Internet Censorship.

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WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS PLAN TO MEET WITH ALEX JONES TO DISCUSS DEPLATFORMING, SOURCE SAYS

Conservative activist explains why Infowars was not invited to Social Media Summit

 

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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel said Sunday that the FBI and the CIA should investigate if Google has been infiltrated by Chinese intelligence, according to a report from Axios.

Thiel blasted the Alphabet-owned Google for its work in China, saying the search engine giant was “engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the US military,” according to Axios.

Last year, Google came under fire after it was revealed that the company was working on a controversial project to launch a censored search service in China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/pet...he-fbi-and-cia-should-investigate-google.html

 

[sggatecl]

Thiel blasted the Alphabet-owned Google for its work in China, saying the search engine giant was ?engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the US military,? according to Axios.

Prohibiting companies from working with other countries unless America approves...

Sounds an awful lot like communism to me.

 

[tigermud]

Prohibiting companies from working with other countries unless America approves...

Sounds an awful lot like communism to me.

You don't find it the least bit concerning they have no issues working with the chicoms but not our own military? okeedookee

 

[Spartanmack]

Prohibiting companies from working with other countries unless America approves...

Sounds an awful lot like communism to me.

Sounds a bit more like typical national security issues than communism.

 

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Norm Pattis: How Sen. Blumenthal Uses Alex Jones To Silence Debate
Blumenthal and others are using Sandy Hook shooting as political theater to silence debate in 2020

There was an air of exasperated despair in U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal?s approach to Google executives in this week?s Senate hearings. Why can?t you erase Alex Jones from search engines? ?You can?t unleash the monster and say it?s too big to control,? Blumenthal said.

Google?s Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy, Karan Bhatia, then told the senator the tech giant was doing everything it could to remove all content from YouTube related to Alex Jones and Infowars.

It was a chilling moment. A United States senator and former attorney general for the state of Connecticut, was calling for content-based censorship from the floor of the nation?s most celebrated legislative chamber. And Google, one of the social media giants that sets the metes and bounds of our digital world, expressed its frustration that it could not censor more quickly and more completely.

It?s not about Sandy Hook. Mr. Jones questioned the government?s account of what happened at the mass shooting in 2012. He engaged in tortious conduct, causing distress to the families of surviving family members of victims and to first responders, ambitious lawyers claim in a series of lawsuits.
I am defending Mr. Jones and Infowars against these claims. Senator Blumenthal?s rant reminds me why that defense is important.

The carnage at Sandy Hook caused real suffering. Almost seven years ago, 20 children and six adults were murdered. The distress to those who survived the carnage will last a lifetime.

The survivors of Sandy Hook are now more than grieving parents, they are symbols, symbols, sadly, that are often used by others, including Senator Blumenthal. Candidly, it?s easy to wave the bloody clothing of children to claim a moral high ground.

The truth about Alex Jones is that he distrusts the government and the corporate media. When news of Sandy Hook broke, he did not trust what was reported. For a time, he was persuaded the shootings did not take place. He permitted others to air those views on his nationally broadcast television and radio shows. He has since, and for a long time now, acknowledged the shootings took place. Coverage of Sandy Hook was a minuscule portion of the programming content at Infowars.

Senator Blumenthal knows better than to claim that Mr. Jones?s speech about Sandy Hook was ?incitement, harassment? and the like. Mr. Jones was not, and could not have been, charged with any crime. His speech was, and is, protected by the First Amendment.


But Sandy Hook has become a battering ram used to try to silence Mr. Jones. He?s been deplatformed by Facebook, Paypal and YouTube. Folks who hate what Mr. Jones has to say want him driven from the airwaves.
Why the hatred?


Targeting Alex Jones has less to do with Sandy Hook than it does with electoral politics. Plenty of folks, Senator Blumenthal among them, are still stunned that Donald Trump won in 2016. They blame social media for that win. Sure, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are the primary targets, but the millions of folks who view Infowars are also up for grabs in 2020. Better to silence and divide these folks before 2020.

What about the First Amendment? Doesn?t it bar Google and others from engaging in content-based restrictions on speech?

No, it doesn?t. The First Amendment prohibits the government from imposing restrictions on speech. Google is not the government. It is a private entity, at least in theory. Google can kill speech with impunity, or so the law seems to say.

There is a chance that the courts will see it otherwise. The Communications Decency Act, for example, immunizes social media companies from suit when they publish material written by others. That?s because Congress realizes how important social media is as a means of communication. Shouldn?t that immunity carry with it some responsibility not to behave like a censor, even a self-righteous censor?

I?m hoping Alex Jones brings an action to test this theory. His first witness in the case? Senator Blumenthal. I wonder if the senator will invite family members of Sandy Hook survivors to those hearings. If he?ll point to them sobbing in the gallery and blame Alex Jones for that, too.

