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“I Am the Regulator!”: EU Commissioner Warns Social Media to Censor After French Riots

Robert Kogon / July 16, 2023 / Media, Technology / 4 minute read

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“L’Etat, c’est moi” – “I am the state” – Louis XIV is supposed to have said. And in a contemporary echo of that famous phrase, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton repeatedly stressed on Monday that “I am the regulator” when lambasting social media networks for “not having done enough” during the recent French riots and threatening them with sanctions, including even banishment, if they should remain similarly inactive after August 25.

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Revenge of the Praetorian Guard

Brownstone Institute / July 9, 2023 / Government, Law, Technology / 8 minute read

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None of us ever wanted to live in a country in which the ruling regime openly expresses opposition to core constitutional rights that many generations of Americans thought were guaranteed by law. The injunction of Missouri v. Biden does nothing other than remind the government of those rights. And this is precisely why the Biden administration so strongly objects.

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We Landed a Major Blow Against the Censorship Leviathan

Aaron Kheriaty / July 6, 2023 / Censorship, Law, Media, Technology / 10 minute read

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One naturally wants to believe that an issue one is involved in is of world-historical importance. But as the judge himself wrote in the decision, “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” That, my friends, is a strong claim, but as I have previously argued, an entirely accurate one.

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The Hubris of Bending Modernity to Fauci’s Will

Justin Hart / July 5, 2023 / Policy, Technology / 3 minute read

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One might wonder, are they suggesting that we trade our modern conveniences and urban landscapes for a romanticized past where disease still ravaged populations, but we were more “in harmony” with nature? Were stay-at-home orders a proxy for keeping us from trodding foot on nature?

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How I Was Canceled by MeetUp.com

Doran Howitt / July 2, 2023 / Society, Technology / 8 minute read

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I created a Meetup group called “Covid Contrarians” in New York City. The idea was just to meet other people like me, who thought our governments were overreacting to the Covid situation. My big plan was no more than, get together and schmooze over coffee or a beer. The group lasted a few weeks before Meetup declared that it was spreading misinformation, and erased it from the website.

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CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life

Brownstone Institute / June 30, 2023 / Law, Technology / 6 minute read

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The House Report indicates that CISA was a central actor in censoring criticism of the Covid regime in the ensuing months and years. The agency is representative of the cabal of censorial and unaccountable officials engaged in public-private partnerships designed to keep us in the dark.

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What People Overlook in the AI Debate

Bert Olivier / June 27, 2023 / Technology / 7 minute read

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As Dr Narayanan indicates, ChatGPT’s responses to some computer science examination questions he posed to it were spurious, but they were phrased in such a specious manner that their falsity was not immediately apparent, and he had to check them three times before being certain that this was the case. So much for ChatGPT’s vaunted capacity to ‘replace’ humans.

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Informational No Man’s Land

David Thunder / June 24, 2023 / Media, Technology / 5 minute read

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Under these circumstances, those who do their own independent research, rather than uncritically swallowing whatever “official authorities” tell them, are not the “cranks” and “conspiracy theorists” they are being made out to be, but citizens who actually understand the predicament they find themselves in, and have the courage to think for themselves, even when it draws down ridicule, censorship, and alienation from “respectable” society.

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My Conversation with ChatGPT on Death Rates

Ian McNulty / June 21, 2023 / Technology / 7 minute read

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Could it be that we are being misdirected to look the wrong way, and the greatest existential threat to our survival as a species comes not from AI’s superior intelligence, but its crass stupidity?

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Was “Philip Cross” an AI?

Robert Blumen / June 19, 2023 / Technology / 8 minute read

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Will future campaigns to control Wikipedia narratives rely on this technology? What is the future of a crowd-sourced knowledge base such as Wikipedia that depends on the high cost in human time and social interaction of making an edit to a controversial topic when the ability to automate this makes it close to free?

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The Censorship Hegemon Must Be Stopped

Aaron Kheriaty / June 11, 2023 / Censorship, Government, Law, Media, Society, Technology / 7 minute read

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This agency was created in the waning days of the Obama administration, supposedly to protect our digital infrastructure against cyberattacks from computer viruses and nefarious foreign actors. But less than one year into their existence, CISA decided that their remit also should include protecting our “cognitive infrastructure” from various threats.

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The Deplatforming of the “Disinformation Dozen”: More Coverage From Tracy Beanz

Aaron Kheriaty / June 1, 2023 / Media, Technology / 5 minute read

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Facebook responded to the White House’s incessant and abusive demands for more censorship with, “We hear your call for us to do more, and as I said on the call we are committed to working towards our shared goal.” This after a triple punch of threats were lobbed by the White House and the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG), Dr. Vivek Murthy, at social media companies in mid July 2021.

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