Stephen E. Arnold: Critical Analysis of Facebook #GoogleGestapo

10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Defriending Facebook? Harsh

Whether it was earnest advice or a public-relations ploy, we’re told Mark Zuckerberg’s recent call for regulation would not actually fix the problems with Facebook. Canada’s CBC News describes “The Case Against Facebook: a ‘Dataopoly’ with Too Much Market Power.” I was interested in reporter Ramona Pringle’s explanation of a “dataopoly;” she cites Carleton University professor Dwayne Winseck, who teaches about Internet governance:

“[Winseck] says with its behemoth scale and singular control over the data of its users, Facebook is a ‘dataopoly.’

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Penguin: 26 States Forbid Community Broadband — Corrupt Legislators, Pathetic Voters, Aggressive Bribery & Blackmail by Telcom Sector

Commerce, Corruption, Government

Report: 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband

Frustrated by slow speeds, limited availability, high prices and terrible customer service, more than 750 communities across the country have built their own broadband ISPs or cooperatives. Studies have shown these locally owned and operated networks tend to offer lower prices, faster speeds, and better customer service than their private-sector counterparts.

Instead of competing by offering better service—private sector telecom giants like Comcast and AT&T have routinely turned to a cheaper alternative: easily corrupted state lawmakers. In exchange for campaign contributions, lawmakers frequently and uncritically pass on model legislation written by industry and distributed by organizations like ALEC.

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Phi Beta Iota: At some point #UNRIG — or violent civil war — are inevitable.

VIDEO: Something Strange is Being Done with Our DNA – 5G Assassination by Profile?

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement

SHORT SUMMARY: DNA  being correlated with social media and dissident or “potential domestic terrorist” personalities and behaviors on the one hand, and to plan for culling the herd on the other. Combine precision DNA with 5G and you can suicide “by name” from a remote computer. What fun.

Mongoose: American Family Association Calls Out the SPLC

04 Education, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of War, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence
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AFA urges companies to sever their SPLC ties – see our newspaper ad

Now, the SPLC's hate for cash machine has been described from within as a “highly profitable scam.” Its founder Morris Dees was fired, its president Richard Cohen has resigned, and its top lawyer departed as the scandal spread.

We've placed a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling on these tech titans to sever their SPLC ties.

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