The fact is, Senator Blumenthal and others are using the Sandy Hook shooting as political theater to silence debate in 2020. The pity is, we?re letting these officious censors get away with it.

This article first appeared in the New Haven Register.

 

[sggatecl]

You don't find it the least bit concerning they have no issues working with the chicoms but not our own military? okeedookee

In this case, no. Comparing working on a search engine vs using AI do analyze drone footage is quite the stretch. This dude waving his Amercian flag in the air, shouting treason and what not, is comical at best.

In both cases, the search engine and the AI/drone program, the programs were scrubbed in large part due to protests by it's own workers. That sound very Chinese to you?

 

[tinselwolverine]

Prohibiting companies from working with other countries unless America approves...

Sounds an awful lot like communism to me.

I remember reading about how odd some people found it when General Motors was building and shipping tanks off to Germany back during WW II.

Of course, not just the United States, but every government restricts certain transactions with foreign countries whom they view as a potential threat.

This has been going on not just since the beginning of the United States, it?s been going on since the beginning of time.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/media/top-gun-flags-intl-hnk/index.html

Everything is wonderful

https://youtu.be/WPmH1fzZ-zk

 

[sggatecl]

I remember reading about how odd some people found it when General Motors was building and shipping tanks off to Germany back during WW II.

Of course, not just the United States, but every government restricts certain transactions with foreign countries whom they view as a potential threat.

This has been going on not just since the beginning of the United States, it?s been going on since the beginning of time.

Well hopefully China doesn't start flattening their neighbors with fancy search engines like Germany did with tanks to their neighbors. I'd have to really eat some crow.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/media/top-gun-flags-intl-hnk/index.html

Everything is wonderful

And here people are saying that it just looks like a complete rehash of the first movie. Shame on them.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Well hopefully China doesn't start flattening their neighbors with fancy search engines like Germany did with tanks to their neighbors. I'd have to really eat some crow.

Yeah I hope not too.

 

[Spartanmack]

Well hopefully China doesn't start flattening their neighbors with fancy search engines like Germany did with tanks to their neighbors. I'd have to really eat some crow.

China has tanks too and they've become more and more belligerent in the region and globally.

 

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And here people are saying that it just looks like a complete rehash of the first movie. Shame on them.

Yeah remakes are getting old odds are I won't bother going to see it.



Still true


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr3WE6iAhHg

 

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Watch: Seinfeld & Gervais Discuss Difficulty Of Being Comedians In Snowflake Society
“This is the thing about freedom of speech – everyone agrees with it, until they hear something they don’t like.”


British Comedian Ricky Gervais and his US counterpart Jerry Seinfeld recently discussed the difficultly of being comedians in a society where a swathes of people choose to be permanently offended at anything, and were immediately beseeched by people who were offended by what they said, proving their exact point.

The background of the piece was this debate about whether to leave in a comment made by Seinfeld, which was purposefully supposed to rile up the snowflakes.


https://www.infowars.com/watch-sein...ulty-of-being-comedians-in-snowflake-society/

 

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Watch: Seinfeld & Gervais Discuss Difficulty Of Being Comedians In Snowflake Society
?This is the thing about freedom of speech ? everyone agrees with it, until they hear something they don?t like.?


British Comedian Ricky Gervais and his US counterpart Jerry Seinfeld recently discussed the difficultly of being comedians in a society where a swathes of people choose to be permanently offended at anything, and were immediately beseeched by people who were offended by what they said, proving their exact point.

The background of the piece was this debate about whether to leave in a comment made by Seinfeld, which was purposefully supposed to rile up the snowflakes.


https://www.infowars.com/watch-sein...ulty-of-being-comedians-in-snowflake-society/

I generally agree with what you posted. Bill Burr is another great comic (my favorite since Carlin) that has touched on the topic. I'm sure others have as well.

(NSFW Language) https://youtu.be/x2I9qbqdvvY

 

[tinselwolverine]

Watch: Seinfeld & Gervais Discuss Difficulty Of Being Comedians In Snowflake Society

The background of the piece was this debate about whether to leave in a comment made by Seinfeld, which was purposefully supposed to rile up the snowflakes.


https://www.infowars.com/watch-sein...ulty-of-being-comedians-in-snowflake-society/

Seinfeld is whiny.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXo9UEXTIWM

The bit with Gervais is good.

 

[byco42]

This should offend absolutely no one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kJiUVp890TY

 

[tinselwolverine]

This should offend absolutely no one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kJiUVp890TY

I remember seeing this act before. For some reason I?m thinking I might?ve actually seen it live at a club.

 

[byco42]

The best part is the crowd yelling back at him.