Source: VigilantCitizen.com
In this edition of SPOTM: It’s Sabrina Carpenter’s turn to “channel” Marilyn Monroe; There’s something terribly wrong with Britney; Romeo Beckham’s sad photoshoot and Madonna’s cryptic message about the music industry….
All The World’s A Stage: Everything Is Fake – Charles Hugh Smith 10/23/24
Source: charleshughsmith.blogspot.com
No wonder we’re restless, teetering on the edge, frustrated by our addictions to fakery and excess, starved for what cannot be marketed or made profitable, so it no longer exists except in the shadows.
Everything is staged, and therefore fake. Given the near-zero cost of posting content in the digital world, everyone discovered that staging wasn’t limited to high-end political events, parades and Hollywood sets; since all the world’s a stage, everything could be staged, from every selfie on social media to every video on YouTube to every public display.
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Session’s Escape Plan: How a Visit From Police Pushed It To Leave the Country – Ken Macon 10/23/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
Following a visit from Australia’s federal law enforcement to an employee’s home, Session, the encrypted messaging app known for its robust privacy features, has decided to relocate its operations from Australia to Switzerland. This move highlights the increasing dilemmas faced by encrypted app providers amid growing governmental demands for user data.
Session’s escalation in popularity has come with heightened scrutiny, culminating in a direct approach by law enforcement that led to its decision to operate under Switzerland’s more privacy-conducive regulations. Alex Linton, president of the newly established Session Technology Foundation (STF) which oversees the app, emphasized that this shift was crucial for maintaining the app’s core privacy principles. Despite the geographic move, Session will continue to be accessible to users in Australia….
Symbolic Pics of the Month 10/24 – Vigilant Citizen 10/24/24
Source: VigilantCitizen.com
In this edition of SPOTM: Why is the one-eye sign everywhere? Why are government officials openly insulting Christianity? More importantly, why is Jojo Siwa so cringy…?
Facebook Faces Heat for Blocking Report on Arrest of US Journalist in Israel – Cindy Harper 10/11/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
Facebook has come under scrutiny for censoring an article by Matt Orfalea that reported on the arrest of American journalist Jeremy Loffredo in Israel. Loffredo was arrested shortly after publishing a detailed investigative report on Iranian missile strikes near significant Israeli military and intelligence locations, including an Israeli Air Force base and Mossad headquarters.
Elon Musk’s X Set to Reboot in Brazil After Final Fine Payment – Cindy Harper 9/28/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is now clear to resume its online activities in Brazil with the settlement of one final penalty according to an announcement made last Friday by Brazil’s controversial justice official, Alexandre de Moraes. The supreme justice authority in the country, known as the Federal Supreme Court (STF), had previously sanctioned a nationwide suspension of X in late August, a decree that was sustained by a judicial panel on September 2 following X’s noncompliance with the court’s orders.
Revealed: Big Brother’s Facebook Censorship Dashboard – ZeroHedge 9/27/24
Source: ZeroHedge.com
On Wednesday, America First Legal (AFL) revealed documents that shed new light on the collaborative efforts between Facebook and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic used to censor free speech.
The documents, obtained through litigation against the CDC, expose detailed onboarding materials used to train CDC employees on a specially designed Facebook portal aimed at curbing what they labeled “Covid & Vaccine Misinformation.”
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Wallet in Telegram App Temporarily Blocked for UK Users Due to Restructuring – Vince Quill 9/25/24
Source: cointelegraph.com
Wallet in Telegram will be temporarily restricted for users in the United Kingdom — due to a restructuring that saw Wallet in Telegram join the Open Platform— and will be available after the entity registers as a corporate asset provider, according to a Sept. 25 announcement from the wallet provider.
The popular third-party said it decided to register as a crypto asset provider under the current Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulations and will disable the in-app wallet features for UK residents until Wallet, the firm behind the app, has obtained the proper regulatory licenses….
Telegram Will Now Share Users’ IP Addresses and Phone Numbers With Governments in Response to Legal Requests – Christina Maas 9/23/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
Telegram, the messaging app that once positioned itself as the rebel’s answer to Big Tech surveillance, has made a sharp U-turn on the “we protect your data at all costs” highway. On Monday, the company quietly updated its privacy policy to allow for the disclosure of user information—like those precious IP addresses and phone numbers—to law enforcement, but only, of course, if they present a valid legal request.
Symbolic Pics of the Month 09/24 – Vigilant Citizen 9/19/24
Source: VigilantCitizen.com
In this edition of SPOTM, Chappell Roan is the new it girl, and one of her eyes paid the price. Halsey in the most blatant Beta Kitten photoshop ever. Also: Cardi B’s highly upsetting maternity picture….
Bolsonaro Leads Massive Free Speech Protest In Brazil After Supreme Court Bans X – ZeroHedge 9/8/24
Source: ZeroHedge.com
Thousands of Brazilians flooded city streets on Saturday to protest against the government’s censorship crusade against Elon Musk’s ‘free-speech’ X platform.
The demonstration, held Saturday on Independence Day, was led by former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro – who said in response to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes: “I hope that the Federal Senate puts the brakes on Alexandre de Moraes, this dictator who does more harm to Brazil than Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva himself.”
