Totalitarian British State vs. Chris Spivey - Censorship & Social Media

Totalitarian British State vs. Chris Spivey Censorship & Social Media British Justice says to Spivey – Shut The Fuck Up – or we’ll destroy you Fri 5:07 pm UTC, 14 Aug 2015  https://youtu.be/7ABAWtFd7oM Article http://tapnewswire.com/2015/08/british-justice-says-to-spivey-shut-the-fuck-up-or-well-destroy-you/ Other  - MSM:  Daily Mail "Internet troll, 52, who posted 'sick' claims that Lee Rigby's murder was a conspiracy to provoke anti-Muslim hatred is spared jail for harassing soldier's family http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3212837/Internet-troll-52-posted-sick-claims-Lee-Rigby-s-murder-conspiracy-spared-jail-harassing-soldier-s-family.html ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Not entirely sure what's going on here and I'm not personally huge on conspiracy theories, but I think that the state and law enforcement harassment of those that hold differing opinions is absolutely disgusting and totalitarian. Video interview with victim of state harassment, Chris Spivey, notes the police did not have relevant warrants, turned up 1:30am raid etc.   NUMEROUS IRREGULARITIES.  Arrest illegal.  Local police 'investigating' itself.  Case based on x4 Witness Statements.  Allegedly, Witness Statements full of "easily provable lies" / "outrageous claims".  Prosecution prevented witnesses from appearing in court; right to face accusers denied:  breach of human rights - Article 6. Material relied upon as evidence was from 15 MONTHS prior & no notice of objection ever given.  Irrelevant material reportedly introduced to court. Spivey says:  convicted on hearsay and blatant lies. Site attack conducted on Spivey site. AND the British state appears to have alleged something that is denied, going by the first article, indicating that the address published is an address that was publicly available etc. This is unbelievable. And the Daily Mail headline referring to this bloke as 'internet troll' is also a disgusting abuse and attack on free speech and civil liberties. Tabloid sensationalisation & tabloid smear or vilification adds to the media propaganda that leads to further loss of civil liberties and additional totalitarian censorship, as it misinforms, influences and shapes NEGATIVE public opinion, and eventually leads to a public that is more WILLING to accept these ludicrous infringements. --- JESUS! Plain clothes detectives -- on tape -- kicking down the door!!!! Stitched up with images!!!  Crown dropped case. Judge refuses to hand over forensic 'evidence' re Spivey computer!!

VK Russian Equivalent of Facebook Craps On Facebook At 50 Million Users to Facebook's 10 Million

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/jamiebartlett/100011938/why-vk-is-beating-facebook-in-russia-it-lets-you-search-for-pirated-movies-and-sex/ http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/jamiebartlett/100011938/why-vk-is-beating-facebook-in-russia-it-lets-you-search-for-pirated-movies-and-sex/ Why VK is beating Facebook in Russia: it lets you search for pirated movies – and sex By Jamie Bartlett Social media Last updated: January 4th, 2014 I’m writing this post from Moscow. No sign of Edward Snowdon yet, but VK – Russia’s equivalent of Facebook – is everywhere. Russians are the most active social network users in the world, and spend more time on them than any other country. VK is the social network of choice there – it has around 50 million unique users, while Facebook has just over 10 million. It was reported last week that Facebook is leaking teenagers – it’s apparently not cool anymore. VK is the opposite: it is especially popular among the younger demographic. Why? Here’s a simple theory for you. Unlike Facebook, VK facilitates two things that young people want to do: search for sexual partners and watch (pirated) newly released movies. Facebook doesn’t. On VK, the search function is incredibly good: almost anyone can be found, and you can filter easily and accurately according to sex, relationship status, and preferences. According to the Russian users I’ve been chatting to, that has essentially turned the site into a free and comprehensive dating service as well as a social network one.  As I’m sure you’re all aware, online dating is big business. Good dating apps linked to your social media profile are incredibly popular. YouTube in fact started out as a dating site: and in many ways so did Facebook. Now – for good reasons – it has far more privacy options, and more of its users are taking advantage of that making it harder to find people to hook up with. Over the last couple of years, free dating and sexting aps such as Tindr and Snapchat have amply filled the void. Plenty of teenagers head there instead. VK also allows piracy to go almost unchecked. VK has an enormous catalogue of pirated moves. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, it is one of the most egregious piracy sites in the world. Facebook is necessarily strict on the subject of pirated material. But it is incredibly popular pastime: in North America, Asia and Europe, one quarter of internet users download or stream pirated material. VK might also be about to make a step toward respected establishment fairly soon. Moves are afoot to clamp down on pirating. Concerns over whether VK has cooperated with the Kremlin might also nudge the company into taking privacy more seriously too (VK’s boss recently offered Snowdon a job helping to improve encryption; he hasn't answered). When it does, it will quite possibly lose a few teenagers. But like Facebook, it will then start to pick up a broader base of users – the over 30s, the silver surfers and so on – which will more than make up for it. Jamie Bartlett Jamie Bartlett is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos. He specialises in online culture and the dark net. He is currently writing a book on internet subcultures to be published in 2014 by William Heinemann. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/jamiebartlett/100011938/why-vk-is-beating-facebook-in-russia-it-lets-you-search-for-pirated-movies-and-sex/ VKontakte VK is the largest European social network with more than a 100 million active users. http://vk.com/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT VK sounds interesting (and MASSIVE), but I don't know how many English speakers are likely to be on there. Might sign on to see what it's about, even though I'm not really into a Facebook style format. The site itself says 100 million active users. ꕤ

