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In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in ‘Hospice’
In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in ‘Hospice’ “Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” Facebook admitted Wednesday that “most” of its 2 million users likely had their personal information collected by “malicious actors.” (Photo: Legal Loop) During a closed-door […]
Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared
Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared “Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer.” – Bangambiki Habyarimana Anyone who tells you the recent escalation of censorship by U.S. tech giants is merely a reflection of private companies making independent decisions is either lying or dangerously ignorant. In the case of Facebook, the […]
Elite Closing Down Truth Tellers
Elite Closing Down Truth Tellers Economic expert and journalist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says the ideas of the elite are awful, and they want to suppress free speech to get their policies instituted. Dr. Roberts explains, “The agendas of the elite are hidden. They are not something the American people would support. The elite are […]
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet: Reason Roundup
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet: Reason Roundup Plus: Testing telemedicine abortion and 3D printed guns. Douglas Christian/ZUMA Press/Newscom All your base are belong to us. A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get […]
In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship
In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.” “Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, […]
Blowback: UniCredit Becomes First Major Corporation To Sever Ties With Facebook Over Ethics
Blowback: UniCredit Becomes First Major Corporation To Sever Ties With Facebook Over Ethics Facebook has lost a major advertiser, UniCredit SpA, which has severed all ties alleging that the social media giant hasn’t acted ethically, reports Bloomberg – which notes that “other large companies” may follow suit. CEO Jean Pierre Mustier says the bank maintains that Facebook hasn’t […]
Why the INFOWARS Purge is Nothing to Celebrate
Why the INFOWARS Purge is Nothing to Celebrate I am a free speech absolutist by nature. Short of purposefully screaming fire in a crowded theater with the intent of causing mayhem … I just like having it all out there … from the wackiest religious tripe to the most virulent racist poison. For me, it’s […]
The Crackdown Continues: Twitter Suspends Libertarian Accounts, Including Ron Paul Institute Director
The Crackdown Continues: Twitter Suspends Libertarian Accounts, Including Ron Paul Institute Director One day after what appeared to be a coordinated attack by media giants Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google on Alex Jones, whose various social media accounts were banned or suspended in a matter of hours, the crackdown against alternative media figures continued as […]
Stop Complaining and Just Delete Facebook
Stop Complaining and Just Delete Facebook I wrote just one post last week and it centered around the dangers posed to society by U.S. tech giants. I specifically called out Facebook, pointing out how company executives are currently groveling to politicians in order to prevent legislation that might deem it a monopoly and curtail its […]
U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble
U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble Within Google, knowledge about Dragonfly has been restricted to just a few hundred members of the internet giant’s 88,000-strong workforce, said a source with knowledge of the project. The source spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity, as they […]
US Paranoia Ramps Up Infowar on Russia
US Paranoia Ramps Up Infowar on Russia This week saw renewed effort by US politicians and media to ramp up the information war against Russia. The impetus came from the US-based social media network, Facebook, declaring that it had identified “coordinated political influence campaigns”. Never mind that the internet giant admitted that it did not […]
The Big Social Media Companies Are Being Used As A Weapon To Advance The Agenda Of The New World Order
The Big Social Media Companies Are Being Used As A Weapon To Advance The Agenda Of The New World Order In 2018, we have seen an unprecedented crackdown on anti-establishment voices on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. When they were first created, these social media platforms were essentially neutral, and they really did greatly contribute to […]
Why the Media is Desperate to Reclaim its “Gatekeeper” Status for News
Why the Media is Desperate to Reclaim its “Gatekeeper” Status for News No one knows what to believe anymore in the age of the internet. Don’t you miss the good old days when you could believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the media reported it? Everything is fake news, except perhaps the […]
The Foundation of the West is Rocked as Tribalism Becomes Normality
The Foundation of the West is Rocked as Tribalism Becomes Normality In our modern digital age, news comes at you fast. Never before has the spread of information traveled so quickly or social media been so influential. And never before have problems been exacerbated so rapidly. The West is in turmoil, as chaos seeps into […]
