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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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