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Feb 16 2022

YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki Denounces Free Speech

Google’s YouTube is among the world’s most powerful information gatekeepers. In case there are still any doubts where it stands on free speech:

Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, has acknowledged that the platform’s policy of censoring legal content that it deems to be “harmful” is controversial and urged governments to step in and pass stronger speech laws.

If Big Government would impose totalitarian speech restrictions, then Big Tech wouldn’t have to do it. The only problem is the First Amendment, which forces Biden et al. to outsource tyranny to Silicon Valley.

However, considering the role Big Tech played in putting Biden or rather his handlers in power, it is in effect a branch of the government.

“What has been the controversial part is when there is content that would be deemed as harmful but yet is not illegal,” Wojcicki said. “An example of that, for example, would be COVID. I’m not aware of there being laws by governments saying around COVID in terms of not being able to debate the efficacy of masks or where the virus came from or the right treatment or proposal, but yet there was a lot of pressure and concern about us distributing misinformation that went against what was the standard and accepted medical knowledge. And so this category of harmful but…legal has been, I think, where most of the discussion has been.”

The “misinformation” censored by apparatchiks like Wojcicki is not necessarily untrue. It can be defined as any information that undermines the leftist narrative at a given point in time. She apparently wants it to be illegal even to wonder where Covid came from, since it was probably engineered in a communist laboratory with funding from US bureauweenies like Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins — who likewise oppose the free flow of ideas.

On a tip from Bluto.

Feb 14 2022

Asking Alexa to Play Joe Rogan

Big Tech is a wholly owned subsidiary of the increasingly intolerant liberal establishment, so it might be risky to ask Alexa to play a podcast even by a largely liberal guy if he has been canceled for failure to suppress conservative views:

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Jan 19 2022

Rand Paul Awaits Apology From Big Tech Thought Police

Since the party line I mean The Science changes dramatically with each proclamation from Lord Fauci, it is easy to get censored by Democrats’ Big Tech thought police for disseminating “misinformation” that is later acknowledged by the liberal establishment to be true. Rand Paul is a case in point:

Via Daily Wire:

Paul had released a video last August in which he stated, “Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. They don’t prevent infection,” adding, “cloth masks don’t work.”

Speaking to NBC News at the time, a spokesperson for YouTube said that the video violated company policy on Covid-19 misinformation, such as “claims that wearing a mask is dangerous or causes negative physical health effects” or that masks were ineffective in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.

The largely pointless masks do in fact have negative health effects, especially for children. Now, even the CDC admits that cloth masks provide little protection.

Covid forced us to pay dearly for certain lessons, so we had better be sure to remember them. Among the most important:

• The Experts are given their platforms for political reasons; often they do not have our best interests in mind, or even know what they are talking about.

• Censorship is the enemy of truth.

On a tip from Bluto.

Jan 16 2022

Microsoft Political Correctness Checker

Just when you thought woke scolds could not possibly become any more intrusive, Microsoft embeds a political correctness checker in Word:

When switched on, spelling mistakes are underlined in red, grammar errors in blue and “inclusiveness” issues in purple. …

The checker can be turned on and off in a menu called “Grammar & Refinements”, which lists everything it checks: Age bias, Cultural bias, Ethnic slurs, Gender bias, Gender-Neutral Pronouns, Gender-Specific Language, Racial Bias, Sexual Orientation Bias and Socioeconomic Bias.

Examples:

Users who write “Mrs Thatcher” are told it “may imply gender bias” and are prompted to change it to the supposedly less offensive “Ms Thatcher”.

And the phrase astronaut Neil Armstrong uttered when he became the first person on the moon is not deemed acceptable.

Rather than “one giant leap for mankind”, he should have said “humankind” or “humanity”.

The word “mankind” is deemed thoughtcrime by our Big Tech overlords.

It also proposes changing “maid” — used for centuries to describe female housekeepers — to “house cleaner”.

Others to change include “headmaster” (Word suggests “principal”), “mistress” (“lover”), “master” (“expert”), “manpower” (“workforce”) and “heroine” (“hero”).

