Tuesday, November 15, 2022

GOOGLE - INTERNET SPIES AND BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN'S INTERNET CENSORS - Pocket Change: Google to Pay $391 Million in Privacy Settlement over Tracking Users Without Consent


Elon Musk JUST EXPOSED Joe Biden's CORRUPTION!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ztxpO2n43M


VIDEO EXPOSE

Chris Hedges | DANGERS of Facebook and Surveillance Companies



Was the election on the up and up, fair and square, free of fraud?  Who knows?  George Soros, just one of the mega-donors to the Democrat party, spent $128 million!  (Remember also that Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million in 2020.) One can buy a lot of people, votes and/or ballots with that kind of money.  How and why did the voting machines fail only in the conservative areas of Arizona?  Why does it take days to count ballots?  Was COVID all a grand hoax to derail Trump with mail-in ballots?  It seems possible.  There is no doubt that the 2020 election was stolen; did they steal this one too? 

Mark Zuckerberg spent $419 million, which enabled far-left activists to target specific key districts in swing states, redesign ballots to their advantage, overrule local elected officials on how elections were to be run, and even infiltrate sacrosanct electoral infrastructure.

GOOGLE, LIKE MARK ZUCKERBERG'S FACEBOOK, SUPPORTS AMNESTY AND NO CAPS ON HIRING FOREIGN HIGH TECH WORKERS!

Big Tech using their power like they did in 2020: Sen. Blackburn




Big media and Big Tech colluded to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.  A poll showed that nearly four of five Americans believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of that election.

Mark Zuckerberg spent $419 million, which enabled far-left activists to target specific key districts in swing states, redesign ballots to their advantage, overrule local elected officials on how elections were to be run, and even infiltrate sacrosanct electoral infrastructure.


THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S OPEN BORDERS FOR CHEAP LABOR

Those are the subliterate, low-skill, non-English-speaking indigents whose own societies are unable or unwilling to usefully educate and employ them. Bring these people here and they not only need a lot of services, they are putty in the hands of leftist demogogues as Hugo Chavez demonstrated - and they are very useful as leftist voters who will support the Soros agenda.

Pocket Change: Google to Pay $391 Million in Privacy Settlement over Tracking Users Without Consent

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, speaks at Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, in San Francisco on 28 June 2012
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Google is set to pay $391 million in a privacy settlement after 40 states accused the tech giant of tracking the location of users who opted out of the location services on their devices.

Google has been instructed as part of the settlement to be transparent about location tracking, as well as create a web page that informs users about the data the company collects, according to a report by BBC News.

While this is reportedly the “largest privacy-related multi-state settlement in U.S. history,” the settlement is chump change for Google, which is currently worth a staggering $1.28 trillion.

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“Consistent with improvements we’ve made in recent years, we have settled this investigation, which was based on outdated product policies that we changed years ago,” a Google spokesperson said.

In 2020, Arizona’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against Google accusing the firm of illegally collecting smartphone users’ location data.

“It’s nearly impossible to stop Google from tracking your movements without your knowledge or consent,” Attorney General Mark Brnovich said at the time.

Last month, the Silicon Valley giant agreed to pay Arizona $85 million over the issue concerning how the tech giant collects the location data of its users.

Knowing a user’s location helps advertisers target products, which in turn helps Google generate hundreds of billions in annual revenue derived from advertising.

“For years Google has prioritized profit over its users’ privacy,” Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said. “It has been crafty and deceptive.”

“Consumers thought they had turned off their location-tracking features on Google, but the company continued to secretly record their movements and use that information for advertisers,” Rosenblum continued.

The attorneys general added that Google had been misleading consumers about location tracking since at least 2014, a move that breaks state consumer protection laws.

In December 2019, the EU announced that Google was facing yet another antitrust investigation just months after being fined $1.7 billion for violations.

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Big Tech using their power like they did in 2020: Sen. Blackburn




Big media and Big Tech colluded to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.  A poll showed that nearly four of five Americans believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of that election.

Mark Zuckerberg spent $419 million, which enabled far-left activists to target specific key districts in swing states, redesign ballots to their advantage, overrule local elected officials on how elections were to be run, and even infiltrate sacrosanct electoral infrastructure.


Republican National Committee Sues Google for ‘Throttling’ Fundraise Emails

'Google has relegated millions of RNC emails en masse to potential donors' and supporters' spam folders,' group said in lawsuit

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(Reuters)—The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday for allegedly sending its emails to users' spam folders.

