Freedom of speech and protest

[rederob]

Monopolies - don't you love them?

So good for our societies.


"But today, if you want to download, sign up for, or use Parler, you will be unable to do so. That is because three Silicon Valley monopolies — Amazon, Google and Apple — abruptly united to remove Parler from the internet, exactly at the moment when it became the most-downloaded app in the country.

If one were looking for evidence to demonstrate that these tech behemoths are, in fact, monopolies that engage in anti-competitive behavior in violation of antitrust laws, and will obliterate any attempt to compete with them in the marketplace, it would be difficult to imagine anything more compelling than how they just used their unconstrained power to utterly destroy a rising competitor."

Glenn Greenwald

Logically, 3 separate entities cannot each constitute a "monopoly" wrt Parler.
If that is indicative of Glenn Greenwald's thinking then his views cannot be reliable.

 

[basilio]

This story may be of interest to anyone or their friends who were active on Parlar.

Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived

In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.

The researcher, who asked to be referred to by her Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among other sources, Parler is one of a several apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.

... Operating on little sleep, @donk_enby began the work of archiving all of Parler’s posts, ultimately capturing around 99.9 percent of its content. In a tweet early Sunday, @donk_enby said she was crawling some 1.1 million Parler video URLs. “These are the original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” she said. Included in this data tranche, now more than 56 terabytes in size, @donk_enby confirmed that the raw video files include GPS metadata pointing to exact locations of where the videos were taken.

Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived

In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the

gizmodo.com

 

[dutchie]

Logically, 3 separate entities cannot each constitute a "monopoly" wrt Parler.
If that is indicative of Glenn Greenwald's thinking then his views cannot be reliable.

Your right, he should have called it a oligopoly.

Oligolopies - don't you love them.
So good for our societies.

 

[basilio]

Dutchie. I remembered you noted that on one who has been charged with attacking the Capitol building had a Parlar account.

That may change very quickly.


Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows

Dell Cameron
and Dhruv Mehrotra
Today 2:45PM
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Filed to:The Capitol Mob

https://gizmodo.com/parler-users-breached-deep-inside-u-s-capitol-building-1846042905#replies
Graphic: Dhruv Mehrota / Gizmodo

At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the horde of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restricted to the public, according to GPS metadata linked to videos posted to the platform the day of the insurrection in Washington.

... According to @donk_enby, more than 99% of all Parler posts, including millions of videos bearing the locations of users, were saved. Unlike most of its competitors, Parler apparently had no mechanism in place to strip sensitive metadata from its users’ videos prior to posting them online.

Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows

At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the horde of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S.

gizmodo.com

 

[basilio]

The meta data , video files and information downloaded from Parlar is now in the public domain.

 

[bellenuit]

New ad from The Lincoln Project

https://t.co/iNGD0XSpv2

 

[dutchie]

Hypocrisy abounds

 

[Knobby22]

Oh well, maybe he is the living incarnation of Mother Theresa in your eyes but in truth what matters now is what the elected Republicans think.

To make sure he doesn't run again, 17 of the senate Republicans need to uphold the impeachment and convict.

From what I have seen its very close.

In reality the Democrats are politically stupid impeaching the Trumpster. Let him run again and show heaps of clips of his low life supporters bashing the cops and wearing pro holocaust t-shirts.
Biden will be a one termer but if Trump runs again just about anyone will best him.

Also, 3 covid deaths a minute at present in the USA.

The Republicans need to take back their morals and their party.

 

[DB008]

 

[Knobby22]

Time I stopped and concentrated on other things. Will revisit in a month.

 

[moXJO]

"The heart of the message is correct " That message was Arnies concern that the events at the Capitol were a destruction of the principles democracy was based on. He also excoriated the politicians who supported the mob attack and saw them as culpable as Trump in promoting the lies about election outcome. It has been these lies which have been used to drive this ongoing attack on the legitimacy of the Biden government.

So if we agree on the heart of the message we at least have reached the first step.

Better back up then to the ground level. Because I took away that democracy and the US would not only endure, but strengthen during such times.

 

[basilio]

Better back up then to the ground level. Because I took away that democracy and the US would not only endure, but strengthen during such times.

I think that was the "Hollywood BS" you originally tagged his speech as .

In any case Arnie was quite clear that saving the US democracy after the insurrection at the Capital was contingent on identifying and dealing with the politicians and people who tried to overthrow Congress. Arnie wouldn't countenance just pretending nothing seriously bad had happened and whistling sweet tunes.
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Apropos to the ongoing investigation.

Speaking hypothetically , what should be the consequences if current serving politicans are found to have been supporting and planning the break in to the Capitol ? For instance if they provided information to the insurrectionists on the layout of building and where they could locate particular people ?

 

[dutchie]

Google is much worse than China. Being bullies again (because they can).