The aptly named digital strategist John Bull praises the political correctness checker:

“Your spellchecker will now help you to start overcoming your subconscious biases. It’s a brilliant feature.”

The allegedly brilliant feature is included in the latest version of Office 365. Future versions might provide electric shocks through the keyboard to those who type words that have been deleted from the Newspeak Dictionary, the better to cure us of our subconscious biases.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Jan 14 2022

Yahoo Suppresses “Let’s Go Brandon”

As noted below, Big Tech is only too happy to obey Biden’s command that it censor on behalf of the Democratic Party. Silicon Valley came through for the Dems in 2020. It is doubling down in 2022. Yahoo has even forbidden the dissident rallying cry, “Let’s Go Brandon.”

Fox News reports:

Yahoo is rejecting a digital ad from Republican Senate candidate Jim Lamon for touting the widely-used anti-Biden expression.

Watch the ad our Big Tech overlords don’t want you to see before YouTube squashes it too:

Squeaks an apparatchik at the Yahoo division of MiniTrue:

“We would not be able to approve this ad due to the use of ‘Let’s Go Brandon,’ which would be considered overly inflammatory and offensive.”

This comes from the side of the aisle that poses with prop severed heads meant to resemble Donald Trump.

“Let’s Go Brandon” is a euphemism. Yet it is suppressed by people who speak Euphemese (“abortion” for killing unborn babies, “critical race theory” for antiwhite race hate, “equity” for communism, “mostly peaceful protests” for left-wing riots, “voting rights” for facilitating election fraud, etc.).

One reason Let’s Go Brandon has gotten so much traction is that it defies not only Biden and his party, but the information gatekeepers without whose assistance Democrats could not maintain power. It was born when NBC’s Kelli Stavast attempted to gaslight us by claiming that a NASCAR crowd in Talladega was chanting it, when we could hear with our own ears that they were chanting “F*** Joe Biden.” No wonder LGB hits such a nerve with the termites at Yahoo.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket and Varla.

Jan 14 2022

Watch Biden Lean on Big Tech to Suppress Free Speech

The Big Tech leftists who put Biden in power by censoring information that would have cost him the election will be only too happy to comply with his demand that they continue to serve as the Ministry of Truth:

As Ronna McDaniel documented last July,

Biden’s administration is actively engaged in the suppression of free speech, and they are directing big tech to do their partisan bidding at the expense of the American people.

Like the liberal establishment media, Big Tech constitutes a major thumb on the scales when it comes to the free and fair elections that Democrats aspire to subvert at a more direct level.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Jan 11 2022

Who to Ban Next?

If the leftists who control social media can permanently ban a sitting president, they can ban anyone. Matt Walsh, with close to 800,000 followers, was recently suspended from Twitter for observing that men are men. With so much dissident thought out there and no restrictions on their power over free speech, Silicon Valley apparatchiks must be struggling to prioritize who to muzzle. Random Californians help them out by giving their opinion on who should be banned next:

If the whole country goes the way of California, when the last embers of freedom are snuffed out in the name of moonbattery, only a shrinking minority will care.

On a tip from Blackjack.

Jan 07 2022

Welcome to the Metaverse

The propaganda bubble provided by the liberal media allows moonbats who can’t deal with reality to escape from it. But they have still found it necessary to interact with a physical world that actually exists. To their immense relief, alien cyborg Mark Zuckerberg will soon liberate them completely with the Metaverse. Wokesters will be able to live like brains floating in jars, pickled in pure moonbattery.

JP Sears welcomes refugees from reality to the Metaverse:

In the Metaverse, there will be no thought criminals, because there will be no disapproved thoughts. If they would suppress the Hunter laptop bombshell with all its ChiCom influence-peddling implications right before the 2020 election, imagine how rigidly the apparatchiks at Fakebook will exclude “misinformation” when given complete control of “reality.”

On a tip from Blackjack.

Dec 30 2021

Alexa Tells 10-Year-Old to Take Penny Challenge

You can trust Alexa to listen in on everything you say and report back to Amazon. Here’s how we know it is trustworthy:

Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.

The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a “challenge to do”.

