Re: Electronic surveillance, spying on citizens, social media and manipulations with the public opinion

by **KneelB4Zod!** Tue Aug 07, 2018 9:34 am

Facebook asks major US banks to share customer data, including bank card transactions, checking account balances, and where purchases were made https://t.co/dMRf8yNQYt
— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) 6. srpna 2018

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by UK AC Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:11 am

Anonymous vows to take down Q

A cheerful video released by YourAnonNews suggests that the murky hacker collective called Anonymous is now after the murky deep state collective called Q.

Q, to the uninitiated, is a 4Chan poster who claims to be connected deep inside the US government. Q claims to have high level clearance and posts in furtherance of the conspiracy theory that the government has been running massive pedophile ring and that Trump and Robert Mueller are working like Scooby Doo and Shaggy to bring it down. Sites like QAnon.pub are archives of Q’s cryptic and often ridiculous claims.

Support for the conspiracy most recently surfaced at multiple Trump rallies and the sayings – including the faintly ominous “Where We Go One, We Go All” – are appearing everywhere from placards to Roseanne Barr’s Twitter.

Anonymous, best known for attacking Scientology with its Project Chanology operation, is well-equipped to unmask and ridicule Q. When Q began, said Anonymous, they found their antics to be a bit of clever trolling. Then, when Q followers began threatening lives Anonymous decided they were dangerous.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/07/anonymous-vows-to-take-down-q/

Excellent video. About time someone exposes this controlled opposition Q crap. Not quite sure how they plan to go about doing it, but hopefully it's a grand success as many people are being taken advantage of in a cult-like way and it's disgusting to see that.

by **KneelB4Zod!** Wed Aug 08, 2018 6:11 am

zerohedge
@zerohedge
2 hod.
The Bizarre Facebook Path To Corporate Fascism

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-07/bizarre-facebook-path-corporate-fascism

by **KneelB4Zod!** Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:14 pm

SouthFront‏ @southfronteng · 4 min.
Tech Gians’ Censorship Goes On New Scale http://dlvr.it/QfBzdn

by **KneelB4Zod!** Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:57 pm

Article from 2017:

lightningrod‏ @humnun2017 · 5 min.
Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments

"In September of last year, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constituted “incitement.” The meetings — called for and presided over by one of the most extremist and authoritarian Israeli officials, pro-settlement Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked — came after Israel threatened Facebook that its failure to voluntarily comply with Israeli deletion orders would result in the enactment of laws requiring Facebook to do so, upon pain of being severely fined or even blocked in the country."

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/

by **KneelB4Zod!** Wed Aug 08, 2018 9:10 pm

They banned even Daniel McAdam, Ron Paul's co-host and executive director in Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity!

Special announcement from @DanielLMcAdams regarding his Twitter suspension: pic.twitter.com/k1HpOVdgEA
— Ron Paul Institute (@RonPaulInstitut) 8. srpna 2018

The whole special report here:

by **KneelB4Zod!** Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:09 pm

Ron Paul Institute
@RonPaulInstitut
5 min.
SCANDAL! A Four Person NATO-Funded Team Advises Facebook On Flagging 'Propaganda'
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/august/08/a-four-person-nato-funded-team-advises-facebook-on-flagging-propaganda/ …

by UK AC Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:40 pm

Zod wrote:They banned even Daniel McAdam, Ron Paul's co-host and executive director in Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity!

Ron Paul Institute
@RonPaulInstitut
Special announcement from @DanielLMcAdams regarding his Twitter suspension:

The whole special report here:

Ron Paul talks about how free speech doesn't extend to being given to the freedom to slander people. Well, this is correct.

