COME TO NORTH CAROLINA MR. PRESIDENT!!!
George Papadopoulos
@GeorgePapa19
10m10 minutes ago
Frankly, it’s not surprising that the leaders of the UK and Australia have been recently begging the president to not declassify any FISA documents in which they are implicated, in writing, of spying on Americans and the president himself. Sometimes you hedge wrong and lose.
George Papadopoulos
@GeorgePapa19
Oct 7
By the time I introduced Donald Trump to the Egyptian president in September 2016, a politically motivated surveillance operation by at least the UK and Australia was targeted at me and the campaign for seven months. Who authorized that? Congress has the answers.
Chad Pergram
Verified account @ChadPergram
2m2 minutes ago
Federal Magistrate Deborah Robinson denies bail for Senate GOP doxxing suspect Jackson Cosko. Cosko pleaded not guilty. No trial set
THE GOOD CENSOR – Google Growth Strategy: ‘Shift Towards Censorship’ to Appease Authoritarian Governments
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/09/the-good-censor-google-growth-strategy-shift-towards-censorship-to-appease-authoritarian-governments/
An 85-page briefing entitled “The Good Censor”, exclusively leaked to Breitbart News from within Google reveals that government requests for Google to censor content have nearly tripled since 2016, although it does not say that Google shouldn’t cooperate.
The briefing was the product of extensive research on the part of Google. This included expert interviews with MIT Tech Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin, Atlantic staff writer and tech critic Franklin Foer, and academic Kalev Leetaru. 35 cultural observers and 7 cultural leaders from seven countries on five continents were consulted to produce it. It can be read in full here.
Pages 66-73 of the briefing admits that tech platforms including Google, Facebook and Twitter underwent a “shift towards censorship” over the past few years.
Responding to the leak, an official Google source said the document should be considered internal research, and not an official company position.
Page 43 of the document includes data from within the Silicon Valley giant on government censorship requests.
The data shows a more than threefold increase in requests since 2016, although it does not identify which governments made the requests.
The data shows that YouTube is the main target – just over 50 percent of censorship requests relate to Google’s video-hosting subsidiary company, compared to 19.8 percent for Google search.
The briefing concludes that Google will have to continue its move towards censorship if it wishes to appease national governments and continue its global expansion. It also cites appeasing advertisers as a justification for censorship.
This part of the briefing seems to now be reflected in company policy. Google’s controversial development of a censored search engine, aimed at gaining entry to the Chinese market by appeasing its authoritarian communist government, is a clear example of Google complying with a foreign censorship regime in order to expand globally.
The search engine, codenamed “Dragonfly,” will contain a list of blacklisted search terms, and will link searches to Chinese users’ personal phone numbers. Vice President Mike Pence has urged Google to discontinue Dragonfly’s development.
Read The Good Censor in full:
Can't scare folks before the midterms. They are not even close to telling the public what happened. The public just gets tidbits each day. They still have damn congressional hearings going on behind closed doors. It would be nice for them to end the Mueller investigation before midterms.