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Battlefield Social Media: The West’s Growing Censorship
Censorship in the West flourishes as tech giants turn social media back into traditional programmed media. By Gunnar Ulson Source: Land Destroyer The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union are fond of passing judgement on nations around the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, elites, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged big data, censorship, civil liberties, conspiracy, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Dystopia, Facebook, free speech, Google, Mainstream Media, media, Oligarchy, Social Media, Technocracy, Twitter, youtube
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Is Data Our New False Religion?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Here’s how every modern con starts: let’s look at the data. Every modern con starts with an earnest appeal to look at the data because the con artist has assembled the data to grease the slides … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, media, Media Literacy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged big data, coronavirus, Covid-19, data, Economics, financial crisis, inflation rate, Internet Marketing, Pandemic, propaganda, science, Technocracy
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Freedom Rider: The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work
By Margaret Kimberly Source: Black Agenda Report As long as the internet is in private hands it should be seen as a “frenemy” — a useful resource that can also be wielded as a weapon. “Black people are routinely sent … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged big data, censorship, civil liberties, Demonetization, deplatforming, empire, Facebook, free speech, geopolitics, Google, imperialism, Internet, Internet Freedom, Iran, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Palestine, PayPal, propaganda, Proporornot, Qassem Soleimani, Russia, Social Media, Syria, Technocracy, technology, Twitter, venezuela, youtube
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Hovering in Cyberspace
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world became people’s “window on the world.” An electronic nothingness replaced reality as people gleefully embraced digital … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Health, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged big data, censorship, civil liberties, Dystopia, fascism, free speech, Google, imperialism, Internet, Internet Freedom, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, propaganda, psychology, Religion, Social Media, Technocracy, technology, youtube
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Corporate America Is an Anti-Social Black Plague: Negative Network Effects Run Amok
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The anti-social carnage unleashed by Corporate America’s “lock-in” / negative network effects has no real limits. Here’s the U.S.economy in a nutshell: Corporate America is an anti-social Black Plague, gorging on cartel-monopoly … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Law, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged big data, Boeing, Cartels, Corporate America, Corporate Crime, corporate sociopaths, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Facebook, financial crisis, Google, Monopoly, negative network effects, Network Effect, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, Plutocracy, Simons Chase, social capital, social order, State Crime
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Twitter Suspends Accounts For Propaganda, Has Literal Propagandist As High-Level Executive
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Middle East Eye‘s Ian Cobain has published an exclusive titled “Twitter executive for Middle East is British Army ‘psyops’ soldier”, exposing the fact that Twitter’s senior editorial executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa also … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 77th Brigade, big data, British Army, censorship, corporate media, deplatforming, Dystopia, empire, geopolitics, Ian Cobain, imperialism, Information Warfare, media, Media Literacy, Middle East Eye, police state, propaganda, Psychological Warfare, Psyops, Silicon Valley, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Twitter
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Protecting Information Space from Facebook’s Tyranny
By Gunnar Olson Source: Land Destroyer The recent attack aimed at New Eastern Outlook (NEO) and several of its authors once again exposes the infinite hypocrisy of US and European interests including across their media and among their supposed human … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged big data, censorship, corporate media, empire, Facebook, geopolitics, Hong Kong, imperialism, Internet Freedom, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM, National Endowment for Democracy, NED, New Eastern Outlook, propaganda, Russia, Social Media, technology, Thailand, Twitter
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Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives
How Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit is squeezing us all—and what we can do about it By David Dayen Source: In These Times AMAZON IS AN ONLINE RETAILER. It also runs a marketplace for other online retailers. It’s also a shipper … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, Alexa, Alienation, Amazon, big data, CIA, Cloud Computing, Corporate Lobbyists, Dystopia, e-commerce, Economics, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Retail Apocalypse, Small Business, Social Isolation, Technocracy, technology, Worker's Rights
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