Big tech is a threat to our country.

[Winehole23]

1289258997933998080

Florida

[ElNono]

1289258997933998080

Florida

Hopefully he's not abducted on an unmarked ban after gassing his entire home, tbh...

[TheGreatYacht]

https://youtu.be/eC_EO45mPEE

Spurtacular, Chumpettes love to use Snopes for fact checking :lol

[Winehole23]

Tech companies moving into financial services

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2020/08/03/google-pay-partners-with-six-more-banks-with-digital-banking-on-the-rise/#604a2b7b4457

[Nathan89]

https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1291810844297355271?s=20

[ElNono]

Looks like the video is back up... that'll probably save Nadolph some tears :tu

[Winehole23]

working the refs works:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias-facebook-relaxed-misinformation-rules-conservative-pages-n1236182

[Spurtacular]

working the refs works:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias-facebook-relaxed-misinformation-rules-conservative-pages-n1236182

Is that how FB markets themselves? As the refs?

:lmao Blakehole

[Spurtacular]

https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1291810844297355271?s=20

:cry Working the refs helps :cry

:lmao Blakehole

[Spurtacular]

don't blame me, dm @ jack

1288877202759651328

Karens good now.

:lol Blakehole

[boutons_deux]

FB removed a QAnon page with 200K followers

[Winehole23]

Is that how FB markets themselves? As the refs?

:lmao BlakeholeWhat is content moderation?

[Winehole23]

Karens good now.

:lol Blakehole:tu

[Spurtacular]

What is content moderation?

If you're a grown-ass adult you should be able to decide for yourself what you want to read or view, blakehole.

Do you need protecting that badly, weak man?

[Winehole23]

If you're a grown-ass adult you should be able to decide for yourself what you want to read or view, blakehole.

Do you need protecting that badly, weak man?Nope.

But I think it's ok to point out official lies.

Don't you?

[Spurtacular]

Nope.

But I think it's ok to point out official lies.

Don't you?

I don't mind alerts or asterisks or whatever have you. I am not for censorship like you are though.

[Winehole23]

Jesus Christ, TV and radio ditched the fairness doctrine in the 1990s, you'd have it back for the internet, Spurtacular?

That is the very antithesis of tuff. It's also objectively retrograde, legally speaking.

[Winehole23]

I don't mind alerts or asterisks or whatever have you. I am not for censorship like you are though.who got censored? you can still see the post.

[Spurtacular]

Jesus Christ, TV and radio ditched the fairness doctrine in the 1990s, you'd have it back for the internet, Spurtacular (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=49615)?

That is the very antithesis of tuff. It's also objectively retrograde, legally speaking.

Muhammad you're just spouting random shit to justify censorship, cuckhole.

[Winehole23]

Muhammad you're just spouting random shit to justify censorship, cuckhole.Not really. content moderation isn't censorship. What twitter did to Trump isn't censorship.

It sure as hell isn't censorship when FB relaxes the rules for conservatives because they can't stand the whining.

[Spurtacular]

Not really. content moderation isn't censorship. What twitter did to Trump isn't censorship.

It sure as hell isn't censorship when FB relaxes the rules for conservatives because they can't stand the whining.

Sure it is censorship. You're just not very smart.

[Winehole23]

ok, chad

[Winehole23]

Sure it is censorship. You're just not very smart.It is not censorship when the surge of conservative bellyaching about bias causes FB to trim their sails to the right.

That's just public pressure and PR.

[ChumpDumper]

ok, chadPedo Chad.

[Winehole23]

Pedo Chad.no way

[ChumpDumper]

no wayHe certainly refuses to say he wants them all brought to justice.

Ask him.

[Winehole23]

He certainly refuses to say he wants them all brought to justice.

Ask him.I would be interested to know, but the price of asking is too high. I dislike an endless colloquy.

[ChumpDumper]

I would be interested to know, but the price of asking is too high. I dislike an endless colloquy.


You refuse to say you want all pedos brought to justice.

Here's the proof:

Do you want all pedos brought to justice no matter their names or political affiliations?

Yes or no.


I do elect not to answer.

[Winehole23]

Bartleby the Scrivener

"Dead wall reverie"

[Winehole23]

to refuse to answer is a distinctive, maybe even a conspicuous choice.

[Winehole23]

in a way it is sort of charming if Sputacular can't stand to tell a lie about what he secretly believes. it's a sort of loyalty that stills his tongue even from lying.

[Spurtacular]

Blakehole all up cherp's butthole on this. :lol

[Winehole23]

Blakehole all up cherp's butthole on this. :lolvoted present

[Winehole23]

again

[Winehole23]

anti-competitive tech is the real threat

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[Winehole23]

1295762560759681025

[Winehole23]

FAANG are common carriers; it's time to treat them as such to stop anti-competitive abuses


For a century and a half, Americans used common carrier policies to ensure the rule of law in activities that depended on privately held monopolies. These rules served as a pillar of American prosperity through much of the twentieth century. By neutralizing the power of all essential transport and communications systems, the regulations freed Americans to take full advantage of every important network technology introduced during these years, including telephones, water and electrical services, energy pipelines, and even large, logistics-powered retailers. Citizens did not have to worry that the men who controlled the technologies involved would exploit their middleman position to steal other people’s business or disrupt balances of power.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Bork, Richard Posner, and other neoliberal Chicago School legal scholars set out to overturn America’s antimonopoly regime, targeting the traditional prohibitions on discrimination that common carrier laws had established. Their scholarship later played a major role in the writing of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. In that bill, Congress simultaneously exempted internet platforms from any responsibility to police the content on their sites, and failed entirely to impose on them any requirement to provide equal and just service to all who depend on their networks.

As a result, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and other platforms were free to develop business models that treated every seller and buyer—every citizen—differently. These corporations exploited this license to the fullest, and have used their power to reorganize entire realms of human activity. Amazon, Google, and Facebook match individuals to specific shoes and clothes, specific restaurants and hotels, specific movies and music, specific jobs and schools, specific drugs and hospitals, specific sexual partners, and even specific books, articles, speakers, and sources of news.

These companies are the most powerful middlemen in history. Each guards the gate to innumerable sources of essential information, services, and products. Yet thus far no governmental entity in the United States has signaled any intention of limiting the license these corporations enjoy to serve only the customers they choose to, at whatever price they decide.

This means that Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg enjoy much the same power as God did in Babel. We live in the world they manufacture for us.
https://harpers.org/archive/2020/09/the-big-tech-extortion-racket/

[Winehole23]

Back in the day, Walmart’s goal was simply to force manufacturers to offer it lower prices in order to undersell and bankrupt rival retailers. Now that Amazon has effectively killed off all its online rivals, its model is to pit every seller and trader on its website against one another in a carefully orchestrated scramble to be placed first before the eyeballs of the busy buyer. Amazon gets to sell both access to the market and protection from its own thuggish behavior.

[Winehole23]

dynamic pricing power?


Thus far, Amazon has profited mainly from the same model used by the railroads in the nineteenth century, during those periods when their bosses were able to skirt common carrier rules. Bezos’s message to sellers is simple: I control the road to the market. If you want to ride, you pay what I demand.

Under such a system, the consumer is manipulated in ways that enable Amazon to charge the seller more. The harms to the consumer—such as being steered to buy an inferior product or a less interesting book—are byproducts of a system designed to exploit the seller.

But Amazon’s license to discriminate is fast moving into something else, a system where each consumer is charged the maximum amount that he or she can pay.