The U.S. political committee accuses the tech giant of "discriminating" against it by "throttling its email messages because of the RNC’s political affiliation and views," according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in California.

"Google has relegated millions of RNC emails en masse to potential donors’ and supporters’ spam folders during pivotal points in election fundraising and community building," the RNC said in the lawsuit.

Google rejected the claims.

"As we have repeatedly said, we simply don't filter emails based on political affiliation. Gmail’s spam filters reflect users’ actions," Google spokesperson José Castañeda said in a statement. "We provide training and guidelines to campaigns, we recently launched an FEC-approved pilot for political senders, and we continue to work to maximize email deliverability while minimizing unwanted spam," he said, referring to the Federal Election Commission.

Spam filters on email services typically weed out unsolicited "spam" messages and divert them to a separate folder.

The RNC said that for most of the month, nearly all of its emails end up in users’ inboxes but at the end of the month, which is an important time for fund-raising, nearly all of their emails end up in spam folders.

"Critically, and suspiciously, this end of the month period is historically when the RNC’s fundraising is most successful," the lawsuit said, adding that it does not matter whether the email is about donating, voting or community outreach.

The committee said the "discrimination" had been going on for about 10 months despite its best efforts to work with Google.

It said the alleged routing of its emails to spam folders had eaten up revenue and that more money would be lost in coming weeks as midterm elections loom.

Republicans have long accused big tech companies of discriminating against conservative views and suppressing free speech, an assertion tech companies strongly deny.

 (Reporting by Rhea Binoy in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by David Shepardson in Rehoboth Beach, Del.; Editing by Robert Birsel and Matthew Lewis)

“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually  every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH

Social Media Allows Jihadists to Call for Violence and Spread Hate

While shutting down everyone who exposes them.

Social media giants such as Facebook are notorious for censoring anything they label “misinformation” or “offensive,” from the second opinions of doctors during a pandemic, to the pleas of persecuted Christians.  Little known, however, is that they also allow hate-filled, radical, and murderous content from Muslim terror groups to post on and make use of their far reaching platforms.

The evidence is overwhelming.

According to a June 14, 2022 report, for example,

A new study has found that Facebook has failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab extremist content in posts aimed at East Africa as the region remains under threat from violent attacks….  [Facebook] repeatedly failed to act on sensitive content including hate speech in many places around the world.

Even posts calling for violence and murder “in languages including Swahili, Somali and Arabic — were allowed to be widely shared.”

Facebook came under heavy criticism following these.  After noting that “Facebook is a business,” Leah Kimathi, a Kenyan consultant in governance, peace and security, added: “The least they can do is ensure that something they’re selling to us is not going to kill us.”

“Why are they [Facebook] not acting on rampant content put up by [the Islamic terrorist group] al-Shabab?” Moustafa Ayad, who worked on the report, asked. “You’d think that after 20 years of dealing with al-Qaida, they’d have a good understanding of the language they [jihadists] use, the symbolism.”

This, of course, is hardly the first time Facebook gets called out.  Another report, from nearly a year ago, found that

Facebook allowed photos of beheadings and violent hate speech from ISIS and the Taliban to be tagged as “insightful” and “engaging”… Extremists have turned to the social media platform as a weapon “to promote their hate-filled agenda and rally supporters” on hundreds of groups…  These groups have sprouted up across the platform over the last 18 months and vary in size from a few hundred to tens of thousands of members, the review found.  One pro-Taliban group created in spring this year and had grown to 107,000 members before it was deleted…  Overall, extremist content is “routinely getting through the net,” despite claims from Meta – the company that owns Facebook – that it’s cracking down on extremists.  There were reportedly “scores of groups” allowed to operate on Facebook that were supportive of either Islamic State or the Taliban, according to a new report.

Most recently, in late August, 2022, a Muslim man in the UK was found guilty of sharing propaganda videos that glorified Islamic terrorists, including videos made by the Islamic State.  Where did he share them, with impunity?  On Instagram, WhatsApp, and, of course, Facebook.

Meanwhile, according to a July 11 report, over at YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Prime, there are “countless” songs, made or sung by “religious fanatics,” that “glorify” the slaughter of anyone who insults Muhammad:

The platforming of dangerous songs calling for the beheading of those accused of “blasphemy” against Prophet Muhammad is a shocking indictment of the music streaming services, highlighting their negligence toward content consumed by millions across the globe and the impact it could have in legitimizing the killings over “blasphemy.”

