Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley investors
are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer
and industrial investors to demand a
huge DACA amnesty
Report: FTC Fines Facebook $5 Billion for Privacy Violations
3:40
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly approved a $5 billion settlement with Facebook on Friday following the social media giant’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This serves as the largest fine the FTC has given out for privacy violations; however, politicians and activists have said that this fine serves as a “bargain” for Facebook.
The Wall Street Journal cited a person familiar with the matter, suggesting that the FTC voted 3-2, along party lines, to approve a $5 billion settlement with Facebook.
The FTC launched the investigation in March 2018 after reports emerged that tens of millions of Facebook users lost their private data with data analytics firm Cambridge Analytics. The FTC reportedly focused on whether the social media giant violated a 2011 consent agreement with the FTC requiring greater privacy protections and transparency for users.
The FTC and Facebook both declined to comment. The Journal suggested that the settlement will head to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for review.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), who is leading a House Judiciary Committee antitrust investigation into big tech, chastised the alleged FTC settlement.
Cicilline said:
The FTC just gave Facebook a Christmas present five months early. It’s very disappointing that such an enormously powerful company that engaged in such serious misconduct is getting a slap on the wrist. This fine is a fraction of Facebook’s annual revenue. It won’t make them think twice about their responsibility to protect user data.
Cicilline added, “If the FTC won’t protect consumers, Congress surely must.”
Although the reported settlement serves as the FTC’s largest fine for privacy violations, lawmakers have criticized the size of the fine given Facebook’s wealth.
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said in May that the reported $5 billion settlement would amount to a “bargain” for the roughly $600 billion company and that the FTC should hold executives personally accountable.
The senators wrote to the FTC:
Even a fine in the billions is simply a write-down for the company, and large penalties have done little to deter large tech firms. If the FTC is seen as traffic police handing out speeding tickets companies profiting off breaking the law, then Facebook and other will continue to push the boundaries.
The Journal‘s report said that the FTC settlement will include “government restrictions on how Facebook treats user privacy,” however, it remains unclear what those restrictions entail.
The United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office fined £500,000 in 2018 over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which also served as the largest fine the office authorized.
Facebook also faces a lawsuit from the D.C. attorney general and other states over the privacy debacle.
Outside activist groups also decried the alleged Facebook settlement.
Freedom from Facebook, a coalition of public interest groups, slammed the settlement in a statement Friday.
Sarah Miller, the group’s co-chair, said, “The FTC continues to lay bare their inability to protect American consumers and markets, and Congress needs to investigate the FTC’s wanton disregard of their duties.”
“It’s also clear that we’re going to need Congress and the state attorneys general to take the mantle of any future antitrust investigation of Facebook because Trump’s FTC appointees are not up to the task,” Miller added.
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
"Today,
each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people,
more than the total population of Latin America and double the population
of the US."
Europe
Considering Massive Tax Hikes on Amazon, Facebook, Google
JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images
European countries including France are making a push for massive tax increases
on technology giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
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
The Alt-Tech Revolutionaries
Standing Up to the Masters of the Universe
As people across America celebrate freedom and independence on the
Fourth of July, Breitbart Tech has compiled a list of the Alt-Tech
revolutionaries fighting to secure independence from the Silicon Valley Masters
of the Universe.
Mark Zuckerberg’s
Silicon Valley investors
are uniting with
the Koch network’s consumer
and industrial
investors to demand a
huge DACA
amnesty
A handful of
Republican and Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives
amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of
funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/bill-gates-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos.html
TOP EVIL CORPORATIONS LOOTING AMERICA
Goldman Sachs TRUMP CRONIES – CLINTON CRONIES
JPMorgan Chase OBAMA CRONIES
Europe Considering Massive Tax
Hikes on Amazon, Facebook, Google
JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images
European countries including France are making a push for massive tax
increases on technology giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
"Today,
each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people,
more than the total population of Latin America and double the population
of the US."
Amazon, the
multinational online retail conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers to
the United States to take coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and Google
combined. JOHN BINDER
"Today,
each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people,
more than the total population of Latin America and double the population
of the US."
AMAZON’S JEFF BEZOS IS THE
FACE OF MODERN SLAVERY!
The gains for employees are
a novel pain for the investors and employers who have been able to hold down
wages for decades because the federal government is trying to grow the economy
via cheap-labor legal immigration.