[Winehole23]

A final development, and I must confess to needing to read the court filings to do it justice, is the brazen effort by Apple and now Google to crush games giant Fortnite for trying to go around the app store choke points. “Tying,” or requiring the buyer of one product (like Apple products) to buy other products (apps only through them) is a per se violation of anti-trust laws. Fortnite would seem to have a very strong case, but Apple has just said it is also cutting Fortnite off from developer tools by August 28.


Even big player like Fortnite can’t afford to wage this legal war unless it gets an emergency injunction. But this sort of thuggery usually happens less visibly and with companies too small to do anything other than capitulate. If Fortnite can get the courts to restrain Apple and Google while they duke it out in court, expect this to be a very important case. Let’s hope Fortnite can afford to proceed.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/fed-economists-finger-monopoly-concentration-as-underlying-driver-of-neoliberal-economic-restructuring-barry-lynn-in-harpers-and-fortnite-lawsuit-put-hot-light-on-tech-monopoly-power.html

[Winehole23]

market concentration corrates with inequality and unstable markets, according to some Marxist-Leninists at the Federal Reserve



We develop a theoretical model in which the income distribution is endogenously determined byfirms’ market power in both product and labor markets and the probability of financial crisis isendogenously determined by the accumulation of household credit. Using the model, we analyze thetransitional dynamics of an economy undergoing structural changes in product and labor markets.We find that the secular rise of firms’ market power in both product and labor markets can bean important driver behind a few secular trends experienced by the U.S. economy in the last four29decades: the decrease in both the labor share and the capital share, the increase in the profit share,the increase in income inequality, the increase in credit-to-GDP ratio, and the associated rise infinancial instability summarized by the probability of a financial crisis event. We also show thatredistribution policies that moderate income inequality can be used as strong macroprudential toolsin preventing financial crises.https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2020057pap.pdf

[Winehole23]

dime dropped on Saudi dissidents by KSA spies working for Twitter

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/twitter-security-breach-blamed-for-saudi-dissident-arrests

[Winehole23]

Amazon, post-bad press, drops non-disparagement clause for podcasters

https://pitchfork.com/news/amazon-music-adding-podcasts-on-the-condition-that-podcasters-dont-disparage-amazon/

[Winehole23]

Google sent user information to a Northern California counterterrorism fusion team. This is from the Blueleaks trove.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/17/google-giving-user-data-authorities-documents-reveal

[Winehole23]

Ben Shapiro dominates FB compared to the MSM

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[Winehole23]

Elon Musk has updated his NeuraLink brain implant:

PebCB0IIANI


It’s “like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” Musk said. The device can pair with a smartphone app over Bluetooth Low Energy, he said.

[TheGreatYacht]

https://i.ibb.co/m6GPkJZ/Screenshot-20200831-204659-Facebook.jpg

Spurtacular, Chumpettes been snitching. Chumpettes need their safe space. Chumpettes not bothered at all.

[ChumpDumper]

https://i.ibb.co/m6GPkJZ/Screenshot-20200831-204659-Facebook.jpg

Spurtacular, Chumpettes been snitching. Chumpettes need their safe space. Chumpettes not bothered at all.:tu

[Winehole23]

Spurtacular (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=49615), Chumpettes been snitching. Chumpettes need their safe space. Chumpettes not bothehttps://i.ibb.co/m6GPkJZ/Screenshot-20200831-204659-Facebook.jpgred at all.Legal liability is real and a legit concern for sustainability of business. So is reputation.

[Winehole23]

Sorry you're going though this, TGY.

[TheGreatYacht]

Legal liability is real and a legit concern for sustainability of business. So is reputation.


:tu

"Muh private platform :cry."

[ChumpDumper]

"Muh private platform :cry.":tu

[Ef-man]

"Muh private platform :cry."

You are free to post elsewhere too.

No one holding you here, bruh.

You and cosmored can create your own server and about post whatever you want. :cry

[Spurtacular]

https://i.ibb.co/m6GPkJZ/Screenshot-20200831-204659-Facebook.jpg

Spurtacular (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=49615), Chumpettes been snitching. Chumpettes need their safe space. Chumpettes not bothered at all.

They're weak men.

[ElNono]

https://i.ibb.co/m6GPkJZ/Screenshot-20200831-204659-Facebook.jpg

Spurtacular, Chumpettes been snitching. Chumpettes need their safe space. Chumpettes not bothered at all.

We talked about this. Conservatards are triggered about some alleged social media bias and want government regulation. Demoshits are triggered to what they see as a spread of fake news and want government regulation.

Government regulation means to abolish Section 230 of the CDA or something very close to that. Without that protection, private companies become liable for what their users post. And so this is a natural reaction to that. Unfortunately, Spurstalk is not exempt either.

Lots of triggered idiots ruining the fun. This is why we can't have nice things, tbh.

[Spurminator]

Weird, neither OP nor TGY bumped this thread for this day-old story.

https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/02/919778961/facebook-twitter-and-tiktok-say-wishing-trumps-death-from-covid-is-not-allowed

[Winehole23]

Weird, neither OP nor TGY bumped this thread for this day-old story.

https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/02/919778961/facebook-twitter-and-tiktok-say-wishing-trumps-death-from-covid-is-not-allowedLiberal PC run amok

[Ef-man]

Great news for everyone but Qchrissy:

Three years later, Facebook says it will ban QAnon.


http://https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/tech/facebook-qanon/index.html

[Will Hunting]

Great news for everyone but Qchrissy:

Three years later, Facebook says it will ban QAnon.


http://https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/tech/facebook-qanon/index.html Nathan89

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlimsyAchingAxolotl-small.gif

[Joseph Kony]

sad part is those inbred retards will use this as even more proof that its all a big conspiracy and FB is trying to silence them because they're in on it

[gambit1990]

Nathan89 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=20260)

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlimsyAchingAxolotl-small.gif
:lol

[diego]

I saw the thread bumped and thought it was surely over this:

https://www.engadget.com/house-judiciary-antitrust-report-211808827.html

Maybe Nathan will vote democrat after all :lol

[Winehole23]

I saw the thread bumped and thought it was surely over this:

https://www.engadget.com/house-judiciary-antitrust-report-211808827.html

Maybe Nathan will vote democrat after all :lolBob Barr has been looking in this direction and clearing his throat. Time's a wastin.

[diego]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/08/facebook-trump-turning-point-usa-rally-forge

elites astroturfing social media for propaganda purposes, this is what you meant by the threat of big tech right nate?

[Winehole23]

What could possibly go wrong?


There are few things as revealing as a person's search history, and police typically need a warrant on a known suspect to demand that sensitive information. But a recently unsealed court document found that investigators can request such data in reverse order by asking Google (https://www.cnet.com/google/) to disclose everyone who searched a keyword rather than for information on a known suspect.
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/

[Winehole23]

Mathematicians boycott police collaboration: GIGO


Over 2,000 mathematicians have signed a letter (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdmQGrgdCBCexTrpne7KXUzpbiI9LeEtd0Am-qRFimpwuv1A/viewform) agreeing to boycott all collaboration with police, and insisting their colleagues do the same.


They are organizing a wide base of mathematicians in the hopes of cutting off police technologies at their source. The letter’s authors cite “deep concerns over the use of machine learning, AI, and facial recognition technologies to justify and perpetuate oppression.”


