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Mad World
MAD WORLD And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take When people run in circles it’s a very very Mad world, mad world The haunting Gary Jules […]
Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor
Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor Photo Source Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0 Facebook and other social media companies give governments free reign to censor political dissent on their websites – and that is not “fake news.” Facebook’s unholy alliance with government actors includes Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. These […]
Why Is Social Media So Toxic?
Why Is Social Media So Toxic? The desire to improve our social standing is natural. What’s unnatural is the toxicity of doing so through social media. It seems self-evident that the divisiveness that characterizes this juncture of American history is manifesting profound social and economic disorders that have little to do with politics. In this […]
Niall Ferguson: The Destructive Power of Social Networks
Niall Ferguson: The Destructive Power of Social Networks The conventional wisdom promoted by the developers of social networks was that they would provide immense benefits to society through faster and broader connectivity. That view was shattered by Niall Ferguson, who called services like Facebook and Twitter “crazy ideas gone viral, with deeply negative implications.” Ferguson […]
Avoid the Slippery Slope
Avoid the Slippery Slope Everything government touches turns to crap. Ringo Starr Social media companies, search engines, and payments platforms are excising conservative, libertarian, and assorted anti-government voices. SLL argued in “The Friendly Faces of Fascism” that the largest and best known of these companies were essentially arms of the government. They are mechanisms for […]
Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now
Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now Just about the only bulwark against being silenced by the modern-day tech-corporate-NKVD-Stasi is Patreon. If you do a search of shadow banning, you’ll find sites that claim to help you identify whether Twitter or Instagram has shadow banned your account. The […]
Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media ‘Just the Beginning,’ Warns Top Neocon Insider
Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media ‘Just the Beginning,’ Warns Top Neocon Insider At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of alternative media, report Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague. This October, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users, including many alternative […]
The NEW Social Media: Alternatives to Facebook, YouTube,Twitter, and Other Big Tech Platforms
The NEW Social Media: Alternatives to Facebook, YouTube,Twitter, and Other Big Tech Platforms Lately, I’ve written a lot about the alternative media purge and how Big Tech social media platforms are attempting to control the narrative, the elections, and public perception through censorship and financial blacklisting. Lots of people are ready to leave websites like […]
Big Tech Snuffing Free Speech; Google’s Poisonous ‘Dragonfly’
Big Tech Snuffing Free Speech; Google’s Poisonous ‘Dragonfly’ If the big social media companies choose what to publish and what not to publish, they should be subject to the same licensing and requirements as media organizations. Google has decided it will not renew a contract with the Pentagon for artificial intelligence work because Google employees […]
Opinion: Where Does The Latest Social Media Purge Leave The State Of Social Discourse?
Opinion: Where Does The Latest Social Media Purge Leave The State Of Social Discourse? Disobedient Media previously reported the tightening stranglehold of censorship across social media. Unfortunately, events that have taken place since the publication of this writer’s opinion that Julian Assange was the first domino to fall in a series of increasingly draconian censorship measures […]
The risks of synthetic biology in the information society
The risks of synthetic biology in the information society Knowledge is power. The instructions for making viruses from synthetic strands of DNA are on the internet. And, the strands themselves are available for purchase online. It’s called synthetic biology. Right now it’s not easy to get the strands to you need to make dangerous viruses […]
Supreme Court Takes Case That Could End Internet Censorship, Expand First Amendment
Supreme Court Takes Case That Could End Internet Censorship, Expand First Amendment After the recent purge of over 800 independent media outlets on Facebook, the Supreme Court is now hearing a case that could have ramifications for any future attempts at similar purges. The United States Supreme Court has agreed to take a case that […]
Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here’s Why
Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here’s Why NATO — the neoconservatives, the marketeers for firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE — has taken over the social-media giants and much of online international ‘news’-reporting, including that of virtually all independent news-sites and blogs. Facebook, Twitter, and Google, in recent days, delivered what might be the […]
Facebook Meddles in the 2018 Midterm Elections
Facebook Meddles in the 2018 Midterm Elections Photo Source Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0 On October 11, Facebook announced the removal of 559 pages and 251 accounts from its service, accusing the account holders of “spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The purged users stand accused of posting “massive amounts of content … to drive […]
‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown
‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown Cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seen at a protest in Washington DC © Reuters / Aaron P. Bernstein Alternative voices online are incensed after Facebook and Twitter closed down hundreds of political media pages ahead of November’s crucial […]
