ALL BILLS FOR AMNESTY HAVE PROVISIONS TO LIFT ALL CAPS ON VISAS SO TECH COMPANIES DO NOT HAVE TO HIRE AMERICANS.
Will Americans vote in 2020 to surrender our freedom?
I had the opportunity to see the movie The Invisibles, a German-made film depicting the real life stories of four Holocaust-survivors who disguised their true Jewish identities in wartime Berlin and were able to escape deportation to concentration camps and certain death. In 1943, Joseph Goebbels declared that Berlin was finally rid of the Jews. The facts were that 7,000 Jews continued to live in the city, and by the end of the war, a total of 1,500 had survived with the assistance of a select group of anti-Nazi citizens, devout Christians, and devoted communists. The movie is based on the true stories of four of these individuals and mixes re-enactment of their harrowing individual stories with real-life interviews of all four of these survivors to add authenticity to the narrative.
There was much to learn while watching the various episodes and stories of the four survivors, especially when they came to directly encounter the German authorities. What I noted was how highly organized the Nazi government officials depicted in the movie were and how they had access to comprehensive records on every citizen they interacted with. The Nazis were excellent at keeping records as a means of maintaining widespread total control over their population.
Index cards containing extensive personal information of each of the four main characters and other people who attempted to assist them were readily available and used by the German officials at any time in the movie in a threatening way when interacting with any of them. Information was controlled in this highly powerful and evil totalitarian state simply by a system based on pen and paper, with the assistance of a virtual army of loyal and highly motivated bureaucrats. How much more tragic would this this era have been if the Nazis had access to computers, the internet, mobile communications, search engines, and social media?
In our times, the government of the People's Republic of China under the increasingly totalitarian rule of Xi Jinping does. President Xi Jinping is leading a long-term movement of enhancing the control of the Chinese Communist Party over every aspect of China's society, from politics to business, and even more alarmingly by establishing a high degree of social control over the personal lives of its citizens. The difference today is that the Chinese state security system is enhancing the ability to maintain social control through the use of the latest in 21st-century technology.
China's digital totalitarian experiment that is currently actively under development since 2010 is called the Social Credit System. Its objective is to use the latest technology to constantly monitor individuals for the purposes of social management. is based on the idea that an individual must be socially trustworthy to remain a citizen in good standing in China, and every citizen is subject to rewards and punishment administered by the state for compliance or non-compliance.
On a daily basis, Chinese government agencies and private companies are collecting information via electronic means on various networks and their versions of social media on every aspect of people's lives, including finances, social media activities, taxes paid, purchases made online, and records of a person's interactions with others.
A lower social credit score can negatively influence a citizen's life in various ways such as limiting his ability to purchase certain premium goods, buy a new home, work at certain jobs, qualify for various loans, buy tickets to travel, or attend sought after schools. The system is morphing into totalitarianism on steroids.
Socialism seems to have a greater degree of appeal to certain segments of our society, including many potential Democratic Party voters and younger voters such as Millennials. So far, all the announced presidential candidates for the 2020 election on the Democratic side are moving politically leftward in their pronounced policy positions. Today, the potential for all of this goes well beyond the standard Democratic Party policy agenda based on the Utopian fantasies of free everything for everybody.
It is inevitable as a socialist agenda in this country is started to be implemented it will evolve over time and morph into something increasingly more draconian in nature. The Democratic candidate's proposals ultimately involve controlling the behavior of individuals for the social good to be defined by a growing administrative state and unelected bureaucrats based in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere with the power to curb any dissent and unauthorized behavior. The emerging world of technological innovation and social media provides powerful tools to assume absolute power over time.
As demonstrated by the Nazi Regime and the Chinese communist examples, Big Government requires the collection and use of Big Data. Socialism requires extensive record-keeping in order to implement its far-reaching agenda that extends the scope of government and its reach toward the extensive regulation of the lives of all citizens.
