Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2018

What’s striking about these revelations is they want to weaponize our phones to spy on us through the cameras and microphone.

Sahil Chinoy of the New York Times looked at some of the patents Facebook has applied for and the results he discovered are very creepy.


Here are some of the specific patents discussed in the New York Times article:

  • Predicting whether you’re in a romantic relationship by monitoring how often you visit another user’s page and the number of friends you have of the opposite gender
  • Using your posts to determine your personality traits, including emotional stability
  • Detecting defective pixels or lens scratches on your camera to find a connection with someone else who might be using the same camera
  • Detecting interference in the electrical power cable running to your TV to figure out what program is playing
  • Detecting your phone’s location in the middle of the night to capture your home address

Considering that Facebook has two billion active users, imagine the data they are amassing. If just a couple of these patents are put to practice, it dramatically increases the personal knowledge they will have about their subscribers. And from previous revelations, they are just as interested in learning personal details about those of us who don't use Facebook by gaining that information from our friends that are on Facebook.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

We will "ban a way of talking."

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Friday, March 23, 2018

Among regular FACEBOOK users, 48% still believe their personal data on the site is secure







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Saturday, January 20, 2018

How to avoid fake news: Stop getting your news from Facebook, that's how

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Private interests have now evolved into a techno-governance aparatus giving some citizens novel and frightening powers

















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Monday, November 20, 2017

The growth in online censorship by tech titans Facebook, Twitter, and Google's search and YouTube platform is one of the most under-reported stories of the past two years.



...In the latest disturbing development, Twitter, which has been increasingly heavy-handed in censoring center-right content, content providers, and everyday users since last year's general election campaign, has announced that it will unilaterally remove "blue-check" (i.e., "verified") status from groups and users who in its view have violated its Terms of Service — even for offline behavior it considers unacceptable....

Until now, even with the Milo dustup, there hasn't been a person on earth who believed that Twitter's blue check mark was anything more than a form of identity verification. Twitter, for no good reason and entirely on its own, has chosen to make "blue check" status a "badge of approval," and has appointed itself the sole arbiter of who is "approved" and who isn't.

That's an open invitation to a tidal wave of political pressure, false tattle-taling, and free speech marginalization. Expect SJWs to harass Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey relentlessly over anyone and everyone it doesn't like who has blue-check status — up to and including President Donald Trump. In fact, the campaign against Trump's blue check has already begun.
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Sunday, November 12, 2017

“Professor Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto instructor who won’t use ‘gender neutral’ pronouns, says students should know what they’re getting into when taking courses from hard-core leftist faculty. That’s not sitting well with some of Peterson’s colleagues who say identifying their politics amounts to harassment."

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Monday, June 26, 2017

The New ‘1984’ Play Is So Gory, People Are Vomiting And Passing Out



...“We’re not trying to be willfully assaultive or exploitatively shock people, but there’s nothing here or in the disturbing novel that isn’t happening right now, somewhere around the world: People are being detained without trial, tortured and executed,” said Macmillian. “We can sanitize that and make people feel comforted, or we can simply present it without commentary and allow it to speak for itself.”...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Just watch the first minute or so, because it’s a lesson in how to herd a confused audience that’s been exposed to Dems slamming the FBI director for quite some and now doesn’t quite know what to think at this point.

◼ Colbert gets audience to completely change opinion about Comey firing in a mere 60 seconds - Michelle Malkin

You might have heard of the movie “How to Train Your Dragon,” and this is “How to Train Your Studio Audience”:



◼ Stephen Colbert Corrects Audience's Incorrect Thinking - The People's Cube

Last week we wanted him fired? So what! Last week’s truth is not The Current Truth™ .
Are they truly not aware of The Current Truth™ that Comey is a martyr in the face of Trump’s capitalist excess and counter-revolutionary dogmatism? That Comey is now a hero of the people? A true revolutionary?

Or is the audience filled with wreckers, kulaks, enemies, saboteurs, parasites, and Mondayists who are out to subvert the will of the people and humiliate the party?
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Monday, August 1, 2016

‘Bias Response Team’ Changes Name, Continues War On Thoughtcrimes: The University of Oregon’s Bias Response Team, also known as the “thought police,” has now been renamed the Bias Education and Response Team.



It’s beginning to look a lot like 1984 at UO.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

German Police Raid Homes Over ‘Verbal Radicalism’ On Facebook

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Victor Davis Hanson on the politicization of the English language



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Monday, December 14, 2015

"The moral to be drawn from this nightmare situation is a simple one. Don't let it happen. It depends on you."



A Final Warning from George Orwell. From: ◼ George Orwell: A Life in Pictures, a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell.George Orwell: A Life in Pictures, a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

In Colombia, the worst fears of the surveillance state are on display



A handful of companies based in Italy, Israel, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the U.S. have sold surveillance technology to authorities in Colombia, according to research published this month by the UK-based Privacy International. The technology enables Colombian law enforcement and intelligence agencies to engage in surveillance activities similar to those conducted by the National Security Agency in the U.S.

The technology allows Colombian police to do things such as hack electronic devices unbeknownst to users, install offensive malware that allow for remote access and control, and harvest telephone data en masse. Like the U.S., Colombian law doesn't necessarily allow for such surveillance to take place. "This type of mass, automated surveillance is not explicitly authorized under Colombian law," the researchers note....

