500 Suspicious Attackers on Jan6

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There were many more suspicious actors on #J6 than previously thought. The spreadsheet alone, from SeditionHunters, lists 532 persons written up for violence, vandalism, or worse (the SeditionHunters’ “suspects”), but not prosecuted.

Out of 532, 484 (almost all) were violent on #J6. 256 are wanted by the FBI, and this includes 216 who are wanted for the assault on a federal officer (AFO), most likely police. Does law enforcement ignore those who assault their officers, turning a blind eye? 54 are wanted by the MPD, including some who are also wanted by the FBI. Continue reading 500 Suspicious Attackers on Jan6 →

Anomalies in Behavior and Prosecution of Jan 6 Persons

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  • Majority of violent Capitol attackers have not entered the Capitol building. That refutes the official version the attackers attempted to get in and that the Capitol building had been breached from the outside. It was opened from the inside, and most real attackers did not enter.
  • Majority of the “leaders” and inciters have not entered the Capitol building. This suggests that most of them were fake.
  • The main criterion for prosecuting Jan 6 demonstrators was being a member of the Oath Keepers: 91% prosecution rate (29 out of 32).
  • Second most prosecuted conduct was Entering the Capitol: 73%

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Russian Activities in 2016 Elections were anti-Trump

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2023-03-12 update: Some attempts to re-write history by linked sites are addressed. YouTube has recently blocked RT videos, which were posted in 2016. Marked “the video is blocked by YouTube now“. The Nation deleted the linked articles, so links to archived versions are added.

2022-09-06 update: In May 2016, RT called Trump “More Caligula than Augustus … America’s answer to Mussolini, and just like the Italian fascist dictator”. Also, the Obama administration made US dependent on Russia for the nuclear fuel and space flight.

It’s almost funny that the so-called Intelligence Community Assessment (January 6, 2017,  Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections) claimed that the Russian interference had been against Hillary and in favor of Trump, although most of the evidence in it demonstrated the opposite. RT (Russia Today TV) and IRA (Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” in Saint Petersburg) agitated in favor of Hillary and the policies of the Democratic Party, and against Trump and the policies of the Republican Party. Continue reading Russian Activities in 2016 Elections were anti-Trump →

Obamanet and Selection of Big Tech Winners

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Today, not only political discourse but also the professional and personal lives of most people younger than 50 depend on the Internet. Yet all of that is controlled by six huge Big Tech corporations: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Twitter.

Violation of the First Amendment

The key to the current state of the Internet is the Obamanet (which its supporters call net neutrality) passed by the FCC in 2010 for the first time. This is likely the most radical infringement, or even denial, of the First Amendment by the federal government in US history. It effectively prohibited freedom of speech and the press on the Internet.

From Obamanet (2010): “Purchasing a higher quality of termination service for one’s own Internet traffic, though, is not speech.” The “termination service” phrase is somewhat ignorant. ISP fees cover all the costs of delivering Internet traffic, not just termination. That pays for the Internet infrastructure build-up, from programming routers to laying fiber cables, and maintenance. Continue reading Obamanet and Selection of Big Tech Winners →

Big Tech has Abandoned Section 230 Protection

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Section 230 has never been as broad and powerful as Big Tech made us to believe. In 2016, the DC Circuit of Appeals compared Section 230 to a mousehole, in which Congress could not put anything big:

“US Telecom next claims that 47 U.S.C. § 230, enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a portion of the Telecommunications Act, confirms that Congress understood Internet access to be an information service. … however, it is unlikely that Congress would attempt to settle the regulatory status of broadband Internet access services in such an oblique and indirect manner… (Congress… does not, one might say, hide elephants in mouseholes.)” (US Telecom Association v. FCC, 825 F. 3d 674, 703 – Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, 2016;  internal quotation marks omitted)

But Big Tech social media platforms completely abandoned  Section 230 protections in the May 2022 SCOTUS application (NetChoice LLC v. Paxton): “From the moment users access a social media platform, everything they see is subject to editorial discretion by the platform in accordance with the platforms’ unique policies.”

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230d Technical

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Weakened and defeated parental controls

One example of a parental control software, crippled by Big Tech, is Norton Family. Its limitations include:

“Video Supervision requires a browser extension on Windows and the in-app Norton Browser on iOS and Android. It monitors videos viewed on YouTube.com (but not YouTube videos embedded in other websites or blogs) and on Hulu.com (but only on Windows). It does not work with the YouTube or Hulu apps.”

These limitations are caused by the conduct of Google and/or Apple. Continue reading 230d Technical →

Supporting Materials 2023

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Supporting material for #Obamanet and Obama’s Selection of Big Tech Winners on Substack.
A retail ISP subscriber pays the ISP monthly fees, the ISP pays its costs and the cost of bandwidth to the upstream network owner. The largest networks peer with each other free of charge, making up the Internet backbone. Total ISP fees, including fixed and mobile, were about $140B annually in 2014, and have been growing since Continue reading Supporting Materials 2023 →

Section 230 does not protect Big Tech from their customers

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The Communications Decency Act (CDA) Section 230 was enacted in 1996[1] with the main purpose to protect interactive computer service providers that offer a family-friendly internet experience from certain claims of third parties.

Big Tech Platforms that harm their customers by removing or misdirecting content that the customer wanted to receive, or not attempting to deliver the content that the customer have sent, are not protected by the Section 230. Continue reading Section 230 does not protect Big Tech from their customers →

Pandemic $Trillions

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Big Tech has been the biggest financial beneficiary of the pandemic, in the absolute and relative terms. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Apple have collusively monopolized communication of information about COVID-19, and nearly doubled their market capitalization from $4T to nearly $8T.

Table 1. Changes in GFTMA stocks prices and capitalization from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2022.

Corporation Ticker 1/1/2020 Cap, $T 1/1/2022 Cap, $T Growth
Google (Alphabet) GOOG $1,434 0.95 $2,726 1.81 1.90
Facebook (Meta) FB $202 0.56 $318 0.88 1.57
Twitter TWTR $33 0.03 $37 0.03 1.12
Microsoft MSFT $167 1.26 $303 2.28 1.81
Apple AAPL $76 1.25 $170 2.79 2.24
TOTAL $4.04T $7.79T 1.93
Prices are adjusted for splits and dividend and/or capital gain distributions

Figure 1. The market price increase of GOOG, FB, MSFT, and AAPL during the same time Continue reading Pandemic $Trillions →