More people need to realize this. From the time the Watergate story broke until Nixon resigned, over 2 years had passed.
Many people said that breaking up Ma Bell was something that could never be done. They were wrong. But after the antitrust lawsuit was filed the case spent 11 years in litigation before the monopoly was finally broken up.
conservatives have been getting censored for 10+ years now.
We are looking at a 'deadline' of 2 weeks. People in US, right now are voting for a man who sold US out to China to become President, most of them unaware of the credible info on his illegal activities.
Black pilled doomer? sure, some days I am - still doesn't change that the fact that Joe Biden right now is still a viable presidential candidate, means Senate Judiciary Committee has fucked up and has been fucking up for 10 years in a row on this, in the grossest and most inexcusable way.
This hearing is coming too late. It will not affect the biggest battle of this war.
But after the antitrust lawsuit was filed the case spent 11 years in litigation before the monopoly was finally broken up.
It took them only 4 years to actually start the process.
Fuck Rand Paul too. He writes up his bitch ass breona taylor bill. Doh. MF had no idea what happened. Then he gets the red carpet treatment from the lefties and hes like...but but but i...im your side. He should have wrote up a bill about msm propaganda and outright lies that even have pursuasion over his mind.
No you moron. He wrote a bill because he thought a black female medical worker was shot in her bed sleeping because cops bust into her home without any formal address as to being there. He could possibly have bought the whole idea of the cops being at the wrong address and most likily did not even know that she was on warrant and the evudence that she was an accessory to drug dealing. So yes. This shows that his character is flawed in that he has no clue and is willing to use his power against not having that clue. Use of power without facts and evidence...sounds like a leftist to me.
That terminology is a marketing phrase drummed into tech people’s speech as a way of putting the maximal positive spin on the algorithmic opinion-shaping process.
In reality there’s no actual determination of what you wanted, or what optimally serves the user’s self-interests — there are only measurements of engagement, reaction, effect, behavior change, sharing, value generated, etc.
The algorithms unthinkingly create node network topological graphs that measure effective methods to capture your attention and predict your future actions. ‘Nudging’ is merely a way to better predict your future actions by reducing the set of likely possibilities. Thats not nearly the same as “what you want”.
In the real world, you might have some toxic manipulative scheming step-mother in law or abusive stalker ex-husband who becomes an expert at twisting reality into lies by leveraging their ‘insider knowledge’ — planting ideas, leveraging third-party gossip, creating power struggles, false accusations, triangulation, etc. by pushing people’s buttons, deflecting criticism, constantly dangling objects of desire as bait, etc...
In the world of humans, most of these people only go full steam doing that to you if they have a personal grudge or compelling interest against you, and you know to watch out and have your guard up. THE ALGORITHMS DO THIS TO YOU MERCILESSLY, JUST ‘BECAUSE THEY CAN’.
It’s like having a maximally manipulative stalker watching you 24 hrs a day, reading and listening to all your most private correspondence, and talking privately to all your family, friends, and co-workers... ready to leverage all that ‘insider knowledge’ to get you to drink a Diet Pepsi, make your kid twerk for Internet strangers, or give up your freedom— it’s all the same to the algorithms
A RINO who votes Democrat 80% of the time is better than a Democrat who votes Democrat 100% of the time. It sucks, but that’s the situation we’re in.
Luckily many politicians have been emboldened recently both by Trump’s actions and the support of all of us, so the number of RINOs should hopefully drop.
Attack tech market monopolies using antitrust laws to break up vertical markets and media consolidation.
Fix patent law to eliminate various types of competition-stifling abuse
Scale back copyright monopoly to its original 20-year term.
Enforce in-kind donations election laws on large commercial social media platforms who police content.
Ban federal subsidies, tax incentives, and contracts from corporations with ownership of platforms that behave against the principle of free speech.
Drastically reduce H1b visas
Recognize the inherent stewardship responsibilities of corporate entities engaged in computation using private data, including creating liabilities upon institutions that collect, retain, or sell data beyond that which is directly necessary to run their service.
Recognize personal tracked data as an owned asset belonging to individuals, and require those that profit from voluntarily tracked data to share generated profits with the persons who opt in to sharing.
Use infrastructure already in place for spying on citizens to instead provide a ‘public option’ for hosting and bandwith option, so everyone can publish.
Adapt laws that require businesses to share data with government institutions to require the same sharing for individuals to give people the opportunity to ‘exploit’ their own collected data.
I saw a good YouTube post a while back (forgot under which video exactly I saw it, also slightly paraphrased) :
The Republican Reps and Senators question people based on the legal matters & actions, the Democrats Reps and Senators question people based on the cultural & moral matters & actions. That way, Repubs' hearings are largely going nowhere (as most actions were lawful or gray area at worst), and Dems' hearings get results (as it resonates with their audience).