“YouTube Music,” the report continues, “has the maximum number of songs in this genre,” including one under the title, “We will kill those [who] commit blasphemy in the name of Muhammad. We will create a mountain of dead bodies of those who commit blasphemy.”  Written six months after YouTube was notified that it was hosting such songs, the report adds that “no action has been taken by YouTube.”

Needless to say, this issue is significantly worse when one consider non-English or European language content. Over the years, I’ve personally seen countless Arabic-language content on Facebook and other social media giants that amounts to nothing less than terroristic incitement. Usually, these posts remain on social media platforms for years—until, of course, I or others draw attention to them in English-language articles, at which point they are conveniently removed.

In other words, as long as only Muslims see—and are radicalized by—these posts full of hatred and incitement for violence against non-Muslims, social media leave them up.  Once a Western audience learns about these posts, which further stand to make Islam look bad, social media take them down.

This, of course is not always the case.  For example, in December, 2021, I translated an immensely profane and hate-filled Arabic-language tirade from a New York-based Muslim man against two Christian men from Egypt—a rant that culminates with him loudly threatening decapitation to anyone who “hurts the reputation of Muhammad.” This video, which currently has nearly 110,000 views, is, apparently because it’s only in Arabic, still up on YouTube, though the “warning” that “this video may be inappropriate for some users” now accompanies it.

Despite the leniency shown to Islamic terrorist content, social media, especially Facebook, are notoriously quick to censor content that exposes the jihadists. This it calls “hate speech” or “offensive content.”  In one especially stark example, Facebook censored the campaign of a charity that sought to draw attention to the plight of Christian women in Muslim nations.

Similarly, Facebook earlier banned—and continues shadow banning—me, for posts that report on Muslims persecuting Christians, which Facebook characterized as “going against our Community Standards.”

YouTube censored my Prager U video on that exact topic; it also once temporarily banned me for uploading and sharing a video of Islamic State members destroying crosses and desecrating churches in Syria and Iraq—even though that video was not “graphic” (it depicted buildings and crosses, inanimate objects)—not to mention I had come across it on an Arabic language YouTube account.

And while Islamic extremist groups managed to get away with posting “pornographic images” on social media, some U.S. Wi-Fi networks ban my website, which is devoted to the Islamic question, on grounds that it is “pornography.”

Such is the true extent of the problem posed by the social media giants: not only do they, as many already know, censor those who say anything that goes against the narrative, in this case by exposing Islamic hate and violence; they also allow Islamic hate and violence to proliferate and radicalize Muslims, who go on to murder “infidels.”

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Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.


Big media and Big Tech colluded to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.  A poll showed that nearly four of five Americans believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of that election.

Mark Zuckerberg spent $419 million, which enabled far-left activists to target specific key districts in swing states, redesign ballots to their advantage, overrule local elected officials on how elections were to be run, and even infiltrate sacrosanct electoral infrastructure.


Is the Biden administration meddling with the midterm elections?

Just yesterday, Shawn Fleetwood of The Federalist reported that Joe Biden's Department of Justice is delaying its handover of records relating to Biden's executive order from March 2021. The records were requested by a federal court. 

Biden's Executive Order 14019 asked all 600 federal agencies to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”

The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway has carried reports about this.

Was Biden misusing the federal government to conduct an unconstitutional “get out the vote” effort or was something more ominous afoot?

Many groups, including GOP groups, demanded more details about the scope of Biden’s order, but those demands fell on deaf ears.

Some state officials demanded that the Executive Order be summarily rescinded.

The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests relating to the order. The FGA sued the DOJ back in April after its officials failed to respond. Finally, the DOJ handed over some of its records to FGA just last month

As expected, the documents were heavily redacted. This is a standard ploy when governments want to conceal information from the public. Also absent was the DOJ’s 15-page “strategic plan” on how the agency intends to comply with Biden’s executive order.

In response to the court order, the DOJ filed a motion for summary judgment with the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida in an attempt to conceal communication records related to Executive Order 14019.

In their legal filing, Biden’s DOJ argued that they had “submitted a reasonably specific declaration” in response to FGA’s request.

The DOJ claimed documents related to their strategic plan was “within the scope of the presidential communications privilege” so they had to withhold and redact.

Another ludicrous excuse was that disclosure would reveal “a full range of options, plans, or propositions for future potential actions” and could cause "public confusion” because "it contains many proposed actions that the public might construe as future commitments, past actions, or provisions already in place.”

What a picture this is.

First, they redact and withhold, then they claim “presidential communications privilege,” and when all flimsy excuses are exhausted, they blame the citizens for being too vacuous to understand their documents.