Twitter - Social Media - Decommercialisation & Alternate Funding Models (Prof Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster)

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2016/1/8/technology/how-save-twitter-itself  [CLICK image for enlargement / clarity] Social Media - Decommercialisation & Alternate Funding Models http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2016/1/8/technology/how-save-twitter-itself How to save Twitter from itself     Christian Fuchs 8 Jan, 11:55 AM     Technology Industries EXTRACT [ ... ] But unlike it’s peers, while Twitter’s business also relies on advertising, it isn’t profitable. It made losses of £645 million in 2013, £578m in 2014, and £431m in the first three quarters of 2015. Its share value has dropped from more than $US60 at its highest in December 2013 to a low of $US22 in January 2016. By comparison, Facebook made a profit of £2 billion in 2014. For Twitter, its speed and ephemerality are so high that advertising logic seems contravened. The bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 showed the dangers of precariously-funded internet companies’ floating on stock markets. So perhaps chief executive Jack Dorsey feels that changing Twitter’s technological design will fix its economic problems, increasing the length of users’ attention span — and therefore the amount of time in front of adverts — with an increase in the length of tweets. But over the ten years since it launched, Twitter users have become accustomed to how Twitter works and may continue using it as they always have. Twitter finds itself in a bind: immensely popular but unprofitable, with no guarantee that what introducing 10,000 character tweets will change this as neither current nor alternative design promise large profits. Twitter’s economic crisis reflects the crisis in our public sphere. New technologies are often accompanied by a certain fetishism, that either celebrates it as a technological fix to all society’s ills, or demonises it as bringing about the end of civilisation. The arrival of social media is no different: some see it as the harbinger of digital democracy and a revitalised public sphere, while others argue that it makes us stupid and lowers the tone. In truth neither is right, because communications both shape society and are shaped by it. We need to slow down. Just like the slow food movement, we also need slow media that give us time to develop discussion. This inevitably means rolling back the capitalist logic of advertising sales so the focus can be on quality content, not monetising adverts. De-commercialisation and de-acceleration are strategies for saving the media. [comment:  I'm all for decommercialising, but definitely not for de-acceleration.] I grew up in Austria, where the national public service broadcaster ORF hosted the evening television discussion program Club 2 several times a week. This format’s unique feature was potentially unlimited airtime, which often resulted in hours-long, in-depth discussions of contemporary issues lasting into the morning hours. Club 2 was prototypical slow media.  [comment:  it sounds like state stasi propaganda hell,  catering to & exploiting the liberal left intelligentsia to brainwash the public ... that might bother to watch this slow propaganda crap.] If social media’s commercial logic is flawed, without tackling the capitalist political economy Twitter’s proposed changes are not enough. A more radical approach would be to turn Twitter into a non-commercial, non-profit platform without advertising that substitutes accumulation and speed for striving to foster sustained communication and debate.  [comment:  I'm all for no adverising, but as for the rest of it:  noooooooo.  It's the speed of information flow that is the attraction and the benefit of the platform, from which you pick & choose what you wish to follow up more fully.] Think that’s impossible? Non-commercial logic works for Wikipedia — one of the most popular sites on the web — which is a non-profit funded by grants, donations and some paid services it offers. [comment:  Wikipedia is OK to get some basic INITIAL key facts, while bearing in mind that you are reading bias & propaganda.  It is TAINTED information that is shaped by various propagandist editors who withhold vital facts, in their quest to spin the subject positively.  It's biased and distorted.  Various interest groups (and PR companies) have their hooks in it, so it's something of a joke.] Why shouldn’t it also work for Twitter? Radical improvements require the de-commodification of online communication — something that would require fundamental design and political-economic changes, and also the development of alternative funding models, such as a participatory media fee — a tax that advertising-based companies pay to access the audiences that generate their profits.  [comment:  WTF?  A 'participatory media fee' is commercialisation rather than decommercialisation.  And 'advertising-based' access to audience is going to amount to (a) some privacy robbing tactic and (b) adversing in some form.] The internet’s potential is vast. It’s important not to be sidetracked by profits but to use it to foster political debate and understanding in a world of global violence, economic crisis, and environmental catastrophe. The social media age has not yet developed its Club 2: we must make the move from social media capitalism towards a public sphere-focused social media and a media that is held in the commons — only then can social media become truly social. The Conversation Christian Fuchs, Professor of Social Media, University of Westminster This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2016/1/8/technology/how-save-twitter-itself ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT The proposal: "we must make the move from social media capitalism towards a public sphere-focused social media and a media that is held in the commons" sounds good in theory. But if the proposal results in more Wikipedia-style bias and propaganda that's dominated by interest groups, then it's not much of a proposal.  Those that are sufficiently motivated can learn a great deal from speedy internet information exchange that can be followed up according to one's inclinations. What we need is a no advertising and no censorship Twitter-style fast information exchange highway or bulletin board that discourages corporate spamming of any kind:  even the 'benign'. What would be cool is internet info 'rooms' (or channels), where you can tick certain boxes (of what is acceptable to you in terms of politics and censorship), so that you can narrow the pool of information down to something like:  non-liberal (PC) and uncensored, if you lean that way.  By the same token, uptight old people, bible-bashers, and delicate creatures who can't handle reality without being 'triggered', can opt for either a censored liberal heaven of their own choosing, or if this is too complicated to police on their behalf, they can be shown the cyber-door to existing commercial options. ꕤ