I posted an article earlier about Alex Jones recently being sued by many families of Sandy Hook victims who are suing Jones because he described the victims and families as liars, hoaxers, actors and complicit in a false flag and so on, but furthermore Jones went on to say at another point (outside of his talk show away from his audience) that he didn't believe it was a hoax. Then it would seem that Jones, and employer Infowars, are allowing for slander and deceiving their audience for the purpose of profit making, not for anything to do with exposing truth. This would seem to be the reason that apple, youtube and so on would give for removing Infowars from their websites. And well, while the infringement may be true (the slander), it's questionable the way the went about handing out the punishment. Why did these companies not give Infowars prior warnings about the material they were posting? Why not just have the offending shows which broke the rules removed from the website but allow the channel to be allowed remain? To many this can just make it look like political censorship in action.

The fact is though, like Ron Paul pointed out, the standard libertarian viewpoint is to not restrict the how companies conduct their business. So his answer was not to dictate to these social media companies about how they should and shouldn't operate, but instead he called for intelligent, resourceful libertarians and the like to create their own online platforms instead of having to depend on these others. Yet it becomes self-defeating when we see some of these so called libertarians who are even "associated with government" so he says.

So one of the possible solutions would be for alt-right/libertarians to set up their own platform - there is no major obstacles which can prevent them from doing that, therefore there is nothing to prevent them from exercising their free speech online. This is quite different to the net neutrality issue where freedom of speech on the internet itself truly is in danger because the companies who own the internet infrastructure, and the means for most Americans to access the internet in the first place, can be free to restrict access to people's own websites/platforms.

by **KneelB4Zod!** Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:03 am

I need tot ake a nap so just very short reaction: Private companies have right to do their business as they want, indeed. HOWEVER, if they become a tool of government's political propaganda and manipulation they strip themselves of this right. Look at Facebook. The service cooperates with government institutions, including DARPA, for years. They literally conduct experiments on users. Not only that, Facebook, following US government example, takes eorders form Israeli governments! That's just illusion of private ownership. They are masquarading political agendas as private decisions.

As I noted few times before - they attracted hundreds of million of users with their social services like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook. And now, fully in coordination with the globalist governments, they will decide what is and what is not truth. They own everything, from content providers over service providers to software developers. On every level they can say "Criticizm of Saudi Arabia is propaganda" and any such information will be censored and its provider banned from further sharing.

I argued about this with TOM while ago and this is exactly where they have it wrong. This is not matter of private companies as those companies are directly connected with the government.

by UK AC Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:51 am

I need tot ake a nap so just very short reaction: Private companies have right to do their business as they want, indeed. HOWEVER, if they become a tool of government's political propaganda and manipulation they strip themselves of this right. Look at Facebook. The service cooperates with government institutions, including DARPA, for years. They literally conduct experiments on users. Not only that, Facebook, following US government example, takes eorders form Israeli governments! That's just illusion of private ownership. They are masquarading political agendas as private decisions.
Spoiler:

Where there are cases of collusion between government and big business to rig the system and push certain political agendas at the expense of others etc, then of course, absolutely that's wrong. But it doesn't necessarily mean every single action we see by a big company is an act which is the direct result of collusion.

In this instance the private social media companies could easily claim that the removal of the Infowars channel was not politically motivated, but had to do with Alex Jones' slandering of the Sandy Hook situation (which by all accounts it looks like he was as he said he no longer believes in what he said). And importantly, slander is not protected by the first amendment, so these companies would go on to argue that they weren't acting against the spirit of the first amendment and they were taking action against someone who was posting defamatory content viewed by millions which was degrading the reputation of youtube or whoever.

But like I alluded to, the punishment and how it was handed out to Infowars seems to be excessive, so I can easily see the merits for the political censorship argument in this case.

Regardless of if it is political censorship or not, Alex Jones & Infowars are incredibly irresponsible for deliberately and willfully spreading that Sandy Hook disinfo when they admit that even they themself didn't believe in what they were saying. The Alex Jones Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy appears the exact same to the Qanon situation, it's all about red herrings, the spreading of false info and making a conspiracy out of situations where there is none in order to misdirect people away from the genuine conspiracies and corruption in government. All this bullshit only helps the globalists in the end.