While today the Chinese government and its Communist Party are actively working on creating an absolute monopoly on access to personal information in their country, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other social media companies are attempting to do the same here in America.
As Google, Amazon, and Facebook grow in power and reach ever larger numbers of users in America and globally, they have become increasingly active in the political arena. A major issue with this growing phenomenon is that these dominant and most influential of the social media companies tend to aggressively promote a predominantly left-leaning political point of view on a daily basis in various ways, and they are alleged by many critics to suppress politically conservative individuals and viewpoints.
As we approach the 2020 elections, will Americans voluntarily surrender our freedom by choosing to vote for increasingly left-leaning Democrat candidates who will promise to lead us down the path of socialism and to implement a political system that proposes to regulate and judge the social responsibility of each of its citizens? It must be repeated that Adolf Hitler was elected by the German people in the 1930s to a position where he could eventually assume absolute power and implement his plan for a totalitarian state.
Will we vote in 2020 for an American future that will one day allow the possibility for a person to go online to read his favorite magazines, bloggers, books; watch his preferred TV shows and movies; make travel plans; interact with certain people — and, by his actions and choices, be subject to a long prison sentence or worse?
Report: Mark Zuckerberg Leveraged Facebook User Data to Fight Rivals and Help Friends
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According to a recent report, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used Facebook user data to fight rivals and help his friends and allies.
NBC News reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly used Facebook user data as a bargaining chip to consolidate the social media platform’s power over its competitors, while publicly proclaiming to protect user privacy. Leaked company documents obtained by NBC news dated between 2011 and 2015 show how Zuckerberg and his management team used Facebook’s massive database of user information as leverage over partnered companies.
The documents obtained by NBC include emails, webchats, presentations, spreadsheets, and meeting summaries which show how Facebook would reward favored companies by giving them greater access to user data. Rival companies were denied the same access. Facebook has previously denied accusations of preferential treatment towards particular companies.
According to the documents, Facebook gave Amazon extended access to user data as it was spending a large amount of money on Facebook advertising and partnering with Facebook when launching its Fire smartphone. In comparison, when a messaging app became popular and threatened Facebook’s own messenger app, Facebook discussed cutting off the app’s access to user data according to the documents.
The documents come from a previously reported trove of data obtained by UK Parliament from a startup called Six4Three which sued Facebook in 2015 after Facebook told the startup they would be cutting off the startup’s access to some types of user data. Facebook commented on the documents with the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel, Paul Grewal, stating: “As we’ve said many times, Six4Three — creators of the Pikinis app — cherry picked these documents from years ago as part of a lawsuit to force Facebook to share information on friends of the app’s users.”
Grewal continued: “The set of documents, by design, tells only one side of the story and omits important context. We still stand by the platform changes we made in 2014/2015 to prevent people from sharing their friends’ information with developers like the creators of Pikinis. The documents were selectively leaked as part of what the court found was evidence of a crime or fraud to publish some, but not all, of the internal discussions at Facebook at the time of our platform changes. But the facts are clear: we’ve never sold people’s data.”
Within the emails, Facebook staff can be seen discussing plans to generate more income for the company, these include a fixed annual fee for developers for reviewing their apps; access fees for apps that request user data, and a fee for “premium” access to user data. Chris Daniels, a Facebook business development director, wrote in an August 2012 email: “Today the fundamental trade is ‘data for distribution’ whereas we want to change it to either ‘data for $’ and/or ‘$ for distribution.’”
Mark Zuckerberg himself discussed plans with his close friend Sam Lessin in which he emphasized the importance of controlling third-party apps’ access to user data. Zuckerberg stated that without the leverage of data access “I don’t think we have any way to get developers to pay us at all.” In another email, Zuckerberg suggested making 100 deals with developers “as a path to figuring out the real market value” of Facebook user data and then “setting a public rate” for other developers to pay.