Predictive policing is one key area where some mathematicians and scientists have enabled the racist algorithms now animating broken-windows policing, which tell cops to treat specific areas as “hotspots” for potential crime. Activists have long criticized the bias inherent in these practices. Algorithms trained on data produced by racist policing will reproduce that prejudice to “predict” where crime will be committed and who is potentially criminal.


“The data does not speak for itself, it’s not neutral,” explains Brendan McQuade, author of Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision. Police data is “dirty data,” because it does not represent crime, but policing and arrests.
https://shadowproof.com/2020/10/01/thousands-of-mathematicians-join-boycott-against-police-collaboration/

[Nathan89]

Incredible foresight by op tbh.

Trump is an idiot for not promoting another platform. The only reason not to is if he plans on entering this space once he loses as a result of his lack of foresight tbh.

[Winehole23]

Incredible foresight by op tbh.

Trump is an idiot for not promoting another platform. The only reason not to is if he plans on entering this space once he loses as a result of his lack of foresight tbh.What platform should Trump promote? Twitter and FB helped him get elected in 2016.

They're helping him right now, tbh. Trump still has beaucoup clout on social media.

[ElNono]

Incredible foresight by op tbh.

That self pat and still terrible takes, tbh

[ElNono]

What platform should Trump promote? Twitter and FB helped him get elected in 2016.

They're helping him right now, tbh. Trump still has beaucoup clout on social media.

They tried to promote Parler until they realized that having an echo chamber can't trigger dem libs...

[Winehole23]

They tried to promote Parler until they realized that having an echo chamber can't trigger dem libs...Also, you try to fish wherever the fish are.

Parler: 2.8 million users

Twitter: 330 million users

Facebook: 1.69 billion users

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ej6MPXUVoAEO3ve?format=jpg&name=large

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jm4y/proprietary-grapes-come-with-draconian-end-user-license-agreement (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jm4y/proprietary-grapes-come-with-draconian-end-user-license-agreement)

[Trainwreck2100]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-bans-qanon-other-conspiracy-content-targets-individuals-n1243525

Youtube bans qanon accounts that target individuals.

[benefactor]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-bans-qanon-other-conspiracy-content-targets-individuals-n1243525

Youtube bans qanon accounts that target individuals.
:lol Nathan
:lol Chris
:lol the only pussy you've ever seen in person is at the strip club

[Trainwreck2100]

They see the wiring on the wall, a dem sweep could mean oversight if they don't at least pretebd to do something

[TheGreatYacht]

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamierobbins314/status/1318353158356275208https://mobile.twitter.com/dimitrigalanis/status/1318336917214289920https://mobile.twitter.com/MrSlowDangles19/status/1318333696714272768
Spurtacular, Twitter is now warning Chumpettes to stay away from Bitchute. And Chumpettes claim that Big Tech and government are separate entities. So much for "muh private platform :cry"

[ElNono]

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamierobbins314/status/1318353158356275208https://mobile.twitter.com/dimitrigalanis/status/1318336917214289920https://mobile.twitter.com/MrSlowDangles19/status/1318333696714272768
Spurtacular, Twitter is now warning Chumpettes to stay away from Bitchute. And Chumpettes claim that Big Tech and government are separate entities. So much for "muh private platform :cry"

This is great news, tbh... hopefully more alt-right and conspiratards keep moving to BitChute so they're easy to identify by authorities. Heck, BitChute might be a CIA/NSA honeypot already.

[Ef-man]

This is great news, tbh... hopefully more alt-right and conspiratards keep moving to BitChute so they're easy to identify by authorities. Heck, BitChute might be a CIA/NSA honeypot already.

I would believe that. Alt right plays 100D chess, 500D checkers and 1000D tic-tac-toe.

:tu

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/038/717/original/5d6778ecef4f2d5b.png?1603211030

[Winehole23]

where is Stefan Molyneux posting these days?

[pgardn]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/038/717/original/5d6778ecef4f2d5b.png?1603211030

They are private companies so...
Tough luck in the free market.

[ChumpDumper]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/038/717/original/5d6778ecef4f2d5b.png?1603211030

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlimsyAchingAxolotl-small.gif

[boutons_deux]

The Google suit, with shithole TX tagging along, is a fucking distraction in the final 2 weeks of the campaign.

[ElNono]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/038/717/original/5d6778ecef4f2d5b.png?1603211030

Actually, the TOS are available for everyone to read and they must be agreed to before completing registration.

So the notion that there's any kind of bait and switch is factually not true.

[Winehole23]

Actually, the TOS are available for everyone to read and they must be agreed to before completing registration.

So the notion that there's any kind of bait and switch is factually not true.You'd almost have to be a lawyer to understand how you limit yourself contractually when you sign the TOS. A recap where to tell you what all you're signing away would be nice.

[ElNono]

You'd almost have to be a lawyer to understand how you limit yourself contractually when you sign the TOS. A recap where to tell you what all you're signing away would be nice.

I can certainly agree with the notion that TOS(s) are evil concoctions. However, you agree with them on your own volition, and you always have the choice not to do so and not use the service.

[Spurtacular]

They are private companies so...
Tough luck in the free market.

:cry Private platform :cry
:cry Muh Chinese style communism :cry

[Spurtacular]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlimsyAchingAxolotl-small.gif


Commie Derp loves himself some foul play.

[Winehole23]

I can certainly agree with the notion that TOS(s) are evil concoctions. However, you agree with them on your own volition, and you always have the choice not to do so and not use the service.Oh yah, but the desire for the service or the thing is usually so strong that it cannot be overcome, any desultory reading of the TOS totally notwithstanding.

[Spurtacular]

Actually, the TOS are available for everyone to read and they must be agreed to before completing registration.

So the notion that there's any kind of bait and switch is factually not true.

:cry They put in TOS that they can fuck over whomever for whatever at any time :cry

:lmao ElBeta

[ChumpDumper]

Commie Derp loves himself some foul play.Nothing foul about it, derp.

[Spurtacular]

Nothing foul about it, derp.

Yup. Un-American. Operating in bad faith.
And it's why people are walking away from Democrats.

[ChumpDumper]

Yup.https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlimsyAchingAxolotl-small.gif

Un-American.https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlimsyAchingAxolotl-small.gif

Operating in bad faith.https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlimsyAchingAxolotl-small.gif

And it's why people are walking away from Democrats.How many, derp?

Give your number.

[Spurtacular]

Give your number.

Go see for yourself. More Republican new registrations than Democrat new registrations in a landslide.

Or post a gif and comfort yourself some more. :lmao

[ChumpDumper]

Go see for yourself. More Republican new registrations than Democrat new registrations in a landslide.

Or post a gif and comfort yourself some more. :lmaoderp folds

[Spurtacular]

derp folds

Moar comforting yourself.

[ElNono]

Oh yah, but the desire for the service or the thing is usually so strong that it cannot be overcome, any desultory reading of the TOS totally notwithstanding.

Well, but you can't go claiming "fraud!" afterwards. You consciously agreed to it.

[ChumpDumper]

Moar comforting yourself.No, your folding is a simple fact.

Cry about it.

[ElNono]

:cry They put in TOS that they can fuck over whomever for whatever at any time :cry

:lmao ElBeta

If you agreed to their terms to use their service, the problem is squarely yours. :lol

but, but, fraud!!!! lmao, you out of all people calling anybody beta or NPC.