As I noted few times before - they attracted hundreds of million of users with their social services like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook. And now, fully in coordination with the globalist governments, they will decide what is and what is not truth. They own everything, from content providers over service providers to software developers.

The social engineering of viewpoints via the internet does seem to be what's going on, but it's not as effective if there still exists free speech at some places on the internet. Like Ron Paul said, if people don't like the service that twitter, youtube, facebook and the likes are providing then there really is nothing stopping people from launching their own alternative communication platforms. So really, unless those US net providers actually start restricting access to certain sites(due to the removal of net neutrality), the chance for the Americans to exercise free speech on the internet is still alive, as it is for the rest of us who have internet access outside of the US.

by UK AC Fri Aug 10, 2018 8:16 pm

Two anti-Semitic posts have been deleted from fringe social network Gab after Microsoft, citing the content, threatened to take the site down.

Gab's founder Andrew Torba said that one of the posts "unquestionably" broke the site's rules.

The social network describes itself as a platform for free speech, but much of the content on the site presents far-right viewpoints, including racist and anti-Semitic posts.

"We believe we have an important responsibility to ensure that our services are not abused by people and groups seeking to incite violence," the tech giant(Microsoft) said in a statement.

"Gab.ai is of course free to choose otherwise and work with another cloud service provider or host this content itself."

Later, Mr Torba(the founder of Gab.ai) acknowledged that one of Mr Little's posts "unquestionably breaks our user guidelines".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45141871

by **KneelB4Zod!** Fri Aug 10, 2018 8:30 pm

UK AC wrote:
I need tot ake a nap so just very short reaction: Private companies have right to do their business as they want, indeed. HOWEVER, if they become a tool of government's political propaganda and manipulation they strip themselves of this right. Look at Facebook. The service cooperates with government institutions, including DARPA, for years. They literally conduct experiments on users. Not only that, Facebook, following US government example, takes eorders form Israeli governments! That's just illusion of private ownership. They are masquarading political agendas as private decisions.
Spoiler:

Where there are cases of collusion between government and big business to rig the system and push certain political agendas at the expense of others etc, then of course, absolutely that's wrong. But it doesn't necessarily mean every single action we see by a big company is an act which is the direct result of collusion.

In this instance the private social media companies could easily claim that the removal of the Infowars channel was not politically motivated, but had to do with Alex Jones' slandering of the Sandy Hook situation (which by all accounts it looks like he was as he said he no longer believes in what he said). And importantly, slander is not protected by the first amendment, so these companies would go on to argue that they weren't acting against the spirit of the first amendment and they were taking action against someone who was posting defamatory content viewed by millions which was degrading the reputation of youtube or whoever.

But like I alluded to, the punishment and how it was handed out to Infowars seems to be excessive, so I can easily see the merits for the political censorship argument in this case.

Regardless of if it is political censorship or not, Alex Jones & Infowars are incredibly irresponsible for deliberately and willfully spreading that Sandy Hook disinfo when they admit that even they themself didn't believe in what they were saying. The Alex Jones Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy appears the exact same to the Qanon situation, it's all about red herrings, the spreading of false info and making a conspiracy out of situations where there is none in order to misdirect people away from the genuine conspiracies and corruption in government. All this bullshit only helps the globalists in the end.

As I noted few times before - they attracted hundreds of million of users with their social services like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook. And now, fully in coordination with the globalist governments, they will decide what is and what is not truth. They own everything, from content providers over service providers to software developers.

The social engineering of viewpoints via the internet does seem to be what's going on, but it's not as effective if there still exists free speech at some places on the internet. Like Ron Paul said, if people don't like the service that twitter, youtube, facebook and the likes are providing then there really is nothing stopping people from launching their own alternative communication platforms. So really, unless those US net providers actually start restricting access to certain sites(due to the removal of net neutrality), the chance for the Americans to exercise free speech on the internet is still alive, as it is for the rest of us who have internet access outside of the US.