Google is accused of 'blackmail' as it threatens to remove search function in Australia if law forcing it to pay media companies for content is passed

• Regulator found a power imbalance between media and Google and Facebook
• Australian government wants to pass a new law to force Google to pay for news
• Google has threatened to leave the Australian market if the code goes ahead
• Director Mel Silva said the code presented an 'untenable' risk to its business

Google threatens to remove its search function in Australia

A proposed law, introduced to Parliament in December, will force Facebook and Google to negotiate fees with news companies whose stories appear on their platforms.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Australian regulators found that for every $100 spent on digital advertising, $53 goes to Google, $28 to Facebook and only $19 goes to others.
Way too monopolistic.

 

[SirRumpole]

Cancel culture strikes again.

Victorian, WA premiers criticise decision to give Margaret Court top Australia Day honour

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and WA's Mark McGowan say they do not support former tennis great Margaret Court being recognised with an Australia Day honour because of her "disgraceful, hurtful" views about the LGBT community.

www.abc.net.au

When some of the petals protesting about Maggie do as much for the sport and for women in general as she has, maybe they can talk. Until then ...

 

[wayneL]

Cancel culture strikes again.

Victorian, WA premiers criticise decision to give Margaret Court top Australia Day honour

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and WA's Mark McGowan say they do not support former tennis great Margaret Court being recognised with an Australia Day honour because of her "disgraceful, hurtful" views about the LGBT community.

www.abc.net.au

When some of the petals protesting about Maggie do as much for the sport and for women in general as she has, maybe they can talk. Until then ...

I'm getting pretty uncomfortable with the way politicians and supposed journalists are eviscerating members of the public, even if they are public figures, for their opinions (unless those opinions are for the purpose of inciting violence)

It's almost getting a bit like Orwell's two minutes of hate in Nineteeneightyfour, and really not what I would think is healthy in a purported Liberal democracy.

Probably almost all of us here would find much disagreement with the opinions of Margaret Court. There are many opinions of Martin Luther King Jr for which I profoundly disagree with also, but nobody can take away the profundity of the "I have a dream" speech.

It should be this that he is remembered by, not differences of political opinion. Likewise Margaret courts achievements in tennis cannot be erased by those opinions of her with which we might disagree.

 

[ghotib]

When some of the petals protesting about Maggie do as much for the sport and for women in general as she has, maybe they can talk. Until then ...

Huh???

She had a spectacular tennis career, but that alone doesn't necessarily serve (sorry!) the sport. Arguably her dominance was so great that she harmed the sport. She founded and still preaches at a pentecostal church whose website says nothing to suggest any particular services to women, but which contains several variations on its vision to:

... train an army who knows Christ from within, to take this city and nation for Jesus.

I'm sure that Margaret Court's army is metaphorical, not literal. OTOH, recent events in the US strongly suggest that metaphors need to be treated with caution.

According to the SMH the award is for her service as a player and as a mentor to young sportspeople. The website has several visions for young people, but I don't see anything particular to sportspeople, young or old.

In my view:
1. Australia Day awards, like their British predecessors, are pretty silly.
2. If the citation reported in the SMH is complete and correct, objecting to the award because of her stated beliefs about other matters is pretty petty.
3. If the reported citation is complete and correct and if her services to the game and to young sportspeople are as shown on her church website, then the award is not justified.
4. See 1 above.

 

[Ferret]

I don't get this either.

She has already been awarded companion of the order of Australia, I assume for he tennis accomplishments.

What has she done since that warrants another award?

 

[SirRumpole]

Ahead of the National Museum of Australia's 20th birthday this week, the building's architect has only now revealed the level of government anger that was ignited over a secret political message emblazoned onto its walls.

One man's "Sorry".​

Howard nearly got away with his protest, until an eagle-eyed engineer decoded the writing on the wall

Ahead of the National Museum of Australia's 20th birthday, the building's architect reveals the full extent of the Howard government's anger in reaction to a secret political message he emblazoned onto its walls.

www.abc.net.au

 

[SirRumpole]

Sacked for having an opinion.

What is this country coming to ?

Adelaide radio host sacked over 'silly little girl who got drunk' comments about Brittany Higgins

One of Adelaide's longest-serving and most controversial radio hosts no longer has a job after calling alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins "a silly little girl who got drunk".

www.abc.net.au

 

[sptrawler]

Sacked for having an opinion.

What is this country coming to ?

Adelaide radio host sacked over 'silly little girl who got drunk' comments about Brittany Higgins

One of Adelaide's longest-serving and most controversial radio hosts no longer has a job after calling alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins "a silly little girl who got drunk".

www.abc.net.au

It certainly is getting out of control, it wont be long before people will be scared to say anything that hasn't already been voiced in the media and therefore been given the o.k.

Big Brother is coming, but it isn't manifesting in the way everyone thought, mind/opinion control by media is the way it is coming IMO