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GURPS

INGSOC
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GOP House must shut down Biden's censorship machine



And that's just for starters. To help the Biden administration identify and crack down on political critics, Facebook actually feeds the FBI a steady stream of private information about its users, according to an agency whistleblower. Be careful what you post. You're inviting the FBI into your life.

The report alleges the FBI and Facebook have a "special" two-way relationship. On the one hand, Facebook hosts a portal through which government officials only can send emails to Facebook flagging content they want suppressed. On the other hand, Facebook tips off the FBI about users, providing information the FBI would otherwise not be able to get without jumping through legal hoops.

To justify this heavy-handed monitoring of Americans, the agency is "artificially padding domestic violent extremism statistics by pressuring agents to reclassify investigations." The Biden administration is claiming domestic violence is increasing "significantly" when it's not. The agency is creating "a misleading narrative that domestic terrorism is organically surging around the country."
 

herb749

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GOP House must shut down Biden's censorship machine



And that's just for starters. To help the Biden administration identify and crack down on political critics, Facebook actually feeds the FBI a steady stream of private information about its users, according to an agency whistleblower. Be careful what you post. You're inviting the FBI into your life.

The report alleges the FBI and Facebook have a "special" two-way relationship. On the one hand, Facebook hosts a portal through which government officials only can send emails to Facebook flagging content they want suppressed. On the other hand, Facebook tips off the FBI about users, providing information the FBI would otherwise not be able to get without jumping through legal hoops.

To justify this heavy-handed monitoring of Americans, the agency is "artificially padding domestic violent extremism statistics by pressuring agents to reclassify investigations." The Biden administration is claiming domestic violence is increasing "significantly" when it's not. The agency is creating "a misleading narrative that domestic terrorism is organically surging around the country."


Maybe its time to take all political discourse off Facebook. With Musk in charge of Twitter there will be a less friendly govt relationship.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

FBI and White House Slapped Down By Judge in Major Censorship Case


The judge has ruled that the FBI can’t shield special agent Elvis Chan from being deposed in a lawsuit brought by Missouri AG (and soon-to-be senator) Eric Schmitt and Louisiana AG Jeff Landry.

Officials in Louisiana and Missouri recently launched a lawsuit against the Biden administration seeking information about alleged collusion between the FBI, the DoJ, and other agencies with social media companies to censor information unflattering to the White House. Lawyers for the White House attempted to prevent some of the depositions from taking place, including that of FBI special agent Elvis Chan. Agent Chan had been identified as having worked directly with Meta to remove certain news stories on Facebook. But U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana shot down the request, allowing the depositions to go forward. Needless to say, there are probably some very nervous people biting their fingernails in the White House this week.

As RedState previously reported, Meta (Facebook) was at the center of censoring the Hunter Biden story prior to the 2020 election, possibly swinging the outcome. Its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, inadvertently admitted on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the FBI had come to them with more than a wink and nudge, suggesting that the story was actually Russian disinformation. Making matters worse, the FBI obviously knew at that point that the laptop story was true given they had been in possession of the hard drive for ever a year.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into Real Estate Tech Company Accused of Collusion with Landlords




The letters raised concerns that RealPage’s pricing software could be pushing rents above competitive levels and allowing big landlords to coordinate their pricing in violation of federal antitrust laws.

“We are concerned that the use of this rate setting software essentially amounts to a cartel to artificially inflate rental rates in multifamily residential buildings,” three senators said in a letter in early November. They included Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights.

The Capital Forum first reported the existence of the investigation and some details on Tuesday.

RealPage’s software works by collecting information from property managers who are the company’s clients, including what rents they are able to charge tenants. That information is fed into an algorithm that then recommends prices daily for each available apartment.

Though RealPage says the information is aggregated and anonymized, some experts have said using private data from competitors to set rents could run afoul of antitrust laws, allowing property managers to illegally coordinate their pricing.


ProPublica found the software is widely used in some markets: In one downtown Seattle ZIP code, 70% of more than 9,000 apartments were controlled by just 10 property managers — every one of which used RealPage’s pricing software in at least some of its buildings.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Funding censorship? Feds give tens of millions to fight COVID 'disinformation,' populism




The National Science Foundation has awarded at least $39 million in grants and contracts in fiscal years 2021 and 2022 for projects that target misinformation or disinformation, frequently pertaining to COVID-19 and elections.