Sorry, I missed this reply yesterday. It certainly can be that "it doesn't necessarily mean every single action we see by a big company is an act which is the direct result of collusion". We are not talking about trolling and spamming incidents. We are talking about censorship of specific political ciews or standpoints. Just reminder: similar situation is regarding US internet providers. Companies as AT&T directly host NSA spying hubs in their large, concrete facilities:

THE WIRETAP ROOMS
The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

Under the veil of private companies and activities there is widespread political campaign ongoing. It's similar as with the corporate media. They pose as private subjects, so government can deny any government sponsored propaganda, yet the media closely cooperate with the establishment, promote official narrative, now even participate in censorship. From the past times we can remind "Operation Mockingbird"...

by **KneelB4Zod!** Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:32 pm

They said I was EXTREME so I went extreme, lol this is a video for all the a$$hats saying that Google and Facebook are private companies.

video - https://t.co/l2lxOiRBax pic.twitter.com/k9dCnjkB8F
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) 9. srpna 2018

by **KneelB4Zod!** Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:55 pm

‘Hyperactive French Russophiles’ study lands Soros-backed DisinfoLab in Twitter data abuse scandal

https://www.rt.com/news/435697-disinfolab-russophiles-twitter-report/

Amin Dada (Atila) is in DisinfoLab's "documments"...

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by **KneelB4Zod!** Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:25 am

Well, this is certainly another interesting aspect of current social media censorship:

Interesting that Trump isn’t allowed to block people because twitter is legally considered a public forum.
However twitter and other social media can censor people even though it’s a public forum.https://t.co/t3I5KDnCfx
— Partisangirl (@Partisangirl) 12. srpna 2018

by **KneelB4Zod!** Sun Aug 12, 2018 10:06 pm

zerohedge
@zerohedge
1 min.
Facebook Brags They Can Change 'Any Public Opinion'

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-12/facebook-brags-they-can-change-any-public-opinion

by **KneelB4Zod!** Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:07 pm

Ron Paul
@RonPaul
3 min.
Why Does Facebook Use NATO To Help Censor Users?

by **KneelB4Zod!** Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:50 pm

The Intercept
@theintercept
56 sek.před 57 sekundami
Ví
NSA cracked open encrypted networks of Russian airlines, Al Jazeera, and other “high potential” targets https://interc.pt/2My0spo by @micahflee

by **KneelB4Zod!** Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:24 am

Jack Dorsey is rethinking the way Twitter works, after Alex Jones timeout

"...on 15 August, Dorsey told the Washington Post that he is exploring changes to core elements of Twitter’s service that could promote alternative perspectives in its timeline. The move could address falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and other misinformation, and might also reduce online “echo chambers,” in which users are exposed mostly to viewpoints they already agree with.

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/jack-dorsey-is-rethinking-the-way-twitter-works-after-alex-jones-timeout-4976561.html

As Czech newsweb says:

"Untrue tweets could be added with fact-based context informations..."

https://www.novinky.cz/internet-a-pc/480798-konec-dezinformaci-a-obtezovani-sef-twitteru-chysta-velke-zmeny.html

And I'm very curious who will decide what is, and what is not, conpsiration and which tweet is "untre"? For example, we all know that US government vehemently refused support for terrorist groups and all such claims were labeled as conspiracies and lies. Russian intervention in Syria was needed to expose that such claims are very correct and fact-based. Under the new rules no such informations would see dalight tho'.

Overall, investigative journalism oftenly starts as "conspiracy", that is laterly confirmed by collected evidence.

