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What Happened to Don’t Be Evil?

Michael Senger / July 4, 2022 / Technology / 5 minute read

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Big Tech platforms openly collude with governments to suppress the speech of their own people, while overtly abusing the legal system and paying massive settlements to conceal the evidence of their collusion. They craft the false illusion of consensus on political issues of their own choosing, a power unprecedented in our democracy and historically held only by the most despotic regimes, promising in every instance to wield it for good, but falling short every time.

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World Economic Forum Pushes Facial Recognition Technology

John Mac Ghlionn / May 27, 2022 / Technology / 4 minute read

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The dangers posed by digital IDs cannot be emphasized enough. As the researcher Brett Solomon—a man “who has tracked the advantages and perils of technology for human rights” for well over a decade—previously noted, the mass rollout of digital IDs “poses one of the gravest risks to human rights of any technology that we have encountered.”

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World Health Organization Deploys Another Disease Threat to Push Global Survelliance

John Mac Ghlionn / May 25, 2022 / Government, Policy, Technology / 5 minute read

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Vaccine passports and contact tracing are intimately tied to surveillance. More specifically, global surveillance. As the draft notes, the WHO will carry out “coordinated global surveillance of public health threats.” This can only be achieved by member states, all 194 of them, expanding their surveillance systems and contributing to “the WHO’s global systems for surveillance.”

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The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System

Aaron Kheriaty / May 24, 2022 / Policy, Technology / 4 minute read

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The thrust of every one of the changes is toward increased powers and centralized powers delegated to the WHO and away from member states.

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The Digital Panopticon

Aaron Kheriaty / May 5, 2022 / Law, Policy, Technology / 4 minute read

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There is a broader legal context for these extra-legal developments in mass surveillance of civilian populations. Since the war on terror began, Western nations have legislatively scaled up their increasingly intrusive networks of mass surveillance (often referred to with the euphemism “bulk collection”).

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The Battle for Control of Your Mind

Aaron Kheriaty / April 29, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy, Technology / 6 minute read

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These new digital surveillance and control mechanisms will be no less oppressive for being virtual rather than physical. Contact tracing apps, for example, have proliferated with at least 120 different apps in used in 71 different states, and 60 other digital contact-tracing measures have been used across 38 countries. There is currently no evidence that contact tracing apps or other methods of digital surveillance have helped to slow the spread of covid; but as with so many of our pandemic policies, this does not seem to have deterred their use.

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The Health Risks of Graphene

Carla Peeters / April 18, 2022 / Masks, Public Health, Technology / 6 minute read

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This public health risk is growing each day due to a sharp rise in malnutrition as a result of the lockdowns undermining a well-functioning immune system and the ability to degrade or detoxify graphene-derived products.

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Where Is the Bio-Fascist State Headed?

Aaron Kheriaty / March 29, 2022 / Technology / 3 minute read

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In these proposed laws we see the features I’ve sketched in previous posts on the Biosecurity Surveillance Regime unfolding around us: the welding of public health, digital technologies, and the police powers of the state into an invasive model of surveillance and control.

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Your Privacy and Brownstone’s Digital Strategy

Brownstone Institute / February 21, 2022 / Media, Technology / 4 minute read

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These are enormously stressful times for all. They require everyone to reassess and rethink our relationship to technology for reasons of preserving freedom, privacy, and independence. We need to do our best to avoid becoming part of the privatization of the state. We have taken an important step in that direction.

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Canada’s Accidental Biosecurity State

Mikko Packalen / January 9, 2022 / Economics, Law, Public Health, Technology / 6 minute read

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The Covid policies we see today in Canada are the product of pretending for two years that Covid can be stopped, that no trade-offs exist when it comes to Covid, and shunning debate on even the most obvious trade-offs and alternative Covid policies. The lack of attention to the human and economic costs of Canada’s Covid response has been appalling.

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Why Bill Gates Is Pivoting on Existing Covid Vaccines

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 12, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health, Technology, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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Once you understand the simplicity of his core confusions, everything else he says makes sense from his point of view. He seems forever stuck in the fallacy that the human being is a cog in a massive machine called society that cries out for his managerial and technological leadership to improve to the point of operational perfection.

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Your Booster Life: How Big Pharma Adopted the Subscription Model of Profitability

Julius Ruechel / October 24, 2021 / History, Pharma, Policy, Public Health, Technology / 76 minute read

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What if, by depriving us of normal life, those who stand to gain from vaccines can forever cement themselves at the center of society by providing an artificial replacement for what our immune systems used to do to protect us against common respiratory viruses back when we were still allowed to live normal lives?

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