Government Teams up with Big Tech to Circumvent Basic Human Rights
This has been going on for a while now.
Remember Edward Snowden? He was recently given Russian citizenship and a passport. He can no longer be extradited to the United States. Take that, Murica. Compliments of Putin. Don't we feel silly!
At the end of the day the powers that be wanted to prosecute a whistle-blower for a perfectly legal action. Snowden even agreed to come back to the USA and have a trial if it was on fair terms (with a jury and all that). I forget the exact details but that is the last thing the prosecution would want. They'd lose, and even if they didn't lose they'd be legally exposed to all the illegal surveillance that Snowden uncovered during his tenure at the NSA. Can't have that.
The moral of this story (or lack thereof) is that people are no longer allowed to have any privacy. Privacy is basically illegal, and the governments of the world act as though it's always been this way and the world would fall to pieces if people could just run around and not be tracked for every little thing that they do. Venmo and Paypal going from reporting gross sales over $20k down to $600 in a single bill: All under the guise of helping the economy get back on its feet.
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This is the only Pomp podcast I have ever listened to. Not the biggest fan of the guy but this particular one came highly recommended by @anomadsoul so I bit the bullet and committed the 3 hours required to get through it while performing some other basic tasks simultaneously several weeks back.
Big Tech is the Backdoor around the Bill of Rights
Most recently we got a big taste of this on Twitter during covid, long before Elon Musk took over. Dissenting voices were being silenced left and right, and liberals cheered as the literal president of the United States was banned from the platform. Think about how completely batshit insane that is: to ban a president from a social media website.
The ultimate problem with this situation is that these issues of 'science' become heavily politicized on purpose so that one side will always support totalitarian overreach. Those who cheered that Trump and anti-vaxers were expelled from Twitter don't seem to realize that the cannons will be turned on them soon enough, and I suspect the right will support it and confirm the hypocrisy of the situation.
The ultimate point to be made here is that many on Twitter were comparing the situation to the book '1984' when the ban-hammers were coming down the hardest. It was seen on an infringement of 1st Amendment Rights. The left's counterpoint was that 1st Amendment Rights do not apply to something like Twitter because Twitter is not a government agency. We are living in a world where both sides are correct in their assessments.
Quite simply put, technology is progressing at such a blazingly fast exponential pace that governments and the laws they write are permanently behind the times. It certainly doesn't help that most people who ascend the ranks of politics are quite old and living in a past that doesn't exist anymore.
Thus, we now live in a world of complete paradox, where banning users from social media over political issues is a violation of the First Amendment, and it also absolutely isn't a violation.
We can see that congress didn't make a law prohibiting free speech, so it is not a First Amendment violation. We also see that government is capturing Big Tech so they don't need to make any law at all. They can just do whatever they want and enforce it without laws. This is the problem between the marriage of Big Tech and government. They can simply circumvent all the laws in play because technology provides a back door for those who have the power to walk through it. This issue will only continue to escalate over time. Technology shows no signs of slowing down. If anything it is speeding up. All the AI playgrounds people are messing around with these days only confirm the inevitable.
Mixing capitalism with 'communism'.
To be clear: China is not communist. It is a totalitarian state ruled by a single unrelenting political party. Just look at what is going on over there right now. The entire country is being turned into a prison, being sprayed with god-knows-what and drones in the street barking orders. And I thought this country was bad. Yikes.
And yet, many companies want to operate within the bounds of China, especially Big Tech. I mean, obviously right? If you get permission to operate within the borders of China you can make a boatload of money. This is especially relevant in the context of Big Tech because of the data industry. More people means more data. More data means more money.
The ultimate consequence of the "Great Chinese Wall" is that corporations have to do whatever the CCP says or they get ban-hammered from the country. Just recently we saw Apple remove the ability for Chinese citizens to talk peer to peer due to the protests that China claims isn't even happening. Many blame Apple for this, but how can we? If Apple refuses to do what the CCP says, they will quite simply be kicked out of the country and all that market share goes to another company that would be more than happy to lick the CCP's boots.
