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Gab Receives A Letter From Congress

Yesterday evening Gab received a letter from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Protest at the United States Capitol.

House panel seeks records from tech companies in riot probe

The House panel investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol issued sweeping document requests on Friday to social media companies, expanding the scope of its investigation as it seeks to examine the events leading to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The requests were issued to technology giants, including Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok, and also to Reddit, Parler, Telegram, 4chan, 8kun and other platforms.

The committee asked 15 companies to provide copies of any reviews, studies, reports or analysis about misinformation related to the 2020 election, foreign influence in the election, efforts to stop the election certification and “domestic violent extremists” associated with efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including the attack on the Capitol.

by Sarcasticat•August 28, 2021August 27, 2021•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Freedom of speech, Government is never your friend, Internet, Leftist scumbags, Leftist violence, Leftists - intolerance of political right, social media

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh pledges to lower cellphone and internet bills

Flanked by local candidates and union members, in Windsor, Ont., Singh said on Wednesday that if elected prime minister he would work with the CRTC to force large telecommunications companies to reduce prices and cap fees below the global average.

by Sarcasticat•August 26, 2021August 25, 2021•0•"Another Damn Election", Canada, Economy, Internet

The Internet Celebrates the Collapse of the Left’s Woke Olympic Icons

Far from finding a Team USA loss devastating, many reacted gleefully when the team led by loud and proud anti-American protester Megan Rapinoe went down to defeat in Japan.

by Sarcasticat•August 3, 2021August 3, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", Internet, sport, USA

Massive internet outage disrupts websites in U.S., Canada and Europe

Akamai, a Massachusetts-based company whose services work behind the scenes to keep large portions of the internet functioning, said on its website that it is “aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service.”

by Sarcasticat•July 22, 2021•0•Internet

Who’s Paid to Shill for Big Tech? A New Online Tool ‘Outs’ Who’s Getting Bezos Billions, Zuck Bucks, and @Jack Cash

Who’s getting paid – or paid off – by Big Tech? A new online tool reveals in real-time who’s getting paid Zuck bucks, Bezos billions, Google greenbacks, or reaching into @Jack’s deep pockets as you’re reading their posts on social media or in the news.

h/t Marvin

by Sarcasticat•July 20, 2021July 20, 2021•0•Big Tech, Internet, Propaganda

Tucker Carlson, Mark Steyn roast the new ‘pregnant man’ emoji

Tucker Carlson and frequent guest Mark Steyn lit into the new proposed additions to the emoji keyboard, namely, the “pregnant man” emoji. Yes, that’s an emoji of a person with short hair and a mustache clutching their stomach much the way a pregnant person would, or a person who had eaten too many nachos.

by Sarcasticat•July 20, 2021July 20, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", Fox News, Internet, Mark Steyn

The USPS’ Semi-Secret Internet Surveillance Apparatus

The agency best known for delivering mail has a side hustle in online snooping.

h/t Mauser98

by Sarcasticat•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Internet, Surveillance, USA

Wikipedia co-founder: Site has become ‘thought police’ for progressives

The go-to online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become so biased against conservatives it is harming democracy, contends a co-founder of the site, Larry Sanger.

“In short, and with few exceptions, only globalist, progressive mainstream sources — and sources friendly to globalist progressivism — are permitted,” Sanger wrote on his website, Just the News reported.

by Sarcasticat•July 8, 2021July 8, 2021•0•Internet, Leftists - intolerance of political right

Chinese video gamers will have their faces scanned while playing after 10pm to ensure they are not children breaking government curfew rules

The regulations introduced both a curfew for children and also a cap on what young gamers could spend in-game transactions.

by Sarcasticat•July 8, 2021July 8, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Surveillance Society", China, Communism, Internet

Time running out for Guilbeault’s censorship bill

Bill C-10 is the first in Canada to regulate legal internet content. The bill would see the CRTC monitor as public broadcasts all YouTube videos intended for private viewing.

by Sarcasticat•June 15, 2021June 14, 2021•0•Canada, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Internet

Canadians need to step up to tackle online hate — even with ‘crazy uncles’, says expert

“I think Canadians need to step up in a way that’s real,” said Mohammed Hashim, executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, in an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson.

by Sarcasticat•June 14, 2021June 13, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture", Canada, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Hate Speech, Internet

One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown

A major internet blackout that hit many high-profile websites on Tuesday has been blamed on a software bug.

Fastly, the cloud-computing company responsible for the issues, said the bug had been triggered when one of its customers had changed their settings.

The outage has raised questions about relying on a handful of companies to run the vast infrastructure that underpins the internet.

Fastly apologised and said the problem should have been anticipated.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2021June 9, 2021•0•Internet

Major internet outage ‘shows infrastructure needs urgent fixing’

One of the world’s biggest web outages should act as a “wakeup call” that internet infrastructure has become dangerously over-centralised and lacks resilience, security experts have warned.

An unexplained configuration error at a single infrastructure provider, Fastly, which handles 10% of the world’s internet traffic, was enough to render major websites and services inoperable for almost an hour on Tuesday morning.

Online businesses including Reddit, Amazon, Twitch, Spotify and Hulu were knocked offline, as was the Guardian’s website, the BBC, the New York Times, and CNN. National governments were also caught up: gov.uk was unavailable, making a host of government services inaccessible include the Covid vaccines booking site, as was the website for the White House.

by Blazingcatfur•June 8, 2021June 8, 2021•0•Internet