As a slightly technical 'pede, Congress needs to subpoena all Change tickets, emergency Change tickets, Incident tickets, Service requests, and copies of Twitters code from before and after the Biden news suppression/election interference to get to the true story of what they were doing before and after the Post story was censored and there was a huge twitter outage
Get it all, including any tools or interfaces used, and any and all network configs along with the code for the core twitter app. Its time to look at all the 'algorithms' to see wtf is really going on there, and it is totally justified after the Biden news suppression/election interference
They should have this all already for their post mortem on the outage, but Congress needs the raw info to review and not the sanitized summary version they would want to supply.
It can't be just asking questions of the tech heads who are going to lie and talk around congress who, even those that mean well will not be able to counter as they aren't technical enough to. They need to provide it all to congress, and make it available for independent review.
Its time to look at all the 'algorithms' to see wtf is really going on there
I agree that it needs to happen but it would take months and thousands of manhours to "unwind" those algorithms to understand how exactly filtering is implemented. Just something to be aware of. If it would legally be even feasible.
Imo, a different approach is more productive, a top-down kinda thing, a regulation that would affect their behavior, for instance redefining "section 230" or whatever way they are protected from being sued. It's all an uncharted territory, so new paths have to be invented, maybe an anti-propaganda legislature but it's a fine line encroaching onto 1st amendment restrictions, etc.
My point is that while it's obvious what something is broken and needs fixin', it's just not a very simple fix.
One of the key tho is to show what human intervention is involved with the 'algorithms' hence the '
Which would be a key to showing election interference, and redefining 230 is in order. I don't think it would take too long to show where the human intervention is.
Oh, I understand. And am very curious to see how they do it. I bet it's via a set of configs that list "prohibited" items that would be straight-up "banned" from the platform or throttled. I can devise at least half a dozen methods of doing so but yeah, with a decent change control system, which I'm sure is employed in any organization of that nature, the changes to the configuration files, or lists of any sort, would be well documented. But documentation can be meddled with too, even wording can be coded in such a way that the log in the change control wouldn't even indicate such a change, but idk, I've not worked at either of those orgs.
In any case, every facet should be looked into before a decision is made and all of it will take some time. Perhaps, redefining section 230 (which isn't as simple either) would be a start with the rest of the time-consuming shit to follow.
You may think it doesn’t matter, but this creates political pressure and financial consequences as backers get nervous. I suspect it also sets up momentum for future legal action. It’s not all we could hope for, but its right for them to be called to testify.
Indeed. I don't understand why that's not in there. I just got a fresh account without any subscriptions and it's straight-up anti-American propaganda and that is what anyone unfamiliar with reddit would immediately see. So, "the front page of the internet" is nothing more but ccp agitprop outlet for dimwitted children. Literally.
I have been running an employment ad, recruiting for open positions for my company, on FB since May. Within the last week or so they have unpublished and rejected the ad, stating that it is either about social issues, elections, or politics... Even though the ad is placed under the employment section and is boosting a job post that I created. It literally has nothing to do with politics, elections, or any other "special issue." I am trying to hire people and FB is literally preventing me from doing that.
The GOP members include: Lindsey Graham (snake), Mike Lee (globalist for big tech), Cornyn (RINO), Ben Sasse (Never-Trump asshat), Chuck Grassley, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Joni Ernst, Thom Tillis, Mike Crapo, John Kennedy and Marsha Blackburn.
INB4 blackpilled doomers saying "nothing ever happens" and "strongly worded letter"
^^ This. We didn't get this far with these fucking attitudes.
Yup me too but until something, anything proves us wrong wtf?
More people need to realize this. From the time the Watergate story broke until Nixon resigned, over 2 years had passed.
Many people said that breaking up Ma Bell was something that could never be done. They were wrong. But after the antitrust lawsuit was filed the case spent 11 years in litigation before the monopoly was finally broken up.
Nixon wasn't part of Watergate tho, you (and a lot of other people) forget that.
The Watergate trials had ended months before President Nixon was charged with obstruction
I did know that. His crime was trying to cover it up.
conservatives have been getting censored for 10+ years now.
We are looking at a 'deadline' of 2 weeks. People in US, right now are voting for a man who sold US out to China to become President, most of them unaware of the credible info on his illegal activities.
Black pilled doomer? sure, some days I am - still doesn't change that the fact that Joe Biden right now is still a viable presidential candidate, means Senate Judiciary Committee has fucked up and has been fucking up for 10 years in a row on this, in the grossest and most inexcusable way.
This hearing is coming too late. It will not affect the biggest battle of this war.
It took them only 4 years to actually start the process.
I always say the best predictor of future behavior is (...
wait for it
...)
past behavior!
scott presler? he guest hosts the RSBN pre-rally coverage sometimes.
