticed how TikTok is being attacked (https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/tech/amazon-tiktok/index.html)? Now, maybe they really are that bad and a true security risk and deserve every bit of the negative coverage and warnings and such. I don't know. I don't have TikTok.

But I do know it's one of the newest apps that the younger generation (those under 30) use. And many in that younger generations don't follow the traditional media outlets. They follow social media apps like TikTok (not Facebook, sorry, that's for us old folks). With apps like this and SnapChat and others, it's very easy to quickly record and share videos, which makes it more difficult for the elites to control the narrative.

So is TikTok being challenged because it's a true security risk? Or is it being challenged because it's not being controlled by the elites?

Anonymous Hackers Target TikTok: ‘Delete This Chinese Spyware Now’ (6:23)
This has been a week that TikTok — the Chinese viral video giant that has soared under lockdown
— will want to put quickly behind it. The ByteDance-owned platform was under fire anyway, over
allegations of data mishandling and censorship, but then a beta version of Apple’s iOS 14 caught
the app secretly accessing users’ clipboards and a backlash immediately followed.
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Gwin Ru

13th July 2020, 13:58

...

From Jim Stone:

What the "silent majority" actually is (http://82.221.129.208/.vh8.html)

The silent majority is the group being censored. "Silent majorities" happen when those who are hostile to the majority get control of the dissemination of information and then use that control to push objectives the majority does not want. Silent majorities are what happen under tyranny.

The MSM has created the silent majority in the United States, along with Twitter, Facebook, Google and more.

Have an opinion that will conflict with the "six million" minority completely taking over the United States or any other country they have targeted? Bam-o, even if you do have a platform it will appear in Google in name only with absolutely no topic searches working to find it. That way those who already know about it won't think it is censored, while those who don't know about it will never find it.

Have an E-mail that should go viral? If it goes against those who have seized control of the narrative, it will hit a spam filter and likely die before anyone other than those you talk to daily ever see it. They'll allow it through to those you talk to daily, because you can confirm with them it got blocked. But absolutely no one else will see it.

Speak up on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else, and you will be vaporized. And it is all about accomplishing objectives and establishing an illusion - the illusion that the majority does not exist. Silence the majority, and then say it is simply not there.

That way, you can steal an election, and a country and get away with it. That way you can destroy multitudes with shots you call "vaccines" and get away with it. You can run a corona scam and get away with it. You can even run CPS as a child theft operation, and then get away with murder.
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Gwin Ru

16th July 2020, 13:37

Jim Stone on Tweeter Hacks:
HACKERS PAID A TWITTER EMPLOYEE TO SPILL THE BEANS (http://82.221.129.208/.vh7.html)

A MOAB just went off in silicon valley

Lots of high profile criminal stuff in private tweets by elites has been revealed, plus the actual screen shots of Twitter's censorship tools that even had buttons for stifling trending content or wiping it out completely, as well as the infamous shadow ban. Lots of criminal outfits stopped tweeting altogether, AND THE FOLLOWING IS PRICELESS:

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Twitter is irrevocably busted at wholesale censorship after they claimed they are fully clean of censorship. The hackers got full control of many accounts used by elite criminals and at least initially proved twitter was allowing criminal activity to happen in it's private tweets while stifling conservatives.

Additionally, in the initial stories about this incident, the hackers made records of the private tweets of the top elite criminals and threatend to make them public if a bitcoin payoff was not made. That was the original story and it has now changed for obvious reasons.

MORE: The control panel proved passwords are irrelevant to twitter admin, they just back door into anything they want, password free and that is what allowed the hackers to get into everything.

And worse, if Twitter is now proven to be such an outfit, what about the rest of silicon valley? Twitter has obviously been the cleanest of them all, SO WHAT ABOUT THE REST??

Delight

30th July 2020, 02:35

the youtube channel for Del Bigtree and the Highwire has been deleted. There are several threads going right now that have one thing in common... massive censorship by Big TECH in real time as if the censors all were told "NOW". I will read this as a good sign.

Thursday the Highwire has a weekly broadcast and EVERY week has important NEW info related to medical freedom.

Watch it here

Join us right here for The HighWire, Tomorrow, Thursday, at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern. See you out on The HighWire! (https://thehighwire.com/watch/)

Bill Ryan

30th July 2020, 12:34

the youtube channel for Del Bigtree and the Highwire has been deleted. Wow!! :facepalm:

But all this kind of thing is going to do is bring Bitchute, Brighteon, and Banned.video more and more to the forefront.

Tintin

30th July 2020, 14:31

One of the authors of this paper (https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTi-g18ftNZUMRAj2SwRPodtscFio7bJ7GdNgbJAGbdfF67WuRJB3ZsidgpidB2eocFHAVjIL-7deJ7/pub) tweeted this a little earlier today - interesting.

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onawah

8th August 2020, 21:12

YOUTUBE/GOOGLE WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS A DANGEROUS AGENDA
August 6, 2020
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/youtubegoogle-whistleblower-reveals-a-dangerous-agenda/

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"When Zach Vorhies returned to his job at YouTube/Google after a hiatus in the summer of 2016, he was not political and he had tuned out the presidential election. This is why he really noticed how distraught his colleagues at Google were when when Hillary lost in November.