[spurraider21]

:cry Private platform :cry
:cry Muh Chinese style communism :cry
arent you the one that wants the government to take over and regulate these platforms? :lol

[FrostKing]

More important than climate change and systematic racism

[spurraider21]

More important than climate change and systematic racism
false

[Winehole23]

Well, but you can't go claiming "fraud!" afterwards. You consciously agreed to it.No disagreement, signing is always optional. It's still legit to point out the equities are fucked against the consumer.

[TheGreatYacht]

arent you the one that wants the government to take over and regulate these platforms? :lol

Government already has control over these platforms. Whatever government doesn't want you to know, Big Tech will censor.

[Spurtacular]

TheGreatYacht Chris

Google shadow banning the fuck out of opposition in the final days before the election.

:lol Grifter Tim Pool fine though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kmP-ATFUlc

[Chris]

TheGreatYacht Chris

Google shadow banning the fuck out of opposition in the final days before the election.

:lol Grifter Tim Pool fine though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kmP-ATFUlc

even Pewdiepie got shadow banned bruv

all hands are on deck to stop Trump and they are infiltrating twitch to get at the kids (AOC)

[TimDunkem]

^Like when the Army got on Twitch.

[ChumpDumper]

even Pewdiepie got shadow banned bruv

all hands are on deck to stop Trump and they are infiltrating twitch to get at the kids (AOC):tu

:lol "bruv"
:lol white people

[Spurtacular]

even Pewdiepie got shadow banned bruv

all hands are on deck to stop Trump and they are infiltrating twitch to get at the kids (AOC)

Yea, I don't know what the deal is with that. He's supposed to be conservative b/c he plays videogames?

[Chris]

Yea, I don't know what the deal is with that. He's supposed to be conservative b/c he plays videogames?

This is what they think of him

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18136253/pewdiepie-vs-tseries-links-to-white-supremacist-alt-right-redpill

[Spurtacular]

This is what they think of him

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18136253/pewdiepie-vs-tseries-links-to-white-supremacist-alt-right-redpill

The top Youtubers should just do their own start-up.

Maybe they're too lazy or lack the wherewithal.

But short of alternatives, this stuff will keep happening.

I mean, taking action against someone just for recommending other content on YT's own platform shows the level of control that these demons will exert.

[Chris]

The top Youtubers should just do their own start-up.

Maybe they're too lazy or lack the wherewithal.

But short of alternatives, this stuff will keep happening.

I mean, taking action against someone just for recommending other content on YT's own platform shows the level of control that these demons will exert.

Pewdiepie and Dr. Disrespect would be quite the team and they have the revenue to do it. Alphabet pretty much owns the internet right now though.

[Spurtacular]

Pewdiepie and Dr. Disrespect would be quite the team and they have the revenue to do it. Alphabet pretty much owns the internet right now though.

You're thinking small. Think many out of the top few hundred Jewtubers who have been censored and manipulated.
There's a lot of building enmity out there.

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/137/133/original/31564b33da725b18.jpeg?1603548727

[Spurtacular]

This is what they think of him

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18136253/pewdiepie-vs-tseries-links-to-white-supremacist-alt-right-redpill

And these chicken shit articles are always devoid of making real cases.
It's always just labeling people and doing hit and runs.

[TheGreatYacht]

Spurtacular, you have nothing to worry about bruh. Joe Biden has ZERO chance of winning. The powers that be WANT Trump. They NEED him to fulfill their NWO agenda and One World Government. The elites need Trump to continue pulling off the QAnon psyop and Covid scamdemic. Trump is the only one who can pull it off by fooling the American patriots and Q followers desperate for hope.

If Biden were to win, the whole QAnon psyop and Trump pretending to be against lockdowns charade would fall apart. The elites cannot allow that to happen. Trump is the only who can put American patriots to sleep.

[Spurtacular]

Spurtacular (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=49615), you have nothing to worry about bruh. Joe Biden has ZERO chance of winning. The powers that be WANT Trump. They NEED him to fulfill their NWO agenda and One World Government. The elites need Trump to continue pulling off the QAnon psyop and Covid scamdemic. Trump is the only one who can pull it off by fooling the American patriots and Q followers desperate for hope.

If Biden were to win, the whole QAnon psyop and Trump pretending to be against lockdowns charade would fall apart. The elites cannot allow that to happen. Trump is the only who can put American patriots to sleep.

What would be the resistance if Joe Biden was in office?

Patriots couldn't or wouldn't stop Obama.

[Winehole23]

MORE FACEBOOK SUPPRESSION OF RIGHT WING VIEWS

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[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/208/762/original/f4e221b4d9b0a4b7.jpeg?1603726714

[ChumpDumper]

:lol you still don't know what free speech means, derp

[ElNono]

Can't wait til Ben Garrison goes back to drawing monkeys, tbh

[koriwhat]

Can't wait til Ben Garrison goes back to drawing monkeys, tbh

why's that? you don't enjoy good political humor which states facts?

[TheGreatYacht]

even Pewdiepie got shadow banned bruv

all hands are on deck to stop Trump and they are infiltrating twitch to get at the kids (AOC)

Bruh, this isn't about stopping Trump at all. They are about to unleash the darkest winter ever. The controllers want to make sure there is little to no dissent to their Covid NWO and Agenda 21 that is about to be unleashed. It's happening all over again. More lockdowns to come. More stricter than last time. Republican governors will go along like the NWO puppets that they are. Trump won't do shit about it. If anything, Trump might declare a 2nd national emergency. All of this is gonna happen after the elections. It's already happening in some cities.

[ElNono]

why's that? you don't enjoy good political humor which states facts?

I do, that's why I don't read Ben Garrison. I generally don't enjoy anything from outright racists, tbh...

[Spurtacular]

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/twitter-censors-audio-of-detroit-poll-workers-being-trained-to-lie-to-voters-destroy-ballots-stop-challengers/

Tech (https://bigleaguepolitics.com/category/tech/) Twitter Censors Audio of Detroit Poll Workers Being Trained to Lie to Voters, Destroy Ballots, Stop Challengers They don’t want this audio being heard by the masses.

[koriwhat]

I do, that's why I don't read Ben Garrison. I generally don't enjoy anything from outright racists, tbh...

you read and reply to Will here on ST so i don't think you're that against blatantly racist fools.

on that note though, what makes garrison racist because this is news to me?

[ElNono]

you read and reply to Will here on ST so i don't think you're that against blatantly racist fools.

on that note though, what makes garrison racist because this is news to me?

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/960/744/69a.jpg

plenty of this stuff in his repertoire... what do you think?

[Winehole23]

pro-reform pivot at Facebook?

1321198743106977792

[ChumpDumper]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/960/744/69a.jpg

plenty of this stuff in his repertoire... what do you think?
https://media1.tenor.com/images/cb7729db12a22dc23e15d7093191ec8c/tenor.gif

[koriwhat]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/960/744/69a.jpg

plenty of this stuff in his repertoire... what do you think?

yeah that's pretty abhorrent imo. some people think being edgy is ok but holy shit.

thanks for changing my mind on garrison. i'm not one to use that word and don't care if others do; however i don't associate or support those that do.

[ElNono]

yeah that's pretty abhorrent imo. some people think being edgy is ok but holy shit.

thanks for changing my mind on garrison. i'm not one to use that word and don't care if others do; however i don't associate or support those that do.

I should note that a bunch of people on the interwebs have been editing Ben Garrison drawings and mixing them up with Nick Bougas drawings (who's definitely a racist). They're both alt-right Trumptards though.

If this is one of those cases, then I apologize, and Nick Bougas is certainly the person I was thinking about.