Twitter 10,000 Character Plan Meets Backlash

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/12087357/Removing-Twitters-140-character-limit-is-Jack-Dorseys-biggest-gamble-yet.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/12087357/Removing-Twitters-140-character-limit-is-Jack-Dorseys-biggest-gamble-yet.html Removing Twitter's 140-character limit is Jack Dorsey's biggest gamble yet Reaction to the possibility of 10,000 character tweets has been overwhelmingly negative, but Jack Dorsey has his reasons By James Titcomb 3:08PM GMT 07 Jan 2016 When Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on March 21 2006, it was still 294 days until Steve Jobs would unveil the iPhone. There were no apps, and mobile phone messages were almost exclusively sent by text. The limits of text messages were precisely how Dorsey and his fellow founders arrived at the 140-character limit that came to define Twitter. Before the smartphone era, tweets were designed to be sent by text, which were limited to 160 characters (the extra 20 was set aside for usernames). In the 10 years since, we’ve all bought smartphones, and text messages have been replaced by apps. Twitter itself has also changed – adding photos, hashtags, polls, faves (now hearts) and more, but the 140-character cap has remained the same, a defining feature (if not the defining feature) of the social network that set it apart from the likes of Facebook. Until now. On Tuesday it emerged that Twitter plans to raise the character limit on tweets, probably to 10,000. Dorsey confirmed this with a tweet of his own a few hours later defending the move. Many Twitter devotees met the prospect with an instant backlash, and it’s easy to see why. A huge part of Twitter’s appeal, they say, is that tweets are short (if not always sweet). The cap allows users to keep up with the dozens of tweets a minute that pop up on their feeds, and it forces the public figures, pundits and comedians to keep things concise. Long tweets would probably be displayed as 140 characters with a "read more" button to see longer ones, but opponents still felt the change would ruin the magic of Twitter: hashtags were started up in protest. But it’s also easy to see why Twitter wants to change things. "We’ve spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it," Dorsey wrote in his own screenshotted statement (weighing in at 1,315 characters).  [comment: they're taking screenshots of SPECIFIC PORTIONS of text that convey a SPECIFIC message or point to readers - often from ARCHIVED news content.] "Instead, what if that text…was actually text? Text that could be searched. Text that could be highlighted. That’s more utility and power." [comment:  it's not worth the effort b/c anything searched, highlighted & 'published' on Twitter shall wind up in some Twitter deletion black hole.  Far better off saving, editing & posting data independently of Twitter in-house offerings instead of doing the Twitter platform any freebie favours.  Even basic retweets are getting deleted from Twitter b/c some wanker or other doesn't maybe fancy the comment or hastag marked up on the retweet.  Once again, Twitter sucks balls.] The bigger picture is that Twitter is in trouble. Monthly users grew by just 3 million in the third quarter of last year, against 13 million a year earlier. Twitter remains lossmaking. Dorsey, who was brought back as chief executive last year, has promised to revive Twitter with a host of new initiatives.  [comment:  most of those 'monthly users' that 'grew' are users the Twitter Stasi have blocked (by way of malicious reporting, sh*tty programming or active censorship) who have had to get back on the platform by setting up another account ... lol  F*ck you, Twitter.  Die soon.] Unlike other new ideas like Moments, the recently-launched feature that replaces the Twitter timeline with packages of tweets summarising events, extending tweets isn’t really an attempt to coax more people onto the platform. But it could keep more people on Twitter who are on Twitter already. People who might instead follow a link; post on a blogging platform; or, as Dorsey did, link to an screenshot of text.  [comment:  screw Twitter and their 'packages' -- just another way of attempting to influence public participants.  Assh*les.] In this way, it follows a similar pattern to other things Twitter has done to make tweets "richer" – allowing images, videos and gifs to be embedded, introducing polls and so on. Twitter was losing eyeballs to YouTube, and fixed it. Now, it is losing them to Tumblr, Medium and Facebook, and wants to fix that.  [comment:  I detest polls, as there's always an ulterior motive:  in this case furnishing Twitter with free information probably.  Refuse to give these censoring and politically suppressing corporate assh*les any freebies.  Ignore their sh*tty polls feature until it DIES.] The question is whether it can accomplish this without annoying the people that love the short format. One might argue that if you don’t want more than 140 characters, don’t use them, but many other people undoubtedly will, which could turn using Twitter into a process of opening and closing tweets, rather than the streamlined feed users are used to. Like all social networks, so much of Twitter’s product is its users, and so the success or failure of a new feature rests in how they apply it. Upping the character limit is expected by the end of March, so we won’t know whether this new idea will vastly improve Twitter or ruin it until then. What is certain is that this is one of the biggest gambles that Dorsey has taken so far. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/12087357/Removing-Twitters-140-character-limit-is-Jack-Dorseys-biggest-gamble-yet.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT "So much of Twitter's PRODUCT is its USERS". Hear that, Twitter asssssssssh******lessssssssssssssss? From the way twitter treats public participants on the platform, you would think the public user is the enemy. Die soon, you commercial, censoring, privacy-raping and politically-suppressing establishment and establishment-serving assh*les! ꕤ