Going down the road of absurdity, they could even claim that KGB agents are interfering with the midterm elections so their secrecy is essential. 

The question is whom among the electorate will the government target to ‘expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote’?

What if they conduct registration drives for only those groups that are likely to vote Democrat?

What if they begin registering pro-Democrat non-citizens? 

What if voter identification is made optional?  

What if there is subliminal pro-Democrat messaging during the registration drives – banners and talk about climate change, abortion, BLM, etc.?

What if the government collaborates with private organizations to facilitate transportation to the polling booth or ballot-harvesters to the home, on election day? They could claim it is for select impoverished areas and only for the elderly and the disabled. But who decides which areas apply?

What if the government engages in door-to-door visits to ‘obtain information’ and verify election documents on certain groups of voters? Once the verification is complete, the citizens are paid visits by activists who engage in campaign talk.

What if the government targets those Democrat voters who are disgusted by Biden’s misgovernance and hence decide to abstain from voting?

In a democracy, voting is a right, a right doesn’t always have to be exercised. A voter can register a protest by not voting. The question is will Biden officials hound these people and compel them to vote?

Will mail-in votes still be allowed and will federal agents or 'activists' "assist" people in filling in their mail-in ballots?

The Biden administration can answer all questions by being transparent about the Executive Order.

But instead they are engaging in obfuscation and delay tactics.

People have a right to be concerned.

People know that when matters go against the Democrats' wishes, Democrats alter sacrosanct rules that have existed for ages.

When Trump won the election in 2016, instead of accepting the results and introspecting, they rejected the results and claimed Trump won by colluding with Russia.

Next, they managed the appointment of a Special Counsel despite the GOP being in control of the Senate, the House, and the White House. The probe proceeded for around two years and hung like a sword over the Trump administration. It probably cost the GOP the House in 2019. They also blamed low-information or bigoted MAGA voters for their losses when they happened.

When the Democrats lost twice to George W. Bush, they talked about abolishing the Electoral College. These talk revived after their 2016 defeat when Hillary Clinton ran for president.

The Democrats have abused their power in the executive and legislative branch to hound and persecute President Trump because he could win back the White House in 2024. Never before has a former president been targeted in such a manner.

When social media platforms provided a forum for citizens to express themselves freely, Democrats decided that could affect the 2016 elections, so they colluded with Big Tech to suppress all dissenting views in 2020 and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The list of systemic changes the Democrats have either accomplished or are attempting is endless.

The mainstream news media functions like the PR wing for the Democrats while government agencies have been politized. Hence they know that nobody will call them out and challenge their abuse of power and corruption.

The Democrats know that retaining power in the legislative branch is the only way to prevent Trump from running in 2024 and to prevent investigations regarding Biden's scandals and misgovernance, Dr. Anthony Fauci and his pandemic profiteering, and numerous instances of Democrat abuses of power and corruption.

The poll numbers and the mood of the nation show that the Democrats are on track to receive a routing during the midterms. The only way the Democrats can retain power is to meddle with the rules and play foul behind the scenes.

They managed this during previous election, i.e., the 2020 presidential election, on many levels.

Big media and Big Tech colluded to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.  A poll showed that nearly four of five Americans believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of that election.

Mark Zuckerberg spent $419 million, which enabled far-left activists to target specific key districts in swing states, redesign ballots to their advantage, overrule local elected officials on how elections were to be run, and even infiltrate sacrosanct electoral infrastructure.

Many states altered their voting procedures mere months prior to the election, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse. Mass ballot-harvesting and widespread vote-by-mail resulted in many accounts of misplaced, displaced, duplicate and fraudulent ballots cast.

In the end, an unprecedented 69% of voters cast their votes either by mail and/or before Election Day.

Recent polling from ABC/Ipsos shows that an astounding 41 percent of Americans, across party lines, are not confident about the integrity of the country’s elections. 

If that number grows, there will come a day when a majority of citizens wont trust any elections within America. That will lead to anarchy.

Image: Screen shot from a camera aimed at a live television broadcast, processed with FotoSketcher.

 

Senate GOP Gives Victory to Kamala Harris, Her Big Tech Donors with Green Card Giveaway…. WITH KAMALA, JUST FOLLOW HER LONG HISTORY OF BRIBES SUCKING!

 

https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-kamala-harris-another-closet.html

 

Big Tech is facilitating the border crisis: Rep. Cammack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bzvanfZ838

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