[DMC]

yeah that's pretty abhorrent imo. some people think being edgy is ok but holy shit.

thanks for changing my mind on garrison. i'm not one to use that word and don't care if others do; however i don't associate or support those that do.

Agreed, the "L" word is taboo.

[koriwhat]

Agreed, the "L" word is taboo.

:lol :tu

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/249/692/original/b2aba255f25805fb.jpeg?1603835223

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/249/777/original/2f5b5ae75045819a.jpeg?1603835418

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/249/663/original/5db6443033444e79.jpeg?1603835178

[ElNono]

Make up your mind... you want them regulated or not?

[Spurminator]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/960/744/69a.jpg

plenty of this stuff in his repertoire... what do you think?

I think Ben Garrison is a supremely unfunny hack who appeals to the lowest pieces of shit in the country... But I'm highly skeptical that this is his work.

[ElNono]

I think Ben Garrison is a supremely unfunny hack who appeals to the lowest pieces of shit in the country... But I'm highly skeptical that this is his work.

See my previous post about it

[Spurminator]

See my previous post about it

Honestly if people are drawing this shit and putting Ben's name on it, that's pretty hilarious.

Here's another one.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/957/192/375.jpg

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah I think that one was stolen.

[ElNono]

Honestly if people are drawing this shit and putting Ben's name on it, that's pretty hilarious.

Yeah, but that's why I wanted to clarify. The guy I was thinking about was Nick Bougas aka A. Wyatt Mann.

[Spurminator]

Yeah I think that one was stolen.

Looks like this is the original.

https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1451087645049.jpg

[Winehole23]

:lmao


“Scraping tools, no matter how well-intentioned, are not a permissible means of collecting information from us,” Facebook privacy policy official Allison Hendrix is quoted as saying.

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1321860390100201474?s=19

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1321860390100201474?s=19

:tu

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1321860390100201474?s=19

Is this part of the big FBI breaking news conference from this Wednesday? Asking for a MAGAtard.

:tu

[Nathan89]

https://twitter.com/fleccas/status/1321999369680334848?s=20

Big tech wants uninformed citizens getting fed mainstream media propaganda.

[Nathan89]

https://twitter.com/KamVTV/status/1321936010838757378?s=20

Trump winning seems unfathomable. The deck is just too stacked in so many ways.

[Ef-man]

Derp believes that “South American Mexicans” come from failed socialist regimes so maybe that is why FB is suspicious.



https://twitter.com/KamVTV/status/1321936010838757378?s=20

Trump winning seems unfathomable. The deck is just too stacked in so many ways.

[Winehole23]

spot on

1321812054483849218

[Spurtacular]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9gSlTLAm6U

[Winehole23]

what a pity, government spokesmen are inherently credible, right?

[ElNono]

what a pity, government spokesmen are inherently credible, right?

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/004/130/bagdad-bob.jpg

[Winehole23]

a Halloween treat for Chris, Nathan89 and Spurtacular


This website collects and catalogs online voices, with links to their platforms, that have been deplatformed, demonetized, shadowbanned, or otherwise suppressed.

https://winston84.com/

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/fleccas/status/1321999369680334848?s=20
:tu

[Spurtacular]

https://news.gab.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/at-3.png

[boutons_deux]

Trump allies, largely unconstrained by Facebook’s rules against repeated falsehoods, cement pre-election dominance

From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president’s eldest son,

conservatives have blown past Facebook’s fact-checking guardrails,

with few consequences.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/01/facebook-election-misinformation/

Zuck is corrupt, immoral asshole in over his head, rotting from the head, supporting Trash

[ElNono]

https://news.gab.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/at-3.png

It's also a pretty lonely world there lol

[Spurtacular]

It's also a pretty lonely world there lol

lol wut?

[ElNono]

lol wut?

at Gab? lol indeed

[ElNono]

A Twitter board committee reviewing the social network's leadership and management structure concluded that Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey should maintain his role at the helm of the company (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-02/twitter-s-jack-dorsey-to-keep-ceo-job-after-board-panel-review).

From a report:The committee was asked to formally review Twitter's leadership as part of an agreement in March with activist investor Elliott Management and private equity firm Silver Lake, which took stakes in the San Francisco-based company earlier this year. The independent board panel, which included representatives from Elliott and Silver Lake, concluded that the current management structure is sufficient, and the full board accepted that recommendation, according to a company filing on Monday.

"The committee expressed its confidence in management and recommended that the current structure remain in place," the filing reads. "The board will continue to evaluate company and management performance according to a range of factors, including the company's operating plan and established milestones."

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmUZuXyXEAIdh7b?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Winehole23]

Another great Cory Doctorow thread, this one on printer ink:

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[Winehole23]

1324499454079115264

[ElNono]

Facebook Groups that spread misinfo will now face probation and forced moderation

While the election may have now been called for Joe Biden, our misinformation nightmare is far from over.

As unsubstantiated pro-Trump conspiracies (https://mashable.com/article/stop-the-steal-facebook-groups/) about election fraud continue to spread on the internet, Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/) is taking further action with Facebook Groups, a feature that is often weaponized (https://mashable.com/article/facebook-groups-black-lives-matter-protests/) by misinformation spreaders.

According to Facebook, the social networking company will now put certain problematic Facebook Groups in “probation (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/07/facebook-groups-election/)” periods. During this 60-day timeframe, all posts to these groups must be manually approved by a group’s administrators or moderators.

A group will be placed in this probationary state if the company finds that many of its posts are violating its community standards policies. There will be no appeals process for the probation period. All groups, whether public or private, are subject to probation.
If policy violation problems continue to persist within these groups during the probationary period, Facebook will ban the group.

Facebook previously (https://mashable.com/article/facebook-groups-new-policies-misinformation-hate/) announced a version of this new Groups policy when it started to clean up Facebook Groups in September. The updated policy appears to include a longer probation period. The company had also started closing groups that no longer had moderators in place, and stopped recommending health-related groups in order to curb coronavirus misinformation.


https://mashable.com/article/facebook-groups-admin-mods-misinformation/

[Winehole23]

1325835317673291777

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/718/592/original/d1742150e1a733b8.jpg

[Spurtacular]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/top-us-pollster-statistician-richard-baris-peoples-pundit-suspended-twitter-reporting-disputed-election-political-wrongthink-not-allowed/


Top US Pollster and Statistician Richard Baris — People’s Pundit — SUSPENDED from Twitter for Reporting on Disputed Election — Political ‘WrongThink’ Not Allowed

[ElNono]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/top-us-pollster-statistician-richard-baris-peoples-pundit-suspended-twitter-reporting-disputed-election-political-wrongthink-not-allowed/

But, does it hurt?

[Spurtacular]

The Stop the Steal Facebook group, which launched on Wednesday, was filled with similar election misinformation about Democrats rigging the vote. It was organized by Republican operatives and had ties to the tea party, according to Mother Jones (https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/11/stop-the-count-facebook-group/). The group grew to over 300,000 members in less than 48 hours — only to be banned by Facebook once moderators caught on. Over that short period, the group became a central hub for election misinformation, leaving users to look for new places to organize in the wake of the ban.
Facebook and TikTok have also moved to block hashtags that were used to spread election conspiracy theories on Thursday, like #StoptheSteal. Twitter told The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/5/21551717/facebook-tiktok-block-election-conspiracy-theory-hashtags-twitter-monitoring) that it was “proactively” monitoring them. Big Tech’s efforts to curb voting misinformation have led users to organize on different platforms. On YouTube, One American News Network (OANN) posted videos declaring (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/5/21551790/youtube-election-misinformation-oann-live-stream-mail-in-vote-count-ballot) that “Trump won” the election, which YouTube limited somewhat but did not block outright.



https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/6/21552752/facebook-stopthesteal-ban-twitter-parler-discord-trump

[ElNono]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/6/21552752/facebook-stopthesteal-ban-twitter-parler-discord-trump

They can stay on Parler :tu

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/782/510/original/278576cdbd12e1f6.jpeg

[ChumpDumper]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/782/510/original/278576cdbd12e1f6.jpeg:tu

[Spurtacular]

They can stay on Parler :tu

Twitter is destined to become a vapid echo chamber.

