{"id":37093,"date":"2020-07-30T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/big-tech-must-be-brought-to-heel-over-election-influencing-devine\/"},"modified":"2020-07-30T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T02:43:00","slug":"big-tech-must-be-brought-to-heel-over-election-influencing-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-tech-must-be-brought-to-heel-over-election-influencing-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Big Tech must be brought to heel over election influencing: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a357d9e30bf7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a357d9e30bf7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-tech-must-be-brought-to-heel-over-election-influencing-devine\/#Save_humans_not_sharks\" >Save humans not sharks!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-tech-must-be-brought-to-heel-over-election-influencing-devine\/#Nancy_Pelowblow\" >Nancy Pelowblow<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Big Tech must be brought to heel over election influencing: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        As the war on conservative voices online reaches fever pitch in the run-up to November\u2019s presidential election, Silicon Valley\u2019s oligarchy finally was called to account Wednesday on \u00adCapitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Tech is out to get conservatives\u201d Ohio Republican Jim Jordan told the bosses of Google, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, Amazon and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le. \u201cThat\u2019s not a suspicion, that\u2019s not a hunch. That\u2019s a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he laid out a litany of censorship atrocities in a blistering opening statement before the congressional antitrust panel.<\/p>\n<p>They included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google removing conservative Web site Breitbart from its search results.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon\u2019s video site Twitch suspending President Trump\u2019s account \u201cafter he raises concerns about defunding the police.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Facebook removing posts from Trump\u2019s re-election campaign.<\/li>\n<li>\u200aAmazon temporarily banning an e-book critical of coronavirus lockdowns written by conservative commentator Alex Berenson.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon charity site Amazon Smile \u201cwon\u2019t let you give to the [pro-life, pro-marriage] Family Research Council .\u2009.\u2009. but you can give to Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Facebook admitting to banning pro-life advertisements in 2018 during Ireland\u2019s abortion referendum.<\/li>\n<li>\u200aFormer Facebook employees admitting to Gizmodo that the social-media behemoth routinely suppresses conservative views.<\/li>\n<li>\u200aGoogle and YouTube censoring content that conflicts with World Health Organization recommendations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThink about that,\u201d said Jordan. \u201cThey can lie for China. They can shill for China. But you say something against them, you get censored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then of course there is Twitter. CEO Jack Dorsey was absent from the hearing, despite an invitation, but that didn\u2019t stop Jordan from excoriating the social-media giant.<\/p>\n<p>He said Twitter \u201cshadow-banned\u201d four conservative members of Congress two years ago: Jordan and fellow Republicans Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunes and Mark Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Mr. Dorsey tell us? \u2018It was just a glitch in our algorithm\u2019 .\u2009.\u2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve heard that excuse time and time again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he listed the times in the past several weeks that Twitter has censored President Trump\u2019s tweets by affixing warning labels to them.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Twitter labeled as \u201cabusive\u201d a Trump tweet last month that read: \u201cThere will never be an \u201cAutonomous Zone\u201d in Washington, D.C., as long as I\u2019m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Twitter didn\u2019t appear on Capitol Hill, in Israel\u2019s Knesset, a Twitter spokeswoman during a hearing on \u00adanti-Semitism Wednesday was grilled about political bias.<\/p>\n<p>She was asked why tweets from President Trump have been censored but not tweets from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for the genocide of Jews and the elimination of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders indulging in \u201cforeign-policy saber-rattling on military and economic issues are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly not in violation of our Twitter rules,\u201d the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, she said Trump\u2019s tweet violated Twitter\u2019s policies \u201cregarding the glorification of violence based on the historical context of the last line of that tweet and the risk that it could possibly inspire harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is clear as mud.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan also pointed out that Khamenei, the leader of the largest state sponsor of terrorism, last week threatened American citizens in a tweet: \u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran will never forget the martyrdom of Haj Qasem Soleimani\u201d \u2014 the Iranian general suspected of carrying out terrorist operations who was killed by a targeted drone strike \u2014 \u201cand will definitely strike a reciprocal blow to the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no warning label affixed to Khamenei\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights of the Capitol Hill hearing were Jordan ripping into Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, about Google\u2019s efforts to help Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>There is ample evidence. A video leaked to Breitbart in 2016, for instance, showed Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page lamenting Trump\u2019s victory at a meeting of Google executives, and vowing not to make the same mistake again.