About a week after the Election, the CEOs held a company-wide meeting, where Founder, Sergey Brin declared that he was “personally offended at the election of Donald Trump” and the CFO described a discussion with the New York office about how they “were going to lose this election”, which Zach found disturbing.

“Lose this election? It’s not Google’s to lose – it’s the American peoples’ election,” he thought. “But the most shocking thing for me, which actually went over almost everybody else’s heads, the significance of it, was a question asked by the CEO, Sundar Pitchai about what the most effective thing Google had done during the election and his response was very troubling. He said, it was the suppression of Fake News by their machine learning algorithms and that they were going to be expanding on that.

“And I went, ‘Wait a minute. We’re filtering Fake News? When was that decision made? Because their mission statement is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. When did Google get into the business of filtering Fake News?’

“So, I thought to myself, ‘I’m going to figure out this definition of Fake News’…So, I started browsing through the company – and keep in mind, that Google was a very open company because of Eric Schmidt and so, as a result, I could just go and look at what other teams are doing.

“So, I started looking at what the Fake News team was doing and they actually had…an organization that was generating design documents; on defining exactly what Fake News was. And when I looked through the definitions, it turned out that 4 out of 5 all had to do with Hillary Clinton!

“And I was like, ‘Wait a minute! Is this about filtering Fake News or is this about helping a candidate?’ It seemed to me that it was about a political play.

“And so, I thought to myself, ‘If there’s such a thing as Fake News that’s going to be defined at the company, then there’s going to be something that executes the Fake News classification and removes them from the Search, the YouTube, the Google News.’

“And so, I sought to try to find out what that project was – and I found it. And the name of the project was called ‘Machine Learning Fairness.’ And over the course of a couple years, I gathered intelligence on this inside the company with publicly-available documents and when I was grabbing them, I was just grabbing them for myself, because at the time, I was like, ‘No one’s going to believe this. This is really out there but I need to have physical evidence for myself, so I know I’m not going crazy.’

“I saw Google essentially start seditious activities against the President. They deleted a word out of the Arabic dictionary, ‘Covfefe’, in order to play into the media’s attempt to use the 25th Amendment [to remove Trump from office due to mental incapacitation] – and I went, ‘Wow! This is sedition! This is treasonous – and now, because I know about it and if I don’t say anything, then I’m part of the conspiracy, via silence.’

“So, that’s when I realized I have to step forward, I had to contact someone that was trustworthy within the media, in order to disclose this to the public, no matter what the cost…and that’s how I got connected with Project Veritas. And they did a sting operation and the rest is history.”

All 52 States and Territories are now involved in the antitrust investigation against Google and the other FAANGs. Last week’s Big Tech antitrust hearing in Congress discussed content that Zach had disclosed. He says, “I think we’re on the verge of something big happening with Big Tech.

“One of the biggest problems is that they’re censoring Conservatives and anyone that is a dissident…a bigger problem is that they’re taking all of our data and they’re selling it to China…

“[Google is] a trillion-dollar company right now, they own 90% of the [global] search market, about 80% of the mobile phone market – the technocracy is here…they also own a large amount of these SSL certificates…and they can just go ahead and, with the flick of a switch, disable the certificates at the root level for entire sections of the economy and [websites] just go down, because all of a sudden, their connection can’t be trusted anymore…

“Google has the power to rig the Election. They’ve been caught rigging the Election already, not just in the United States but meddling in Ireland, in Brazil. This is the Technocracy.

“The biggest threat that we face in America, right now is Google.”

onawah

8th August 2020, 21:44

Google Whistleblower: “Fake News” based on Politics, Not Truth – Google is Guilty of Treason and Selling Data to China
8/8/20
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/google-whistleblower-fake-news-based-on-politics-not-truth-google-is-guilty-of-treason-and-selling-data-to-china/

Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

"Spiro Skouras interviews Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies who also worked with Google-owned YouTube. Zach realized that Google was trying to overthrow the U.S. government and was selling data to China, and therefore delivered hundreds of pages of internal documents from Google to the Department of Justice.

Google tried to suppress him, and he feared for his life, so he created what is sometimes referred to as a “kill switch” letting Google and everyone else who are accomplices with them know that if anything happened to him and he died, that these hundreds of pages of incriminating documents would be dumped into the public domain.

Vorhies says: “Google is the biggest threat to America today.”

This is a MUST SEE video interview. It is still on YouTube for now, but if it disappears, we will make it available from another platform.

YouTube / Google Whistleblower Reveals A Dangerous Agenda!
by Spiro Skouras
Activist Post

A former insider who worked at YouTube / Google, Zach Vorhies, shares his story about what he uncovered while working for the tech giant.

Zach Vorhies became a whistleblower after he discovered what he believed to be high crimes committed by Google against entire nations, including the United States.

Google sent the police after Zach when they discovered he had taken over 950 pages of documents from the company which he handed over to the Department of Justice.