[Spurtacular]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/587/389/4f8.gif

[ChumpDumper]

Twitter is destined to become a vapid echo chamber.You can stay on Gab.:tu

[Spurtacular]

You can stay on Gab.:tu

Sure. I like platforms that value privacy and free speech.
You can have the other guy. :lmao

[RandomGuy]

Sure. I like platforms that value privacy and free speech.
You can have the other guy. :lmao

https://media.giphy.com/media/hhnpSxCjyXzHy/giphy.gif

Well, if you told me you were derping
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your derp before, my friend
But I don't know if you know how bad
Well, I was there and I saw what you derped
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've derped
It's all been a pack of lies

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well, I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord

Well, I remember!
I remember, don't worry
How could I ever forget?
It's the first time, the last time, you always derped
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up
No, you don't fool me
Well, the derp doesn't show, but the derp still grows
It's no stranger to you at all.

[ChumpDumper]

Sure. I like platforms that value privacy and free speech.
You can have the other guy. :lmaoYou like child porn.

[ElNono]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/782/510/original/278576cdbd12e1f6.jpeg

:tu

[ElNono]

Twitter is destined to become a vapid echo chamber.

Says who? Your cult can't quit it.

[SnakeBoy]

Hey ElNono

Why are you trolling?
https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144487&page=211&p=10337060&viewfull=1#post10337060

If you think I'm wrong about something, say why and we can talk about it.

He knows he can't dispute the facts

[koriwhat]

Twitter is destined to become a vapid echo chamber.

it already is and has been. they give a platform to pedophiles, communists, terrorists, etc while censoring and fact checking all not subscribed to the hivemind.

glad they kicked me off their platform years ago.

[Chris]

https://i.ibb.co/HTPfKX4/IMG-20201115-155119.jpg

Spurtacular

[ElNono]

What a terrible photoshop work :lmao

Facebook logo on a tweet :lmao

[DMC]

it already is and has been. they give a platform to pedophiles, communists, terrorists, etc while censoring and fact checking all not subscribed to the hivemind.

glad they kicked me off their platform years ago.

Rich man's Lakersground tbh

[DMC]

https://i.ibb.co/HTPfKX4/IMG-20201115-155119.jpg

Spurtacular

We shall sit at home, comfy in our offices eating processed cheese products and drinking cheap liquors, and spread disinformation, then we shall lulz amongst ourselves -WC

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/YhcJJVM/20201115-141334.jpg

[ChumpDumper]

https://i.ibb.co/YhcJJVM/20201115-141334.jpgNot what she said, rube.

[Spurtacular]

https://i.ibb.co/HTPfKX4/IMG-20201115-155119.jpg

Spurtacular (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=49615)


:lol

[Chris]

Not what she said, rube.

simping for CNN

lol

[ChumpDumper]

simping for CNN

lol:lol you didn't watch the clip, rube.

[Ef-man]

Breathe it in derp, trump lost the election.
https://media.giphy.com/media/Xy0Y5paPbG4YkambmI/giphy.gif

https://youtu.be/YkADj0TPrJA

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1328782116222611460?s=19

good shit

[lefty]

https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1328782116222611460?s=19

good shit
:lol Much better than the retarded old people who didn't know how to grill him during that 1st hearing

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1328740468365078529?s=19

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/909/019/original/c7430a256c87f44e.png

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/902/536/original/ec37929caf8a7823.png

[ChumpDumper]

:lol gab

[tholdren]

:lol gab

Belarus’s beleaguered government remains unfazed by covid-19. President Aleksander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, has flatly denied the seriousness of the pandemic, refusing to impose a lockdown, close schools, or cancel mass events like the Belarusian football league or the Victory Day parade.

Yet the country’s death rate is among the lowest in Europe—just over 700 in a population of 9.5 million with over 73 000 confirmed cases and no masks

[Ef-man]

And yet you fold.


Belarus’s beleaguered government remains unfazed by covid-19. President Aleksander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, has flatly denied the seriousness of the pandemic, refusing to impose a lockdown, close schools, or cancel mass events like the Belarusian football league or the Victory Day parade.

Yet the country’s death rate is among the lowest in Europe—just over 700 in a population of 9.5 million with over 73 000 confirmed cases and no masks

[Spurtacular]

:lol gab

Derp trying to play cards he doesn't have.

[Spurtacular]

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/916/803/original/fd3ad5dcd07be583.jpg

[Ef-man]

^^^^^
https://media.giphy.com/media/VDTOChMWX1BmFflzyr/giphy.gif

[ChumpDumper]

Derp trying to play cards he doesn't have.Which cards do you not have?

[clambake]

Branded derp forever lol

[Winehole23]

Which cards do you not have?All of them and bets without

[JPB]

Who the hell is naive enough to trust "official" numbers from wanabee dictator Lukashenko's government? But hey, there's "officially" zero covid cases in North Korea...

And Belarus anyway is still middle-age for the most part, with most of the population living in small rural (like really rural) areas they never leave and barely any stranger comes in.

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1329267143737749504?s=19

Spurtacular this is some Orwellian shit :wow

[Ef-man]

https://www.liveabout.com/thmb/MC_9RGUDN70NBInxOAxnvXHOh5k=/768x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf-5a2538df89eacc0037f0e1ff.png[/IMG]

Derp this is some Orwellian shit :wow

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1329267143737749504?s=19

:tu

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1329267143737749504?s=19

Spurtacular this is some Orwellian shit :wow

:tu

[Chris]

:tu


:tu

^love a rigged game

[ElNono]

^love a rigged game

:lmao the irony of this post

[Spurminator]

"I will probably be leaving Facebook by the end of the year."

Dude acts like it involves breaking a lease. :lmao

If you want to leave Facebook you can do that right now.

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1329552775647117312?s=19

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1329552775647117312?s=19

News what? :lmao

[ElNono]

Biden taps Facebook executive for White House role as big tech infiltrates transition
Some of Biden's full-time staffers, as well as transition team members, have ties to Silicon Valley

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-big-tech-transition-team

:tu:tu:tu

[FrostKing]

Dominion President...

[boutons_deux]

What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust

European regulators focus on how Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google use—and abuse–their vast stores of data to maintain advantages over rivals.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-eu-gets-right-us-wrong-antitrust/ (https://www.wired.com/story/what-eu-gets-right-us-wrong-antitrust/)

I doubt Congress will do anything to disrupt the rigged, unstoppable, irreversible status quo

BigTech will pay $100Ms of protection money, a pittance scraped from the bottom of their washing machines, for Congress to do nothing.

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1330228740396343296?s=19

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1330228740396343296?s=19

:lol no

[Ef-man]

https://media.giphy.com/media/Wfp7qiaq60ysg/giphy.gif
Breaking news
:tu

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1331086973956657153

[Winehole23]

I'll believe it when I see it. Been awhile since US antitrust policy focused on unfair competition rather than abuse of pricing power.


Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, which issued a sweeping report this year proposing steps to rein in big tech firms, have zeroed in on at least four ideas, according to a Hill source:


More funding for key antitrust enforcers, chiefly the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, so they can take on wealthy, heavily lawyered tech companies.
Changing the burden of proof for proposed mergers so that companies whose market share passes a certain threshold are assumed to be monopolies and must prove their deal does not harm competition.
Data portability requirements for platforms, so that consumers can move their information from one service to another.
Prohibitions on platform bias and "self-preferencing," which is when information services display their own listings above those of competitors.

Background: The committee's 450-page October report (https://www.axios.com/house-judiciarys-tech-antitrust-report-urges-sweeping-legal-changes-bc8cdda7-e10d-46cb-ba20-ef20b2d4ab23.html) outlined dozens of legislative fixes and enforcement ideas to shore up current antitrust law.
The committee majority report's recommendation of "structural separations" prohibiting platform owners from also participating in the markets they run is going to be a harder sell for Republicans.


There's little agreement on that issue, Rep. David Cicilline, the Democrat who heads up the antitrust subpanel, told Axios.
And any bill on "self-preferencing" would be a lengthy project, he said, requiring technical drafting and additional bipartisan support.

https://www.axios.com/house-judiciarys-tech-antitrust-report-urges-sweeping-legal-changes-bc8cdda7-e10d-46cb-ba20-ef20b2d4ab23.html

https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_digital_markets.pdf?utm_campaign=44 93-519

[Winehole23]

Interesting article about Argentina's public e-commerce platform, Correo Compras.

Do you have a take on this, ElNono (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=8054)?


Moreover, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic some advocated that the US government should nationalize Amazon (https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/usps-profiteering-nationalize-amazon/) and use its logistics network (https://inthesetimes.com/article/supply-chain-crisis-nationalize-amazon-coronavirus-covid-19) to assure the delivery of essential goods to all US citizens.

In Argentina, Correo Compras promises to have the lowest prices by being cheaper for sellers, who will only have to pay a platform maintenance fee. This public e-commerce platform is part of the Argentinean government’s broader attempt to regulate the digital economy and offer public alternatives to existing private businesses.

Argentina’s national bank, Banco Nación (https://www.bna.com.ar/), has launched BNA+ – an e-wallet to compete with MercadoLibre’s e-payment business, MercadoPagos (https://www.mercadopago.com.ar/). MercadoPagos was also favored by the lockdown – its total payment transactions jumped 122.9% year on year, totaling 404.8 million transactions in the second quarter of 2020.

Correo Compras also aims to stimulate consumer demand. The platform offers government subsidized installment purchase plans that allow payment over three, six, and twelve months.

As with every platform, the success of public platforms depends on their capacity to trigger direct and indirect network effects – meaning they gain additional value as more people use them. Can Correo Compras succeed, and thereby become a role model for other countries?

Unlike private platforms, in public platforms political motives could be decisive network effect drivers. Buying at Correo Compras could be seen as a way to reduce the power of tech companies, support the state’s active participation in the economy, express support for the current administration or support the company’s workers. In any case, it could become the first political grassroots action to engender platform network effects.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/11/what-would-a-state-owned-amazon-look-like-ask-argentina.html

[ElNono]

Interesting article about Argentina's public e-commerce platform, Correo Compras.

Do you have a take on this, ElNono (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=8054)?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/11/what-would-a-state-owned-amazon-look-like-ask-argentina.html

I'm not familiar with them. There was a change of government last year though, and MercadoLibre, which is mentioned in the article and is the 'Amazon of south america' more or less, with it's monopolistic implications, was able to de-regulate a lot of employees under the previous (center right) government, pissing off a big union which happens to have a lot of influence in this new government. They also launched that e-currency and fintech service, which brings a lot of challenges for a specific country to tax and monitor, since the company operates in a number of South American countries.

So I'm a bit skeptical this is being done in order to aid, and I think the political angle is much more likely. MercadoLibre CEO, which is from Argentina, moved to Uruguay after the elections, as he was an outspoken supporter of the previous government and seen as an 'enemy' of the current lefty administration.

[Winehole23]

Google is illegally firing and surveilling its employees, says NLRB.


Specifically, the NLRB case documents accuse Google of illegally spying on employees, firing several employees in retaliation for attempting to unionize, and illegally blocking employees from sharing work grievances and information with each other using general tools like calendars, email, meeting rooms, and an internal communication tool at Google called MemeGen (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/google-content-moderation-internal-message-boards-memegen.html).



The NLRB said it expects an answer from Google by Dec. 16 and the agency said it will hold a hearing on April 12, 2021, in San Francisco.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/02/google-spied-on-employees-illegally-terminated-them-nlrb-alleges.html

[ElNono]

YouTube to remove videos claiming mass fraud changed election results
It's a policy shift that could put the tech giant at odds with President Donald Trump.

YouTube said Wednesday it will begin removing any videos that falsely claim widespread voting fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential race now that the deadline for states to resolve disputes over the results has passed.

It's a policy shift that could put the tech giant at odds with President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in the remaining days of his administration, but one that will be welcomed by Democrats who have called for more aggressive action.

What’s changing: The Google-owned video-sharing platform announced in a blog post that it will begin outright removing content published Wednesday or later that “misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.”

The company in recent months has taken steps to label election-related posts and direct users to “authoritative news sources” regarding the outcome, but stopped short of outright banning unsubstantiated claims of a rigged election.

YouTube said it would begin enforcing the policy now that the national safe harbor deadline for states to conclude any disputes over the election results passed on Tuesday. “We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come,” the company said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/youtube-videos-mass-fraud-election-results-443925

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I would normally say it's unnecessary, most people do know when they're being straight out lied to, but apparently there's a minority of retards that still need training wheels, tbh.

[boutons_deux]

I would normally say it's unnecessary, most people do know when they're being straight out lied to, but apparently there's a minority of retards that still need training wheels, tbh.

"some say" Trash's rabid cult mob KNOW Trash is lying,

but think it's so big ballsy of their "fuck everything" fake Macho Man.

10Ms of them, failed by democracy, by Capitalism, by govt, voted Trash to Fuck Stuff Up, Blow It All Up, they had nothing, so had nothing to lose.

"FreeDUMB's just another word for .... "

4 years of Trash, and 10Ms of them, failed by democracy, by Capitalism, by govt, are WORSE off, even diseased, or dead, and 74M vote for more Trash.

America is fucked and unfuckable.

[Winehole23]

YouTube to remove videos claiming mass fraud changed election results
It's a policy shift that could put the tech giant at odds with President Donald Trump.

YouTube said Wednesday it will begin removing any videos that falsely claim widespread voting fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential race now that the deadline for states to resolve disputes over the results has passed.

It's a policy shift that could put the tech giant at odds with President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in the remaining days of his administration, but one that will be welcomed by Democrats who have called for more aggressive action.

What’s changing: The Google-owned video-sharing platform announced in a blog post that it will begin outright removing content published Wednesday or later that “misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.”

The company in recent months has taken steps to label election-related posts and direct users to “authoritative news sources” regarding the outcome, but stopped short of outright banning unsubstantiated claims of a rigged election.

