🌎 Discussion: Online Piracy, AI, Net Neutrality, Killswitch, and Other Internet Issues II

[Teelie]

Apple's iOS 14 beta reveals that TikTok and other apps are spying on iPhone users

Fortunately for me I have none of these spying apps.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

People - Meghan Markle & Prince Harry 'Working' with Civil Rights Groups to Support Facebook Boycott: Source

Reuters - Exclusive: Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organizers say

CBS News - More advertisers flee Facebook as boycott grows

The Verge - YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more for hate speech

Another company looking only now at the election polls and the large scale Facebook advertiser boycott. So many of these social media companies didn't enforce their own ToS only because Republicans and Trump were in power.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Washington Post - Facebook removes hundreds of boogaloo accounts for ‘promoting violence’ in coordinated takedown
Facebook said it would also remove hundreds of accounts that supported or praised the violent network within the far-right [Boogaloo] movement.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Infodemic investigation: Facebook is biggest source of false claims about coronavirus - Press Gazette

 

[Teelie]

No surprise there. Facebook is the biggest source of a lot of false claims and outright lies.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Bloomberg | Quint - LinkedIn Sued for Spying on Users With Apple Device Apps

 

[Teelie]

French parliament passes porn age-verification legislation

Good luck with that, France.

The French parliament has agreed to pass a new law requiring age verification on pornographic websites to prevent access by children under 18, Politico reports. The initiative has the support of President Emmanuel Macron, who called for such a measure in January.

The French law gives sites discretion to decide how to perform age verification. Requiring users to enter a credit card number seems to be one of the most popular options.

According to Politico, the law gives French regulators the power to create a blacklist for overseas sites that don't comply with the new rules. If a site doesn't respond to a warning from French officials, they can "ask the Paris Court of Justice to send an order to telecom operators to block the access to these sites from France."

France is one of several countries considering legislation to keep pornography away from children. In the United Kingdom, the government has been trying for several years to establish a system for age-verifying porn sites. That effort hasn't gone well. After multiple delays, the government put the effort on hold indefinitely last October. Australian legislators are considering a similar measure.

A major sticking point in the UK's age verification debate was privacy. Critics pointed out that it wasn't a great idea to force adult consumers to turn over their credit card numbers to porn sites that might not have the strongest privacy protections—or the highest ethical standards. It's not clear what privacy protections will be offered to consumers under the French law.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Twitter says some accounts had personal data stolen in massive hack - CNN

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Teelie]

A bit ****ing late but at least now Twitter is making an effort. Or at least the facade of one.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wall Street Journal - Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products

When Amazon.com Inc.'s venture-capital fund invested in DefinedCrowd Corp. , it gained access to the technology startup's finances and other confidential information.

Nearly four years later, in April, Amazon's cloud-computing unit launched an artificial-intelligence product that does almost exactly what DefinedCrowd does, said DefinedCrowd founder and Chief Executive Daniela Braga .

The new offering from Amazon Web Services, called A2I, competes directly " with one of our bread-and-butter foundational products" that collects and labels data, said Ms. Braga. After seeing the A2I announcement, Ms. Braga limited the Amazon fund's access to her company's data and diluted its stake by 90% by raising more capital.

Ms. Braga is one of more than two dozen entrepreneurs, investors and deal advisers interviewed by The Wall Street Journal who said Amazon appeared to use the investment and deal-making process to help develop competing products.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack that targeted high-profile accounts | WFLA

 

[Lily Adler]

Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack that targeted high-profile accounts | WFLA

Another site for the liberals to spread their Plandemic.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Another fake Nancy Pelosi video goes viral on Facebook - CNNPolitics

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Facebook removes Trump post falsely claiming children are 'almost immune' to Covid-19 - CNN

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

That is frightening yet... Par for the course.


I've been saying this but we need more awareness as a society.

Should Trump lose the Q brigade will be the spawning ground for a near decade long Right Wing terrorism campaign. Which I think was probably inevitable.