Mr. Vorhies also shares a plan to end the censorship and possibly break up the monopoly that has become possibly the most powerful corporation in the world, Google."
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onawah

14th August 2020, 19:44

THE TRUTH ABOUT INTERNET CENSORSHIP
8/14/20
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the-truth-about-internet-censorship/

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"Let’s play the game, “Will I get banned today because of this video?”

In the strange time of 2020, there is no tool more powerful for controlling the masses than political correctness. It’s what those who seek to control us use as justification to manipulate the information that we see. If you can control the majority of information, then you can control the majority of people, in which case, you can manipulate political outcomes.

And today, these platforms have become an extremely powerful propaganda tool, based on declassified records of contracts and Freedom of Information requests. We know that DARPA, the NSA and figures connected to the intelligence community were some of the earliest sponsors of these Big Tech companies, like Google and Facebook. DARPA has even funded experiments on developing tools to identify misinformation on social media and counter it with what they deem as “truthful information”, reducing the adversary’s ability to manipulate events.

What this points to is that these platforms have the ability to be puppeted and weaponized for nefarious and political purposes, even by its owners, through things like shadowbanning. Now, when left alone, these platforms are the most powerful way to disseminate information to millions of voters. There’s nothing else that even comes close to competing with Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for this; it’s truly the new digital public square.

But every single day these platforms manipulate information which favors the establishment, upon which that media cartels have built their kingdoms, normalizing the insane status quo and manufacturing support for agendas which bolster it, until eventually people not only believe in talking points that are being promoted, they parrot them as truth and become aggressive against anyone who questions it or dissents from it.

In 2012, Facebook conducted secret psychological tests on his unknowing users to see if they could influence their emotions through influencing the news feed information that they saw. They found that by manipulating the news information, they could influence the mood of their users, although I’m sure, from their intelligence-sponsored inceptions, these platforms have always been used as a tool for psychological manipulation and propaganda purposes.

For example, YouTube openly manipulates information all the time and they refer to it as “authoritative content”. What this really means is “suppressing independent content while propping up legacy media” – which of course can never be biased or wrong or have any sort of political or financial motivations – which are owned and puppeted by elite billionaires with political and financial motivations.

But if you question this official narrative, even if you have a mountain of sources and evidence, you know like what they used to call “journalism”, what people used to win Pulitzers for – well now, you’re just an “Alt-Right troll conspiracy theorist and you are the physical manifestation of Hitler’s ghost” for even mentioning it.

These tech titans will lie under oath that they don’t manipulate users or information and unfortunately at these hearings, the questions are asked by people who don’t understand how to set the date and time on their iPhone, let alone how these platforms even work.

And most of the people asking the questions, especially Democrats receive financial contributions from these Big Tech companies, like Google. And while some representatives like Jim Jordan clearly got the message right in the most recent hearing, will anything actually be done about it this time or is this just a performance?

Here’s a twitter screenshot leaked from an underground community after Twitter was recently hacked but if you post this screenshot to Twitter it will be removed and you might get your account suspended, as it seemingly shows proof of manual intervention capabilities, such as banning trends and banning searches – you know, things they claim that they don’t do, even under oath.

Based on the accounts that they delete and the ones that they promote, the bias is obvious. Seemingly, all of these Big Tech platforms are working in tandem with the same political agenda right now. We’re three hours until midnight on America. The fate of the Western World will be determined by the next election and these monopolies that were created by the government who spy on us are now being used to politically influence people; effectively rigging the election.

Russian trolls posting a few memes on Facebook was considered subversion of our democracy? How is this not a million times worse? But as long as Biden wins, not only will they never have to face consequences for doing this, the talk about Anti-trust laws will die down to a whisper.

There is no greater threat currently to our democracy than this and likely, nothing will ever actually be done about it for the very reason that something needs to be done about it, because they have too much power they have too much wealth and they have the ability to crush and manipulate dissenting voices.

Across the service, they just Control-ALT-Deleted at least 7,000 Twitter accounts showing any support for QAnon, which can be as innocuous as these memes and Twitter says they did this because of safety. Now, is this me making you unsafe? Is it hurting you? Of course not the purpose of this was clearly political, as QAnon on supporters make up a notable faction of Trump supporters and there is an election in a few short months.

There are some very powerful people and organizations who do not want Trump in office, that these social media companies capitulate to. One big example is the Anti-Defamation League or ADL, which represents itself as an “anti-hate organization” but something that this organization really doesn’t want people talking about is that in 1993, it was caught illegally conspiring with the police to engage in a massive spy ring. The information that they stole was sold to influence foreign politics. The ADL was also created to honor the memory of a convicted child rapist and murderer named Leo Frank and it’s this very pedophile apologist organization that has decided to be the moral arbiter for the Internet.

They have their claws deep into most of these social media platforms and are blackmailing them with threats of trying to turn off advertisers if they fail to capitulate to their politically-cancerous demands. ADL CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt is the face of Internet censorship and if you refuse to join their advertising blockade, they will label you as supporters of racism and whatever other insults they can use to shame people into submission.

Actually, Mr. Greenblatt, yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater refers to a Supreme Court case called Shank vs US, which was actually about disobeying the draft. This was effectively overturned in 1969, after the Brandenburg vs Ohio case, which set a new legal precedent for incitement of violence.

