Social Media GULAG

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The business model of Google, Facebook, and Twitter went from technical service providers to GULAG or concentration camp:

  • They treat the users not as customers, but as inmates. They have almost no customer service. Instead, they have content moderators—the equivalent of prison guards. A moderator / prison guard is the most numerous job in these companies.
  • Respectively, instead of providing services they attempt to prevent us from saying or doing forbidden things.
  • They also try to prevent the inmates from escaping. GFT don’t need walls and guard towers – their products are addictive enough to keep many inmates close. But they also take hostages – a man cannot leave Facebook if his friends are held by it.
  • This said, the walls have been erected. Apple & Google banned Gab from their online stores and keep blocking other escape routes. They went as far as to collectively attack Mastodon – an open source software that allows creating decentralized communities competing with Twitter.
  • Facebook and Twitter make money from content created by their inmates without any compensation, literally slave labor.
  • They don’t talk to us, but research us and experiment on us.

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Imaginary Social Media Component of Imaginary Russian Meddling

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2023-11-13 update: The suspected IRA social media activities were of a commercial nature. The IRA was building an audience. Among other things, it exploited hot political topics – a well-known dishonest technique to get engagement. It did not even intend to sow or inflame division, much less to interfere in the elections. See articles 1, 2 from rbc.ru.

This said, the IRA activities provided net benefit to Hillary Clinton by activating and potentially increasing turnout of its potential voters. For example: “Facebook users engaged 11.2 million times with a top-performing page, “Blacktivist”, which was created by the Russian agency. Almost 100% of its YouTube content involved videos of violence perpetrated against African-American men, says the report.” (BBC)

It also damaged Trump and Republicans by creating and operating a Twitter account, pretending to represent Tennessee GOP: “@TEN_GOP, which was a Russian-backed account disguising itself as a conservative group in Tennessee, directs outrage over a specific issue trolls want to proliferate. @TEN_GOP had 115,000 followers and interacted with high-profile players” (CNET)

Later, it even supported Robert Mueller’s investigation, and he knew that! “… tweeting about Mueller’s indictment of their 13 IRA colleagues, writing, in part, ‘Still think this Russia thing is a hoax and a witch hunt? Because a lot of witches just got indicted.’ In other tweets, the alleged Project Lahkta [sic] accounts actually urged people to protect Mueller; on December 16, 2017, the indictment says, a fake Twitter account called @KaniJJackson posted, ‘If Trump fires Robert Mueller, we have to take to the streets in protest. Our democracy is at stake.’” (Wired) Continue reading Imaginary Social Media Component of Imaginary Russian Meddling →

Twitter Bans Communication

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Twitter made the phrase “Kill All Jews” Trending in New York on November 2, 2018 – four days before the Congressional elections. The trending topics are created by Twitter itself, not its users. My experience as a software engineer suggests that someone inside Twitter made this a trending topic manually, or tinkered with the software code to make this topic trending in New York, possibly to blame Trump for it. Twitter’s trending topics are not “information provided by another information content provider” for which it might be protected from liability under Section 230.  Continue reading Twitter Bans Communication →

Notes 2020 Jan

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A CONSPIRACY TO DEFAME SERGEI MILLIAN
How Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, Primary Sub-source, & Brian Ross knowingly conspired to defraud the Federal Government and criminally defame Sergei Millian, by Monsieur America on December 24, 2019

Can there be a lie more cold, repugnant, and traitorous than that of the intelligence community burning its own CI asset Carter Page to claim him an agent of a hostile foreign power? Continue reading Notes 2020 Jan →

Oxford Internet Institute of Junk Science etc.

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The UK-based Oxford Internet Institute (OII) claiming to be “dedicated to the social science of the Internet” is actually an ordinary propaganda mill, despite its Oxford brand. Since 2016, it brought its pseudo-scientific research to bear on multiple topics of public debate related to the internet and social media in the US and other countries. 

Oxford Internet Institute produced junk science rejecting actual scientific evidence that Big Tech services harm adolescents’ mental health. This junk science was used in an advertorial published by Facebook in the Telegraph, UK. The Computational Propaganda Project of this “Institute” (ComProp) played a key role in creating the social media component of the Russia Hoax in November 2016.

This post contains supporting material for the article The Russia Hoax Was Aided by NGOs Peddling Junk Science in the American Thinker, December 31, 2019. Continue reading Oxford Internet Institute of Junk Science etc. →

Social Media vs Freedom of Speech

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Hate speech and misinformation on social media are real issues. However, these issues are caused by the structure and mechanics of the social media platforms, which express the business models and philosophy of companies operating them (Google YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter).

Freedom of speech allows anyone to say anything, but no one is required to listen. Before social media, people usually spoke to specific audiences that had agreed to listen to them. A reporter or radio host spoke to the people who bought the newspaper or tuned in to the radio station. A preacher spoke to people who went to his church or house of worship. Members of a social club chose to speak and listen to each other. People spoke freely in the company of their family, friends, or other important relationships. As an exception, a village idiot could yell on top of his lungs in public, but nobody cared. Continue reading Social Media vs Freedom of Speech →