This big tech assault on free speech is entirely political motivated campaign fueled by the special interest, globalist groups, who want to control not only world policies and economics, but public opinion too...

by **KneelB4Zod!** Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:46 pm

Naked Security‏ @NakedSecurity · 16. 8.
Australians who refuse to unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/16/australians-who-wont-unlock-their-phones-could-face-10-years-in-jail/

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by **KneelB4Zod!** Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:10 pm

The Intercept‏@theintercept · 19 min.
“We have a mishmash of incompatible justifications, the latest in a long stream out of a company that’s struggled to create intelligible rules for acceptable content and behavior, let alone enforce them,” writes @samfbiddle.

https://theintercept.com/2018/08/20/facebook-suspended-a-latin-american-news-network-and-gave-three-different-reasons-why/

by **KneelB4Zod!** Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:03 pm

SouthFront‏ @southfronteng · 11 min.
Facebook, Twitter and Google Remove Hundreds Of Accounts Allegedly Tied To Iranian, Russian Proapganda Efforts https://southfront.org/facebook-twitter-and-google-remove-hundreds-of-accounts-allegedly-tied-to-iranian-russian-proapganda-efforts/ …

by **KneelB4Zod!** Sat Sep 01, 2018 12:50 pm

SouthFront
@southfronteng
2 min.
Facebook Says Former British Ambassador Craig Murray Is "Russian Bot", Deletes His Posts From July 2017

https://southfront.org/facebook-says-former-british-ambassador-craig-murray-is-russian-bot-deletes-his-posts-from-july-2017/

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by **KneelB4Zod!** Thu Sep 06, 2018 8:54 am

U.S. Senate intelligence commitee pressures Facebook, Twitter to help dominate the world by expanding special access to the CIA: "Do you prefer to see America remain the world's dominant global super power?" (from 4:08) https://t.co/LixIhnyOAY
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) 6. září 2018

by **KneelB4Zod!** Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:15 am

The Associated Press
@AP
8 hod.
BREAKING: Twitter is permanently banning conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behavior.

by **KneelB4Zod!** Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:35 pm

Creative Commons
@creativecommons
8 hod.
EU Parliament just voted in favor of the most harmful pieces of the directive: #Article13 #Censorshipmachines and #Article11 #linktax. The last line of defense against these terrible provisions will be the Member States. #SaveYourInternet

https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1039835296634814465

DIS-abled (Benn)
@DISabeledYT
7 hod.
The internet in Europe was killed today. This affects all of us, big or small that want to provide any kind of news content. #Article13 just killed the internet. Even linking to a website on Twitter will be a copyright violation. Fair use is dead.

https://twitter.com/DISabeledYT/status/1039846457346539520

by Slovák Thu Sep 13, 2018 12:38 pm

The European Parliment has passed a controversial copyright directive that contains provisions which force tech giants to install content filters and sets in place a potential tax on hyperlinking.
This would create an incredible burden for small platforms, and could be used as a mechanism for widespread censorship.
Parliament has failed to listen to citizens’ and experts’ concerns.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-12/catastrophic-eu-passes-copyright-directive-including-internet-link-tax-and-upload

by **KneelB4Zod!** Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:44 pm

NEW deep-dive analysis of today's European Court of Human Rights judgment by PI lawyers @CWilsonPalow @scarletprim

The judgment says that UK laws allowing #masssurveillance violate human rights. We brought the case after 2013 @Snowden revelationshttps://t.co/tNs8lLCmT2 pic.twitter.com/g8a7bOczzv
— Privacy International (@privacyint) 13. září 2018

by **KneelB4Zod!** Fri Sep 21, 2018 9:40 pm

RT
@RT_com
2 hod.
#PayPal bans #AlexJones' InfoWars for 'promoting hate and discriminatory intolerance'

https://www.rt.com/usa/439083-paypal-bans-infowars-agreement/

by **KneelB4Zod!** Fri Sep 28, 2018 7:02 pm

Russian Market
@russian_market
12 min.
FACEBOOK REPORTS SECURITY ISSUE AFFECTING 50 MILLION ACCOUNTS