Stephen E. Arnold: Cambridge Analytica Bankrupt, Facebook Next?
Commerce, Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Cambridge Analytica Bankrupt: What Company Is Next on the Firing Line?
Cambridge Analytica has declared bankruptcy. What outfit is next to be pushed to center stage?
Facebook? Perhaps. The founder of Facebook has an opportunity to answer questions before England’s law makers soon. Very soon.
And Google?
#GoogleGestapo: Conservative Starts New Social Media Site After Facebook Blocks Tens Of Millions From His Posts
Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Conservative Starts New Social Media Site After Facebook Blocks Tens Of Millions From His Posts
“Facebook blocks more than 98% of my reach,” said Andrew. “That means 4.9 million people per month are missing. Facebook increased censorship after President Trump was elected.”
Instead of communicating to 5 million people per month as in 2016, Facebook showed Andrew’s posts to 97,685 people last month. Andrew has almost half a million followers.
“Facebook’s censorship caused millions of fewer people to follow God and strengthen their families, a financial loss of donations likely in the millions of dollars and a reduction in communicating with millions of more people by email and our website,” he said. “Facebook is anti-American, since they censor those who believe like the founders.”
Berto Jongman: NSA Triples Collection of US Phone Records
Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Military
Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records: official report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said.
Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon’s Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) — The Ultimate Censorable, Manipulable Walled Garden, a World Brain Of, By, and For the Zionists?
Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO ImpotencyAmazon: Why Support Blockchain? To Chase IBM? Wrong.
In June 2018, I will describe Amazon’s lynch pin approach to intelligence analysis. The “play” has been ignored or overlooked by those who monitor the next generation information access market. At the Telestrategies ISS conference, I will report the DarkCyber and Beyond Search analysts’ assessment of this important Amazon service. The audience for the Telestrategies ISS programs are law enforcement and intelligence professionals. We have developed a for fee webinar which provides details of the Amazon “swing for the fences” approach to a number of intelligence-related services. Personally I was surprised by the audaciousness of the Amazon approach.
Yoda: Is Amazon World’s Greatest Tax Cheat?
Commerce, Corruption
From Seattle to Luxembourg: how tax schemes shaped Amazon
The retail giant’s critics say contrived financial arrangements are at the heart of its success
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Stephen E. Arnold: If Facebook is a Tyranny, Governments are Inept at Regulating It… #GoogleGestapo
Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency, MediaRegulating Facebook and Unexpected Consequences
After Mark Zuckerberg’s mostly frothy and somewhat entertaining testimonies for Congress and the Senate, what are we left with? Some tea leaves are saying that Facebook will likely be permitted to self regulate.
What happens if governments step in. One commentator worries not just for our privacy, but for society as a whole. We learned more from a recent Guardian story, “Facebook is a Tyranny and Our Government Isn’t Built to Stop it.”
According to the story: read full post.