Coincidentally this is the exact same logic that makes it impossible to ban crypto. The only way to stop China from engaging in these human rights violations would be to get every corporation to agree. The only way to ban crypto is to get every country to agree. It simply can't happen. One single entity selling out and breaking out of the global agreement ruins it for everyone else trying to patch together the control grid.
The podcast talks a lot about this stuff, but even more interestingly it talks a lot about China's history with Taiwan, which I knew nothing about previously. It's a bit beyond the scope of this post but I will say that it's highly interesting and I noted here in my files that talk about China starts around the 1 hour 30 minute mark.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1587857229054705666
Companies must bow to shareholders and infinite growth.
And that's simply the way it is within this capitalist system. Seeking healthy balance and sustainability is simply not an option within a centralized debt-based system. This is why we are in the situation that we are in when considering pollution and green energy.
On the one hand, the left wants to push electric cars and eating less red meat and whatever else, while the right points out that green energy and the transition we are trying to accomplish is completely unsustainable. Again, both sides are right. Humanity needs to make a change, but the changes we are implementing are not real solutions in the moment. Things like solar energy and electric cars are absolutely not abundant enough to replace the current systems. In fact the political push to replace all vehicles with EV is highly suspect, as these electric vehicles are all connected into the grid and can theoretically be controlled by outside entities.
We can see that cobalt, a critical component in batteries, is centralized and bottlenecked in two different ways. Once in the Congo where it is mined, and again in China, where it is actually processed into something more useful than its raw form. Most do not think about how geo-politics enter the equation even in the case of trying to "save the world" with "sustainable practice". Politics doesn't stop because the issue is important. In fact we see the opposite is often true.
This brings us back to Taiwan and the fact that China wants to annex it back into the superpower. You might not know this (I didn't before the podcast) but Taiwan makes some of the best semiconductors out there. There is speculation that China taking Taiwan could be very bad in terms of tech monopolies. There is even further speculation that China might even allow other superpowers like USA to figure out their semiconductors situation BEFORE invading Taiwan just so the USA stays out of it, allowing for a decisive victory with little intervention. How's that for a twist?
Conclusion
Technology is pushing us further and further into Clown World. The planet no longer makes sense because technology moves too quickly while our biggest institutions are slow lumbering beasts that move at a snail's pace. Now we find ourselves in a position where these slow lumbering beasts have captured tech for themselves and use it to circumvent the very laws that were created to check the powers that be.
It should be obvious that we are heading down the path of an explosive, chaotic, and completely unpredictable outcome. That's terrifying, but also exciting. Everything seems to be getting disrupted all at the same time. Crypto may find itself at the core of this disruption. Try not to fall through the cracks.
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Disruption. Yes. Disruption opens up pathways that could not be seen when things rolled on as expected. Even though we have had a bit too much disruption of late, it is shaking up enough minds, such as yours, that new opportunites can be seen.
One problem is that all these states of emergency give alphabet agencies the power to make regulations that have the force of law. Free speech is quite endangered. Congress won't do it, it can't as you have pointed out, but alphabet agencies very much can as long as we accept that states of emergency are valid. I do not accept it.
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I don't feel it will be very long before things change however. Big tech in terms of social and stocks wasn't till the last 15 maybe 20 years really and in the history of things that's a very small and fast gap that could very well change in 5 to 10.
One of the core issues people have though is they want decentralized but for that to really happen someone needs to just build the ground work and then open source it and let whatever happen happen. Human nature however wants to take credit for being that person that created it. So maybe AI needs to create it and AI is moving hella fast at the moment.
Human nature however wants to take credit for being that person that created it. So maybe AI needs to create it and AI is moving hella fast at the moment. Even though we have had a bit too much disruption of late, it is shaking up enough minds, such as yours, that new opportunites can be seen.
Fucken hell listening or reading this post seems like there is no point into doing anything.
No hate here just an observation of the bleak existence your painting and how there really is nothing left that can be done towards anything worthwhile. Even more bleak is the fact you day the Chinese Communist Party is not a communist party and is just an authoritarian form of government. Pretty bleak idea especially when it's not even considered a spade when they themselves call themselves a spade.