“INVESTORS” HAVE AND WILL DESTROY THIS NATION IF IT
WOULD IMPACT THE NEXT QUARTER’S EARNINGS!
Amazon, the multinational online retail conglomerate,
is importing more foreign workers to the United States to take coveted tech
industry jobs than Facebook and Google combined. JOHN BINDER
"Amazon is a massive
wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the economy and
leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
Europe
Considering Massive Tax Hikes on Amazon, Facebook, Google
TOM CICCOTTA
6 Jul 201911
1:38
European countries including France are making a push for massive tax increases
on technology giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
This
week, legislators in France approved a bill
that will ensure that Internet technology companies like Amazon, Facebook, and
Google cannot operate in Europe without paying taxes. Until now,
Silicon Valley companies have avoided paying taxes in companies like France by
exploiting a loophole that allowed them to reroute their sales through
countries with lower corporate tax rates like Ireland.
The
bill includes a three percent tax on Internet technology companies that have
global revenues of more than $847 million. French officials estimate that the
tax will bring in $566 million in its first year.
The
bill, which was adopted by France’s National Assembly, now needs approval from
the French Senate.
Lawmakers
in the United Kingdom are considering a
similar tax on Internet technology companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google
on all revenues that are generated by British citizens.
Boris
Johnson, who is likely to be the next prime minister, expressed approval for
the new tax. “It’s deeply unfair that high street businesses are paying tax
through the nose … whereas the internet giants, the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon,
Netflix and Google — are paying virtually nothing,” Johnson said in a comment.
Stay
tuned to Breitbart News for more technology updates.
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
The Alt-Tech Revolutionaries
Standing Up to the Masters of the Universe
LUCAS NOLAN
4 Jul 20193
8:34
As people across America celebrate freedom and independence on the
Fourth of July, Breitbart Tech has compiled a list of the Alt-Tech
revolutionaries fighting to secure independence from the Silicon Valley Masters
of the Universe.
Americans
across the country will spend this Fourth of July celebrating this great
country, thankful for the many freedoms and liberties afforded to them. But
some in America are attempting to take those freedoms away, with privacy
scandals and political bias plaguing Silicon Valley tech firms as free speech
is continually restricted online. Breitbart News has made a list of some of the
Alt-Tech firms working to protect online freedoms for Americans and people
around the world.
1: Parler
The free
speech focused social media platform Parler is aiming to not only provide a social
media platform with a clear and concise set of rules, but to bring this
platform to other websites via an integrated commenting
platform. Breitbart News sat down with John Matze, the
CEO and co-founder of Parler (pronounced par-lay), which describes itself as a
“non-biased free speech-driven entity.” Parler has a very clear aim and set of
goals, stating:
Parler
provides a Commenting and Social News platform for digital publishers,
influencers, bloggers, writers, politicians and social users to share news,
opinions and content in real time. Additionally, we provide enterprise tools to
enhance online blogs, media and websites with direct social integrations and
monetization capabilities.
The goal is
to offer the world a tool where everyone can be their own media outlet, filter
their own content, and the established influencers and digital publishers can
enhance their own brands and communities.
Matze
explained, “We want users to come to Parler to share their opinions and follow
the personalities they want to see content from without fear of shadowbanning
and other Silicon Valley tricks designed to stop the spread of ideas the
Masters of the Universe find distasteful.” Matze insists that Parler is a truly
“neutral platform” open to all political viewpoints.
2: Gab
Gab.com takes an even more
hardline free-speech angle, offering a completely open platform with minimal
rules centered on illegal activity and practically no restrictions on free
speech. The site recently rebranded itself from Gab.ai to
Gab.com, Breitbart News spoke with founder and CEO Andrew Torba about his plans
for the company. Torba stated that Gab wants to create a platform where all
ideas can be expressed, saying: “We are in the process of building out free
speech-friendly infrastructure so that one day, other liberty-minded tech
startups can build using our tools and avoid any connection at all to Silicon
Valley.”
“Approximately
150,000 of our users have joined from Brazil after intense censorship by
Silicon Valley during their ongoing Presidential election. We are also seeing
explosive growth from India and Sweeden after a recent wave of censorship aimed
at major influencers on the right,” said Torba.
The
free-speech social media platform successfully raised $280,000 in 24 hours when
the company offered users a chance to invest. “Our users can invest in the
company, own stock, and join us on our journey to build the home of free speech
online. This is also sending a powerful message to Silicon Valley: The People
can fund, power, and build our own platforms, you will be replaced,” Torba
stated.
