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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby Luther Blissett » Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:25 pm

I know I've mentioned it before but I believe that the coming shift away from 2D interface, keyboard and mouse could open up huge opportunities for individual privacy and freedom analogous to the very early days of the internet itself. We have a very narrow window of opportunity but I really think it's worth a discussion now. Unfortunately this is a discussion most people seem to find silly, boring, insane, misguided, or naive.

Is it happening anywhere else? Could this place host the primary discussion on the subject?
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby DrEvil » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:27 pm

Could you be a little more specific? I'm struggling to see how different types of interfaces will have any impact on the security of our systems.
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby Grizzly » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:38 pm

I know I've mentioned it before but I believe that the coming shift away from 2D interface, keyboard and mouse could open up huge opportunities for individual privacy and freedom analogous to the very early days of the internet itself. We have a very narrow window of opportunity but I really think it's worth a discussion now. Unfortunately this is a discussion most people seem to find silly, boring, insane, misguided, or naive.

Is it happening anywhere else? Could this place host the primary discussion on the subject?


Bravo!!! more on this, please....

Also, thanks miles!
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby Grizzly » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:49 pm

what's the frequency kennethwhat's the frequency kennethwhat's the frequency kennethwhat's the frequency kenneth :woot: :woot: :woot: :trippin: :trippin: :trippin:
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby Elvis » Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:46 am

While we're at it, what happened to the "blinking text" function?

test <---blink test
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby Grizzly » Sat Sep 23, 2017 3:52 pm

Never-mind.


We lost ...

Battle for the web*

Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web works
The organization that sets standards for the web just failed to beat back a stupid, greedy technology.


https://theoutline.com/post/2304/netfli ... -web-works


Shocked! Shocked! , I tell you...
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby DrEvil » Sat Sep 23, 2017 6:28 pm

^^A battle may be lost, but the war isn't. All it does is make it harder to rip content from various websites. I predict a workaround in approximately three nanoseconds (Okay, five, since some of the DRM code is closed-source).

The real battle (in the US at least, worldwide you should be worried about China and friends and their drive to make the web part of each individual country's sovereign domain) is taking place at the FCC where Ajit Pai is leading the charge to remove net neutrality (and everything else that is good for consumers and bad for corporations). This picture is meant as a joke, but serves as a good illustration of what the web could become:
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby Grizzly » Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:47 am

https://dtube.video/v/pressfortruth/ufl ... h/ufluexpf

The Free Market Has Spoken DTube Is Here! A Blockchain Solution To YouTube Censorship! (Interview With DTube's Creator)
The free market has come up with an answer to the issue of YouTube's censorship and control by using blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency STEEM as a database which can't be censored and it enables earning rewards from your uploads.! In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth interviews Adrien M. the creator of DTube.video about his new platform and how this new decentralized video sharing platform could potentially be the nail in the coffin for Google's most popular website, YouTube.
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby DrEvil » Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:50 pm

^^Those guys aren't talking about censorship, they're talking about demonetization (the "youtube adpocalypse"), which is something else entirely. The interviewer is upset because he's not making as much money as he used to on youtube.

The website itself is an interesting idea, but I wonder how they deal with things like child pornography. You can't go back and delete something from the blockchain, so how do they prevent the site from being flooded with illegal content?

The creator says Dtube uses IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), which is a distributed file system that acts similar to a torrent swarm. In other words, you become part of the distribution network when you use it.
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby elfismiles » Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:10 pm

Shots Fired in the Media War! Corbett Report Hit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3-WxrI70Y
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Re: YouTube Censorship & Alternate Video Platforms

Postby elfismiles » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:28 pm

Re: YouTube Censorship & Alternate Video Platforms

I keep hearing Alex and his echo chamber claiming 10,000 SPLC employees at YouTube as video moderators ...

Of course, I can find refs to the 10 thousand figure but not any refs to them being from SPLC.

Google will enlist 10,000 employees to moderate YouTube videos
The video platform will also have stricter criteria on which channels can earn from ads.
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YouTube Admits To Mistakenly Removing A Lot Of Conservative Accounts In Latest Purge
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YouTube receives assistance in its content policing efforts from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing nonprofit, according to The Daily Caller. The SPLC has been scrutinized heavily in recent months after it labeled some innocuous and legitimate conservative organizations as “hate groups.”


EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Secretly Using SPLC To Police Videos
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8:35 PM 02/27/2018
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/27/googl ... ensorship/

...is one of the more than 100 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” program, a source with knowledge of the arrangement told TheDC.
...
t’s unclear when the SPLC joined YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” program. The program goes back to 2012 but exploded in size in recent years amid a Google push to increase regulation of the content on its platforms, which followed pressure from advertisers.
...
Content flagged by trusted flaggers is not automatically removed or subject to any differential policies than content flagged from other users,” said a YouTube spokesperson, who would not specifically comment on the SPLC’s participation in the program.

The SPLC did not return multiple voicemails and emails seeking comment.


FoxNews is even repeating this talking point...

