TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER:
GOOGLE A DIRECT THREAT TO DEMOCRACY & ONLINE FREEDOM
‘Google and YouTube shape our online reality,’ says Parscale
BY JAMIE WHITE
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/trump-campaign-manager-google-a-direct-threat-to-democracy-online-freedom/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Google poses a dire threat to democracy and online freedom, according to President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale.
In a USA Today op-ed, Parscale laid out point-by-point how Google and other tech giants operate as the “gatekeepers” of online information and as political instruments of the left.
“As the internet has become an increasingly central part of modern life, Big Tech giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Google have increasingly sought to become the gatekeepers of the internet and political discourse,” Parscale wrote Monday.
“Without any sort of democratic mandate, these companies have appointed themselves the arbiters of acceptable thought, discussion and searches online.”
.@realDonaldTrump is right: More than Facebook & Twitter, Google threatens democracy, online freedom. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
“These companies’ pervasive command of the internet — and blatant desire to control how we interact with it — is a direct threat to a free society. And arguably the worst offender is Google,” he added.
He then described just how extensive and all-encompassing Google’s control is over the internet, accounting for over 90% of all online searches.
“Google’s broad and pervasive role in the lives of almost every American today cannot be overstated. More than 90 percent of all online searches are conducted through Google or YouTube. The media giant’s video-sharing site has 1 billion active users a month, many of whom go there to learn and share conservative ideas only to find their quest for knowledge subverted by faceless ideologues,” he explained.
Parscale went on to list how Google blacklists, manipulates, and outright removes content it alone deems undesirable, which is usually right-leaning.
“Google’s eager adoption of the role of censor should come as little surprise. Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has a demonstrated track record of combining the role of Democrat activist with his job,” he wrote.
Additionally, Google colluded with the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, and cozied up with the Obama White House in regular weekly meetings, demonstrating the platform’s political bias.
“Google is clearly manipulating and controlling the political narrative in favor of Democrats and the left, and silencing conservatives and Republicans,” Parscale wrote.
“A company with such power and influence cannot simply be allowed to play the biased gatekeeper of political discourse.”
Members of Congress demanded Big Tech leaders testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee about their companies’ roles in political censorship, fighting “fake news,” and addressing foreign influencers.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg appeared for the hearing last week, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Larry Page both snubbed the high-profile event.
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TRUMP EXECUTIVE ACTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP BEING BLOCKED BY INSIDERS
Older heads within administration don’t realize huge threat posed by Big Tech purge
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/trump-executive-action-on-social-media-censorship-being-blocked-by-insiders/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Potential executive action to address the widespread Big Tech de-platforming and censorship of prominent conservative voices is being stymied by administration insiders who are oblivious to the threat and have convinced President Trump to put the issue on the back burner.
Infowars has learned from a source close to the administration that executive action on the matter was planned as soon as this week, but that it has likely been delayed yet again.
Several people within Trump’s inner circle know the threat to the mid-terms and his re-election chances that social media censorship poses, including Donald Trump Jr. and Brad Parscale, his 2020 campaign manager.
However, older members of the administration are completely unaware of the fact that banning prominent online voices and manipulating algorithms can shift millions of votes and are oblivious to the danger.
This ignorance has placed a temporary block on Trump taking action, despite the president repeatedly referring to Big Tech censorship in tweets and speeches over the last few weeks.
A petition calling on the White House and Congress to take action to protect free speech in the digital public square has also received almost 125,000 signatures.
If tech monopolies are not stopped in their effort to purge conservatives from social media, the next step is that the left will lobby to have their political adversaries blocked from being able to engage in commerce and use payment processing systems, which already happened in the case of Islam critic Robert Spencer when Mastercard lobbied to have Spencer removed from Patreon and GoFundMe.
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Three Reasons Why Infowars Is Being Banned
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FAHRENHEIT 2018: AMAZON BEGINS BANNING CONTROVERSIAL BOOKS
Roosh V’s dating advice books memory holed for unspecified offensive content
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/fahrenheit-2018-amazon-begins-banning-controversial-books/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Amazon has officially entered dystopian territory by banning an entire range of dating advice books because they violate unspecified “content guidelines.”
Controversial author Roosh Valizadeh revealed the ban last night, tweeting, “Amazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won’t tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years.”
Amazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won't tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years. @CreateSpace & @AmazonKDP: can you tell me why the books have been removed?
Valizadeh later received an email from Amazon informing him that “content guidelines” were broken, but was again given no specifics.
“I feel like I’m in a Franz Kafka novel,” he tweeted.
Amazon Has Banned 9 Of My Books Without Explanation rooshv.com/amazon-has-ban… pic.twitter.com/qKzwAxXVTd
I just got a new email from Amazon. They absolutely refuse to tell me which "content guidelines" were broken, but they encourage me to randomly guess what is wrong and start from scratch. I feel like I'm in a Franz Kafka novel. pic.twitter.com/Y9e0GvpMOK
According to Amazon’s guidelines, illegal content and porn are banned (none of which appear in Valizadeh’s books), so the only guideline he could be in violation of is “offensive content”.
“What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect,” states the guideline, a completely vague description which could literally be anything that one person deems offensive.
“I believe the bannings began because the launch of Game was extremely successful. I sold 2,000 books in the first two days and hit the top 700 on Amazon paperback on the first day. Even before Friday’s launch, Game was already in Amazon’s top 10,000. As far as I know, Amazon didn’t receive a single complaint about the content, but they removed it anyway,” wrote Valizadeh, adding that Amazon sells all kinds of books which contain details of violent rape and sexual abuse.
“None of my books contain child rape scenes, physical abuse, pornography, or sexual violence, and yet they were banned. Were they banned because they were effective at helping men? Was it because executives at Amazon disagree with my political opinions? Was it an action from a rogue employee? They won’t tell me,” said Valizadeh.
The author also noted that a 2015 petition lobbying Amazon to ban his books received over 250,000 signatures at the time, suggesting that a similar effort may have been successful this time around given the intense climate of censorship against conservatives that has accelerated over the last month.
The move has brought comparisons to Nazi book burning or dystopian classics like Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, where the state had a unit of firemen dedicated to burning books.
Back in 2009, Amazon made headlines after it erased digital copies of 1984 from Kindle devices, although that was over a copyright issue. This is much worse.
“Did anyone reasonably foresee that Amazon of all places would ban books? It’s going to get so bad that you can’t imagine how bad it’s going to get,” tweeted Mike Cernovich.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1039285613852160000
Apparently though according to many conservatives, so long as it’s giant corporations and not governments banning everything and removing everyone’s ability to have a platform or engage in commerce, everything’s just fine.
Credit card companies ban customers.
"At least it's not the government."
ISPs ban websites.
"At least it's not the government."
Universities ban speakers.
"At least it's not the government."
Valizadeh also posted a YouTube video talking about the ban, which can be viewed below.
The purge is now being accelerated to the next level – sabotage of commerce. This will begin with the brigading of payment processors, making it impossible for conservatives and free thinkers to sell products, and will end with people being banned from having credit cards and bank accounts altogether, as is already happening.
Now the Washington Post is lobbying to have Infowars’ ability to engage in basic business shut down. This is not the end, it’s just the beginning.
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