Twitter Greed Growing - Plans to Spam Customers with Commercial Publishing - 10,000 characters

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://recode.net/2016/01/06/twitters-longer-tweets-pave-the-way-for-more-publisher-deals/  [CLICK image for enlargement / clarity] Twitter Greed Growing - Plans to Spam Customers with Commercial Publishing -  10,000 characters http://recode.net/2016/01/06/twitters-longer-tweets-pave-the-way-for-more-publisher-deals/ Twitter’s Longer Tweets Pave the Way for More Publisher Deals Kurt Wagner  |  By Kurt Wagner |  @KurtWagner8 January 6, 2016, 10:57 AM PST Now that we know Twitter is building a feature to let users share longer tweets, maybe as long as 10,000 characters, that could have big consequences for publishers. [ ... ] CEO Jack Dorsey pointed out that expanding the tweet length means regular users won’t need to share images of text to work around the current limit. But more importantly, the move paves the way for Twitter to actually host content on its platform, not just links to content. Expanded tweets will give publishers a chance to run stories directly on Twitter the same way they do now with Facebook’s Instant Articles, Snapchat Discover and Apple News. Twitter wouldn’t need to convince publishers that it’s a great place for their content — that has already been established by the fact that every publisher I know of has an active Twitter account (if not multiple Twitter accounts). Handing over content to Twitter could increase readership, too. Way more people see publisher tweets than actually click on their links. The benefit for Twitter, of course, is that hosting content keeps users inside of Twitter instead of clicking to venture off to other websites. Twitter COO and revenue boss Adam Bain, in an interview Tuesday with Re/code’s Peter Kafka, didn’t dismiss the idea. “It’s an interesting way to look at it,” he said. “We certainly have been helping content companies today bring video content closer to consumers.” He mentioned twice that Twitter and publishers are working to generate revenue “together.” Twitter could certainly benefit from a new revenue stream. The company’s user growth has basically flatlined, which means Twitter needs to come up with ways to make more money from the same pool of people already on the service. Twitter has been able to do this over the past year. Revenue in Q3 jumped almost 58 percent over the previous year despite user growth of just 11 percent. But there’s no doubt the company is looking for other forms of revenue to sustain that trend. Questions still remain, of course. What might ads tied to hosted content look like? Could Twitter put an ad inside a tweet? Imagine reading a headline in a tweet, expanding that tweet to read an article, and coming across some kind of ad midway through the story or along the right rail. It seems like a possibility, although Twitter has made no indication it’s thinking along these lines. Plus, don’t forget that Twitter and Google “teamed up” on a project that felt like it might offer something similar back in September, but that turned out to be more of a Google project without any content actually living on Twitter. Hosting content is the new “thing to do” for social platforms, and it certainly makes sense for Twitter. Longer tweets may just be step one. http://recode.net/2016/01/06/twitters-longer-tweets-pave-the-way-for-more-publisher-deals/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Hosting publisher content on 'social platforms' (as well as the annoying Twitter advertising spamming that they're already bugging participants with) is something of an oxymoron:  there's nothing 'social' about such an arrangement. By amping up commercialising, by hosting a heap of crap, by annoying public participants with advertising, by hosting large slabs of MSM, corporate, government & intelligentsia propaganda and spam, this platform is anything but 'social'. The sooner people find some other way to communicate information by cutting out the commercially motivated middle man, corporations, and the state, the better. Why aren't all those open source developers creating a real peoples' communication platform? ꕤ

TWITTER STASI - CENSORSHIP RAPE - 'Twitter Unverifies Writer Amid Speech Wars' & CIA, TWITTER, BUZZFEED & WESTERN INTELLIGENTSIA WIDER WAR ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH

ꕤ Twitter Stasi [CLICK image for enlargement / clarity] SOURCE http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-unverifies-milo-yiannopoulos-leading-to-speech-polic#.aqDv3eO8Q WIDER WAR - WESTERN STATE, MSM, & INTELLIGENTSIA WAR ON (A) DEFINITION & (B) PERCEPTION OF REALITY BUZZFEED Twitter Unverifies Writer Amid Speech Wars The company won’t explain the removal of Milo Yiannopoulos’s verification badge. A campaign against harassment, and allegations of speech policing. posted on Jan. 10, 2016, at 9:46 a.m. Twitter’s removal of journalist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’s verification badge for unspecified rules violations has pushed the company — in the midst of a crackdown on harassment — deeper into the politicized battle over online speech. Though Yiannopoulos is still on the platform, the self-described supervillain is widely impersonated and the loss of the verification badge could well make it difficult for him to distribute his message on Twitter. “The primary purpose of verification is to combat impersonation,” Yiannopoulos told BuzzFeed News in an email. “I can’t think of anyone on the internet more impersonated (whether out of affection or otherwise) than me.” One possible Yiannopoulos violation: a top Twitter executive suggested it was for a Tweet containing the phrase: “You deserve to be harassed.” The executive, Head of Commerce Nathan Hubbard, said he wasn’t speaking for the company. And Twitter, citing a policy of not commenting on individual accounts, declined to comment. But it confirmed that a letter notifying Yiannopoulos of the verification revocation (cited in the tweet below) is real. This isn’t Twitter’s first battle with a member of the populist right-wing media. It banned the journalist Chuck Johnson last May for rules violations. “They’re using a tool for establishing the identity of prominent people as an ideological weapon,” Yiannopoulos wrote in an email. “Any one of you could be next — you know how the Left loves to turn on its allies!” It is unclear which rule (or rules) Yiannopoulos violated, and Twitter will not provide any additional detail on which infractions led to his verification removal. Social platforms are corporations, and aren’t bound by the First Amendment. But their decisions matter since much of the political discussion that once took place in the open web is now occurring within their walls. And discussions that do take place outside social platforms still often rely on social for distribution. Limiting someone’s ability to message on Twitter therefore has real impact. Johnson, for instance, has essentially vanished from the political conversation since he was banned. Facebook has dealt with similar issues. Donald Trump, for instance, recently made statements that appear to be in violation of the company’s hate speech policies, yet Trump remains active on the platform.  [comment:  'hate speech' laws & ensuing corporate policies are CENSORSHIP & POLITICAL SUPPRESSION tools] “When we review reports of content that may violate our policies, we take context into consideration,” a Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News at the time. “That context can include the value of political discourse.” The lack of specificity from Twitter prompted a wave of criticism under the hashtag #jesuismilo (a reference to French journalists who lost more than a blue check mark) and a pointed Tweetstorm from investor Jason Calacanis. Hubbard, the Twitter commerce executive, suggested this exchange might have prompted the company’s move: TOKYO ROSE EDIT   [*** insert paid/professional and/or associated 'feminist' intelligentsia social media messaging drivel, typical attack on freedom of speech aimed to suppress other political voices ***] Of course, Twitter verification badges simply make you a member of a large, modestly exclusive club. The badge’s removal has given Yiannopoulos a different kind of status. “If Twitter wanted to delegitimise or marginalise me this was EXACTLY the wrong thing to do,” he wrote in an email. “They probably thought it would be less of a drama than banning me for my terrible, off-reservation, how-can-a-gay-guy-possibly-say-this opinions. Actually, I’ve had nearly 5,000 new followers in a day, I’ve got speaking requests coming out of my ears and I’m turning into a free speech martyr despite not really losing anything. Free speech is something that all but the most strident cultural authoritarians can get behind, which is why comedians, journalists etc from across the spectrum are lining up to complain about it.” Yiannopoulos has also been critical of BuzzFeed News, and of a recent article that cast him as a central figure in a dark new internet counterculture. In one recent stunt, he changed his biography to describe himself as BuzzFeed’s “social justice editor.” He was subsequently briefly suspended from Twitter, and returned with that description removed from his bio. But a Twitter official said the removal of the verification badge is not connected to that incident. Additional reporting by Joseph Bernstein Alex Kantrowitz is a senior technology reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in San Francisco. He reports on social and communications. Contact Alex Kantrowitz at alex.kantrowitz@buzzfeed.com. http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-unverifies-milo-yiannopoulos-leading-to-speech-polic#.aqDv3eO8Q Britain: Feminist Intelligentsia Hypocrisy Serves Corrupt State Powers LINK | Post ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT - 'TRIGGER WARNING' Got a raging hate-on for Twitter Stasi, in particular, and for the 'social justice'  shield-as-a-blunt-instrument-of-suppression and sundry other cultural Marxism evangelising and CIA cut-out smear & disinformation PsyOps merchants, media & social media clowns, embedded clowns, & platforms, at the moment. Twitter Head of Commerce Nathan Hubbard can suck my inverted commas d*ck. Pack of CIA-serving censoring & privacy raping Twitter & CORPORATE MEDIA assh*les. Buzzfeed 'news' are a pack of  assh*les publishing state and corporate serving propaganda (ref:  Buzzfeed CIA PsyOps assault on WikiLeaks publisher, Julian Assange, & on Ecuador, who have (rightfully) granted the Australian journalist POLITICAL ASYLUM) -- so who cares what they (and their various corporate associates) have to say to smear dissenting voices & figures who challenge the CURRENT WORLD ORDER CORRUPT POWERS that wage ILLEGAL INVASIONS & WARS, commit WAR CRIMES, kill civilians WHOLESALE & otherwise WREAK DESTRUCTION & INJUSTICE ACROSS THE GLOBE, in service of their Anglo-American banking & corporate masters. This ideological assault & censorship is wider CIA, Twitter, Buzzfeed (& associated corporate media) & Western intelligentsia war on FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT (IDEOLOGICAL FREEDOM) & POLITICAL FREEDOM. ꕤ

