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Censorship in the Digital Age
Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]
Censorship in the Digital Age
Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]
Facebook Security Chief Lashes Out: “Censorship Is Easy If You Don’t Worry About Becoming The Ministry Of Truth”
Facebook Security Chief Lashes Out: “Censorship Is Easy If You Don’t Worry About Becoming The Ministry Of Truth” In a furious tweetstorm this weekend, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer warned interfering desperate politicians and triggered letfists that the fake news problem is more complicated and dangerous to solve than the public thinks. As a reminder, we […]
Morning Joe: Ministry of Truth Is Needed To Fight War On Fake News, ‘Russian Operatives’ On Social Media
Morning Joe: Ministry of Truth Is Needed To Fight War On Fake News, ‘Russian Operatives’ On Social Media On Friday’s Morning Joe, Willie Geist hosted a panel to discuss the latest news on the Russian hacking narrative regarding Facebook ads that were purportedly used by Russian intelligence to stoke “racial tensions” during the 2016 presidential […]
The Silencing of Dissent
The Silencing of Dissent The ruling elites, who grasp that the reigning ideology of global corporate capitalism and imperial expansion no longer has moral or intellectual credibility, have mounted a campaign to shut down the platforms given to their critics. The attacks within this campaign include blacklisting, censorship and slandering dissidents as foreign agents for […]
The Death Of Free Speech Is Imminent: Government Begins Censorship Of Media Through Disingenuous Means
The Death Of Free Speech Is Imminent: Government Begins Censorship Of Media Through Disingenuous Means The death of free speech is imminent. Anyone with access to a computer and the internet can see that the United States mainstream media is nothing more than a propaganda machine designed to brainwash the masses into a lemming-like agreement […]
Political Backlash Grows Over Google’s Pressure To Censor “Independent” Think Tank
Political Backlash Grows Over Google’s Pressure To Censor “Independent” Think Tank It was only a matter of time until this happened… For years now, the politicos of the Left have embraced a perfectly symbiotic relationship with the ‘progressive’ leaders of Silicon Valley. Tech titans, like Google’s Eric Schmidt who got very cozy with the Hillary […]
The Guardian view on censoring the internet: necessary, but not easy
The Guardian view on censoring the internet: necessary, but not easy Who should protect us online? And who will guard us from these guards? Personal abuse, when it is not accompanied by threats of violence or worse, should not be the domain of the government Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Among the more absurd things ever said […]
Facebook Deletes Tens Of Thousands Of Accounts Ahead Of UK General Election
Facebook Deletes Tens Of Thousands Of Accounts Ahead Of UK General Election Ahead of the British general election on June 8, Facebook has deleted tens of thousands of accounts in Britain in its ongoing battle with “fake news” the AP reports. The campaign is part of Facebook’s evolving response to accusations the group was responsible […]
NYT Cheers the Rise of Censorship Algorithms
NYT Cheers the Rise of Censorship Algorithms Exclusive: The New York Times is cheering on the Orwellian future for Western “democracy” in which algorithms quickly hunt down and eliminate information that the Times and other mainstream outlets don’t like, reports Robert Parry. Just days after sporting First Amendment pins at the White House Correspondents Dinner […]
European Parliament Censors Its Own Free Speech
European Parliament Censors Its Own Free Speech The rule strikes at the very center of free speech, namely that of elected politicians, which the European Court of Human Rights has deemed in its practice to be specially protected. Members of the European Parliament are people who have been elected to make the voices of their […]
“Fake News”, Censorship, Darwin and Democracy
“Fake News”, Censorship, Darwin and Democracy Censorship is not helpful to democracy–rather, it is the death of democracy. The mainstream media is awash with hyper-active headlines about “fake news.” How can we make sense of this sudden obsession? Perhaps we can start by separating “news” from “analysis” from “commentary.” “News” is “he said this, she […]
The Mainstream Media is Asking for a Government Bailout Via Censorship
The Mainstream Media is Asking for a Government Bailout Via Censorship The current controversy is different. Many people in Washington are irate over Wikileaks — not because the email were untrue but because they proved what many had long suspected . . . that Washington is a highly corrupt place full of truly despicable people. […]
UN Plots War On Free Speech To Stop “Extremism” Online
UN Plots War On Free Speech To Stop “Extremism” Online The United Nations Security Council wants a global “framework” for censoring the Internet, as well as for using government propaganda to “counter” what its apparatchiks call “online propaganda,” “hateful ideologies,” and “digital terrorism.” To that end, the UN Security Council this week ordered the UN […]
Noam Chomsky and The War on Straight Answers
Noam Chomsky and The War on Straight Answers In the wake of Donald Trump’s shocking pledge: “You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center,” many Americans may find themselves staring into the abyss. The implication has reached the mainstream, that we do not exactly know who was behind the September 11th attacks, which are trotted […]
