New proposals would let governments seize domain names

New censorship tool.

Two US organizations – a non-profit and a corporation – are planning to “quietly” give governments around the world the right to seize domain names by means of canceling, redirecting, or transferring control.

This is based on the “Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .NET” – recently published by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and Verisign.

https://reclaimthenet.org/new-proposals-would-let-governments-seize-domain-names

Why Kim Dotcom Connects The DNC Email Leak To The Murder Of Seth Rich (Updated)

Last week we learned a new fact about the DNC email leak in 2016 and of the events that likely led to the killing of Seth Rich.

A quite aggressive Wikipedia page discusses the Murder of Seth Rich:

The murder of Seth Rich occurred on July 10, 2016, at 4:20 a.m. in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Rich died about an hour and a half after being shot twice in the back. The perpetrators were never apprehended; police suspected he had been the victim of an attempted robbery.

The 27-year-old Rich was an employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and his murder spawned several right-wing conspiracy theories, including the false claim, contradicted by the law enforcement branches that investigated the murder, that Rich had been involved with the leaked DNC emails in 2016. It was also contradicted by the July 2018 indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence agents for hacking the e-mail accounts and networks of Democratic Party officials and by the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion the leaked DNC emails were part of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Fact-checking websites like PolitiFact, Snopes, and FactCheck.org stated that the theories were false and unfounded. The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post wrote that the promotion of these conspiracy theories was an example of fake news.

Well, that is not what really had happened.

Yes, Seth Rich worked as IT administrator for the Democratic National Committee. He was a fan of Bernie Sanders. During the 2016 primaries DNC functionaries did their best to work against Bernie Sanders and for Hillary Clinton. To make that public Seth Rich collected an archive of all DNC emails, copied it onto an USB stick and looked for someone who would publish them.

UPDATE 20:00 UTC

The former British ambassador Craig Murray said that he was given the USB stick by an intermediary of a disgusted Democratic whistleblower and brought it from Washington DC to Wikileaks which eventually published the emails. The data involved were not only from the DNC but also from Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta:

WikiLeaks made the DNC messages public in July and the incriminating emails from Podesta were published in October. The messages predominantly showed that DNC officials were bent on sabotaging the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. Murray insisted that the information was leaked and not hacked by Russia.

“Neither of the leaks came from the Russians. The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks…leakers were motivated by disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders.”

/End Update/

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/why-kim-dotcom-connects-the-dnc-email-leak-to-the-murder-of-seth-rich.html

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defends plans to attend Kyle Sandilands's wedding alongside 'underworld' figure

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his plan to attend the wedding of shock jock Kyle Sandilands, whose bridal party includes a convicted drug smuggler and a man described by his book publisher as "Australia’s most notorious underworld figure".

Key points:

The prime minister and NSW premier are attending the wedding of shock jock Kyle Sandilands this weekend

Sandilands has been embroiled in several on-air controversies over his career as a broadcaster

His bridal party will include John Ibrahim, described by his publishers as a notorious underworld figure

Mr Sandilands has sparked repeated controversies over the years with his Sydney radio show, including claiming in 2022 that monkeypox was a "big gay disease", claiming in 2019 that the mother of Jesus was a "liar who got knocked up behind a camel shed", and airing an interview a decade ago with a distressed child who said she had been raped at the age of 12.

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported the best man at the wedding this Saturday will be convicted drug smuggler Simon Main, who was jailed in Italy in 2000 for his role in a drug operation, and that former Kings Cross nightclub owner John Ibrahim will also be in the bridal party.

Mr Ibrahim was described by his publisher Pan MacMillan as the nation's most notorious underworld figure in promotional material for his autobiography The Last King of the Cross.

Mr Sandilands has a long and public friendship with both Main and Mr Ibrahim, whose colourful lifestyle alongside brother Sam Ibrahim was recently depicted in a Paramount+ series.

Mr Albanese said he was "not in charge of the invite list".

"I said I'd go. And I keep my commitments, including to Kyle Sandilands," Mr Albanese said.

"One of the things about Kyle Sandilands — I'll say this — a bloke who at one stage was homeless, living on the streets of Sydney, and has grown into someone who is a significant public figure, is a part of what is an Australian success story."

Mr Albanese did not confirm whether he would DJ at the wedding, which he said on air in January he had "promised" to do.

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley said there was "nothing wrong with going to a friend's wedding", but questioned why Mr Albanese would take a day off before the federal budget.

"Australians will rightly ask whether the Prime Minister should be spinning decks at a million dollar wedding when people can't afford their rent," Ms Ley said.

Recently-elected NSW Premier Chris Minns is also reportedly set to attend.

The ABC has contacted Mr Minns's office for comment.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/pm-albanese-to-attend-kyle-sandilands-wedding/102277268

Eleven Minutes of Media Falsehoods, Just On One Subject, Just On One Station

This special report hoped to make a list of all the editors' notes and retractions that would be needed because of the #TwitterFiles. The problem turned out to be too big to count

https://youtu.be/eKCkeCXIHTc

Ex-Google CEO mooted AI to win elections for Democrats – media

Eric Schmidt stopped short of pulling the trigger on a $1 million plan to explore using the technology to garner votes

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt considered using artificial intelligence (AI) to win elections for Democrats, but backed out at the last minute, according to a report by Axios published on Thursday.

The $1 million proposal, from a subsidiary of Schmidt's own philanthropic OneOne Ventures and dated earlier this month, would have put at least three technical teams to work on new AI tools related to political advertising, Axios revealed. The results would have been tested during the 2024 race.

However, the billionaire ultimately rejected the plan for reasons he declined to make public via a spokesperson. The committed Democrat is still reportedly expected to get involved in some kind of election-related AI project for the forthcoming contest.

Republicans have already unleashed an AI-generated ad for 2024, countering President Joe Biden’s official re-election announcement with a 30-second ‘Beat Biden’ spot featuring a series of computer-generated ‘what if’ catastrophe vignettes. In the clip, Biden’s victory is followed in rapid-fire by China invading Taiwan, the closure of 500 regional banks, 80,000 migrants over-running the US-Mexican border, and the city of San Francisco somehow closing its doors.

If not for the tiny line of text in the upper-left corner revealing the ad was AI-generated, the images could easily pass as real to human audiences. AI-generated deepfakes are expected to cause major disruptions in the news cycle during the months preceding the election, though the technology is advancing so rapidly it is hard to tell what will be possible to fake by October 2024.

Schmidt poured $4 million into the 2022 midterm elections after dropping $8.5 million on the 2020 race, and he is expected to donate big in 2024 as well. The former Google CEO has bankrolled voter analytics software and other tech enhancements for Democratic campaigns, and his influence has been heavily felt in the Biden administration’s tech policy.

Last year, Schmidt announced he was giving away $125 million through Schmidt Futures to AI researchers focusing on “hard problems” in the field, explaining he hoped to hardwire ethical considerations into the technology while addressing the seismic upheavals it is expected to cause in the labor market and economy, the way humans perceive and consume information, and the fusion of man and machine.

https://www.rt.com/news/575509-eric-schmidt-ai-election-rejected/