Gab has
unveiled a new version of its site to celebrate the holiday, which includes a
wide variety of compatible mobile apps for Android and iPhone smartphones.
Gab’s apps have previously been blocked on both platforms, with Apple banning their developer account
altogether. Gab is innovating in a variety of technologies, including launching
a privacy-based web browser named “Dissenter.”
3: Minds
The open
social network Minds.com doesn’t just allow its
users to remain anonymous but takes it a step further actively providing
end-to-end encryption for all users ensuring that their identity is kept safe.
Breitbart News interviewed Minds founder Bill
Ottman who described the site and its aims stating:
Minds uses
free and open source software to provide its community with complete
transparency and control over social media decisions. Minds is also anonymous
and encrypted end-to-end to protect user privacy. Minds users earn points just
by using the app to spend boosting their content, and Minds users make money by
exchanging cash for subscriptions and sharing content. In addition, Minds does
not filter content and delivers 100% of subscribed content to all newsfeeds.
Minds creators establish exclusive content available by paid subscription and
generate revenue for fan engagement on the network. Minds maintains a free
speech policy based on US law.
Ottman did
warn that alt-tech would have to work to avoid the same pitfalls as major
social media firms, stating:
Alternative
technology platforms only have a chance if they don’t fall into the same traps
as big social. These traps include politicization, centralization, proprietary
software (closed-source), censorship, secrecy, surveillance, and lack of
revenue sharing and cooperative infrastructure. Many alt-tech platforms also
fall into some of these traps, so it isn’t as simple as putting us all into one
bucket because we align on a single component.
Ottman stated
that Minds aims to include “users from all across the political spectrum”
and creat a space for “constructive dialogue.” Ottman added, “and thus far we
have been successful in doing so.”
4:
DuckDuckGo
Google is one
of the biggest monopolies online, absolutely dominating certain areas such as
Internet search. Using Google’s search product opens users up to tracking from
a number of services and advertisers, as well as Google itself, not to mention
Google’s bias and habit of blacklisting search terms. One of the best
alternatives to Google’s search monopoly is DuckDuckGo, a search engine which
promises never to track its users’ actions and values user privacy.
In August of
2018, DuckDuckGo received $10 million in funding from
Canada’s Omers’ venture capital fund as people grew suspicious of Silicon
Valley tech giants plagued by scandals.
“With one of
the fastest growing user bases in the segment, DuckDuckGo’s search engine
offers users the opportunity to benefit from high-quality search results, with
total peace of mind that they can maintain their confidentiality and
anonymity,” wrote the Omers in a blog
post following the investment. “Over the last five years, issues of privacy and
security in the digital world have become increasingly topical and
controversial. In 2018, these concerns have risen to the forefront of public
consciousness. Users are becoming more aware of their personal data and are
increasingly concerned with protecting it.”
In October of
2018, the site reached 30,602,556 daily searches using the service, a
huge milestone for the website. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg wrote in
an op-ed for CNBC: “To make any
real progress in advancing data privacy this year, we have to start doing
something about Google and Facebook. Not doing so would be like trying to lose
weight without changing your diet. Simply ineffective. The impact these two
companies have on our privacy cannot be understated.”
5: Signal
Instant
messaging has continued to be largely dominated by Facebook, with the company’s
Messenger app being one of the most popular, and its WhatsApp messenger
extremely popular outside the U.S. But another independent app has attempted to
enter the world of online messaging, this time focusing on keeping users safe
and anonymous via end-to-end encryption. That app is Signal, a popular messaging app
that has made privacy its main priority.
In
2018, Brian Acton, the co-founder of the now Facebook-owned messaging app
WhatsApp, called on Internet users to delete the app following the recent user
data scandal. After it was revealed that the user data of approximately 50
million Facebook accounts were allegedly compromised via a personality quiz,
Facebook is now facing calls for regulation across the U.S. and UK, and a lawsuit from investors.
Acton tweeted
at the time that users should “#DeleteFacebook”:
Acton worked
as an engineer and executive at Yahoo before co-founding WhatsApp in 2009, the
app was purchased by Facebook in 2014 for the sum of €16.83 billion.