Hairdressers, Grannies & Social Media Clowns Are the Danger in Europe ... Never Mind EU Policy of Destruction & 'Welcome Jihadists'

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3318379/Hunt-Isis-killers-Syrian-passport-body-suicide-bomber-Stade-France.html The Syrian passports to terror: EIGHT migrants have got into Europe with same papers as those found on stadium suicide bomber By Ian Drury Home Affairs Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 10:57 EST, 18 November 2015 | Updated: 12:34 EST, 18 November 2015 It had the same name, date of birth and place of birth. The only difference was the photograph. Serbian officials said as many as six other men this year had entered the EU with virtually identical passports. in the name of Ahmad Almohammad, born September 10, 1990 in the Syrian city of Idlib. Sources said it was either taken or fabricated based on a real identity The discovery has heightened fears that all the documents are fakes made by the same forger in the Middle East to dupe authorities into believing the holders are asylum seekers. And worse, it has sparked concerns that the bogus papers could be in the possession of jihadists now lurking undetected in the EU’s passport-free Schengen travel zone. The shocking ease with which the terrorists who murdered 129 innocent people in Paris were able to travel across Europe has sparked a renewed debate about the open borders policy. The development raises fresh worries over the potential security threat posed by 670,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in Greece this year after fleeing war and poverty. Lord Green of Deddington, the chairman of campaign group Migrationwatch, said: ‘This underlines the extent to which the southern borders of the EU is now wide open to fraud. It will take a huge operation to recover any controls worth the name. Meanwhile, the security risks of people carrying bogus passports around Europe speaks for itself.’ James Berry, a Tory MP on the Commons home affairs select committee, said: ‘In the UK we have the reassurance that we are not full members of the Schengen agreement so the passports of all people travelling here are checked thoroughly. ‘But Europe is too porous – if terrorists get though the initial border then there are no further checks before they get to the place they want to attack.’ Keith Vaz, Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee, added: ‘We need to urgently provide EU countries on the southern border with the equipment and expertise to deal with this immigration fraud. ‘To fail to do so will put the lives of EU citizens at risk.’ The fingerprints of the suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the French national football stadium matched those of someone who passed through Greece in October. Serbian police have confirmed the same passport-holder passed through the camp in Presevo, near the border with Macedonia – the same place the second passport holder was arrested on Saturday. French investigators believe the documents found on the remains of one of the three jihadists who died outside the Stade de France may actually have belonged to a loyalist Syrian regime soldier killed several months ago, the AFP news agency said. Forgers in the Middle East are offering fake Syrian passports, ID cards or birth certificates for as little as £165. In September, Mail Online journalist Nick Fagge obtained for £1,300 the same forged Syrian passports being used by IS fighters to trick the authorities into believing they are asylum seekers. And just this week a Guardian journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan was offered fake Syrian passports by two separate smuggling rings. In another indication of the lack of passport controls, the EU border agency Frontex revealed it does not have the equipment to assess the authenticity of identification documents of every migrant landing in Greece. Despite promising to beef up Frontex’s presence on the islands, EU countries have provided the agency with less than half of the manpower it needs to properly operate. Suspected suicide bomber Almohammad reached Greece after crossing the Aegean from Turkey on a raft with 198 migrants. He was arrested but later released and given papers that allowed him to travel to Athens and mainland Europe because officials believed he was a genuine refugee. He was allowed to travel through the Balkans, passing through checkpoints in Serbia and Croatia, before heading for Northern Europe. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3318379/Hunt-Isis-killers-Syrian-passport-body-suicide-bomber-Stade-France.html MEANWHILE Woman, 43, arrested after beauty salon posts 'no Muslims' comment on Facebook following Paris attacks Sebastian Mann Monday 16 November 2015 Police have arrested a woman in connection with a "racially abusive" Facebook post that appeared to ban Muslims from an Oxfordshire beauty salon. Thames Valley Police detained a 43-year-old woman after the remarks were made public on the Blinks of Bicester Facebook page in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. The now-deleted post was said to have read: "Blinks of Bicester are no longer taking bookings from anyone from the Islamic faith whether you are UK granted with passport or not" and "Sorry but time to put my country first". ... "The woman was arrested under section 19 of the Public Order Act which relates to the display of written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting with the intention of stirring up racial hatred, and for producing malicious communications. ... http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/woman-43-arrested-after-beauty-salon-posts-no-muslims-comment-on-facebook-following-paris-attacks-a3114861.html MEANWHILE Elderly German Lady Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison for Doubting Auschwitz Extermination