American Pravda: YouTube Censorship and the Curious Case of Candace Owens – Ron Unz 8/26/24
Source: Unz.com
For 45 years I’ve read the New York Times in its print edition almost each and every morning, together with the Wall Street Journal. Until about a decade ago, I also read four of California’s leading newspapers in similar fashion, but as they declined into just pale shadows of what they once had been, I abandoned them, a decision made easier when the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee stopped local delivery in my area; and given the huge decline in the quality of the Gray Lady in recent years, one of these days it may suffer that same ignominious fate. Meanwhile, for the last quarter century, I’ve balanced these very mainstream morning sources of information with a wide variety of extremely alternative news and opinion websites on the Internet, whose offerings have always provided a very different view of those same events.
As Durov Hits Out At French Authorities, Telegram Quietly Revamps Moderation Rules – ZeroHedge 9/4/24
Source: ZeroHedge.com
In his first public statements since his arrest by France on Aug. 24 at Paris’ Le Bourget airport, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blasted French authorities for detaining and charging him, but also admitted that Telegram is not perfect that he’ll work to clean up instances of criminals abusing the platform.
EU Tightens Grip on Telegram With New Probe Following France Arrest – Didi Rankovic 8/31/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
The EU is putting additional pressure on Telegram, after one of its member countries, France, arrested the platform’s co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov.
The EU has launched an investigation into the number of users the platform has in the bloc, and whether the number reported by Telegram is correct.
The importance of this is the EU’s ability to censor using the Digital Services Act (DSA), which applies services with over 45 million users.
In February, Telegram said that their number is 41 million, but the EU has chosen precisely this moment to start looking for ways to determine if this reporting was accurate – or, more likely, try to prove that it isn’t….
Durov’s Phone Hacked in 2017, a Year Before Meeting with Macron: Report – Zoltan Vardai 8/28/24
Source: CoinTelegraph.com
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s phone was reportedly hacked in 2017, a year before his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, which has only recently come to light.
Zuckerberg’s Censorship Admission is More Contrived than Contrite – Jonathan Turley 8/28/24
Source: JonathanTurley.org
Below is my column in Fox.com on the admission of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook yielded to pressure of the Biden Administration to censor citizens. The admission, however, appears more contrived than contrite.
Here is the column:
The Charges Against Telegram CEO Pavel Durov – Rick Findlay 8/26/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was initiated under the auspices of the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris, which issued a statement detailing the circumstances surrounding Durov’s detention. “Pavel DUROV, founder and CEO of instant messaging and platform Telegram, was arrested… then taken into police custody at 8 p.m.,” the tribunal stated.
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Telegram is Under Investigation in India: Report – Vince Quill 8/26/24
Source: CoinTelegraph.com
The Times of India revealed that Telegram is under investigation in India following the high-profile arrest of co-founder Pavel Durov in France on Aug. 24.
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Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France, Reportedly For Refusing to Censor Content – Ken Macon 8/24/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram, was arrested this Saturday evening, according to French media.
The incident occurred at Le Bourget Airport just as Durov, accompanied by a bodyguard and a woman, disembarked from his private jet. Durov, who holds dual Franco-Russian citizenship and is 39 years old, had just arrived from Azerbaijan.
Pakistan National Arrested For False News Article, Accused of Triggering UK Riots – Cindy Harper 8/21/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
In Lahore, Pakistan, federal authorities have apprehended a local man, Farhan Asif, alleged to have disseminated misinformation that has been accused of inciting recent riots seen in the UK.
GARM, Globalism, and Geopolitics – Robert W. Malone MD 8/10/24
Source: Malone.news
July and August 2024 bore witness to a profound interplay of events, intricately weaving together geopolitics, international public policy, censorship, propaganda, PsyWar, and the World Wide Web (internet). These events, previously discussed in the substack essay titled “Harris, Walz, and the UK Thought Police,” included a surge in internet speech, thoughtcrime, and pre-crime arrests in the UK. These activities, with their potential to set a precedent for similar actions in Canada, other FVEY intelligence alliance nations, and depending on 2024 presidential election outcomes, even the United States, carry a significant weight.
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A Billion Views: Donald Trump Tells Elon Musk Kamala Harris is a Radical ‘San Francisco Liberal’ – Matt Lamb 8/13/24
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
A much publicized recorded conversation between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has generated 1 billion views, according to the former.
Musk, who owns X (formerly Twitter), spoke with Trump for nearly two hours last night on the social media platform. The conversation was delayed by a “massive distributed denial of service attack,” Musk said. The hackers’ attack showed “there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say.”
Free Speech is Under Siege in Starmer’s UK – Dan Frieth 8/10/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
The UK is currently experiencing a massive attack on free speech, spearheaded by new Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is encouraging police to use the full force of controversial British laws to crack down on social media posts.
The push for more online censorship has spanned many years, and different governments in the UK have gained new momentum with the recent protests and riots.
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Specialist UK Police Teams Target “Hate” on Social Media – Cindy Harper 8/13/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
The UK authorities and the media either willing to or feeling pressure to take their cues from the government, continue to assert that the root cause of the serious rioting that hit the country this month is to be found on – social media.
This, in turn, makes for a convenient excuse to ramp up police surveillance of online content. Special police teams are now going through social sites in order to identify those said to have “incited” the riots, and there’s a special name for them – “hate influencers.”
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Maduro Blocks X as Musk Feud Escalates – Cindy Harper 8/11/24
Source: ReclaimTheNet.org
In Venezuela, the government has enforced a 10-day suspension of the social media platform X, previously known as Twitter. This action follows a contentious exchange between the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
According to Maduro, the ban, which was directed by the Venezuelan telecommunications regulator Conatel, is a response to Musk’s behavior on the platform, which he claims included inciting “hatred, fascism, civil war, death and confrontations among Venezuelans,” thus violating Venezuelan law….