https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/806301894389956608
https://archive.is/OmtsY
Internet Censorship Database Announced By Google, Twitter, Facebook And Microsoft
Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft will launch a shared database to censor social networks in 2017.
> The world’s largest social networks have announced plans to launch a shared Internet censorship database in 2017 that will be able to scrub anything that is labeled as “extremist content” across all of their social networks.
> Facebook already has a tool in place that they recently revealed they are in discussions with to provide China access to in order to gain access to China’s 1.4 billion citizens.
> Currently the tool is being touted as a weapon to fight terrorism and hate speech but just defining what speech falls under the topic is a slippery slope.
> Twitter and Reddit have recently been actively banning conservative content and Twitter has even threatened to ban President-elect Donald Trump for hate speech.
> It is also no secret that Governments have long openly banned political content that had nothing to do with extremism or hate such as Japan’s ban of Fukushima news and just recently Italy’s ban on reporting on the referendum ahead of last Sunday’s vote.
> The news comes as the United States and Europe governments are separately pushing Internet censorship legislation into law, which has largely been kept off the radar of corporate media news outlets.
> The goals of the separate legislation is to crack down on what the establishment is labeling as “fake news” being spread as part of a Russia propaganda conspiracy.
> In reality the vast majority of the news that will be censored under the new legislation is nothing more than non-corporate news outlets simply reporting on issues in a manner that is critical policies of the government and establishment politicians, and their hidden power players such as special interests and lobbyists, on matters such as globalization, oversea wars, environmental issues and corruption.
1. Spread News
Spread this into #FakeNews and Freedom of Speech groups.
If they're this scared, it means people are listening to "Fake News".
Later, a hashtag may need to be created. Work on getting warm bodies for now, and the # may come naturally.
2. Boycott & Shill Alternatives
On twitter, if you put $ before the stock code, it acts like a # but for just for stocks. It's used by shareholders.
> Microsoft $MSFT
> Twitter $TWTR
> Google $GOOGL
> Facebook $FB (I think, please verify)
If the people looking for stock info on these companies see all the boycotting & "I'm switching to [other brand]" then it will not sit well. Obviously these companies are pushing it for more than money, but the less capital they have to use, the better.
In addition, point out companies hypocrisy (in Twitter's case- how threats made by celebs and even official ISIS accounts stay up, but Republicans and people reporting pedos are banned).
As for the alternatives:
> Microsoft - Linux (ask /tech/ for advice on how to make infographs for installing/using, particularly for Linux Mint), other email providers (ask /tech/).
> Twitter - sealion.club and Gab.AI apparently.
> Google - Startpage, other email providers, other smartphone brands. NOT DuckDuckGo (long thought to be a scam).
> Facebook - Seen.Life
3. Create infographs to aid in step 1 and 2
Provide sources, make it clear to read, and use emotional language (but never lie).
4. Disnod people working with the above
This is a big step, and should be undertaken only when this takes off.
It's not the same as asking someone to stop advertising on a website they deemed easy ad-space. We're asking them to drop affiliation with the biggest companies on earth- not to mention half of them might be in bed with their ideals.
But, we also helped strip Gawker of 6 figures before Hogan even looked at them.
Free Speech online is on the line.
Without it, we can't redpill people on social media. We can't show how many we are. We can't connect.
Trump showed the world we are many. And now, they're trying to tape our mouth shut so they can speak for us for a few generations- all while claiming bad is good, wrong is right, there's nothing to fear, and real investigation is fake news.
Time to bite their fucking hand off.