There really isn't. Let me give you a really "fresh" example of why. A judge in AZ came out a couple days ago to sanction lawyers who filed a lawsuit in an election fraud claims. People on the blog couldn't even differentiate what he said, which was this:
That was a mighty fine way of saying you can talk all day about if those test are adequate or not but you can't say they didn't perform them. That's pretty much called a run around the subject. It doesn't even necessarily have to be fraud being talked about, the machines could just malfunction, which was what those who brought the case were talking about, but people aren't suppose to care because the machines were tested prior, as such you can't question the integrity of the machines or second guess those who performed the test. The machines can go haywire and start communicating with each other, please do feel free to talk about that as much as you like but don't say the machines were never tested.
So you can clearly see what he did there. At least I can. He totally side stepped the issue. Here's another twist of tongue he did.
He sanctioned them because they said people didn't cast ballots. He said you can't mislead people by saying ballots weren't cast.
They were talking about the machine that actually cast the vote. Yes people fill out ballots. Yes people cast that ballot into a machine. But it's the machine that actually cast what is suppose to be the intent of the voter. So in the case in 2020 were felt markers bled through the ballot and miscast the voters intent is similar to what they were talking about. The machine not the voter ends up casting the actual vote. It clearly does not mean the machine did it with sufficiency.
People clearly can't comprehend between the intent of what the filing was about or they simply don't want to because it benefitted one side over the other and that's all that mattered to them. They don't care that the judge side stepped the issues involved all that they care about is he sidestepped it in their favor and he punished the people to try and deter them from questioning the integrity of the electoral process. When you can't question the checks and balances in place than you've opened the whole system up to fraud.
I am not saying there was or wasn't fraud involved, I am not saying the machines malfunctioned, what I am saying though is when we can't question the integrity of the voting process without fear of retaliation we've done lost. There's a whole lot of people out there that are either totally unable to comprehend the most basic subject matter or a whole lot of people who don't comprehend the consequences involved. We can't open the machines up to audits because it would give away patented trade secrets of the company involved or it might compromise confidential voter data is ensuring that those who want to fraud the system has free access to do so without question.
wadafuq...
Privacy and self expression is one thing the government seem not liking. They put up laws that protect them in and after office. Here in Nigeria I saw a news that a student twittered about the Nigerian first lady and the cyber security traced the student and kept him on detention for a few days. Though he had been released but that's the height of it.
I still remember the book Animal farm and sooner what is unexpected would happen.
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Excellent analysis.
I recognised long ago the dangers of Big Tech control over the public square and risk of backdoor capture by political elements without the checks and balances of lawful government actions.
I also recognised that competition law and freedom of speech are two sides of the same coin and that the way to stop Big Tech collusion in banning everything they don't like is to expose the massive illegal cartel they are operating.
The government just wants control and they don't really care about our rights at all. With the Elon leaks for the Twitter files, we have seen that both sides have taken part in this even if it has favored one side more. The companies on the other hand are either in favor of money, power, or both. So I think having more alternatives is always better and having these companies public on the stock market makes it easier for the powerful to influence their actions.
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I have only one question.
Can they keep this up?
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Those slow lumbering beasts sure jumped on that opportunity to use big tech as a weapon against the people pretty quick. Potentially that was the idea from the start if the origins of the web, facebook etc... are DARPA as the seem to be. Maybe they can move fast when it suits them, but giving the impression of being slow or incompetent gives a convenient excuse to cover their true intentions.
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You have described it all so well. We are not running but galloping into our own graves with the high pace of technology. In the last 3 years people hardly used digital world language but now if you see even a person in remote places talks about it. A lot of people are fancying the fast pace of technology not realizing that this is going to grip us so badly that we will have no choice but to surrender. The Digital passports and the microchips will leave no chance for anyone to be in their private space even a bit. All the time it will be full exposure. As you say most of these Government authorities are all old, and what they do is just comply to the big technocrats to fill up their pockets for whatever little time they are in power. The destruction is coming at a much faster pace then anticipated.
