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Title: This Is the Purge We All Knew Was Coming: “Shutting Down Extremist Content”
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SHTF Plan
URL Source: http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-p ... own-extremist-content_12062016
Published: Dec 6, 2016
Author: Mac Slavo
Post Date: 2016-12-08 09:57:19 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 5041
Comments: 24
There have been murmurs about it all along. Someday, they simply wouldn’t allow certain things to remain on the Internet any longer. The potential to reach a global audience with important information, and the idea that it could be in the hands of anyone is just too big. So it is no surprise that many corporate giants from Silicon Valley are now putting forward a unified front to silence free speech on social media. Hashtags, keywords and flagged accounts, logged in various databases, will be shared and enforced across the web. Shutting down content identified as unacceptable will now be streamlined, and leave unpopular posters with fewer places to peddle their extremist, outside views. According to Yahoo! News: Web giants YouTube , Facebook , Twitter and Microsoft will step up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database. The companies will share ‘hashes’ – unique digital fingerprints they automatically assign to videos or photos – of extremist content they have removed from their websites to enable their peers to identify the same content on their platforms. “We hope this collaboration will lead to greater efficiency as we continue to enforce our policies to help curb the pressing global issue of terrorist content online,” the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. […] The European Union set up an EU Internet Forum last year bringing together the internet companies, interior ministers and the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator to find ways of removing extremist content. Many current incidents are being used to push the idea that a new online policing – and a pulling of the weeds – is now necessary. The “fake news” purging campaign has reached across the blogosphere and alternative media and punished websites that have dared to report on such taboo topics as Pizzagate, Wikileaks email dumps, any controversial aspects of the Syrian war and many other serious topics which these agenda-driven companies have opted to suppress. While these platforms offer the opportunity to reach a wide audience, the centrality of ubiquitous platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter is, obviously, that they have the power to delete accounts and drive down audience response by tweaking the algorithm. They can make you invisible. That is the state of free speech in 2016. It can be eradicated at a moment’s notice, and perhaps for reasons you aren’t even aware of. Read more: Times When the “Mainstream Media Created Fake News”… And People Died As a Result It’s Happening: They Are Shutting Down “Fake News” Websites to Punish Alt Media Hillary Opponents 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
This is not new. I was pretty visible on FreeRepublic for several years. Then they banned me and I ended up on little desert islands like LibertyPost - still alive and bitching, but no longer visible.
It's ok. The rest of us toys see you. And those spots are nothing to be ashamed of!
I second that opinion. Have no shame, it's their loss.
#16. To: goldilucky (#14)
The only shame I felt was the realization that I had posted all of those years on FreeRepublic, and even contributed money to it. When I was banned, I was initially angry - not ashamed. Then as I thought about it, I realized that I had been a dupe, thinking highly of a place that was, in truth, a grift for a guy and his family.
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#9. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
#14. To: VxH, Vicomte13 (#9)
Replies to Comment # 14. I second that opinion. Have no shame, it's their loss.
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