Zuckerberg stated in a chat: “The goal here wouldn’t be the deals themselves, but that through the process of negotiating with them we’d learn what developers would actually pay (which might be different from what they’d say if we just asked them about the value), and then we’d be better informed on our path to set a public rate.”
Zuckerberg also did not appear to be very worried by the potential privacy risks of Facebook’s data sharing plans stating in an email to Lessin: “I’m generally skeptical that there is as much data leak strategic risk as you think. I think we leak info to developers but I just can’t think of any instances where that data has leaked from developer to developer and caused a real issue for us.”
Read the full report by NBC News here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com
BARACK OBAMA POSITIONS MARK ZUCKERBERG of FAKEBOOK to be his global controller of propaganda for the Obama bankster funded third term for life.
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/fakebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-be.html
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Marlow: Tech Monopolies Are Trying to Beat Trump in 2020 by Shutting Down ‘Voices to the Voiceless’
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Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow said big technology monopolies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Wikipedia were attempting to “censor the outlets that might give voices to the voiceless.”
Partial transcript is as follows:
CARLSON: So, what does it mean in practical terms that Wikipedia users can no longer use Breitbart as a citation?MARLOW: I think in practical terms, what it means is that people who access Wikipedia as a source are only going to get establishment media outlets to source their claims. We know those claims, they treat full-on-hoaxes as fact. They have missed the seminal stories of our time — starting with the immigration crisis, which we started reporting on in conservative media, particularly Breitbart, 2014, 2015. They missed the Brexit narrative. They missed the narrative that the establishment and our media and political classes and the coastal elite losing touch with the working men and women in flyover county. They missed that. They missed the election of Donald Trump, and now —CARLSON: Not a big thing.MARLOW: A minor thing they totally air-balled, and now a year-and-a-half, maybe two-and-half years arguably, into the Russia hoax, this is their Jonestown, the media. This is their mass suicide effort. Will it be treated like that? No! Because they are a bubbled elite, and now they treat themselves as if they will always be correct.CARLSON: What is so interesting is not just that they are evading all responsibility for what they did — for the lies they told and the distortions that really wrecked our foreign policy among other things, but that they are trying to suppress other news outlets which told the truth. How Orwellian is that?MARLOW: You nailed it here. They are not only suppressing us — and they target you, they target us, they will target just about all of us right of center and who serve a right-of-center audience, not because we are getting things wrong. They’re targeting us because we are getting things right. We got these key stories right, and we will probably get the next key stories right. And they’re doing it in a methodical way. It started with Google kind of toying with the searches, which you have been good at reporting on with Dr. Robert Epstein. Twitter with shadow-banning, which we broke at Breitbart. It was called a hoax at the time, turns out it wasn’t. Facebook had to changed their algorithm because places like Breitbart were dominating. And it goes on. Wikipedia kicking us out, it shows up every time you use Google and Facebook, they rely on Wikipedia. This is methodical, and they will continue to expand this. Microsoft is now in the blacklisting game. They team with this group called NewsGuard, which of course, they sanction all the places that got the Russia hoax wrong, and they treat places like Breitbart and even the Drudge Report as fake news. It is ridiculous. And they will continue. Next its going to be de-banking. They are going to decapitalize people not just with right-of-center world views, they are doing this with people who want a pipeline, want to work in the energy sector, and aren’t woke fascists who want the Green New Deal. It’s insane.CARLSON: Since free speech is dying and it is not government killing it but big monopolies, sanctioned by government, do you know anyone in government who might be able to save free speech for the republic? Why is nobody doing anything about this?MARLOW: I don’t know. And that is exactly the question I was hoping you would ask, because I do hope this is the most-powerful audience in all of news, and I think it would be great if the powerful people watching it understand that this is the battle. They are trying to win the 2020 election by shutting down and censoring the outlets that might give voices to the voiceless — the people disenfranchised.CARLSON: Do you really think you are going to get reelected president if nobody can hear your message?MARLOW: Absolutely. They see this crystal clear, and that is why they’re trying to shut down you and me.
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