Claims November 12, 2015 Hamburg District Court, Nov. 11, 2015 — 87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck has been sentenced to imprisonment in Germany for doubting that people were “exterminated” by “gassing” in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. She was accused of giving an interview to the German magazine Panorama in which she stated that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp but a labor camp. The mass murder of Jews had not taken place, she said. Haverbeck, former chairwoman of the now-banned freethought association, “Collegium Humanum,” told the judge,"Here, I stand.” ... http://renegadetribune.com/elderly-german-lady-sentenced-to-10-months-in-prison-for-doubting-auschwitz-extermination-claims/ MEANWHILE Facebook user is arrested for posting message PRAISING Paris attacks and Jihadi John and claiming Manchester will be next By Amanda Williams for MailOnline Published: 04:32 EST, 17 November 2015 | A Facebook user has been arrested after posting a message praising the ISIS terror attacks in Paris and claiming that Manchester could be next. The post surfaced on Sunday afternoon for around 45 minutes before police were alerted and it was removed. A 21-year-old from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was arrested this morning and remains in police custody on suspicion of inciting racial hatred. ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3320820/Facebook-user-arrested-posting-message-PRAISING-Paris-attacks-Jihadi-John-claiming-Manchester-next.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT European authorities have had borders open to non-Europeans for decades, despite enormous social costs and grounds for dissent (generally suppressed by the establishment-serving media, of course); Europe has dispensed with border security on account of the 'European Union' international banker and neocon 'market integration' and moving labour project; and Germany, Sweden, France, Belgium (& others) host sizeable non-European communities (irrespective of ongoing serious costs).  Yet Germany announces an immigrant 'house open' party, thereby imposing a potentially dangerous mixed bag mass Middle Eastern and African stampede-response immigration on all of Europe, despite Merkel declaring 'integration' a failure as far back as 2010. Angela Merkel's induced (and apparently well organised) 10,000 PER DAY (every day) logistical feat, of non-European immigrants that's swamped the continent for weeks, purportedly posed and continues to pose 'no' issue or threat according to European Union authorities, despite the 129 killed and 200 wounded by Islamic terrorists in Paris, that were let into Europe by those very same authorities  ...  But a hairdresser's Facebook posts (opting to decline business ... as if that's even possible under what amounts to fascist state control) and a German 87-year-old pensioner's expression of lack of conviction concerning WWII historical claims (made on a 'Panorama' program, egging the old dear on) that are the real 'danger' and require arrest and, in the case of an 87 year old pensioner, imprisonment. Meanwhile, an unidentified 21-year-old in West Yorkshire was also arrested for Facebook comments about the Paris attack, which social media comments could have been anything:  an expression of satisfaction, a declaration of approval or sympathy, an expression of intent (less likely) ... or just a piss-take and a wind-up. Does anybody else find it insane that the authorities institute damaging, disastrous and dangerous policies: eg  the open borders to mass-immigration from outside the ethnic and cultural group; the serial involvement in and support of military interventions abroad; support of proxy, terrorist militias abroad; the acceptance of refugees and immigrants from nations that have been targeted by military or continue to be targets of open military intervention or covert military intervention abroad; and that they do so without enforcing any kind of security measures (eg without segregation and quarantine of incoming immigrants, identification (which is just about impossible, so all they do is fingerprint them and release them among the community ... & deportation without identification is as impossible as identification itself), without security checks, health checks, processing and so forth, before acceptance and before allowing these 10,000 per day teaming immigrants into the vulnerable domestic populations)? While these authorities import and impose real danger and inevitable social destruction of Europe, they arrest ordinarily people for exercising what ought to freedom of thought and freedom of expression, probably even including the Yorkshire 21 year old enthused about the attacks, if it is in fact the 'free' Western society it is supposed to be.  But, of course, it's not anything of the kind.  It's a dictatorship. I think there may be a correlation between what they call 'diversity' and what is the creep of fascist state control and loss of freedom that then evolves from (a) the networks of interest groups and lobbies pressing for laws for 'protection' of minorities and (b) given indiscriminate mass immigration policy, laws that are subsequently required to protect the majority from radical, violent, immigrant minorities (which laws are then used to deprive everybody of what little freedom is left). Europeans aren't free; they're ruled by a fascist corporate-serving state that is bent on destroying Europe and indifferent to destroying Europeans themselves.  The fascist corporate-serving European states derive their widening, dictatorial, politically suppressive, powers from the very conditions laid on the ground in Europe by the ongoing destruction of Europe policy pursuit. [Clumsy long waffle sentences should probably be broken up to make more sense, but I'm too lazy for revision ...  lol] ꕤ

