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