Two contracts went to anti-misinformation groups for journalists. Hacks/Hackers received $3.7 million with the potential for $2 million more for "expert-informed resources ... to address vaccine hesitancy and misinformation."

Meedan received a $3.2 million contract with the potential for $2.5 million more to develop "fact-checker" and "community collaboration tools" for "combating hate, abuse, and misinformation with minority led partnerships." It also received a $256,000 grant for "identifying and countering misinformation on closed messaging platforms (COVID-19)."

Both received $5 million grants in the new fiscal year from NSF's Convergence Accelerator, which "builds upon basic research and discovery to accelerate solutions toward societal impact."
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

The Federal Government's Plan to Track Truckers' Every Movement Is a Privacy Nightmare



But truckers already undergo roadside inspections and record large amounts of information for regulators. The Department of Transportation offers no reason to believe the warrantless collection of identifying information will make anyone safer. It might make some inspectors' jobs easier, but that is no reason to override the rights of truck owners and operators. One might as well call for putting us all in ankle monitors, just because it might reduce crime if the cops know where everyone is all the time.

The Fourth Amendment requires the government to get a warrant before encroaching into private space to gather information. People rightfully expect that their private effects and location data will remain shielded from the authorities, because prolonged tracking can reveal intimate details. The Constitution protects that expectation of privacy by requiring officers to get a warrant based on probable cause before they can gather location data.

When the government accomplishes that surveillance by physically intruding onto private property, it creates even greater constitutional concerns. The Supreme Court has ruled that police must get a warrant—regardless of whether the subject of a search has a reasonable expectation of privacy—before they physically install a tracking device. The rule is no different just because the government forces people to purchase and install the tracking device on their own property.

Unfortunately, this proposal is not an outlier. Government agencies nationwide have been adopting new surveillance technologies, hastening our devolution into a police state.

One town in Michigan uses drones to photograph people's backyards. Houston passed a law earlier this year requiring all bars and convenience stores to install high-def surveillance cameras, to store the footage for 30 days, and to turn over footage to the police on demand, without a warrant. A town in Florida even created a secret formula that it claims can help predict future crimes. Unsurprisingly, police have employed that formula to target and harass innocent people at all hours of the day and night.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Officers Who Ignored Man Paralyzed in Their Custody Are Charged With Misdemeanors




On June 19, 36-year-old New Haven resident Randy Cox was arrested on minor gun possession charges. After his arrest, officers loaded the handcuffed Cox into the back of a police van, driven by Officer Oscar Diaz. The van was not outfitted with seatbelts, and after Diaz stopped suddenly to avoid a collision with another vehicle, Cox was flung to the back wall of the van, where body camera footage shows him violently hitting his head.

When Diaz went to check on Cox, body camera footage shows the prone Cox repeatedly telling Diaz "I can't move," adding "I fall. I cannot move my arms." After calling an ambulance, Diaz continued driving Cox to a local detention center.

When Diaz arrived at a local detention center, four other officers refused to believe that Cox was injured, roughly placing him into a wheelchair and even mocking him for supposedly being too drunk or high to move.

"You're not even trying!" said one officer. "You're cracking, you just drank too much."

Despite Cox's obvious distress—at one point crying out "Oh my god, [inaudible] I ****ing broke my neck"—the officers responsible for processing Cox completely ignored him, seemingly convinced that he was faking or drunk. "He's perfectly fine," one officer said after placing the limp Cox in a holding cell.
 

stgislander

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Officers Who Ignored Man Paralyzed in Their Custody Are Charged With Misdemeanors




On June 19, 36-year-old New Haven resident Randy Cox was arrested on minor gun possession charges. After his arrest, officers loaded the handcuffed Cox into the back of a police van, driven by Officer Oscar Diaz. The van was not outfitted with seatbelts, and after Diaz stopped suddenly to avoid a collision with another vehicle, Cox was flung to the back wall of the van, where body camera footage shows him violently hitting his head.

