The company deleted Bannon’s podcast channel, called The War Room, hours after Guilliani, President Trump’s lawyer, appeared on the podcast. YouTube said that Bannon’s channel violated its rules.
Big Tech
ACLU Breaks with Liberal Establishment, Warns America of Big Tech’s ‘Unchecked Power’ After Ban of Trump and Conservatives
Liberals who rejoice over the Big Tech hammer that came down on President Donald Trump last week are missing the point, according to an organization that has made its disdain for the president crystal clear.
The Night of the Tech Long Knives
In 1934 Hitler executed members of his paramilitary organization (the SA – Sturmabteilung or Storm Troopers) to consolidate his power, claiming it was to prevent a planned coup. In like fashion, using the incursion into the Capitol building, the Lords of Silicon Valley used this is a cover to muzzle those whose views with which they disagree.
Amazon Joins the Big Tech Free Speech Crackdown on Parler
In a somewhat unbelievable turn of events, it was revealed last night that the folks at Parler were using Amazon of all companies as the provider for their web hosting services. I honestly am having an incredibly difficult time wrapping my mind around that fact.
Unelected, unaccountable, non-transparent entity will censor Americans for the Dems
The latest tyranny comes from the social media giants. I always thought Glenn Greenwald was too extreme left for me, but he nails it here.
Mozilla, developers of Firefox: ‘We need more than deplatforming’
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s CEO, wrote on Friday on the company’s official blog that they plan to go beyond deplatforming in combating what they consider “harmful speech.”
If you want to know who’s really in power, look no further than Michelle Obama’s recent demand for Big Tech
Michelle Obama is calling on Silicon Valley to basically institute a full technocracy. She wants Trump perma-banned and policies that would control what politicians can and cannot say online.
Obama: It’s Impossible To Have A Democracy If People Disagree With You
The corporate practices by Big Tech companies that shut down Biden scandals are already in place. Government regulations to get rid of free speech are new, but not new for Obama.
Obama had become infamous for having the producer of The Innocence of Muslims thrown into prison after the disaster in Benghazi. “We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video,” Hillary Clinton would tell the father of one of the men killed there, as if a YouTube video had killed Americans and then dragged their bodies through the streets of Libya.
How Google Falls
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” —Vladimir Lenin
This has been such a week or several weeks. Everything seems to be happening. Most of it not so good. And it ain’t over.
At such times, it is easy to become despondent. Americans are watching cherished institutions crumble in the face of leftist ideology: the FBI, the courts, election officials, the Justice Department, ballots in trucks, ballots in suitcases. No need to review that here.
Well, there is something else going on, and maybe it’s time to dig into it a bit.
Stand back from the political maelstrom, take a deep breath, and let’s talk technology. No, let’s go deeper and talk software.
The Real Kraken: What Really Happened to Donald Trump in the 2020 Election
Two things happened in 2020. First, COVID led to a dismantling of state election integrity laws by everyone except the one body with the constitutional prerogative to change the rules of electing the president – the state legislatures.
Second, the Center for Technology and Civic Life happened.
Facebook reveals algorithm changes that prioritize ‘authoritative’ news outlets such as CNN and New York Times
Facebook made changes to its algorithm after the election to prioritize certain news outlets the company deems more authoritative.
According to a New York Times report, Facebook made the changes in an effort to combat President Trump’s and right-wing media outlets’ claims about election fraud, which the company has labeled “false or misleading.”
The company will now emphasize the importance of what Facebook calls its “news ecosystem quality” score, or “N.E.Q.” N.E.Q. is an internal tool the company uses to assign a ranking to news publishers based on Facebook’s definition of quality journalism.