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Update: So allegedly, Crusius has admitted to not liking Latinos very much and did claim to target them in the Walmart shooting. Police are still saying they “think” he wrote the manifesto, but that hasn’t yet been confirmed (though his ideas do seem consistent). If he did write the manifesto, all I can say is Read More …
If the corrosive toxicity, dystopian censorship, or living in an information bubble of no utility were not enough, how about the banning of non obscene common words devoid of context? Jack Dorsey, sovereign lord of Twatter has issued a command that henceforth, the word “Honk” violates “community standards“ – no shit. To clarify, “Honk” has Read More …
User content is now routinely removed and edited by Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, et al, and it is increasingly evident they are doing so strictly along ideological lines. Moreover, users are routinely censored or banned for “hate speech” and other “terms of service” violations for simply expressing non-defamatory views void of obscenity or other non-1A Read More …
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, the European Parliament voted to approve new Internet regulations across all member nations. Of particular concern are Articles 11 and 13 of the new law. The provisions of Article 11 require anyone – individual or corporate – to pay a licensing fee for URL links that they publish. This is being Read More …
Twitter (aka Twatter) demonstrating their double standards policy with one simple experiment, presented in one simple screenshot:
The Washington Post reported today that Linked-In founder Reid Hoffman financed a false flag disinformation operation using social media to influence the Alabama Senate primary election. The principal target was GOP primary candidate Roy Moore, and one of the goals of the operation was to: “…suppress unpersuadable Republicans (hard R’s) and faction moderate Republicans by Read More …
Google won’t approve an Android app for Gab, but it will approve an app for reporting “blasphemy” of Islam and the prophet Mohammed? Okee dokee. Make sure you visit the app website and hit the “translate” button so you can read the comments. Many people even in the Islamic world, are less than thrilled about Read More …
U.K. lawmakers released a trove of documents revealing that Facebook has been monetizing (selling) confidential user data. This should surprise…..absolutely no one. The only real question is why is Facebook being targeted alone, and why now? Google is known to have been monetizing user data for years – it’s right there in all of those Read More …
From the mouths of the nihilistic, atheistic post-modern relativists of Silicon Valley we have lectures about “sin” and “division”. “He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4). You can watch Read More …
Lawmakers from 9 countries savaged absent Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the man sent to take his place at an investigative hearing – Facebook policy chief Mark Allan. Anyone else find it somewhat suspicious that the full frontal assault on Zuckerberg just happened to coincide with the big blowup between Zuck and George Soros?