Digital Freedom

He Binggang and his fiancée Zhang Yibo, along with several others, were arrested on Oct. 9, 2021, for developing and maintaining software that helps people living in China access overseas internet platforms, according to the Falun Dafa Infocenter.

The Chinese regime set up Great Firewall (GFW), or Golden Shield Project, in 1998, which is managed by the regime’s Ministry of Public Security to monitor and censor what can and cannot be seen in China through an online network.

He and Zhang are Falun Gong adherents, a spiritual practice that has been persecuted inside China since 1999 and has been the subject of intense political propaganda.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/156436

The report states that CISA engaged in “surveillance,” by expanding its mission from cybersecurity to monitor foreign “disinformation” to eventually monitor “all ‘disinformation,’ including Americans’ speech.”

It also says CISA “exploited its connections with Big Tech and government-funded non-profits to censor, by proxy, in order to circumvent the First Amendment’s prohibition against government-induced censorship.” Specifically—the report says CISA creating reporting portals which “funneled ‘misinformation’ reports from the government directly to social media platforms.”

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/155449

“The photos or videos are then publicly circulated on social media or pornographic websites, for the purpose of harassing victims or sextortion schemes,” the agency said while urging people to “exercise caution” when posting photos and videos of themselves online.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/155223

“Misinformation is an accusation thrown so readily that such legislation would be impossible to implement; and if it was implemented, would inevitably lead to fines being levied for things that are not, or turn out not to be,”

“The significant penalties associated with this legislation potentially places substantial power in the hands of government officials,”

Unlike many other countries, in particular ones in Europe, there are no privacy or data protection laws restricting how Americans’ private information can be bought or sold.

The real agenda is that “urban elites” want to enforce an “authoritarian project” on Europe, he said. Calling Twitter “essential to free speech and true democracy,” Bay pointed out that censoring the platform is an attempt to “steal democracy from the people” and to “promote political correctness and to spread [the EU’s] woke propaganda.”

“Despite claiming to defend fundamental rights, the EU is actually restricting freedom of speech and of thought, which are the fundamentals of a real democracy. … This liberticide tendency is aggravating and extremely worrying,” Bay said.

I was so brainwashed that I forgot, as many people do, that secrets do not belong to governments. That information belongs to us. Governments rule by our consent. If they want to keep secrets, they must have our permission to do so. And they never have the right to keep crimes secret.

A literal ministry of truth.

Politicians are pushing to put a ban your ability to have private messages.

Governments want a backdoor to all of your communications.

Our breakdown of this form of an attack on speech dates back to the 1990s and the early days of the internet…

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/148767

It is crucial to ensure that in our pursuit of technological advances, we do not inadvertently sacrifice the very privacy and security that we seek to protect.

But the devices — equipped with cameras, microphones and, in some cases, facial recognition technology — are often poorly secured by their manufacturers compared to computers or smartphones, the FBI warned last week. That opens up the technology to cybercriminals who can exploit the vulnerability to access home routers, TechCrunch reported.

"Beyond the risk that your TV manufacturer and app developers may be listening and watching you, that television can also be a gateway for hackers to come into your home," read a warning from the government bureau released just before the Black Friday holiday shopping weekend.

“Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV."

The alleged TV spying attempt on Greene is reminiscent of what happened to then CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson during the Obama administration when the home computers she used for work had intrusions detected that were traced back to the federal government. Attkisson had been aggressively reporting on the Obama administration including the Fast and Furious “gun walking” scandal and the deadly 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

Canada’s law expands the territory where big tech platforms are forced to pay for news and could lead to similar laws passing in larger markets, including Brazil, Britain and the United States.

Musk announced that the platform would be declaring that two of radical LGBTQ left’s favorite words are now slurs on Twitter. These words are cis and cisgender.

In addition, users could face suspension for using the terms.

The announcement came in response to a conservative user saying he was being bullied by radical trans activists on the platform.

Get privacy car facts for FREE by searching your VIN

The Vehicle Privacy Report creates privacy labels under two broad categories: what a manufacturer collects (including identifiers, biometrics, location, data from synced phones, and user profiles) and whom a manufacturer sells or shares data with (affiliates, service providers, insurance firms, government, and data brokers). For the vast majority of cars and trucks released in the past few years, it’s likely that most types of data are collected.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/131866

All part of a plan to bring in a social credit score.

“Google has monopolized market trading to their advantage and at the expense of publishers, readers and everyone else,”

Would you really hand Zuck even more control over information and communication?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/126693

As nearly half of Americans engage with their social circle and the world at large through an iPhone, its updates make a significant cultural impact. The recent updates subtly embed and validate progressive ideologies into everyday digital communication, potentially shaping perceptions—especially those of children—amid ongoing ideological debates in America.

Nearly 30 percent of those ages 18 to 29 said they would favor government surveillance in private homes, compared to 5 percent of those older than 65. There was also a significant racial divide: A quarter of Hispanic and a third of black respondents would favor it, compared to 9 percent and 11 percent of white and Asian respondents, respectively.

The anti-free speech movement has become openly Orwellian in claiming to protect freedom by limiting freedom. It also employs using terms like disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation to obscure their effort to silence those with opposing views. Rather than use “censorship,” they refer to “content moderation.”

"We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.”

Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has declared free speech is “tyranny.”

What is particularly chilling is how low the threshold is for denying free speech, according to O’Reilly. It now appears that “deep discomfort” is enough.

It is part of an unrelenting movement in Europe, particularly by the European Union, to rollback Western free speech values that once defined countries.

Ireland now stands on the precipice of freedom.

Ireland is declaring “no free speech for haters” and assumes the authority to define who are haters and who are not.

This article blames corporate greed, but I think the bigger issue has been the quest for tyrannical greed through censorship, deplatforming, propaganda, promotion, collusion with intelligence agencies, etc