The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Enough Is Enough: The World Wide Web's Creator Is Taking The Power Back
In an interview with Fast Times, Berners-Lee demonstrated an early version of an app running on Solid. Author Katrina Brooker describes it as “a mashup of Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp.” The difference, she explains, is that every every scrap of data there is exclusively under his control.
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Amazon: Policeware Capability Microsoft May Not Be Able to Duplicate
New partners, new data, and new outputs — Amazon is moving forward, and I am not sure Microsoft as well as fellow travelers like Google and Oracle can match Amazon’s forced march in its effort to reword the intelligence and law enforcement intelligence ecosystem.
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Facebook: Interesting Real News Filtering
We read “Facebook Users Unable to Post Story about Huge Facebook Hack on Facebook.” A real news outfit in London noticed that stories about Facebook’s most recent security lapse were not appearing on Facebook.
Another real news outfit reported that some Facebook users saw this message:
“Action Blocked: Our security systems have detected that a lot of people are posting the same content, which could mean that it’s spam. Please try a different post.”
Reddit Now “Quarantining” Users Who Question 9/11—Direct Users to Gov’t Site Instead
On Thursday, the subreddit r/911truth was placed under a Reddit Quarantine. The Reddit Administrators claimed that the subreddit posts misinformation and then directed people seeking information on 9/11 to the official government website.
In other news, Google-owned BlogSpot.com wiped out Dr. James Fetzer's website without cause and without due process — they should be part of the class action lawsuit. Fetzer is back up at http://jamesfetzer.org/. Because of government inaction, all of us are being forced to spend thousands of dollars creating hot back-ups and cutting Google, VaultPress (WordPress) and other untrustworthy elements out of the equation.
Kurian’s departure comes just weeks after Oracle announced he was taking a break from his position overseeing Oracle’s cloud efforts, and after Bloomberg reported that a conflict with Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer, and person whose opinion seems to matter most Larry Ellison over the direction of Oracle’s platform software strategy. Kurian reportedly wanted to let more of Oracle’s software run on public infrastructure clouds like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which Ellison apparently resisted given Oracle’s feeble attempts to compete in that market.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Excitement at Oracle — Amazon Effect”
They are businesspeople, they are good businesspeople. They just represent a set of business practices, principles and ethics, and policies that I don’t necessarily agree with.”
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Ex-Google employee warns of ‘disturbing’ China plans
Jack Poulson, who had been a senior researcher at the company until resigning in August, wrote that he was fearful of Google's ambitions.
His letter alleges Google's work on a Chinese product – codenamed Dragonfly – would aid Beijing's efforts to censor and monitor its citizens online.