Tucker: Google Using 'Discredited' Left-Wing Group to Flag 'Extremist' YouTube Videos
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/02/28/y ... er-carlson

ThingProgress is reporting on this "reporting" by DailyCaller and others but doesn't seem to attempt to verify it themselves???

Conservatives really don’t want the SPLC to help YouTube police hate
"YouTube couldn't have chosen a worse or less trustworthy partner."
Zack Ford, Mar 1, 2018, 12:41 pm
https://thinkprogress.org/splc-youtube-b4935309ba43/

Conservative groups have launched a new attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), this time for reportedly assisting YouTube in tracking hateful content in videos posted to its site. A “source with knowledge” told The Daily Caller that the SPLC is one of YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” for tracking extremist content, including hate speech and terrorist recruiting videos.
. . .
According to The Daily Caller’s reporting, YouTube maintains a confidentiality agreement with its “Trusted Flaggers,” and the SPLC has not publicly confirmed it serves as such a partner.

The SPLC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


WELL HOLY SHIT ... !!!!! CONFIRMED!!!!
Well... not the 10k-SPLC workers but the partnership.

UPDATE: The SPLC has confirmed to ThinkProgress that it is, as reported, a member of YouTube’s “Trusted Flagger” program.

Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, said in a statement: “The Southern Poverty Law Center is greatly concerned about the spread of white supremacist propaganda online and believe that tech companies should enforce their own terms and service agreements.”

https://thinkprogress.org/splc-youtube-b4935309ba43/




https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmsDlz ... SYs-EpCQA/

https://www.infowars.com/the-truth-behi ... ervatives/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiQFlt ... k10eDP7tsQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o65vD2zPv4
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby FourthBase » Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:53 am

Wombaticus Rex » 06 Sep 2017 19:45 wrote:
82_28 » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:20 am wrote:I read in some thread that you had your uploads to videos purged from youtube recently, Grizzly. That sucks. But this bitchute is basically all neo-nazi, nationalist inspirational videos, arrogant authoritarian exposition, far right sleeper jackals, "men's movement", lunatics speaking in code etc. I guess it is open to "all", however I do not know what that means. I suppose it is good to know where it is though!


I've been really struck this summer by the fact all my fringe friends are faced with this same basic problem.

That problem being, basically, secure & stable internet hosting. Whether it's video streaming or social networking or just private chat functions, everyone is concerned with opsec. And they f'ing should be. Nobody on Silicon Valley is your friend. Reporters are not your friends. Even the very protocols we communicate with have been compromised, but covert surveillance is less troubling than outright censorship.

So whether Atlanta Antifa or American Vanguard want to organize, both sides are faced with the same dilemmas as any respectable Flat Earth discussion group, is ISGP-style research cell. And everyone out here on the fringes is very uncomfortable with the company we keep. None of us is that kind of conspiracy theorist here, just like "Anarchist" or "Christian" sort of...have to be qualified.

Every cartel in Mexico wants secure comms. Using TOR puts you adjacent to pedophiles & terrorists. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear -- and if you have nothing to hide in 2017, that means the contents of your skull are completely unobjectionable to anyone. A rare feat.

Once a real alternative to Facebook / Twitter / Youtube exists, one of the ways we'll be able to recognize it will be the heavy, sustained presence of neo-nazis, far right sleeper jackals, MRA jihadis, lunatics speaking in Python, and, perhaps worst of all, Libertarians. Just because you don't like the company doesn't mean that tech doesn't work.

My concern with BitChute in particular is that tech companies run on money, not software, and white knighting for Total Free Speech in 2017 is just going to make them a target in an ongoing culture war they lack the resources or experience to survive.


What possible reason would anyone here have to use TOR? A government whistleblower, maybe? An animal rights activist trying to hide from feds who could label the mere exposure of slaughterhouses as an act of terrorism? A group of amateur sleuths secretly researching the lives of scientists who have the fate of the planet literally in their hands? What else is there to hide? Why else be secretive? We here say some of the most objectionable shit imaginable from the perspective of an establishment consensus, and we say it 100% publicly, and nobody gives a damn. And if anyone did give a damn, fantastic, that's just proof you're flying over the target, in which case, more flak, plz.
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Re: Dear Mods and coders

Postby alloneword » Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:13 pm

FourthBase » Tue Dec 31, 2019 2:53 pm wrote:What possible reason would anyone here have to use TOR?

Circumventing censorship, for one. e.g. http://piratebayztemzmv.onion

I also use VPNs as I occasionally seed torrent files, plus I got fed up with wondering/worrying about whether looking up certain keywords/phrases might get me put on some watch list somewhere. The small financial cost and slight reduction in bandwidth are well worth the peace of mind in my book.

I filter out traffic to/from *certain* companies at router level, as I personally don't like what they do with with the gargantuan amount of data they hoover up from everyone else.

I use PGP encryption for a fair amount of email as I prefer my private communication to remain, well, private.

It's not about being 'secretive', it's about 'sovereignty'.

In my experience, if you trade your sovereignty for convenience, you'll end up with neither.
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