The girl, daughter of Kristin Livdahl, had in mind an exercise, not a means of seriously injuring herself or burning the house down.

The dangerous activity, known as “the penny challenge”, began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.

The Internet is not a place to let children play unattended.

We can trust Amazon though:

“Customer trust is at the centre of everything we do and Alexa is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers,” said Amazon in a statement.

“As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it.”

That’s why I can’t wait to get my own Amazon Astro, the robot home chaperone.

On tips from Bluto and Wiggins.

Dec 16 2021

Suspended From Twitter for Opposing Child Abuse

Most people who belong on the outside of institutions for the criminally insane would agree that chemical castration and surgical mutilation of children for the sake of imposing a depraved sexual ideology constitutes child abuse. Yet opposing these horrific crimes can get you suspended from Twitter.

From Fox News:

Jon Schweppe, who serves as director of policy and government affairs at American Principles Project (APP), tweeted, “Now we hope that governors will likewise be emboldened to continue the fight against the evil gender ideology being forced on America’s children by joining Arkansas and Tennessee in banning the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors suffering from gender dysphoria.”

Thought criminal!

Schweppe’s tweet was in response to a press release Tuesday from APP that praised Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., for pressing the South Dakota State Legislature to pass legislation that would limit participation in female sports — both at the collegiate and K-12 levels — based on the sex identified on an athlete’s birth certificate.

The CBS News report on this story began with the absurd lie that Noem wants to “ban women and girls from playing on female sports teams.”

Schweppe’s tweet drew a temporary ban from Twitter, which claimed his comment violated “rules against hateful conduct,” according to screenshots posted by the organization.

Yet again, it is confirmed that “hateful conduct” means any conduct our liberal ruling class hates.

Twitter rejected an appeal. As forewarned, under Parag Agrawal, Twitter is even more committed to radical leftism and hostile to free speech than under the whacky ultramoonbat Jack Dorsey.

On tips from Jester and Dragon’s Lair.

Dec 15 2021

Racial Equity Audits Cement Control Over Big Tech

The racial equity nonsense endlessly pushed by Democrats may seem pointless, but it has a purpose. That purpose is power. For example, the Democratic Party is using “racial equity audits” to cement its control over Big Tech:

A small group of organizations with close ties to Democratic politicians and progressive donors conducts the majority of these audits, which advocates say are needed to promote racial justice. But in practice, equity auditors often push companies to hire more left-wing activists and former Democratic party officials, often from the auditing organizations themselves. The audits also call for the abolition of standards of “merit” and the ability for a special executive to veto any company project.

The concept of merit is anathema to Democrats, for obvious reasons.

Racial equity audits are the chief service offered by “diversity, equity, and inclusion” consultants, a cottage industry connected by a revolving door of Democratic staffers and funded by liberal donors. Equity auditors have made a killing from school districts that pay handsomely for consultants to revamp curricula, the Washington Free Beacon has reported.

The audits can do more than secure patronage jobs and subvert public schools with toxic critical race theory indoctrination.

Big Tech may think it owns the Democratic Party, after playing a key role in installing the godawful Joe Biden in office. However, the Party will be the dominant partner in this marriage made in hell, because it has a monopoly on force.

One proposal from House Democrats would fine companies $20,000 a day for not completing biennial, independent “racial equity audits.” In June, five Democratic senators called on Google parent company Alphabet to conduct an audit.

The idea is to reduce alarmingly powerful Google to a cat’s paw of radicals in the federal government like the Congressional Black Caucus.

Google’s politics could not possibly move farther to the left. But the world’s most powerful company might become even more maliciously partisan.

Last week, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson was invited to testify to Congress and called for “independent auditors” to vet new products from tech companies before they’re released.

The auditors are anything but independent. They are in effect Color of Change, which is in effect the radical bleeding edge of the Democratic Party.

Silicon Valley will not be able to release a new product until the thought police have determined that it promotes their poisonous ideology. The same will soon apply to Corporate America in general, which proved during the Black Lives Matter riots that it does not have the belly even to refrain from endorsing leftist thugs.

