16 September 2019 — Open Rights Group
Join us in London to hear a digital marketing expert blow the whistle on personal data abuse by digital advertisers and tell us how we can “opt out” of the corporate surveillance economy.
Tag: Google
How the CIA, Mossad and “the Epstein Network” are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare
6 September 2019 — Mint Press
Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian “solutions” are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent in the United States.
YouTube axes anti-protest channels as US Ministry of Truth battles China over Hong Kong
23 August 2019 — RT
YouTube has disabled 210 channels for posting content related to the Hong Kong protests “in a coordinated manner,” following in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter in restricting its arbitrary censorship to pro-China accounts.
‘We are moving into a new, controlled society worse than old totalitarianism’ – Zizek on Google leak
17 August 2019 — RT
FILE PHOTO: Banner protesting against ‘Google Campus’ construction in Berlin, August 17, 2018 © AFP / John MacDougall
Modern censorship is more dangerous than open totalitarianism, it being concealed and incorporated in our daily routine, says Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, commenting on the insider leak detailing Google’s news blacklist.
Big tech ‘indenture entire populations into servitude’ to corporations & govts – Snowden
14 July 2019 — RT
Tech giants such as Google or Facebook store vast amounts of personal data for their own gain but they are also “happy to hand over” this data to governments, making people vulnerable to persecution, Edward Snowden warned.
“Alexa, How Do We Subvert Big Tech’s Orwellian Internet-of-Things Surveillance?” by Charles Hugh Smith
12 July 2019 — Washington’s Blog
When every device in your life is connected to the Internet (the Internet of Things), your refrigerator will schedule an oil change for your car–or something like that–and it will be amazingly wunnerful. You’ll be able to lower the temperature of your home office while you’re stuck in a traffic jam, while your fridge orders another jar of pickles delivered to your door.
How to fend off automated censorship
27 June 2019 — Open Rights Group
You have until Monday 1 July to make you views known!
The Internet in general and social media in particular play a central role in protecting free expression in society. But the Government’s new plan to make social media safer could change that by ushering in a new era of automated censorship.
The window to comment on the Government’s Online Harms White Paper closes on Monday. William can you take a minute to tell the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) that social media regulation must protect the right to free expression?
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Propaganda Is The Root Of All Our Problems by Caitlin Johnstone
13 June 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
A new article by Forbes reports that the CEO of Crowdstrike, the extremely shady cybersecurity corporation which was foundational in the construction of the official CIA/CNN Russian hacking narrative, is now a billionaire.
The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction By John W. Whitehead
10 June 2019 — The Rutherford Institute
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984
Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.
Google update sees news web traffic plummet By Martin J. Young
11 June 2019 — Asia Times
According to Statista.com, as of April 2019 Google controlled 88.47% of the world’s search engine market.
Critics hail the US tech giant’s dominant algorithmic control of web searches as a ‘Googlemocracy’
Internet Free Speech All but Dead By Philip Giraldi
11 June 2019 — Global Research
Unelected, unnamed censors are operating across the Internet to suppress “unapproved” content.
The Internet was originally promoted as a completely free and uncensored mechanism for people everywhere to exchange views and communicate, but it has been observed by many users that that is not really true anymore. Both governments and the service providers have developed a taste for controlling the product, with President Barack Obama once considering a “kill switch“ that would turn off the Internet completely in the event of a “national emergency.”
The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent by Whitney Webb
8 June 2019 — Mint Press
Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is funded by a confluence of tech oligarchs and powerful forces with a clear stake in controlling the flow of news.
