{"id":39493,"date":"2018-10-21T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39493"},"modified":"2018-10-21T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T19:42:19","slug":"big-tech-snuffing-free-speech-googles-poisonous-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39493","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Snuffing Free Speech; Google’s Poisonous ‘Dragonfly’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big Tech Snuffing Free Speech; Google’s Poisonous ‘Dragonfly’<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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  • 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.<\/li>\n
  • Google has decided it will not renew a contract with the Pentagon for artificial intelligence work because Google employees were upset that the technology might be used for lethal military purposes. Yet Google is planning to launch a censored search engine in China that will empower a totalitarian “Big Brother is watching you” horror state.<\/li>\n
  • Freedom Watch filed a $1 billion class-action lawsuit against Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, claiming that they suppress conservative speech online.<\/li>\n
  • A Media Research Center report found that Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube stifle conservative speech and that in some instances staffers have admitted that doing so was intentional.<\/li>\n
  • Chinese officials prevented a journalist, Liu Hu, from taking a flight because he had a low “social credit” score. According to China’s Global Times<\/i>, as of the end of April 2018, authorities had blocked individuals from taking 11.14 million flights and 4.25 million high-speed rail trips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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    Google is reportedly planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China, code-named “Dragonfly,” which will aid and abet a totalitarian “Big Brother is watching you” horror state. (Image source: [Photo of woman] iStock)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    The internet, especially social media, has become one of the primary places for people to exchange viewpoints and ideas. Social media is where a considerable part of the current national conversation takes place.<\/p>\n

    Arguably, big tech companies, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, therefore carry a responsibility to ensure that their platforms are equally accessible to all voices in that national conversation.<\/p>\n

    \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9336,120,130,21682,1493,13721,378,14997,1169,819,3931],"class_list":["post-39493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-dragonfly","tag-facebook","tag-gatestone-institute","tag-google","tag-judith-bergman","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39494,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493\/revisions\/39494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}