The internet takeover thread

[SuburbanFarmer]

REASON
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet

A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get tough on Russian bots and fake news. To save American trust in "our institutions, democracy, free press, and markets," it suggests, we need unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into online press and markets, including "comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation" of the sort enacted in the E.U.

https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/31/demo ... ans-leaked

Not an accidental leak, I’d wager. They’re testing public outrage. And there isn’t enough.

[C-Mag]

REASON
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet

A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get tough on Russian bots and fake news. To save American trust in "our institutions, democracy, free press, and markets," it suggests, we need unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into online press and markets, including "comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation" of the sort enacted in the E.U.

https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/31/demo ... ans-leaked

Not an accidental leak, I’d wager. They’re testing public outrage. And there isn’t enough.

Interestingly that was written July 31st, Two Weeks later the coordinated strikes started hitting.

[clubgop]

Question: By shutting down conservative voices on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are these companies meddling in the 2018 Mid-Terms ?

But that's ok because they are not Russian.

Signed, Penner, Harry, English Faggot, dirty dick, ooky.

[C-Mag]

Trump is suing Zuckerberg...…………. for the poor and disadvantaged

The Trump administration today charged Facebook Inc. with violating housing discrimination laws.
The social media company allows advertisers to divert housing listings away users who mention terms such as “assistance dog” and “mobility scooter,” or who live in certain zip codes, in violation of the Fair Housing Act

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/ ... ion-786302

[Okeefenokee]

Andrew Torba @a PRO
10 hours ago · edited
By the way: the account that Microsoft wants us to censor was created less then a month ago, has 36 followers, and follows no one.


Seems legit and totally not a false flag that someone reported to Microsoft on purpose.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Facebook unveils a “user reputation score”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08- ... dit-system

[C-Mag]

Facebook unveils a “user reputation score”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08- ... dit-system

I was going to say, that sounds just like the Chinese Social Media Policy........................... and that folks, is why censorship fucking sucks.

We all know that these Tech Giants are in bed with elements of our government like the NSA and CIA right.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Facebook unveils a “user reputation score”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08- ... dit-system

I was going to say, that sounds just like the Chinese Social Media Policy........................... and that folks, is why censorship fucking sucks.

We all know that these Tech Giants are in bed with elements of our government like the NSA and CIA right.

Certainly appears that way.

All for your 'safety', of course.

[Okeefenokee]

They are in bed with the PRC.

This is cold war 2.0, and guess who never got around to getting the word out?

[Okeefenokee]