YouTube said it would begin enforcing the policy now that the national safe harbor deadline for states to conclude any disputes over the election results passed on Tuesday. “We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come,” the company said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/youtube-videos-mass-fraud-election-results-443925

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I would normally say it's unnecessary, most people do know when they're being straight out lied to, but apparently there's a minority of retards that still need training wheels, tbh.When was the last time you saw Milo, or Gavin, or Stefan Molyneux or Richard Spencer online or in the news?

Deplatforming works. :tu

[Winehole23]

Antitrust


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-scS7FCrs4

[Ef-man]

Must. Get. Copium. Pain. Too. Much. Pain. For. One. Derp.
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[ChumpDumper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-scS7FCrs4

What's the plan now, derp?

[Winehole23]

Overdependence on monopoly providers has big tail risks.

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[Winehole23]

Thread delivers juicy details.

This Google antitrust suit could be a big deal.

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[Winehole23]

FB/Google: dicks caught in the crack

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[Winehole23]

A peak under the hood of digital brand safety...


Every day, a handful of tech companies decide how billions of advertising dollars will be spent on the web. We don’t see these decisions take place, but brand safety algorithms scan every page and every piece of content we look at to decide whether it’s “safe” before serving an ad.

These millions of little verdicts add up. They determine who on the web gets monetized — and who gets blocked.

It’s a big responsibility, and it appears, one they do not take seriously. While brand safety tech companies have been extremely secretive about how it all works, it turns out they have also been unwittingly sharing their own proprietary data all this time.

Dr. Krzysztof Franaszek (https://twitter.com/kfranasz)of Adalytics (https://www.adalytics.io/) contacted us with a startling discovery last month: he was able to see how brand safety companies classify every individual news article he reads by right-clicking on “inspect” in Google Chrome. He could see exactly which brands were blocking which articles, because the keyword blocklists of global brands were also sitting out there. In other words, there’s a leak. A pretty big one.

Three brand safety companies — Oracle (Grapeshot & Moat), Integral Ad Science and Comscore — forgot to encrypt their data, giving us our first real look into how they categorize, block and move your advertising dollars across the web.



Systematically defunding national news outlets


Giving extremists an unlimited hall pass


The implications of this research are breathtakingly anti-democratic. Ads are the currency of the digital economy, and brand safety technology companies have been acting with impunity because no one has the information to challenge them.


We don’t know how many media outlets have been run out of existence because of brand safety technology, nor how many media outlets will never be able to monetize critical news coverage because the issues important to their communities are marked as “unsafe.” (https://branded.substack.com/p/the-no-queer-zone-how-adtech-keeps)
https://branded.substack.com/p/inside-the-chaos-of-brand-safety

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The internet monopolies are a good place to start. there are plenty of other industries just as bad or worse however that need the same level of scrutiny oversight and regulation.

[Winehole23]

The internet monopolies are a good place to start. there are plenty of other industries just as bad or worse however that need the same level of scrutiny oversight and regulation.Bring it!

[Winehole23]

A third multstate antitrust lawsuit against Google:

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[Winehole23]

Matt Stoller overview


The Texas case reveals new details about how online advertising markets function, drawing from Dina Srinivasan’s critical research (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3500919) on how advertising sales has been transformed into a complex financial market run by Google. While the complaint alleges that Google has engaged in monopolization, it also alleges a different violation, that Facebook and Google are in a cartel to violate user privacy and fix prices in advertising markets. The complaint reveals that after Facebook bought WhatsApp, which pledged to its users (and the FTC) strict privacy controls, “Facebook signed an exclusive agreement with Google, granting Google access to millions of Americans’ end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp messages, photos, videos, and audio files.” If true, that’s a remarkable set of illegal acts, by both Google and Facebook, as well as a betrayal of their users.


The Sherman Act has two parts. Section Two prohibits monopolization, but monopolization cases are very hard to bring and quite expensive, and require elaborate models. Section One prohibits cartels and price-fixing as conspiracies. Cartel cases are much easier - just show an agreement to collaborate on fixing prices, and you’re done. In fact cartels are so much easier to prosecute that price-fixing is the only area that enforcers actually bring criminal charges. And worrisome for Google, Texas is alleging cartel behavior.


Since October, enforcers have brought four strong suits against Google and Facebook, two of the largest corporations in the world. And the demanded remedies for these civil violations are tough. Enforcers are asking for injunctive relief to stop the bad behavior, break-ups of these companies to end the structural conflicts, as well as monetary damages and civil fines.These few months represent perhaps the toughest spate of antitrust action since the post-World War II era, when Harry Truman restarted antitrust cases after their suspension during the war.https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/crime-shouldnt-pay-why-big-tech-executives

[Winehole23]

Monopolization isn’t just illegal, it is in fact a crime, an appropriation of the rights and property of others by a dominant actor. The lengthy trial is essentially akin to saying that bank robbers getting to keep robbing banks until they are convicted, and can probably keep the additional loot. There are ways of a judge issuing preliminary orders to stop bad behavior in the interim, so it’s not inevitable that these corporations get to continue what they are doing. However, judges don’t tend to like issuing such orders, though hopefully enforcers will ask for them and Mehta will make an exception.

But the monetary cost is not the most dangerous part of the delay. What’s more frightening is the political corruption that Google and Facebook are enabling. Thousands of newspapers have fallen apart over the past ten years, and over the next three, thousands more will collapse. Aside from killing pro-social institutions like newspapers, these platforms have been inducing significant harms society-wide, from enabling ethnic cleansing abroad (https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/rumors-spread-on-social-media) and divisiveness in Western democracies, to undermining (https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/absentee-ownership-how-amazon-facebook) our economy writ large. The end state is frightening. Indeed, here’s what the Texas complaint alleges is Google’s long-term goal.



Google’s current dominance is merely a preview of its future plans. Google has an appetite for total dominance, and its latest ambition is to transform the free and open architecture of the internet. Google’s plan is to create a walled garden around the internet in which it controls websites and mobile applications. Google calls its emerging venture the [redacted], a world in which publisher content is operated by Google…

Google’s documented plan is to capture online publishers on the open internet and transform them into content creators generating revenue for Google on a completely closed platform—like YouTube content creators.

[Winehole23]

Stoller's proposal: criminal charges for criminal enterprises


What Facebook and Google are doing is crime, and it needs to be treated as such. Right now, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai believe that they have to fight a civil case, which means spending money on lawyers and being deposed by government officials. But they will keep their wealth, and of course, their freedom, because they are personally not at risk, so scheming to dominate more markets elsewhere is a perfectly reasonable activity to pursue even while their companies are on trial. Violating the law by taking someone else’s livelihood risks, at worst, a parking ticket.

But if these men were facing the prospect of personal criminal liability, then the stakes would suddenly shift. During the trial, they would become far more cautious and unwilling to engage in potentially predatory actions, for fear of losing their wealth and freedom, much as they have appropriated that of others. And their lawyers would start giving them different advice on what is legal and what is not when they come to key business decisions.

Moreover, using criminal laws creates a different dynamic and gives enforcers investigative tools that don’t exist for civil suits. The DOJ Antitrust Division has a policy called the “Corporate Leniency Policy,” which lets cartel participants get leniency if they tell the division about the conspiracy, thus creating an incentive for wrongdoers to tell the DOJ about crimes in action. If enforcers began to bring real criminal indictments against big tech executives for monopolization, they would be able to flip executives in ways they cannot now do.

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[Winehole23]

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[pgardn]

The irony that Ken Paxton has his name on a law suit against Google that needs to be heard.
Paxton needs to be in jail yesterday