I'm gonna say this to every fucking concern troll I see
Fuck Rand Paul too. He writes up his bitch ass breona taylor bill. Doh. MF had no idea what happened. Then he gets the red carpet treatment from the lefties and hes like...but but but i...im your side. He should have wrote up a bill about msm propaganda and outright lies that even have pursuasion over his mind.
No you moron. He wrote a bill because he thought a black female medical worker was shot in her bed sleeping because cops bust into her home without any formal address as to being there. He could possibly have bought the whole idea of the cops being at the wrong address and most likily did not even know that she was on warrant and the evudence that she was an accessory to drug dealing. So yes. This shows that his character is flawed in that he has no clue and is willing to use his power against not having that clue. Use of power without facts and evidence...sounds like a leftist to me.
We need more charts similar to this. Not just their voting in line with POTUS percentage, but some of the things not typically voted on.
There’s more to it than “what users want to see”.
That terminology is a marketing phrase drummed into tech people’s speech as a way of putting the maximal positive spin on the algorithmic opinion-shaping process.
In reality there’s no actual determination of what you wanted, or what optimally serves the user’s self-interests — there are only measurements of engagement, reaction, effect, behavior change, sharing, value generated, etc.
The algorithms unthinkingly create node network topological graphs that measure effective methods to capture your attention and predict your future actions. ‘Nudging’ is merely a way to better predict your future actions by reducing the set of likely possibilities. Thats not nearly the same as “what you want”.
In the real world, you might have some toxic manipulative scheming step-mother in law or abusive stalker ex-husband who becomes an expert at twisting reality into lies by leveraging their ‘insider knowledge’ — planting ideas, leveraging third-party gossip, creating power struggles, false accusations, triangulation, etc. by pushing people’s buttons, deflecting criticism, constantly dangling objects of desire as bait, etc...
In the world of humans, most of these people only go full steam doing that to you if they have a personal grudge or compelling interest against you, and you know to watch out and have your guard up. THE ALGORITHMS DO THIS TO YOU MERCILESSLY, JUST ‘BECAUSE THEY CAN’.
It’s like having a maximally manipulative stalker watching you 24 hrs a day, reading and listening to all your most private correspondence, and talking privately to all your family, friends, and co-workers... ready to leverage all that ‘insider knowledge’ to get you to drink a Diet Pepsi, make your kid twerk for Internet strangers, or give up your freedom— it’s all the same to the algorithms
A RINO who votes Democrat 80% of the time is better than a Democrat who votes Democrat 100% of the time. It sucks, but that’s the situation we’re in.
Luckily many politicians have been emboldened recently both by Trump’s actions and the support of all of us, so the number of RINOs should hopefully drop.
I like this chart. If it doesn't have a name let's call it a "T Index" and let's make more of them.
Where exactly have we gotten?
HOW TO REIN IN THE TECHNOCRAT MEDIA COMPLEX:
Attack tech market monopolies using antitrust laws to break up vertical markets and media consolidation.
Fix patent law to eliminate various types of competition-stifling abuse
Scale back copyright monopoly to its original 20-year term.
Enforce in-kind donations election laws on large commercial social media platforms who police content.
Ban federal subsidies, tax incentives, and contracts from corporations with ownership of platforms that behave against the principle of free speech.
Drastically reduce H1b visas
Recognize the inherent stewardship responsibilities of corporate entities engaged in computation using private data, including creating liabilities upon institutions that collect, retain, or sell data beyond that which is directly necessary to run their service.
Recognize personal tracked data as an owned asset belonging to individuals, and require those that profit from voluntarily tracked data to share generated profits with the persons who opt in to sharing.
Use infrastructure already in place for spying on citizens to instead provide a ‘public option’ for hosting and bandwith option, so everyone can publish.
Adapt laws that require businesses to share data with government institutions to require the same sharing for individuals to give people the opportunity to ‘exploit’ their own collected data.
Incentivize ’small-scale’ startups and services
Seriously, can we ACTUALLY ROLL BACK SHITTY POLICIES FOR ONCE IN A DECADE
Thomas Edison sure didn't. Hatred of failure is the best reason to keep trying.
"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
-Donald J. Trump
I saw a good YouTube post a while back (forgot under which video exactly I saw it, also slightly paraphrased) :
I am the forever optimist.
One day, the republicans are gonna be sick of losing.
Trump will teach them to win again.
Except they aren’t losing they are leaving office being multi millionaires.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Don't blame them for calling it like they see it.
Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Have you ever heard the adage: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."?
Were being fooled like the 50th time.
If it isn't under oath, it doesn't matter.
