Oops! Canadian military accidentally runs psyop against NS residents,
Big Tech efforts to squelch Hunter Biden expose backfires big time,
Online dictionary changes definition of word after manufactured outrage,
Salon #26: Ben Hunt vs the Necessary Industrial Narratives …and more in AofE #168
[AxisOfEasy] Hundreds Of Smartphone Apps Sell Your Location Data To Government Connected Data Firms
Private companies installed trackers in apps on your phone and sell the data to the government
Intel hacked, 20GB of corporate data and chip designs dumped on the net
“All your DNA are belong to Blackstone” In 4.7B Ancestry.com deal
[AxisOfEasy] Police Use Twitter’s Dataminr To Surveil #BlackLivesMatter Protestors
Ex security advisor: China’s hacking of Nortel was the beginning of the end
Canadians can opt-out of facial recognition DB by opting into DB
LinkedIn sued for iOS clipboard spying
Police use Twitter’s Dataminr to surveil BlackLivesMatter protestors
[AxisOfEasy] Zoom Shuts Down Dissidents Marking Tiananman Square Massacre
Weekly Axis Of Easy #150 Last Week’s Quote was “Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of the individual have been eroded” was Fredreich Hayek. Nobody got it. This Week’s Quote: “Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power” …by […]
Twitter’s community verification system will be a disaster
Bias and b/s would be baked-into the proposed scheme Recently NBC news came into a leaked demo, which was confirmed by Twitter, of a system to allow verified users to correct and flag misinformation, directly below the tweet. Any tweets flagged as misinformation will have their visibility reduced across the system.
A Heretic’s Guide to Deplatforming
[Update: Ironically, after ascending rapidly and fostering vigorous commentary over on Hackernews, this article has been “flagged” there . Update #2: A few hours later it was unflagged and is currently on the first page of HN ] The phenomenon of deplatforming in the internet age, which includes the component of publicly expressed outrage that impels companies to […]
