When everything is a “crisis”
How to recognize a scam: Is it labeled a “crisis” that must be solved by a major, authoritarian, government program run by technocratic elite?
How to recognize a scam: Is it labeled a “crisis” that must be solved by a major, authoritarian, government program run by technocratic elite?
Are hate crimes increasing and getting worse? There’s evidence that most people are far more tolerant than in the past such that an increase doesn’t make sense. What do you think?
A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company’s CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a “perpetual police line-up,” even for people who haven’t done anything wrong. Source: Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a ‘perpetual police line-up’ The photos were stolen without…
The new Twitter just censored a factually true poster, but they did so because it may be interpreted as a call to violence.
Congress held hearings on the findings of the “Twitter files”, which showed that government agencies worked with Twitter (and other social media companies) to intentionally suppress speech in the United States, and to control access to information. Eventually we would learn that Stanford University ran a program, in conjunction with the social media companies, to intentionally suppress “factually true” statements if they did not support the regime’s desires.
In the Congressional hearing, the Democrat representatives engaged in bizarre questioning, fully supporting government censorship of public discourse, via proxy. In so doing, they labeled their party as the party of censorship – what were they thinking?