Egotopia
Raymond B. Craib | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-24
Imagine Milton Friedman and Robinson Crusoe together, reminiscing about Burning Man, on a remodeled off-shore oil rig. Like the image? Welcome to seasteading. The latest in a long line of libertarian exit strategists, seasteaders aim to create self-governed, private floating platforms on the ocean. In an era of Silicon Valley excess, techno-libertarian optimism, and mainstream…
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How Ideology in Mainstream Economics Works: Tax Cuts & Savings Rates
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-24
Mainstream economic policy is full of misrepresentation of reality. Propositions like 'business tax cuts create jobs', 'income inequality exists because workers are not productive', 'free trade benefits everyone', 'inflation is always due to too much money chasing too few goods', 'the subprime mortgage crash of 2007-08 was caused by a 'global savings glut', 'the US…
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Philadelphia crime solicitation…8-21-18 Mouse Report
DJ Mouse | indybay.org | 2018-08-24
can you swallow Russians behind our black box fracked 3/5 slave state electoral college voting system's 2016 selection?…more of the same Thursday in Chicago at the DNC…we look at the issues behind the distractions nationally and censorship 10 points down the dial from 104.1 FM Berkeley Liberation Radio..where the axing the station's best news show proves the station manager's service to the MIC's cannon fodder for the holy land project matches his service to big pharma… quashing news measles vaccine kills 100 times as many as the disease…in wake of draconian mandate…
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Trump accuses social media giants of censorship, says 'millions' being silenced
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-24
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at tech companies for deplatforming "millions" of users, arguing that people must be allowed to decide for themselves what is true.
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Censorship in America: The New Normal. Suppressing "Inauthentic Behavior"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-23
In America free speech, media, and academic freedoms are threatened. | Social media, Google, and other tech giants are complicit in a campaign to suppress content conflicting with the official narrative. | What's …
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Facebook is Filtering Out News That Doesn't Bolster US Foreign Policy
WT Whitney | mintpressnews.com | 2018-08-23
Facebook has its admirers. Shareholders are enamored of its profits — $15.9 billion in 2017 — and hordes of the world's population — 1.47 billion people — look at Facebook every day. Individually on their Facebook pages they are communicating with, on average, 338 so-called "friends." Editors, the media, and political commentators are similarly entranced. One unpretentious website receiving the present writer's contributions claims 89,834 Facebook friends and another, 125,060 of them. | But now anyone dealing with political news and analyses of a progressive nature has reason to re-evaluate, even to draw back. Facebook apparently is now primed to censor that kind of information and discussion. | Facebook, for example, has its sights on Venezuela. Revolutionary currents there have rankled the U.S. government and dominant U.S. media. The latter has frequently referred to the failed violent anti-government coup…
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Trump, Corporate Media Are Both Enemies of the People
Paul Street | truthdig.com | 2018-08-23
The mainstream media should be taken to task, but not for the same reasons the president uses in his attacks on the press. | The post Trump, Corporate Media Are Both Enemies of the People appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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Facebook escalates censorship of left-wing, anti-war organizations
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-23
On Tuesday, Facebook announced the removal of hundreds of user accounts and pages, many of them opposing the crimes of the American, Saudi and Israeli governments in the Middle East.
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Facebook, Twitter take down 'inauthentic Iran-linked' accounts… but Russia takes the heat
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-22
Facebook and Twitter have reported successes in battling alleged information manipulation by Iran-linked accounts. However, an overexcited mainstream media eager to expose 'Russian meddling' did not hesitate to blame Moscow.
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'It can turn around': Trump would rather tolerate 'fake news' than accept 'censorship'
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-22
Despite being constantly at odds with liberal mainstream media — often calling them 'fake news' — Donald Trump has told his supporters that even having to tolerate CNN is a much better alternative to censorship.
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US govt doesn't think people have intelligence to decipher news, hence censorship — Keiser
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-19
As Twitter and Facebook are criticized over censorship and constant finger-pointing at Russia, RT's Max Keiser speaks to the senior editor of the Grayzone Project, Max Blumenthal, who sums up the reality of the situation.
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Facebook 'censors' conservative education page, says it was a mistake, but few are convinced
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-19
Facebook says it had mistakenly deleted videos and limited the reach of US conservative educational organization PragerU. The content has now been restored, but PragerU supporters don't think it was an accident.
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Trump: 'We won't let' discrimination of conservatives on social media happen
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-18
US President Donald Trump has spoken out about censorship against conservatives on social media, saying it is a "very dangerous thing" and calling for everyone to be allowed to participate in the online conversation.
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Trump-Media Logrolling
Consortiumnews.com | consortiumnews.com | 2018-08-16
Hundreds of mainstream newspapers on Thursday have coordinated editorials against Trump's attacks on the press, but as Sam Husseini explains, the major media need to do some soul-searching itself. By Sam Husseini Today, hundreds of newspapers, at the initiative of The Boston… Read more ?…
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How Monsanto Plants Stories, Suppresses Science & Silences Dissent to Sell a Cancer-Linked Chemical
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-14
As Monsanto comes under scrutiny for allegedly hiding the dangers of its weed killer Roundup, we talk to a reporter who says the company attempted to censor and discredit her when she published stories on their product that contradicted their business interests. Carey Gillam is a veteran investigative journalist and author of "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science."
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/14/how_monsa…