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Oh, no! Don’t regulate Big Tech! How will they ever be able to put up with the government enshrining them as the monopoly platforms that everyone must use?
SHOW NOTES:
Problem Reaction Solution: Internet Censorship Edition
Mark Zuckerberg is begging for governments to regulate Facebook
Zuckerberg: Maybe tech should face some regulations
YouTube and its users face an existential threat from the EU’s new copyright directive
I like the phrase Normie Land.
Corporate Warfare
I am so glad that Corbett is again discussing corporate warfare strategies and tactics and “false flag” ploys. The corporate data collection activities have put the game on a whole new level.
I think that…
…the normie mindset completely underestimates the evil manipulation which occurs in corporate warfare.
There is a normie mindset which does not recognize that, for the most part, corporations do not have an altruistic mission. The corporate mission is always to become more dominant and controlling. Profit (example “Amazon”) may not be on their top agenda, but domination is.
The normie mindset doesn’t recognize that corporations do not give a damn about the health and welfare of people. People are just cattle herded towards the Impossible Burger.
Intelligence is not measured by how one fits into a civilization’s measurements such as in intelligence testing. Intelligence is definded by the ability to adapt, to move among the world and survive when others don’t. Normies are too compliant and unaware of the larger world perspective to do so within this survival parameter–unless they find an enabler to protect them. Of course, the true definition of intelligence is neither soothing nor usually known. It requires a longer-term perspective.
Yes! So true, “…value their comfort zone more than their freedom.” Why? They have never been without either.
James,
You have instructed us well to see the pattern that is immanent with FB:
Break me in to smaller pieces
I Regulate me; I regulate you
I invest in my own smaller parts
Watch me grow, bigger, stronger
You will love/hate me
And I will own you.
Almost a song.
Wow. I just learned from cryptogon.com that WordPress took down Jon Rappoport’s blog. Martin Niemöller’s poem springs to mind yet again.
Wow, interesting news. The MS has always found JR threatening. Every chance they get, every turn he makes the MS overlords attempt to silence him. Clearly, they are afraid of his information and POV. What should suffice as a heads-up to Normieville, continues to find the sheep asleep, however. Whatever JR is saying is worth hearing, if for no other reason than standing against MS tyranny.
After you posted “WordPress took down Jon Rappoport’s blog”, much later, I again thought of this first thing when I awoke.
Disturbing news.
Very disturbing.
Twitter for Jon Rappoport
https://twitter.com/jonrappoport?lang=en
Jon Rappoport says: “…I strongly suspect that my articles criticizing vaccines triggered the censorship move. The justification would be: well, we must protect the health of the public and your influence could be quite negative in that regard, etc….”
https://thefedupdemocrat.home.blog/2019/05/14/vaccine-rights-journalist-banned-from-wordpress-blog/
Interesting. Being an ocassional reader, I hadn’t kept up with his blog for a few weeks, so I went to Wayback Machine to look at his latest posts (up until the day of his removal) and didn’t see anything different from what I’ve seen before, so I did wonder what triggered WordPress.
Regulatory Capture: An economic theory that says regulatory agencies may come to be dominated by the industries or interests they are charged with regulating. The result is that the agency, which is charged with acting in the public’s interest, instead acts in ways that benefit the industry it is supposed to be regulating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp
See Rothbard’s “The Progressive Era” for a comprehensive history of exactly the sort of thing James is talking about (regulation as a way to strangle competitors) being the genesis of much of the current Leviathan state. This is the way things are done and it has been for a long time.
Just got Rothbard A to Z from Mises.org, amazing stuff- free PDF here.
https://mises.org/library/rothbard-a-to-z
A local Atlanta area libertarian radio host also had their WordPress website shutdown recently. She discusses many of the topics discussed on this blog and has referenced many of James’s podcasts. She also does an off-air podcast that digs a little deeper… the one on Jeffery Epstein was particularly good with detailed references always provided.
https://mobile.twitter.com/monicaperezshow/status/1033391692622118915
Good to know, Aaaronr! Never heard of her until now. Got her Twitter page bookmarked to await her announcement of when she’s back up and running.
She did get a new page set up and luckily was able to retrieve most of the content before it was permanently deleted. Here is her current homepage.
http://www.monicaperezshow.com/
Very interesting. Thanks buckley.
An international grand committee on big data, privacy and democracy is meeting in Ottawa, Canada today in the second of three days of meetings.
They are trying to figure out “how best to protect citizens’ privacy and democratic fairness in the age of social media.”
When I read about it today I immediately thought of James’ “Don’t Throw Big Tech in the Briar Patch! – #PropagandaWatch” piece.
Jim Balsillie, retired chief executive of Research In Motion, the company that invented the Blackberry smart phone said “Social media’s toxicity is not a bug — it’s a feature,” in testimony before the international committee.
The committee members will be questioning representatives from internet behemoths such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon and Mozilla on what they’re doing to prevent abuse.
With still a day left for the meetings this might be an opportunity for James to voice his opinion with some panelists as to what direction they should take in this matter.
‘Balsillie decries toxic, unchecked technology at big data committee’
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/balsillie-decries-toxic-unchecked-technology-at-big-data-committee-1.4440295