In order for speech to be classified as such, the threat has to be very specific and not only very likely to happen but to happen very soon – and even if someone did legally incite violence on a platform like Twitter, that is up to the actual legal system to decide, not you which is a good thing since you clearly don’t understand the very law that you are using to justify your oppressive actions.

All [Jonathan Greenblatt is] trying to do is censor the new digital public square for political reasons – and that’s not surprising, since almost everyone at the ADL is a Democrat and [Greenblatt] worked as a special assistant to Obama.

No, there is a perfectly good Terms of Service already built. It’s called the First Amendment. Any censoring of speech that isn’t actually illegal is about control.

In order to justify this political censorship, they will always say that differing opinion are “misinformation” or “hate speech” and that we are all supposedly far too stupid to decide these things for ourselves. So therefore, it’s harmful to the public and they must step in and protect us from evil ideas and memes.

Of course, this is really about control and it always has been. If censorship policies were actually about keeping people safe Twitter’s target would be pedophiles – which are rampant on their platform. In fact, last year, statistics from the Internet Watch Foundation found that Twitter is responsible for half of the child abuse material found online.

But rather than dealing with this, Twitter seemingly changed its guidelines last March to allow public discussion about attraction towards minors. So from this, I can only assume that Twitter, much like the ADL either supports or sympathizes with pedophiles.

Yeah, talking about diddling kids on Twitter is just fine, as long as you don’t post Donald Trump memes. The only reason anyone to the right of Karl Marx is still allowed on Twitter is to give it the illusion that they tolerate differing opinions but they don’t. This censorship and culling of dissenters has been going on for years now but in 2020, it’s a victory lap to suppress Wrong Think around the world before the Election by using political correctness as justification.

Soon, Twitter will be nothing more than a 30-million person circle jerk of Blue Checkmarks further emboldening each other’s coldest takes.

If i was the CEO of Twitter, I would be less concerned about what conservatives are tweeting and more concerned about how a teenager was able to hack in and gain access to some of the biggest accounts on the website. We’re supposed to get rid of TikTok now, because China is supposedly using it to spy on us but when the American government uses social media to spy on us, as exposed by Edward Snowden, nothing is done about it.

It’s weird that we’re told to care about people having their rights taken away and being controlled by authoritarian forces when it happens in China but when it happens here we celebrate it. “Oh, thank you for censoring those people that had different ideas in me. I wouldn’t want to actually learn something outside of the established narrative that I’m being force-fed.”

And each day, the elite minority further subverts our speech and freedom and we aren’t even allowed to acknowledge that, without the risk of it destroying our lives. Because of that most people are not speaking out and those who are are censored anyway.

The ultimate outcome that they’re going to achieve is total control of speech and subversion of our democracy. They’re winning. That was their plan and they’re achieving it.

I don’t know how it could even be stopped at this point. Most of this has been done as a Trojan Horse named “political correctness” and it’s being weaponized in the dumbest and worst way possible. This type of manipulation has been going on for so long, that it’s actually created Cancel Culture. And now we’re all supposed to believe that censorship and destruction of people, objects and ideas is a good thing for our society and that it’s “virtuous”.

The free market can’t survive without competition and in order for that, there needs to be monopoly-busting of these platforms that likely wouldn’t have even become the monoliths that they are today without government intervention in the first place. This is why Anti-trust laws were created. For this very reason, these platforms need to be regulated as a digital public square."

onawah

27th August 2020, 20:35

Facebook Fact Checkers Bought and Paid for By Gates Foundation?
From Ben Swann's email update today 8/27/20
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"I’m happy to be premiering a new Truth In Media episode about the mainstream media fact checkers exclusively on ISE Media. While it’s been claimed that these fact checkers are protecting users from content that they say is “misleading” or “harmful”, they are essentially acting as censors for content that challenges mainstream media narratives.

Fact checkers use a number of tactics to “clarify” content, and in this video I will go into detail about how they do this and why they are the ones actually misleading the public.
Click here to watch now:
https://ise.media/video/facebook-factcheckers-bought-and-paid-for-by-gates-foundation-27.html

This video features part of an interview I recently had with Dr. David Martin. If you saw InDoctornation, the sequel to Plandemic, you know that Dr. Martin exposed several facts about the CDC that the agency didn’t want the public to know. During our interview, we discussed how fact checkers don’t use source documents, the recent CJR article that illustrates how the Gates Foundation funds media and fact checking organizations to gain influence, and the lawsuit filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. against Facebook for censorship.

We also talked about our invitation extended to the fact checkers of InDoctorNation to participate in a discussion with Dr. Martin hosted and moderated by myself. While we are waiting for all of the fact checkers to respond, you can make your voice heard by signing the invitation petition. Click here to sign and then share:
https://ise.media/static/fcinvite

Thank you for watching!