When Diaz went to check on Cox, body camera footage shows the prone Cox repeatedly telling Diaz "I can't move," adding "I fall. I cannot move my arms." After calling an ambulance, Diaz continued driving Cox to a local detention center.

When Diaz arrived at a local detention center, four other officers refused to believe that Cox was injured, roughly placing him into a wheelchair and even mocking him for supposedly being too drunk or high to move.

"You're not even trying!" said one officer. "You're cracking, you just drank too much."

Despite Cox's obvious distress—at one point crying out "Oh my god, [inaudible] I ****ing broke my neck"—the officers responsible for processing Cox completely ignored him, seemingly convinced that he was faking or drunk. "He's perfectly fine," one officer said after placing the limp Cox in a holding cell.
I would have thought Conn would have been tougher on bad cops.

Didn't Police Depts learn anything from Freddie Gray?
 

Hijinx

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When the officer stopped to check on this man and called an Ambulance he should have sat right there until one came. Why would anyone call an Ambulance to a location and then move from that location?
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

GOP Rep. Jordan demands the FBI answer for informants who provided 'bogus information'




The Ohio lawmaker further cited bureau regulations, asserting that the bureau "to the extent practicable, ensure that the information collected from every CHS is accurate and current, and not given to the FBI in an effort to distract, mislead, or misdirect FBI organizational or governmental efforts."

He cited the bureau's use of former British agent Christopher Steele and Russian analyst Igor Danchenko as confidential informants as motivation for the inquiry. Steele authored a now thoroughly discredited dossier which included salacious accusations against former President Donald Trump and formed the basis of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Danchenko meanwhile, was his "primary sub-source."

Danchenko faced charges for lying to the FBI in special counsel John Durham's probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia hoax, but a jury acquitted him on all counts. Jordan, however, pointed to trial testimony that revealed he was a paid FBI source and that the bureau had previously conducted a counterintelligence investigation into him.

"In both the Steele and Danchenko matters, publicly available information suggests that the FBI either ignored red flags about the informant's reliability or affirmatively misrepresented his suitability," Jordan wrote to Wray.

He then demanded that the FBI director provide an explanation of the bureau's current policies for handling CHSs, detailed accounting of the money paid to them from fiscal year 2012 to the present, and information on the number of active CHSs.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Feds Pay Journalism Group $5M To Create Software To Turn People Into Anti-‘Misinformation’ Bots




The federal government has awarded $5 million to a group of journalists called Hacks/Hackers to develop software that will encourage regular Americans to confront their friends over “harmful” posts, and “correct misinformation” by replying with text suggested by the software.

The group is also organizing Wikipedia censors to determine who is a “credible source” on vaccines, and block anyone else from being cited on the online encyclopedia. Job ads for the project do not require that applicants have any expertise in medicine.

That list is already taking shape on Wikipedia, with liberal outlets such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and The Atlantic all marked “reliable.” Conservative sites, including The Daily Wire, Daily Mail, Epoch Times, and The Federalist, are all classified as either “unreliable” or “conspiracy.”

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ARTT says it uses psychology techniques to change people’s views–though when purveyors of “misinformation” do similar, the ARTT tool calls it “psychological manipulation tactics.”

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Another ARTT video said that while social media platforms have made efforts to combat misinformation, influencing people’s views is more effective when it comes from friends than from social media companies directly.

“That’s why we want to focus on these peer connections when it comes to having these conversations online … Instead of coming to you from the platform, it’s actually coming to you from a friend,” the video said.


Project materials suggest the view that journalists should help enforce that others only echo “authoritative guidance” from governmental and quasi-governmental bodies like the World Health Organization (WHO), which served as an advisor on the project. The group also indicates that the vaccine issue is just a pilot project for using the software on other topics.

Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center, which monitors bias in media, said journalists like those behind the project “want to remove dissenting views from the internet and leave the rest in a state of reprogramming. For a profession that’s allegedly taught to oppose a herd mentality, they sure seem hell-bent on creating manufactured consensus.” The NSF, for its part, is acting like “a weapon to be wielded against the American people,” he told The Daily Wire.