^ This x10
Under oath or not, you can still go to prison for lying to Congress. What's good for the goose...
https://archive.is/a9VQV
Then why are these tech oligarchs still in their same positions they were in back when they gave false testimony a while back? (rhetorical question)
Wow, the last 100 testimonies sure did usher in some major reforms... mostly for the Democrat party...
As a slightly technical 'pede, Congress needs to subpoena all Change tickets, emergency Change tickets, Incident tickets, Service requests, and copies of Twitters code from before and after the Biden news suppression/election interference to get to the true story of what they were doing before and after the Post story was censored and there was a huge twitter outage
Get it all, including any tools or interfaces used, and any and all network configs along with the code for the core twitter app. Its time to look at all the 'algorithms' to see wtf is really going on there, and it is totally justified after the Biden news suppression/election interference
(repost by me but this is what needs to happen https://thedonald.win/p/HrTewkyc/as-a-slightly-technical-pede-con/c/ )
As an also slightly technical 'pede, I agree 100%.
They should have this all already for their post mortem on the outage, but Congress needs the raw info to review and not the sanitized summary version they would want to supply. It can't be just asking questions of the tech heads who are going to lie and talk around congress who, even those that mean well will not be able to counter as they aren't technical enough to. They need to provide it all to congress, and make it available for independent review.
I agree that it needs to happen but it would take months and thousands of manhours to "unwind" those algorithms to understand how exactly filtering is implemented. Just something to be aware of. If it would legally be even feasible.
Imo, a different approach is more productive, a top-down kinda thing, a regulation that would affect their behavior, for instance redefining "section 230" or whatever way they are protected from being sued. It's all an uncharted territory, so new paths have to be invented, maybe an anti-propaganda legislature but it's a fine line encroaching onto 1st amendment restrictions, etc.
My point is that while it's obvious what something is broken and needs fixin', it's just not a very simple fix.
One of the key tho is to show what human intervention is involved with the 'algorithms' hence the '
Which would be a key to showing election interference, and redefining 230 is in order. I don't think it would take too long to show where the human intervention is.
Oh, I understand. And am very curious to see how they do it. I bet it's via a set of configs that list "prohibited" items that would be straight-up "banned" from the platform or throttled. I can devise at least half a dozen methods of doing so but yeah, with a decent change control system, which I'm sure is employed in any organization of that nature, the changes to the configuration files, or lists of any sort, would be well documented. But documentation can be meddled with too, even wording can be coded in such a way that the log in the change control wouldn't even indicate such a change, but idk, I've not worked at either of those orgs.
In any case, every facet should be looked into before a decision is made and all of it will take some time. Perhaps, redefining section 230 (which isn't as simple either) would be a start with the rest of the time-consuming shit to follow.
Should have included Bezos too
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amazon-facebook-give-cold-shoulder-to-pro-trump-doc
Drag in NPR as well!
yeah fuck these smug grass munchers
30th time is the charm!
So they are going to get another stern talking to?
You may think it doesn’t matter, but this creates political pressure and financial consequences as backers get nervous. I suspect it also sets up momentum for future legal action. It’s not all we could hope for, but its right for them to be called to testify.
Yeah I’m waiting for the Anti-trust suits, we need to take Facebook down.
I pray for an irrefutable Trump landslide.
I know, but not Facebook or Twitter yet.
It's about time. Don't let them leave without an indictment.
Get Reddit on there too
Indeed. I don't understand why that's not in there. I just got a fresh account without any subscriptions and it's straight-up anti-American propaganda and that is what anyone unfamiliar with reddit would immediately see. So, "the front page of the internet" is nothing more but ccp agitprop outlet for dimwitted children. Literally.
The live version of "tic tock, tic tock....your time is coming"
I have been running an employment ad, recruiting for open positions for my company, on FB since May. Within the last week or so they have unpublished and rejected the ad, stating that it is either about social issues, elections, or politics... Even though the ad is placed under the employment section and is boosting a job post that I created. It literally has nothing to do with politics, elections, or any other "special issue." I am trying to hire people and FB is literally preventing me from doing that.
STRONGLY
Well done Republicans. Thank you for not going back on this plan.
Yeah way to go Republicans. Wait until it’s too late to do something. Globalist and communists all of them.
Good, charge them with perjury afterward.
Why make them testify and lie? It accomplishes nothing. Just throw every applicable charge at them and hit them with antitrust.
It would be nice if something happens. People have reason to be skeptical at this point.
I will beleive it when i see it.
While you are waiting for them to testify perhaps prepare fines, lawsuits and antitrust investigations.
This is just a live reenactment of a strongly worded letter....
Lol
TGP so brutal 😂
Fighting back eventually pans out. We can follow the left's example. Never give up, never give in.
No fucking pillow for that little bitch this time.
Another powwow how cute. I’m gonna make mint juleps to celebrate tonight
Hawley needs to be the Majority Leader.