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I think I went over this with you a few weeks ago. What they did was aligned state actors with non state actors to invest in green energy through the use of development bank funds provided by the taxpayers in no risk guarantees if they invested in green energy technology. They than coerce countries that need money into using a portion of those monies to invest in green technologies that these companies invested in. One of the first things they do is hold a conference training course with media in those countries on how to sell the climate change crisis. But there really isn't a crisis when you backed developers to build refineries in India and China to refine oil into natural gas to put into other developers pipelines and liquified natural gas ports build over the last ten years in Europe. All for the sole purpose of getting cheap energy bids from multiple supplies doing so in less regulated environments with a pool of cheap labor. IF this was a REAL climate crisis they'd backed those developers to build a clean energy grid instead of expecting other countries to transition to clean energy while they still use carbon intensive energy. Nor would the US have invested thirty billion dollars to do the same in Africa so they can have a piece of that transition pie. There's no climate crisis. Amazing how the push toward all this corresponded to the every two hundred year solar minimum the earth goes through. Yes we will see more severe weather but it won't be because of a climate crisis it will because we are entering another solar minimum.
Here's another twist to all that. Ukraine is rich in every mineral on the face of the earth. You could shop there for the next six hundred years and not run out. Your point brings up an interesting topic because it would seem that if China were waiting for the US to find it's footing so to speak when it comes to producing their own metals that China wouldn't be fine with the Ukraine Russian war because that actually curtails their plans to do exactly that in Taiwan. You'd think China would have harsher words for Russia considering the whole war would be impeding their ability to take over Taiwan. It looks more like China doesn't want the US to carry on with their plans of operating those green energy mines they've built in Dnipro Ukraine in Korobchine Village, Kirovograd Ukraine. This was a stipulation by Elon Musk that he wouldn't mass produce any cars unless the mining of the minerals were done in a fashion that was environmentally friendly. So back in 2011 when they were speculating that the war between Russia and Ukraine was all about oil and natural gas in the Donbas region, that Russia was trying to keep them out of shelf areas where they had been drilling that's not exactly what they were doing. (DuPont) Chemours, Tracy's and Precheza were building green energy mining operations using a propriety revolutionary technology that reduced cost of titanium four fold in a zero waste conept of green titanium. The patents are held by Velta Ti Process and are priorities at the USPTO. By 2030 it's expected or was expected because who knows where this war is headed, to be a seventeen billion dollar a year operation. So you'd think if China wanted to take control of Taiwan they'd be hot on rice to Russia interfering or meddling in Ukraine to impede their desires. Plus one may want to stop and ponder that if Russia was feeling compelled to be a bit teed off about losing Europe's business or all their sanctions the first thing they'd done was take out those mining operations. But the truth is is that Russia is building a pipeline system into China with the first pipeline section already done and others planned along the way. So Russia is going to get a market three times larger than the one they were serving.
The one point not missed on all this is the fact that governments, not just the US government, is using social media and the media to control the narrative. The only way to stop this is by demanding controls on the development banks where there is currently no rules in how they decide to use public monies, including the use of non state actors who are private and confidential. That should never be allowed when it comes to public funding. The really bad part of this is is that the taxpayers get a double whammy because they have to pay back the investors for all the monies they invested through higher energy cost. That's why Europeans energy bills have skyrocketed, the guarantee by the development banks is "no loss guarantees", only if they lose money do the banks pay the losses. They can than, as each project is paid off by taxpayers through higher energy cost, take those same funds and coerce other countries into their scheme.
Blockchain is involved in all this. That was part of the "agreement of mutual understanding" as they call them, when it came to Mexico, Mexico is building what will be the global energy blockchain. Meaning as fast as Walmart, who uses blockchain technology to track where all their products go which gives them minutes to track where any recalled products went, can utter a recall they'll be able to shut off your lights, gas, and by than probably your car if you don't behave. Every country in these global partnerships have to commit to something through these "agreements of mutual understanding" and they can be as varied as night and day. If I were you I'd be happy as a lark to miss that coming opportunity.