As with the collapse of public safety in the cities, our acting president George Soros has his fingerprints all over this:

Color of Change is one of the most prominent members of Democracy Alliance, a network largely funded by Democratic megadonor George Soros. It also partners with two other Soros-funded groups, SOC Investment Group and the SEIU, to pressure public companies to comply with audits.

Anyone who crawls into bed with these people deserves what they get. This goes double for the adolescent weenies running Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, there will be consequences for the rest of us of Democrats steadily achieving absolute power.

On a tip from Henry.

Dec 01 2021

Twitter: Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss

Our leftist ruling class can always find someone still more awful to impose on us. You thought no one could be worse than Andrew Cuomo? Meet New York’s new Governor, Kathy Hochul. You thought no one could be worse than Jack Dorsey? Meet Twitter’s new CEO, Parag Agrawal, who is just as left-wing and even more hostile to free speech than the guy under whom Twitter banned the President of the USA for having the wrong politics.

Hot Air breaks the bad news:

The first major initiative by Twitter in the Agrawal era is not to make speech freer, but to give Twitter’s apparatchiks and activists even more power and less clarity on what will bring the ban hammer.

This is accomplished by banning media of private individuals without the permission of those depicted. Twitter makes its leftist motivations clear in this statement:

Sharing personal media, such as images or videos, can potentially violate a person’s privacy, and may lead to emotional or physical harm. The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.

By “activists” and “dissidents,” they refer mainly to Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs, whose sociopathic activities are covered up by the fellow-traveling mainstream media and left to private citizens to report on. The wokesters running Twitter are hardly likely to apply the ambiguous new rule even-handedly. As Hot Air notes,

Consider that their explanation assures users that they will “always try to assess the context” of the picture to see whether it is posted “in the public interest,” or whether it will “add value to public discourse” or “relevant to the community.” Nothing arbitrary, capricious, or subjective about that, right? Right?

Yet under Democrat rule, Twitter will continue to enjoy the legal protections of a neutral service provider rather than a publisher with an editorial viewpoint. Under a corrupt government, it pays to have a seat at the table.

Mark Dice has more:

Where political issues are concerned, Twitter will soon serve exclusively as a megaphone to promote antiwhite race hate and other left-wing causes. This may actually be good news, if it serves as the catalyst to get a critical mass of users behind an alternate platform like Gab. That’s where people will have to go to see great pages like Libs of TikTok.

The only reason to use Twitter is that everyone else does. Once enough bail out for alternatives, Twitter will become just another boring, irrelevant moonbat echo chamber, like public broadcasting.

On tips from TCS III, ABC of the ANC, and KirklesWorth.

Nov 30 2021

Facebook and the Fact-Blockers

In 1984, the ministry of propaganda is called the “Ministry of Truth.” Likewise, the liberal establishment calls fact-blockers “fact-checkers.” Their job is to censor thoughtcrime, or as leftists call it, “misinformation.”

Facebook and its fact-blocking collaborators like the Poynter Institute and Science Feedback are our version of MiniTrue. Thanks to their efforts, liberals snug in their propaganda bubbles are still able to believe that Covid muzzles are harmless, the ChiCom virus is of natural origin, and global warming is a threat to life.

On tips from KirklesWorth and Occam’s Stubble.

Nov 29 2021

Fake Fact-Check Fails

Under moonbat rule, everything is a euphemism, because leftists could not excuse what they impose if they called it by its rightful name. For example, when Big Tech information gatekeepers say “fact-checking,” what they mean is censorship.

Crucial information that has been suppressed by “fact-checkers” includes:

• Joe Biden peddled influence to our ChiCom enemies, as revealed by his bagman Hunter’s laptop.

• Covid was probably engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

• Whites are denied treatment with monoclonal antibodies on the basis of their race.

• Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense and possessed his rifle legally.

• The shooting of the maniac Jacob Blake was justified.

Even innocuous jokes and memes are suppressed by fact-checkers for not casting Democrats in a favorable light.

Fact-checkers are thought police. Their purpose is to prop up the liberal narrative and the Democratic Party. Mark Dice provides documentation:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

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