<\/p>\n<p>Brin promised that before the 2020 election Google would be \u201cvery vigilant and thinking about all these issues [to see] what we can do to lead to maybe a better quality of governance and decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan also cited a 2019 Project Veritas undercover expos\u00e9 in which Google executives explained how they planned to undermine Trump and influence the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan asked Pichai Wednesday about a 2016 e-mail from the head of multicultural marketing to Google execs referring to a \u201csilent donation\u201d the company had made to the Clinton campaign \u201cand you applauded her work,\u201d the Ohio congressman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you assure Americans today you won\u2019t tailor your features to help Joe Biden in the upcoming election?\u201d Jordan asked.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai denied any partisanship and said he and the company \u201csupport both campaigns today.\u201d But eventually he offered a \u201ccommitment\u201d to fairness.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz, a Florida Republican, was equally savage with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg. Gaetz asked why the CEO fired virtual-reality wunderkind and Facebook exec Palmer Luckey, who during the 2016 election cycle had donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you fire people as a consequence of their politics, do you think that impacts the culture and perhaps empowers some of the content moderators to also treat people worse as a consequence of their politics?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg denied the charge, but Gaetz replied: \u201cI\u2019ve seen the messages where you have specifically directed Mr. Luckey to make statements regarding his politics to the benefit of your company .\u2009.\u2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a serious question as to whether or not you are giving truthful testimony here or whether you\u2019re lying to Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boom.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the tech giants have reasonable excuses for each incident of censorship and bias, but taken together there is a pattern of conduct which leads to the inescapable conclusion that they are in the business of trying to rig elections.<\/p>\n<p>They must be brought to heel.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Save_humans_not_sharks\"><\/span>Save humans not sharks!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The shark attack that killed New York mom Julie Dimperio Holowach off the Maine coast this week has been described as \u201cincredibly rare,\u201d bad luck and due to a population explosion of seals.<\/p>\n<p>All of which may be true, but what is not mentioned is that the global population of killer great whites also has been exploding in the 16 years since they were designated a protected species, to the detriment of humans.<\/p>\n<p>An indication of the growing aggression of these apex predators came in Australia earlier this month when a great white leaped out of the water and snatched a 10-year-old boy from a fishing boat. The child survived only because his father jumped into the water to save him.<\/p>\n<p>With six fatalities already this year, compared to just two in 2015, shark attacks in Australia have increased to the point of causing economic damage to coastal towns as tourists stay away.<\/p>\n<p>Shark conservationists blame the victim for being in the shark\u2019s territory but surely human life takes priority.<\/p>\n<p>Great whites were protected in 2004 by the Convention on International Trade in \u00adEndangered Species. At the time, Japan opposed the move, saying there was zero evidence the shark numbers were in peril and warning that \u201coverprotection\u201d posed a risk to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope Holowach, 63, is the last great white victim on the East Coast but the Australian experience advises caution.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nancy_Pelowblow\"><\/span>Nancy Pelowblow<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If there is one person to blame for the shabby, spiteful tone suffusing Congress, it is Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>She was at it again this week after her Capitol Hill colleagues\u2019 boorish questioning of Bill Barr, indulging in her favorite sport of fattism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was like a blob,\u201d the House Speaker told MSNBC Tuesday, her face writhing with distaste, after the unflappable attorney general made a meal out of House Dems.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Pelosi, 80, has insulted an opponent\u2019s weight. A couple of months ago she snarked that the president was \u201cmorbidly obese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of unflattering comments Barr could make about Pelosi\u2019s appearance, not to mention her rectitude and intellect, but he\u2019s too much of a gentleman.<\/p>\n<p>For all her faux gentility, Pelosi sets the tone for her party.<\/p>\n<p>While she constantly lambastes President Trump for indecorous behavior, she has done more than anyone to erode the norms of civility that used to define Congress.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/29\/big-tech-taken-to-task-on-capitol-hill-over-election-influencing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Big Tech must be brought to heel over election influencing: Devine&#8221; As the war on conservative voices online reaches fever pitch in the run-up to November\u2019s presidential election, Silicon Valley\u2019s oligarchy finally was called to account Wednesday on \u00adCapitol Hill. \u201cBig Tech is out to get conservatives\u201d Ohio Republican Jim Jordan told the bosses of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46152],"class_list":["post-37093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-big-tech-must-be-brought-to-heel-over-election-influencing-devine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}