B

P.S. If you’re enjoying the content that we’ve been releasing, consider investing in and owning part of ISE Media. Click here to learn more: https://wefunder.com/ise.media "

More about the article from the Combia Journalism Review: https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/08/24/revealed-how-bill-gates-buys-mainstream-outlets-journalists-and-fact-checkers/

onawah

4th September 2020, 19:25

Ben Swann's ISE Media: opening for Content Creators
From the email update today 9/4/20

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"The ISE Media team is thrilled to announce a soft opening for content creators to apply to join our platform- we are currently accepting applications for a limited time. Please note that while this is a limited opening, as our network and resources grow we will eventually enter a phase where all creators will have the ability to upload their content. Complete the form at: https://ise.media/static/contentcreators
We want to take a moment to thank you all for your interest in this platform and helping it to grow by providing quality, original content. Many of you have been censored by social platforms and it is more important than ever to keep building a platform where facts and ideas can be seen and discussed in an open and transparent space.

Thank you all for the continuing support!"

onawah

5th September 2020, 23:40

THE TANGLED WEB OF COVER UPPERERS
Amazing Polly
9/4/20
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the-tangled-web-of-cover-upperers/

"This is a particularly good video from Amazing Polly, who shows us how IIA contractors, CrowdTangle have been hired by corrupt State Department officials and fake “fact checkers” to stop the spread of news that threatens their global corruption racket.

Launched in 2011, CrowdTangle is a private, invitation-only datamining platform. The Soros-funded NGO, Social Science Research Center (SSRC) is responsible for approving which journalists, academics and researchers are permitted to use CrowdTangle.

Judicial Watch recently received 372 pages of State Department documents from a FOIA request, confirming that the Ukraine Embassy under Marie Yovanovitch used CrowdTangle to illegally monitor Donald Trump, Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and major journalists on social media for their commentary on search terms, including ‘Ukraine’, ‘Biden-Burisma 2020’, ‘Clinton Campaign’ and ‘George Soros’.

Much of the State Department’s corruption in Ukraine was orchestrated by George Soros, who also funds the “journalists” and the “fact-checkers”, who are granted use of the CrowdTangle engine by yet another Soros organization to monitor social media platforms, so they can try to stop the spread of news stories that they don’t like.

Polly says, “So, now, we’re starting to see why it is that when we get a good take on something, when we get a good story that should hopefully open the eyes of all the sleeping people, that very story is the thing they squash immediately, before we even know what’s happened. This is how they do it: CrowdTangle.”

After it was acquired by Facebook, CrowdTangle removed access to the platform from ‘all Department users’ effective October 2019, just as the fake impeachment hearings began. When Yovanovitch was questioned on the issue during the impeachment proceeding in the House, she denied that any illegal monitoring took place.

Polly says, “It’s important to know that all journalism is in support the people who fund them – and the people who fund them are possibly causing the riots; are the ones pushing this vaccine, are the ones with the lockdown narrative. All the same people. And they’re the fact-checkers.”

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Amazing Polly
361K subscribers

"In this video I expose one of the major tools that both Corrupt State Department officials & phony 'Fact Checkers' use to stop the spread of news that threatens their Global Corruption Racket! Are the riots in the US linked to the same shady apparatus is covering up the Ukraine scandals? Are the child trafficking cover-upperers using the tools, too?"

Gwin Ru

18th September 2020, 21:23

The library of Alexandria is on fire - Internet Censorship (https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-384-the-library-of-alexandria-is-on-fire/)

James Corbett Corbett Report (https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-384-the-library-of-alexandria-is-on-fire/)
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:22 UTC

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We all know the story of the Library of Alexandria, the vast repository of ancient texts that was burnt to the ground by Caesar in 48 B.C. While the story itself isn't accurate, it speaks to us today as we face the digital book burnings that are threatening the modern-day Library of Alexandria: the internet.

In this speech delivered at the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth's Justice Rising conference (https://www.ae911truth.org/justicerising/) on September 13, 2020, James Corbett connects the dots from that ancient story to the internet censorship of today, and outlines what we can do to fight the fire that is threatening our most important information.

For those with limited bandwidth, CLICK HERE (http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode384-lq.mp3) to download a smaller, lower file size version of this episode.

For those interested in audio quality, CLICK HERE (http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode384-hq.mp3) for the highest-quality version of this episode (WARNING: very large download).

The Library of Alexandria is on Fire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ov9XPzw7s&feature=emb_logo) 50:34

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SHOW NOTES:
Justice Rising conference (https://www.ae911truth.org/justicerising/)

9/11 Trillions: Follow the Money (https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-308-911-trillions-follow-the-money/)

Why Aren't Insurers 9/11 Truthers? - Questions For Corbett #067 (https://www.corbettreport.com/why-arent-insurers-9-11-truthers-questions-for-corbett-067/)

9/11: Decade of Deception (https://lbry.tv/@PressForTruth:4/9-11-Decade-of-Deception-(Full-Film):3)

Operation Northwoods (https://publicintelligence.net/operation-northwoods/)

Press For Truth BANNED On YouTube! (https://pressfortruth.ca/press-for-truth-banned-on-youtube/)

The Library of Babel - FLNWO #27 (https://www.corbettreport.com/the-library-of-babel-flnwo-27/)

Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve (https://www.corbettreport.com/federalreserve/)

