Perhaps I missed something (no surprise there if so!) … but I don’t think the Biden Admin was forcing twitter to do this … twitter execs were just going along with it … perhaps there was some quid pro quo but more likely twitter exec’s just favored the democrats.
In any case:
“Fascism is more appropriately called Corporatism, for it is the perfect merger of State and corporate power” – Benito Mussolini
I think you have missed something. It has been revealed more than once that the government / biden camp had a direct line to Twitter to tell them what to remove.
Zuckerberg admitted this influence in his podcast with Rogan and Lex Friedman recently.
Just want to disambiguate, a suggestion or an ask with coercion. Not clear to me that the latter took place. In the end it’s all the same to me - mafia boss calling in a favor or mafia boss making a threat. Both indicate corruption, the former though indicates corruption on both sides.
Edit: here Glenn Greenwald speaking to Tucker Carson does indicate it’s coercion (via threats): 🔴LIVE - Tucker Carlson Tonight 12/2/22 | FOX BREAKING FOX NEWS TRUMP December 2, 2022 - YouTube
So IDK … I’ve not seen the specific evidence, so will assume that twitter was colluding and not being forced for now.
You were doindg so well before you became utterly detached from reality and the accepted meaning of words and called Zuckerberg and co “communists”
Then you paste photos and blurb attributed to Solzhenshitsyn as if it was some kind of truth… “truth” that verges on pure anti-semitism
We had to endure getting Slzhenitsyn rammed down our throats in “English” every day in secondary school. Him or that medieval tosspot Shakespeare, Propaganda to ensure we Scots kids were in no doubt Russians were baaaad and England raised the greatest ever playwright. Utter lies on both counts and thankfully many of us saw right through their lies.
Solzhenitsyn was nothing more than a criminal with a way with words. A degenerate.
I’ve only read a little on this, including from someone reporting on the files themselves (internal emails from Twitter).
They said that right and left were lobbying Twitter using their contacts inside the corporation (as were many others for interests such as corporations and celebs), and in the political sphere this included both Trump and Biden camps.
It appears that the left were more successful at this overall than the right, which is put down to them having more people with connections through which to lobby.
On the Hunter Biden story Twitter appear to have got it wrong early on, with different teams in disagreement and one executive doubling down on the apparently wrong initial justification that the data broke Twitter rules because it was hacked. When it was found unlikely to have been hacked the exec stuck to the original invalid excuse rather than reverse the position. That took a long time to happen.
Interestingly there appears to have been one Democratic politician lobbying to have decision reversed on the basis of the First Amendment.
As usual it’s not necessarily black and white (such as government censoring Twitter in secret). Those memes are easy for people with agendas to push because people to prefer to see things that way, polarised and summed up in a sentence or two rather than read (or write as I have now) a more complex, more complete picture.
Twitter may well have some left wing bias due to the factors mentioned. Thank goodness IMO, though not for long now Musk - like the press and TV media barons before him - have bought it up and use it for their own agendas.
Those with money do this, and most of them, almost all of them, are from the right, not the left and do not have the interests of the masses or democracy in mind.
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Camp? Well, that’s pretty vague.
Musk definitely has an agenda. He has a large monetary bet on growing Twitter and making it more profitable. Controversy is always good for business.
So is telling the truth to a world starved of it.
You have been looking a little thin Scotty.
This isn’t about left or right. This is about censorship, control, corruption and centralised problems. It can and does happen on both sides of the political spectrum and it has been happening since the dawn of human civilization.
In my opinion we fail massively when we take a position on the left or right team and push back on any criticism of the side you are on just because it is your “team”. I’ve done it myself many times. The problem isn’t the opposite team, the problem is the fact we have “teams” that divide us and prevent us from solving the problems we need to solve.
A gentle reminder of the topic purpose.
The topic is for posting what happened today. Discussions larger than a few replies need to start a new topic (usually in #off-topic ) to continue the discussions. Old topics such as the covid or some of the political news really need to have those discussions in the topics that have existed for them, otherwise the discussions of these topics is split and fills up this topic to the point where other “whats up today” is buried.
Many are saying SBF has a get-out-of-jail-free card because of his political connections. I’m not sure about that yet. I stand by my original assessment that SBF is an idiot though.
With each passing day new details of the malfeasance and outright thievery at the heart of the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its founder Samuel Bankman-Fried. Perhaps in an effort at damage control, Bankman-Fried agreed to an interview with ABC host George Stephanopoulos but the results were… not pretty.
Jimmy and The Dive’s Jackson Hinkle discuss Bankman-Fried’s odd affect, attempts at jargon-filled evasion and otherwise bizarre responses to even the most mild challenges coming from Stephanopoulos.
He should be breaking rocks for the rest of his life . .
Both iOS and Android frequently have severe security issues, for example such that websites can take over the entire phone through javascript, like malware containing ads. Samsung is sometimes slow to fix these issues and when the phones get older, it takes longer and longer until they completely stop. Security updates come much faster on iPhone and for a much longer time. If you look at the release notes for updates you will find such severe issues on most releases, but they’re usually found and fixed before attackers utilize them. Once an issue is public though, slow updates updates is bad.
Samsung also keeps doing things like leaking their app signing key, allowing malware authors to pretend they’re Samsung. Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware - Ars Technica
If you want to use Android, better use Googles Pixel. That is the only Android phone that consistently receives security updates in due time and and doesn’t suffer from other severe issues.
Google Pixel can also run GrapheneOS, a privacy and security focused Android fork that allows you to avoid your every move being tracked and cataloged by Google. There are other Android forks that runs on other phones, but GrapheneOS is really miles ahead.
Relying on updates to protect against JavaScript attacks?..for Android at least, would do better installing NoScript 
… if we didn’t have idiocracy pandering to normal it would be installed by default to Firefox??.. and NoRoot firewall of course.
Maybe we should have an 
droid OS, but to install anything on it, you need to pay SAFE. Sorta like how it costs ETH to run smartcontracts, I don’t think hackers would love to pay you to install something on your phone…
NoScript and Adblock does help a lot, but a lot of websites doesn’t really work without javascript, so you need to enable for some sites and some point. It’s not just javascript though, also potential bad code in apps. But yeah, it’s best not to rely on one thing. Using old versions with well known vulnerabilities for a long time isn’t good either.
Firefox has a weaker sandbox than Chrome, so that’s another potential issue for when you turn off NoScript for some sites, especially if you’re running and old outdated OS.
Realistically, most people will also mostly rely on updates to keep safe.