Acton is now the head of the Signal Foundation, a direct competitor to WhatsApp
despite WhatsApp using Signal’s open-source, end-to-end encryption technology
for some time. Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike announced the launch of the
Signal Foundation, which is a non-profit partly funded by Acton who has
invested €44.29million in the foundation.
“Brian left
WhatsApp and Facebook last year, and has been thinking about how to best focus
his future time and energy on building nonprofit technology for public good,”
Marlinspike said when launching the foundation. “The addition of Brian brings
an incredibly talented engineer and visionary with decades of experience
building successful products to our team.”
All of these
alt-tech platforms are attempting to break up the online monopoly generated by
the Masters of the Universe, this Fourth of July consider performing your own
act of rebellion by supporting one of these independent platforms over the
Silicon Valley elite.
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
*
Only a complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for
American Legal workers than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
*
“Trump Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
*
The latest ad from the Federation for American Immigration
Reform (FAIR) asks Trump to reject the mass illegal and legal immigration
policies supported by Wall Street, corporate executives, and most specifically,
the GOP mega-donor Koch brothers.
*
Efforts by the big business lobby,
Chamber of Commerce, Koch brothers, and George W. Bush Center include
increasing employment-based legal immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that
Trump has delivered for America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
Mark Zuckerberg’s
Silicon Valley investors
are uniting with
the Koch network’s consumer
and industrial
investors to demand a
huge DACA
amnesty
A handful of
Republican and Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives
amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of
funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/bill-gates-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos.html
"GOP estb. is using the $5 billion
border-wall fight to hide up to four blue/white-
collar cheap-labor programs in
lame-duck DHS budget. Donors are worried that
salaries are too damn high, &
estb. media does not want to know."
TOP EVIL CORPORATIONS LOOTING AMERICA
Goldman Sachs TRUMP CRONIES – CLINTON CRONIES
JPMorgan Chase OBAMA CRONIES
ExxonMobil
Halliburton BUSH CRIME FAMILY CRONIES
British American Tobacco
Dow Chemical
DuPont
Bayer
Microsoft
Google CLINTON CRONIES
Facebook OBAMA CRONIES
Amazon
Walmart
Europe Considering Massive Tax
Hikes on Amazon, Facebook, Google
TOM CICCOTTA
6
Jul 201911
1:38
European countries including France are making a push for massive tax
increases on technology giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
This
week, legislators in France approved a bill that will ensure
that Internet technology companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google cannot
operate in Europe without paying taxes. Until now, Silicon Valley companies
have avoided paying taxes in companies like France by exploiting a loophole
that allowed them to reroute their sales through countries with lower corporate
tax rates like Ireland.
The
bill includes a three percent tax on Internet technology companies that have
global revenues of more than $847 million. French officials estimate that the
tax will bring in $566 million in its first year.
The
bill, which was adopted by France’s National Assembly, now needs approval from
the French Senate.
Lawmakers
in the United Kingdom are considering a similar tax on
Internet technology companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google on all revenues
that are generated by British citizens.
Boris
Johnson, who is likely to be the next prime minister, expressed approval for
the new tax. “It’s deeply unfair that high street businesses are paying tax
through the nose … whereas the internet giants, the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon,
Netflix and Google — are paying virtually nothing,” Johnson said in a comment.
Stay
tuned to Breitbart News for more technology updates.
JEFF BEZOS of AMAZON DECLARES THAT
AMERICAN-BORN SLAVES ARE NOT CHEAP ENOUGH. CHINA MUST DELIVER THE REAL SLAVE
LABOR!
“A comprehensive new report released Sunday by the New York-based
labor rights watchdog China Labor Watch (CLW) has shed new light on the
barbaric and illegal practices that Amazon employs to boost its profits by
driving down production costs on the backs of factory workers at the company’s
electronics assembly plants in China.”
Amazon,
the multinational online retail conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers
to the United States to take coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and
Google combined. JOHN BINDER
"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American
retail. It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL
GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American
retail. It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL
GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
AMAZON’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA CONTINUES
Amazon,
the multinational online retail conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers
to the United States to take coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and
Google combined. JOHN BINDER
"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American
retail. It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL
GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
"Today,
each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people,
more than the total population of Latin America and double the population
of the US."
“A comprehensive new report released Sunday by the New
York-based labor rights watchdog China Labor Watch (CLW) has shed new light on
the barbaric and illegal practices that Amazon employs to boost its profits by
driving down production costs on the backs of factory workers at the company’s
electronics assembly plants in China.”