YouTube Blacklists Federal Reserve Information. It's Up To YOU To Spread It! (https://www.corbettreport.com/youtube-blacklists-federal-reserve-information-its-up-to-you-to-spread-it/)

Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube (https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/continuing-our-work-to-improve)

Twitter shadowbans content (https://telecoms.com/505597/massive-twitter-hack-reveals-evidence-of-shadow-banning-tools/)

Former Twitter software engineer Abhinav Vadrevu explains shadowbanning (https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/debra-heine/2018/01/11/project-veritas-bombshell-twitter-engineers-explain-shadow-ban-conservatives-n55513)

Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers? (https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-381-who-will-fact-check-the-fact-checkers/)

Gordon Crovitz Newsguard co-founder (https://www.newsguardtech.com/about/team/gordon-crovitz/)

Newsguard advisors (https://www.newsguardtech.com/our-advisory-board/)

Agamben book burning quotation (https://itself.blog/2020/05/02/giorgio-agamben-medicine-as-religion/)

Fahrenheit 451 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079982-fahrenheit-451)

Aeschylus Meets the Mummy: 2,500-Year-Old, Lost Greek Trilogy Found Under Wraps (https://www.playbill.com/article/aeschylus-meets-the-mummy-2-500-year-old-lost-greek-trilogy-found-under-wraps-com-116390)

ExomatrixTV

18th September 2020, 21:32

http://plextube.nl
http://brandnewtube.com
http://bitchute.com
http://joinpeertube.org/en
http://d.tube
http://invidio.us
http://freetubeapp.io
http://newpipe.schabi.org
http://lbry.com
http://share.tube
http://video.wakkeren.nl
http://minds.com
http://loola.tv
http://brighteon.com
http://banned.video
http://londonreal.tv

https://itsfoss.com/open-source-video-conferencing-tools
https://opensource.com/article/20/2/open-source-search-engine
https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org

Is Brighteon.com (http://Brighteon.com) down? :(

ExomatrixTV

18th September 2020, 22:53

ExomatrixTV

21st September 2020, 18:07

You're Fooked!
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onawah

22nd September 2020, 19:24

From Dutchsinse's FB page today:
"Dutchsinse
9/22/20
Youtube has changed the upload date of at least one of my most controversial videos by a year. The video where I show myself being listed as a threat on the Department of Homeland Security website!

OF ALL THE VIDEOS TO CHANGE THE DATE ON! A video where I was listed falsely as a threat on 9/11/2011 !!!!!

I have now reported the problem to youtube directly. Screenshot of the report.

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/120085699_1680713992095734_6441964220026965860_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=EEoEe2-CF3sAX946Fn9&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=b3cb099cbbf21de0a1276e83769b2abe&oe=5F9105E5

Here is the video explaining what youtube did, and showing the back end statistics on the video proving it was uploaded in 2011.

Something very strange is going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvjZ2y5kKfQ "

onawah

26th September 2020, 23:11

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media
188,233 views•Aug 28, 2020
Second Thought
912K subscribers

"You're probably aware that Disney owns Marvel and Lucasfilm, but do you really know how consolidated the American media landscape is? In this episode, we're looking at how just five mega-corporations control the entirety of US media."
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Tintin

5th October 2020, 21:40

This won't come as any surprise to us here but Dr Simone Gold shared this earlier:

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onawah

12th October 2020, 20:54

This could be major development
US Senate subpoenas heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter
October 1, 2020
https://newsatw.com/us-senate-subpoenas-heads-of-google-facebook-and-twitter/

"The US Senate Commerce Committee has voted to subpoena the heads of Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

It means that Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey face being quizzed by senators about their policies on different types of content.

One focus will be legal protections they enjoy in regard to what they leave up and take down on their platforms.

They are also likely to be challenged over controversies about privacy and misinformation.

Republicans and Democrats on the committee voted unanimously to summon the chief executives.

“There has never been such an aggregation of power in the history of humankind as big tech enjoys today, with money and monopoly power and the hubris that comes with the unchecked use of power,” Republican Senator Ted Cruz said following the vote.

The subpoenas follow an earlier hearing in July when
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google’s chiefs testified to a House committee about competition issues and claims of bias.

The congressional report into that event is expected to be published next week."

Section 230 reform: What is Section 230? Donald Trump demands repeal of Section 230
DONALD TRUMP has been an outspoken advocate of repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, so what is Section 230?
By KATIE SEWELL
PUBLISHED: 16:19, Wed, Oct 7, 2020
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1344502/Section-230-reform-what-is-section-230-repeal-Donald-Trump-tweet

"The chief executives of internet giants Facebook, Twitter and Google have agreed to voluntarily testify at a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on October 28 about a key law which protects internet companies - Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. US President Donald Trump has long been outspoken about reforming the law in this area, which he has argued allegedly stifles conservative voices on the internet.Mr Trump's calls for reform of Section 230 have been intensifying in the run-up to November 3, when the US presidential election will take place.

Last week Mr Trump met with nine Republican state attorneys general to discuss Section 230, after the Justice Department unveiled a legislative proposal aimed at reforming the law.