I expect Sapidus will using this tool working overtime to spread gov approved messaging


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Sapidus has already tried to push Media Bias Fact Check Previously .... she must be beta testing this response software
 
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GURPS

INGSOC
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MacCallum then asked how the White House is taking a completely different tact with Twitter, saying they will be “keeping an eye on Elon Musk and Twitter” but not call Apple out for helping the Chinese government. Kirby then laughably said we have been “very consistent” on this when she had just pointed out why they haven’t been consistent. Kirby said again we aren’t in the business of telling private companies what to do, and MacCallum pressed noting that’s exactly what they were trying to do regarding Twitter. “Why is Twitter getting one treatment, and Apple getting another?” “These are completely two different circumstances,” Kirby protested.

Yes, they are. The White House is going after Twitter for wanting to provide free speech, but they’re cool with Apple throwing in with the CCP oppressing their people. Completely different. One is something we should support and celebrate, and the other is something we should call out, along with the CCP oppression of their people. You’re free to say how you think a private company should be acting. What you shouldn’t be doing is pressuring companies to act according to your political interest, which is what they are trying to do with Twitter.

Kirby tried to suggest there were issues of foreign investment in Twitter and claimed the two cases were “apples and oranges.” But there have been issues of foreign investment in Twitter for years, and they weren’t concerned about it before. Why are they concerned about it now?
Meanwhile, they’re not concerned about Apple’s closeness with China. They’re not concerned about TikTok’s connection to China. MacCallum also pointed out how Musk had helped protesters with Starlink in Iran and Ukraine, supporting protesters’ right to speak, yet the Biden White House was targeting him.


 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Rumble files lawsuit to challenge New York’s social media censorship law




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Free speech video sharing platform Rumble and its subscription platform Locals have sued New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James to challenge a social media censorship law that they say would force platforms to target constitutionally protected speech.

Rumble and Locals are being represented by the free speech nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and are joined in the lawsuit by constitutional law professor Eugene Volokh, the co-founder of the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog.

“The law is titled ‘Social media networks; hateful conduct prohibited,’ but it actually targets speech the state doesn’t like — even if that speech is fully protected by the First Amendment,” FIRE said in a statement.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Biden Admin Launches Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Company Neuralink: Report




The report said that the investigation centers around potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which “regulates the treatment of animals in research, teaching, testing, exhibition, transport, and by dealers,” according to the agency.

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A small number of employees at the company have reportedly claimed that Musk’s insistence on pushing for faster times in getting products to the point where they can be tested on humans has led to mistakes in the tests that have been conducted on various animals, including monkeys and pigs.

The employees allege that the mistakes have led to more animals having to be killed because of botched surgeries and because the experiments have to be conducted again. The animals are often killed at the end of the experiments because post mortem analysis is often needed to determine the effectiveness of the experiment.

Some of the mistakes that have reportedly plagued the experiments are simple in nature, like implanting the wrong device or implanting a device in on the wrong vertebra of animals.





However no investigation of Fauci's Beagle Experiments
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Abortion Radicals Threaten To ‘Shoot Up’ Pro-Lifers, But FBI Won’t Commit To Investigating


A recent alleged death threat against pro-life activists indicates that Jane’s Revenge — the group that has claimed responsibility for several violent attacks against pregnancy centers and pro-life organizations throughout the nation — doesn’t just support the killing of unborn children but is willing to “shoot up” those working against their evil and dystopian dream.

On Saturday, Students for Life Action (SFLAction) members and other Nebraskan pro-life activists reported finding a death threat attributed to Jane’s Revenge posted to the door of the St. John Paul II Newman Center near the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Scott Campus. The pro-lifers were gathering at the facility that morning to attend a Political Leadership Workshop and brainstorm how they could utilize the pro-life organization’s “Campaign for Abortion Free Cities to shut down the late-term abortion facility in the state,” according to a Twitter post from SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins.

The death threat stated, “If our right to abortion in Bellevue is taken away due to the attempt to pass an abortion ban and it gets passed we will shoot up your Newman Center with our new AR14 rifles. Sincerely, Jane’s Revenge.” The letter was addressed to Newman Center director Rev. Dan Andrews.


 
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