Democrats Looking To Ramp Up The Fascism

[ElNono]

There's no way that's not some kind of mental disease, tbh

[Winehole23]

Google tergiversates:

In a letter newly obtained by The Intercept, Pichai told a bipartisan group of six senators that Google could have “broad benefits inside and outside of China,” but said he could not share details about the censored search engine because it “remains unclear” whether the company “would or could release a search service” in the country.


Pichai’s letter contradicts the company’s search engine chief, Ben Gomes, who informed staff during a private meeting that the company was aiming to release the platform in China between January and April 2019. Gomes told employees working on the Chinese search engine that they should get it ready to be “brought off the shelf and quickly deployed.”


According to sources and confidential Google do ents, the search engine for China, codenamed Dragonfly, was designed to comply with the strict censorship regime imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party. It would restrict people’s access to broad categories of information, blacklisting phrases like “human rights,” “student protest,” and “Nobel Prize.”


The Chinese platform was designed to link people’s searches to their phone number, track their location, and then share that data with a Chinese partner company. This would make it easy to track individual users’ searches, raising concerns that any person in China using Google to seek out information banned by the government could be at risk of interrogation or detention if security agencies were to obtain copies of their search records.

https://theintercept.com/2018/10/12/...na-censorship/

[Winehole23]

"if we had a plan we would be happy to discuss it"

“Google has been open about our desire to increase our ability to serve users in China and other countries. We are thoughtfully considering a variety of options for how to offer services in China in a way that is consistent with our mission. … [W]e can confirm that our work will continue to reflect our best assessment of how best to serve people around the world, as set forth in our mission and our code of conduct. Of course, should we have something to announce in the future, we would be more than happy to brief you and your staff on those plans.”

[Winehole23]

regulation could benefit monopoly digital platforms:

It will be difficult to limit the company’s power. Under what has been called “surveillance capitalism,” social media companies that provide free products always have an incentive to violate privacy. That is how Facebook makes money. Because Facebook profits by making more personal data available for use by third parties, its business model points in the direction of abuse. In the case of its 2011 FTC agreement, Facebook appears to have simply sloughed off a legal obligation, preferring to risk fines rather than accept an impediment to growth. There is little reason to think it won’t make the same choice again.2


Regulation might make Facebook still more powerful. Network effects, which make a service like Facebook more valuable to users as it grows larger, incline social media companies toward monopoly. The costs of legal compliance for rules like the GDPR, which can be ruinous for smaller start-ups, tend to lock in the power of in bents even more. Unlike smaller companies, Facebook also has the ability to engage in regulatory arbitrage by moving parts of its business to the cities, states, and countries willing to offer it the largest subsidies and the lightest regulatory touch; it recently shifted its base of operations away from Ireland, where it had gone to avoid taxes, so that 1.5 billion users in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America wouldn’t be covered by the GDPR. Zuckerberg and Sandberg have both said they expect regulation and would welcome the right kind—presumably regulation compatible with more users, more engagement, and more data.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/201...autocracy-app/

[Chris]

[Pavlov]

Chris, are you afraid Black Reporter actually wants to impose martial law on the White House?

Yes or no.

[Chris]

Chris, are you afraid Black Reporter actually wants to impose martial law on the White House?

Yes or no.

Yes, I'm terrified of the Blacks.

[monosylab1k]

Yes, I'm terrified of the Blacks.

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[Pavlov]

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[Chris]

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Someone doesn't like their new nickname

[monosylab1k]

Someone doesn't like their new nickname

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[Spurtacular]

Diane Feinsteins wealth comes from the private equity firm her husband owns, not her government salary. You are a special breed of stupid.

Lots of money in govt. connections.

[Winehole23]

that will happen with a surveillance based model of service

The Saudi Arabian government enlisted a Twitter army to silence its critics online. It groomed a Twitter employee in the United States to try to get him to spy on certain accounts. And an American-based consultancy company helped the government identify and target dissidents on Twitter who were later punished and silenced.

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/20/18003...tter-khashoggi

[Winehole23]

who are Facebook, Twitter and Google carrying water for?

basically any political power that complains anywhere they do business.

the content of websites and media organizations is being judged and suppressed if it is considered radical or is found guilty of fomenting discontent.

https://therealnews.com/stories/soci...s-of-likes-2-2

[Chris]

[ElNono]

Talk about facism...

[ElNono]

You could make that phrase with journals from a century ago, newspapers of half a century ago, or even CNN and Fox in the last few decades...

[Winehole23]

Yep.

Conservatives want the nanny state to police digital platforms.

What could go wrong?

[Chris]

"Free speech is fundamental to the health of our great country, and Congress should treat it with the respect it deserves."

[ElNono]

Exactly. It’s in the Cons ution to make sure Congress can’t mess with it.

[ElNono]

Heck, political speech has been historically even more protected.

[Chris]

[Winehole23]

Chris changes the subject and runs away...

[Winehole23]

you car may be spying on you, but rest easy, GM promises it never sold the data

On September 12th, GM's director of global digital transformation Saejin Park gave a presentation to the Association of National Advertisers in which he described how the company had secretly gathered data on the radio-listening habits of 90,000 GM owners in LA and Chicago for three months in 2017, tracking what stations they listened to and for how long, and where they were at the time; this data was covertly exfiltrated from the cars by means of their built-in wifi.
The company says it never sold this data, but the presentation to the advertising execs was clearly designed to elicit bids for it.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/23/do...that-dial.html

[Winehole23]

Amazon is not your friend:

While Amazon plays the leading role, the report also details the involvement of companies including Peter Thiel’s Palantir, NEC, and Thomson Reuters in storing, transferring, and analyzing data on both undo ented residents and U.S. citizens. The U.S. government is moving its databases from federal facilities to cloud providers, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS), raising concerns about accountability.

“There is a transfer of discretion and power from the public sector to the private sector in the form of these contracted technological services,”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90255355...ey-says-report