Mr Trump tweeted on Tuesday, October 6: "REPEAL SECTION 230!!!"

Mr Trump's tweet was in reaction to Twitter's decision to label one of the president's earlier tweets as "misleading and potentially harmful". "

Three years later, Facebook says it will ban QAnon
By Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Business
October 7, 2020
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/06/tech/facebook-qanon/index.html

"v(CNN Business)Facebook said Tuesday it will ban any pages, groups, and Instagram accounts representing the conspiracy theory QAnon from its platform.

The move comes three years after the far-right conspiracy theory began. During those years QAnon adherents have embraced a number of different and often contradictory theories, but the basic false beliefs underlying QAnon are claims about a cabal of politicians and A-list celebrities engaging in child sex abuse, and a "deep state" effort to undermine President Trump. Last year an FBI office warned that Q adherents are a domestic terrorism threat.
Facebook's move will be welcomed by some, but the platform has allowed the conspiracy to grow and spread for years.
There are now multiple Republicans running for Congress who have expressed support for QAnon.
In August, President Donald Trump praised QAnon followers for supporting him.
"I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate," Trump said in the White House briefing room.
Facebook has made multiple commitments to banning certain groups and content in the past, but its enforcement of those bans has sometimes been slow and inconsistent — for instance it has sometimes missed prominent accounts or hashtags it should have banned.
In August, Facebook cracked down on thousands of accounts across Facebook and Instagram promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory, as well as a range of militia and anarchist groups, amid what the company said was a rise in behavior among those accounts and groups celebrating violence."

Tintin

12th October 2020, 22:41

Is it possible to embed videos from https://brandnewtube.com here in Avalon Forum ... if not, can anyone of the Project Avalon Team arrange an extra embed icon option ...

I would really appreciate that and be eternal grateful :bowing:

Cheers,
John

John: I'l try and have a go at this tomorrow. Thanks for asking. Let''s see what we can do.

ExomatrixTV

12th October 2020, 23:52

onawah

14th October 2020, 04:55

Facebook Purge of Alternative Health Sites Coming – Censors Story on Doctor Curing 1700 Patients with HCQ: “Could Cause Physical Harm – Make Some People Feel Unsafe on Facebook”
October 13, 2020
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/facebook-purge-of-alternative-health-sites-coming-censors-story-on-doctor-curing-1700-patients-with-hcq-could-cause-physical-harm-make-some-people-feel-unsafe-on-facebook/

https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Facebook-Warning.jpg

"by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

As we get closer to the November elections, Big Tech social media companies appear to be getting ready to purge all accounts that dare to question Big Pharma and their COVID narrative.

While articles published by Health Impact News are regularly censored because their own biased “Fact-checkers” police Facebook ready to squash any dissenters who dare to publish the truth, in recent days we have been warned more sternly that our page will soon be “unpublished” if we continue to publish what they deem “fake news.”

https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Facebook-Unpublish.jpg

Our latest “crime” was the article we published yesterday with the interview of Dr. Brian Tyson, who claims he has cured over 1700 patients with hydroxychloroquine. See:

California Medical Doctor Cures Over 1700 Patients with COVID Using Hydroxychloroquine
Our post about the article was removed, and comments from our readers stated that when they tried to share the article on Facebook via their own pages, they were banned for 30 days.

I just got blocked from FB for 30 days for sharing this article. – Walter

The reason Facebook gave for censoring the article was:

We have these standards because misinformation that could cause physical harm can make some people feel unsafe on Facebook.

Yes, you read that correctly. A positive article about a medical doctor curing 1700 patients of COVID “could cause physical harm,” and “make people feel unsafe.”

What I find amazing about the Facebook censorship issue, is that you can find complaints from BOTH the Right and the Left for censorship, with each side claiming that Facebook is politically biased against them or their particular political views.

But the censorship of Health Impact News articles is quite obviously motivated by protecting Big Pharma and their narratives, especially right now regarding COVID. We don’t take a political position, except to give equal opportunity to criticize both parties as both sides are in the pocket of Big Pharma.

Life Without Big Tech Social Media
Here at Health Impact News we have already been banned on Twitter and Pinterest, and we have already stopped publishing videos on Google’s YouTube, using the independent Bitchute platform instead.

We knew it was just a matter of time before we were banned on Facebook as well, and it looks like that day is drawing very close now.

Nobody should be relying on these largely Pharma-funded Social Media giants to get reliable information anymore. Very soon they will be completely removing any independent voice that dares to publish the truth.

Big Pharma wants you to only get the news they approve of, and to only get your news from their sources will lead to your DEATH.

They have already killed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands in the U.S. during the COVID response, and as we stated yesterday and many times in the past, the censorship of HCQ will no doubt go down as one of the largest medical scams of all time, as thousands of doctors who report a 100% cure rate from COVID are censored, just as Facebook did yesterday with the Dr. Brian Tyson article.

This is the New America. Truth is condemned, and lies are promoted to literally kill people. And it happens in BOTH political parties.

It didn’t happen overnight. Some of us have been warning the public for years about the tyranny of Big Pharma, especially in regards to vaccines. But COVID has now taken it to a whole new level, as the Globalists make their move to take over and “reset” the world economy, and implement their New World Order.