We have been headed down this road since at least the 90's. People forget how much the "militia" phenomenon and the "black helicopter" crew were pretty wide spread and confrontations with Reactionary groups was not at all uncommon. We had the internet in it's infancy and even then it was the vector for inflammatory misinformation and helped spread division though then it was more concentrated among the most dedicated. Still we were in a similar space, politically speaking.

So what happened? All the guys ready to overthrow the Clinton Administration just die or something?

Two things... The first was the Oklahoma City bombing. That was a shock to our system and both via official policy and culturally I think we as a nation backed away from the brink. This I think made many do some deep thinking, even the most ardent and committed Right Winger (I would add... This was post Gingrinch revolution, who spent his political career demonizing anyone and anything that wasn't from the tree of "conservative values"and with his public statements and demagoguery turned the heat up for quite some time before he was removed as SOTH. Is it a coincidence that a Right Wing terrorist attack happened in the wake of the defacto leader of the GOP for so long painted his opposition and really the Federal government as a whole as being illegitimate and "un-American"? ) and the temperature was lowered considerably. The election of the oh so publicly pious and genially conservative George W. Bush also placated the sensibilities of the Far Right. Then 9/11 happened and, welp... Bigotry. Racism. Now this slice of the public had a demo of those they deem as too Other to focus their paranoid fantasias on.

Finally, we elected Obama and the seemingly immediate (and to these folk at the time, an existential one..) threat to the very life of the nation faded from the consciousness of the body politic... Leaving the RWNJs to pick up where they left off back in the late 90's.

A Trump loss in my mind, given how religiously these people have given themselves over to the us against all the powers of darkness narrative, will be the hinge point for many to take action. And when they do... Look out. We will have many years where a successful or thwarted Oklahoma style attack becomes as much a part of our news coverage as the various school shootings we all got used to far to quickly.

Will these **** gibbons be successful? No. Of course not. 35% would definitely be in support but very few would take the plunge themselves into terrorism. But that is key... Insurgents depend on some level of support from the populace at large. 35% or so is nothing to sneeze at. Even on a small scale this can be troubling.

The 1996 Olympic bomber was an Anti-Abortion fanatic who was able to stay on the run for a very long time probably because during his time as a fugitive he received material aide from locals sympathetic to his cause.

Look at the videos of the confrontational Anti-Mask people. Those *******s? Yeah... Those are all potential RW domestic terrorists in the making.

Want to feel even ****tier about stuff?

The Q conspiracy is publicly embraced by quite a few in American Law Enforcement. And I don't just mean Deputy Jim or whomever out in bum**** Indiana. The head of the New York City Sergeants Benevolence Association has Q material in his home office on display. I will repeat... Someone quit high up and influential within the NYPD has no issue outing himself as a Q Warrior.

This should worry us all.


Now the alternate possible outcome, Trump gets through by the skin of his teeth to win again?

In that case these folk are honestly just waiting for after Jan. to be handed their brown shirts.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Teelie]

Good for GoFundMe, typical for Facebook. Facebook makes token appeareances but when it comes to actually doing something it always fails to do anything until it is too late.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Buzzfeed - Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg's Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence

Business Insider - Twitter banned a network of fake accounts pretending to be Black people leaving the Democratic party to support Trump

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Republicans are flooding the internet with deceptive videos and Big Tech isn't keeping up - CNN

A series of deceptively edited and misleading videos shared by prominent Republicans have run up millions of views across Facebook and Twitter in just the past few days. And while both companies have pledged to combat misinformation, their responses to these videos followed a familiar pattern: often they act too late, do too little, or don't anything at all.

Between Sunday and Monday, high-profile Republicans, including President Donald Trump, shared at least four misleading videos online.

The Washington Post - Facebook takes down Russian operation that recruited U.S. journalists, amid rising concerns about election misinformation
The social media giant acted against a small network of pages and accounts that directed users to a fake left-leaning news site called Peace Data

 

[Teelie]

And yet they whine and cry how they are being censored and that big tech companies are biased against them.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Media Matters - Mark Zuckerberg denies Facebook is a “right-wing echo chamber,” but the facts tell a different story
Facebook’s pro-conservative bias has turned the platform into a cesspool of hate and lies

 

[Donner]