Transcript - Assange on Humour & Politics

TRANSCRIPT [for quotation purposes, confirm audio] Julian Assange, Editor WikiLeaks & Carlos Latuff, political cartoonist Embassy of Ecuador, London August 26, 2015 VIDEO [6:46] https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=372&v=ZWru83kwu6A Julian Assange I'm here with Carlos, and he's asked me to talk about what I think about humour and social media. Well, for a long time I've had a theory about humour, and the power of humour: and humour is all about fear and the relief from fear. And most people are not politically engaged because of fear. Politics is all around us. It affects everything you do. You have to really try hard to avoid politics and, so, why do most people avoid it? It's because they're scared of it; they don't understand it; they look at the images on the TV, or from Hollywood movies, and they see CIA agents coming down in Blackhawk helicopters and they think as soon as they get involved that's what's going to happen to them. So how does this connect with humour? Well, humour is all about fear and the relief from fear. And I'll give you a very simple illustration of that, that is a classic joke in English. What's brown & sticky? A stick. And, why does that work? I mean, it's a silly joke. Why on earth does that work? And it's really easy. Well, you were thinking, what is brown and sticky. Well, there's several possibilities and none of them are good. There's nasty mud; there's a suppurating wound; and the obvious one is: sh*t. Sh*t is brown and sticky and sh*t is horrible, and we all have instincts to avoid sh*t; to not want to think about sh*t; to not want to smell sh*t; to not want to talk, even, to others about sh*t; because they won't like this idea in their heads, either. And, so, when we say, 'Oh, it's a stick,' we have this relief; and we feel flooded with the relief from the fear that we were really talking about sh*t. And that's something very basic to human beings. Basic in our physiology, that all the time we, in our natural environment, we are exposed to things that make us scared: a possible snake; sh*t; the potential anger of other people against us. And that creates a fear state in our bodies where we become tense and we draw in breath to scream, or to fight, or to run. And when we become scared we have to become scared fast, because we may have to act really fast. In fact, we often become scared faster than our brains can understand the true nature of the situation we're in. And, so, in a joke, we erect the state of fear in someone and then give relief to that fear and, so, this feeling of relief means that we're not scared anymore. And when we look at political cartoons, that's what they do, and that's why we laugh at them. So, we take someone who has power and we are scared of their power - some, you know, powerful government figure - such as Barak Obama, who has at his control drones and assassins, and so on - and then we show that he doesn't understand; or that he doesn't get it; or that he's a hypocrite; or, in some way, that he doesn't have the power that we all perceive him previously to have, or the power is illegitimate, or hypocritical, in some way. And, so, that strips a powerful figure of their fear and the ability to instill fear in others; and as a result people feel more courageous. And that's why political authorities, and powerful commercial authorities, are so scared of politician cartoonists. Because the cartoon strips them of their power to instil fear into others, and most authority is not gained through legitimate actions of being accurate, or just, or competent, but, rather, in installing fear into others. Now, what's happened with the internet in the - well, really, the past four or five years - is that we have gone from a text-based world to a world that is combined text and images. And that's why if WikiLeaks does a tweet and we have an image, or a cartoon from Carlos, and some text, it does really well. It spreads around. Whereas just tweeting text doesn't. And that's not just something that's done by political cartoonists; it's done by most people, now - creating images with text overlays. And the dominant social medium is now moving to one of images combined with text, and this is the traditional form of political cartooning. Now, to a degree, everyone is starting to head towards being a political cartoonist, and they should see the power in that; because it can remove fear that people have and, once people's fear is removed and they can, you know, knock down the false images that have been constructed by organisations like the US military, or by the police who want to project themselves as being tough and unconquerable - then, yeah, people can address the world as it truly is and not the world that is constructed by illusions that install fear in others. --- end audio --- ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT lol ... I probably thought sh*t at first, followed by chocolate pudding, followed by sticky date pudding. Don't know that sh*t is particularly fear inducing in me.  Disgust maybe.  But it's a remote sense of disgust.  The mention of sh*t doesn't bother me.  Images of sh*t are more unappealing. Dealing with other people's anger or hostility is anxiety inducing, for me.  And I think I live in a state of permanent breath-holding ... for no reason at all.  I'm always in a hurry, I guess.  lol Politics can be avoided for heaps of reasons other than fear.  Genuine disinterest.  Boredom.  Apathy.  Apathy borne of conviction that nothing can change and that one's vote does not count. But I guess there's elements of fear in politics for those even on the outermost periphery of politics.  Fear of having unorthodox views.  Fear of becoming a target of those with opposing views.  Fear of drawing unwanted attention etc. Don't know about fear of CIA and Blackhawk choppers (unless maybe you're in Latin America or the Middle East), but, yeah, challenging the political status quo in any way (even if it is merely expressing opposing views) is fear inducing for an individual because all power rests with the state, rather than the individual. Or is that just my illusion? lol That was good.  I enjoyed that. PS   I just thought of a barrier to participation in politics (apart from motivation or desire).  Politics isn't for individuals; it's for groups. But there's no 'group fit' for an individual, unless the individual holds orthodox views or some kind or other, which neatly slot into the belief system of the group (which itself would aim to neatly slot into a formally endorsed or accepted societal ideological position, in order to have as wide a support base as possible).  Maybe participation politics beyond observation, isn't for everyone. Oops ... inexplicable typos. Must have gremlins.  lol ꕤ