To bypass the Big Tech censorship, please see our article about using RSS feeds to create your own newsfeed."

onawah

14th October 2020, 07:13

Yahoo Closing Yahoo Groups
(In their email update today)
10/14/20

"Dear Yahoo Group Moderators and Members,

We launched Yahoo Groups 20 years ago to connect people around their shared interests. We helped our users navigate new towns, keep in touch with college friends, learn new skills, and most importantly, build connections they may have lost or never had in the first place. While we could not have been more proud of what we accomplished together, we are reaching out today with heavy hearts to let you know that we have decided to shut down Yahoo Groups on December 15, 2020.

Yahoo Groups has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years. Over that same period we’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of engagement across our properties as customers seek out premium, trustworthy content. To that end, we must sometimes make difficult decisions regarding products that no longer fit our long-term strategy as we hone our focus on other areas of the business.

Beginning December 15, 2020 the Yahoo Groups website will shut down and members will no longer be able to send or receive emails from Yahoo Groups. We’ve compiled a comprehensive FAQ here that includes alternative providers and information on how this will impact your group content.

Thank you for helping us build one of the earliest digital communities — we’re proud and honored to have forged countless connections over the last 20 years and played a small part in helping build your communities.

Sincerely,
The Yahoo Groups team "

(Too much truth coming out in those groups, no doubt! )

onawah

14th October 2020, 16:40

TOO SILLY!! Facebook censors news from CDC :facepalm:
"New CDC Study Finds Majority of Those Infected with COVID-19 ‘Always’ Wore Masks"

SO...FB is now censoring info from the CDC. That's silly because the CDC has been the main purveyor of false info all along, funded by Bill Gates and the like, who WANT the false info believed.
So FB's new policy is to censor TRUTH, not lies and they've tripped themselves up good with this one.
:lol:

"California’s BYD mask deal inked with mask data in question

By Katy Grimes, October 13, 2020 10:41 am

Once again it appears there are conflicting facts, data and plenty of opinions about the efficacy of wearing masks to prevent contracting the Coronavirus.

In addition to causing “maskne” and skin infections on the face and around the mouth, persistent coughing, “mask mouth,” and respiratory illnesses including lung infections, it turns out that most everyone infected with COVID-19 “always” wore masks, according to a newly published study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The study found 74.2% reported wearing masks “always” while 14.5% wore masks “often,” or 85% almost always wore masks.

It is difficult not to conclude that wearing non-surgical cloth face masks or face coverings does little to prevent contracting the coronavirus.

California Globe reported in April on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unilateral decision which he announced on MSNBC, to spend $1 billion on surgical face masks, and said the contract had already been “inked.” Newsom made the $1 billion face mask deal with Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD for 150 million N95 masks and surgical masks each month, despite the conflicting science about using face masks for coronavirus prevention. The real reason for the contract is still unknown.

However, the CDC study, conducted by 11 medical institutions, also said, “CDC and other public health authorities recommend community mitigation strategies to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (1,2).” And the CDC still recommends masks, saying “cloth face coverings help prevent people who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus to others,” according to a July statement.

From the CDC Study:

Participants were asked about wearing a mask and possible community exposure activities (e.g., gatherings with ≤10 or >10 persons in a home; shopping; dining at a restaurant; going to an office setting, salon, gym, bar/coffee shop, or church/religious gathering; or using public transportation) on a five-point Likert-type scale ranging from “never” to “more than once per day” or “always.”

For each reported activity, participants were asked to quantify degree of adherence to recommendations such as wearing a face mask of any kind or social distancing among other persons at that location, with response options ranging from “none” to “almost all.”

In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of controlparticipants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public. Close contact with one or more persons with known COVID-19 was reported by 42% of casepatients compared with 14% of control-participants (p<0.01), and most (51%) close contacts were family members.

Interestingly, the CDC found:

Adults with confirmed COVID-19 (case-patients) were approximately twice as likely as were control-participants to have reported dining at a restaurant in the 14 days before becoming ill. In addition to dining at a restaurant, case-patients were more likely to report going to a bar/coffee shop, but only when the analysis was restricted to participants without close contact with persons with known COVID-19 before illness onset. Reports of exposures in restaurants have been linked to air circulation (7). Direction, ventilation, and intensity of airflow might affect virus transmission, even if social distancing measures and mask use are implemented according to current guidance. Masks cannot be effectively worn while eating and drinking, whereas shopping and numerous other indoor activities do not preclude mask use. (Of note, the question assessing dining at a restaurant did not distinguish between indoor and outdoor options. In addition, the question about going to a bar or coffee shop did not distinguish between the venues or service delivery methods, which might represent different exposures.)

3.9% of respondents said they never wore face masks; another 3.9% said they rarely did.

Of the case patients and control participants 61.2% reported at least one of the following underlying chronic medical conditions: cardiac condition, hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, immunodeficiency, psychiatric condition, diabetes, or obesity."

There are sure to be some red faces when heads of FB, Google, Youtube are questioned before Congress later this month...:o