The government's disregard for the law doesn't end with respect to surveillance, the researchers note. "Accounts of the illegal interception of private communications pervade accounts of extrajudicial disappearances and killings," they state.
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

All hail Big Sister.



Libyan war is peace. Health care freedom is slavery. Benghazi lies are truth.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Americans Are Getting Too Comfortable With Thought Control



There’s a basic difference in the traditions of political science between “authoritarians” and “totalitaritarians.” People throw both of these words around, but as is so often the case, they’re using words they may not always understand. They have real meaning, however, and the difference between them is important.

...It is not enough for these Americans to say: “I have had my day in court and prevailed.” In effect, they now add: “You do not have the right to hold a different opinion, even if you lose in the public arena. You may not hold on to your belief as a minority view, or even as a private thought. And if you persist and still disagree, I will attack you without quarter and set others on you to deprive you of your status in your profession, of your standing in your community, and even of your livelihood.”

This attitude promises social warfare without end, because there is no peace to be had until the opposing side offers a sincere and unconditional surrender. It means that the people on the Left taking bakers to court, de-Africanizing Justice Thomas, and making Young an accomplice to rape will not be satisfied with winning. For the new totalitarians, prevailing in the courts or at the ballot boxes isn’t enough if there’s still a suspicion that anyone, anywhere, might still be committing thoughtcrime.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

“Old folks just don’t get it,” Romero said in a statement distributed by the ACLU. “The new generation will fix it if we don’t.”



Despite the generally mixed perceptions of Snowden’s leaks nationally, support for him among the nation’s younger and generally more technologically savvy has remained somewhat higher.

As the U.S. population steadily shifts, that could point toward long-term changes for the powers of government agencies like the National Security Agency. According to the Census Bureau, American millennials are expected to surpass baby boomers to become the country’s largest living generation this year.

“Old folks just don’t get it,” Romero said in a statement distributed by the ACLU. “The new generation will fix it if we don’t.”
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Monday, March 23, 2015

American stalker: How Obama obsesses over controlling everyone’s lives

◼ In 1983, the No. 1 song of the year was “Every Breath You Take” by the rock band The Police, written by their lead singer Sting. At the time, many people thought the song was about a stalker, and we were right. Sting has since noted, “I didn’t realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control.” - Tammy Bruce/Washington Times

..Today’s federal apparatchiks have stopped bothering to disguise their obsession with controlling every breath we take, every tea we drink, every shower we take or every barbecue we make....

You see, stalking is only done right when the bullying encompasses the most private part of our lives: how we take care of our literal selves, our bodies — like our health care, the intimacy of our grooming rituals, like showering and bathing, and what we eat and drink. If a stalker and bully (and government) controls those things, they control everything.

As the 1983 Sting song reminds us, stalkers aren’t unique to this era. But it’s bad news when the jealous, spurned and obsessed ex-lover is in the White House, with all the apparatus and power of the United States at his disposal, and agencies run by his cultish gang....

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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Climate Duckspeakers And Relearning The Lessons Of Orwell’s 1984

◼ In Oceania, the dystopian society of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a new language was created by the government to control the thinking patterns of the people. Officially labeled “newspeak,” it was the first language that, when fully adopted, was meant to limit the range of human thought. - Tom Harris/Daily Caller

Concepts such as freedom, skepticism, and debate would be virtually unthinkable since no words existed to describe them, aside from the generic term “thoughtcrime.”

Perhaps most insidious was “duckspeak,” a form of speech consisting entirely of words and phrases sanctioned by the party, language that conveyed politically correct messaging only. Someone who had mastered duckspeak could fire off ideologically pure assertions like bullets from a machine gun without thinking at all. Their words merely emanated from the larynx like the quacking of a duck.

Being called a “duckspeaker” was considered a sincere compliment, since it indicated that you were well-versed in the official language and views of the state.

More than ever before, 2014 was the year of climate change duckspeak. Rather than being merely ridiculous or social satire, the underlying purpose of climate duckspeak is ominous: to convince opinion leaders and the public to think about climate change only as the government wants. To consider alternative points of view is “climate change denial,” today’s version of thoughtcrime, punishable by excommunication from responsible citizenry....

...the “97 percent of experts agree” phrase is, using Oceania’s vernacular, “doubleplusgood” duckspeak, designed to suppress debate and boost the party line. After all, who would dare contest experts about such a complicated issue? ...KEEP READING
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Media curiously silent on “Truthy”



◼ Where is the outrage over our government spending one million of our taxpayer dollars being spent on a project that would completely undermine free speech?! - HotAir

It’s been a couple of days since the Washington Free Beacon’s Elizabeth Harrington first reported on the three-year-old federal grant from the National Science Foundation for the “Truthy” database, and … not much else has happened. Blogs have picked it up, including our own Mary Katharine, and Reason’s Bobby Soave did a good job of highlighting its inherent contradictions. Twitchy has collated a number of tongue-in-cheek attempts to kick-start Truthy. Other than that, the national media appears to have gone radio silent on this latest project; according to a Bing news search this morning, no national outlet has yet picked up the story from WFB....

But don’t worry … you’ll love Big Brother! They promise not to make that a “suspicious meme,” too.

◼ Why are the Feds monitoring "hate speech"? And who decides what that is... - IJ Review

So if there’s a “suspicious tweet,” it will be flagged and tracked. What happens when people disagree on what constitutes “hate speech” and “misinformation?”

Also, what happens to the database - which is funded by taxpayer dollars - and who will have control of it?
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