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we're more politicized than ever we're more polarized than ever the 21st century when speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. electronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging information i mean the. freedom of speech and social media bent censorship and double standards who should judge what can be said online. the internet audience know totals almost 4500000000 almost all of them are effective social network users put one wrong move on their pages deleted digital. don't exist anymore. not who runs the show on the web how can anyone stand up to the tech giants if even heads of state face the threat of being burned is
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there any limits to hold that virtual. communities for i was reasonable way to. build altman is a co-founder of the social network minds dot com it describes itself as an independent platform for the frank exchange of opinions the company has twice fallen foul of censorship by facebook and google for almost a year. was unavailable in google play. their apparent reason for taking us off was for a not even particularly explicit image of woman in a bikini or something like that maybe maybe somebody part was showing but it was it was actually had a bore on it so it was mark. then i appealed. showed them their work
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twitter allows total pornography and yet you're not banning twitter twitter so why are you banning our facebook you tube instagram to talk and twitter the most popular online platforms today a brave new world with no boundaries the pioneers achieved a real breakthrough in 2006 when facebook opened up to all internet users aged 13 and over. in the same year google bought the online video sharing platform you tube which had rapidly gained popularity the audience for these services has grown with each passing year if you are still here media and you say isn't bread great aren't kittens wonderful isn't music grade isn't oh i love i. love people on social media aren't political they're not they're doing stupid in and out he was things lionel is a well known media analyst and radio host he's certain that even though the
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internet has long been a reliable tool for promoting anything you like there are only certain things that you can say take a currently relevant topic for example covert vaccines sputnik v russia's inoculation had come under a lot of criticism in the west even in its early development stages twitter even temporarily blocked the vaccines account but the table soon turned after the lancet the reputable medical journal published a positive review in no time for in mass media declared sputnik deemed to be safe and effective knowing over their name was so lost so our feeling was are calling only one little thing. and you've got a couple i won't want to put in my children later shane. until very recently i can corporation basically manage the whole global network the company was founded in the late 1990 s. as a nonprofit organization and operated under a. contract with the u.s.
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department of commerce which had the power to veto any decisions that the company made the foreign you know that is for such is so true such. were just it until after. the so i mean can you just because it is sort of my strong of people are going to push as i could and i started to move but we should see others could go to considerable space i mean. this was crazy to skew voters just. pushed. by the end of 2016 the u.s. government under international pressure did eventually relinquish control over i can't. the basic principles of web interaction not contained in section 230 of the communications decency act. the major part of that section consists of just 26 words. no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another
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information content provider. section 230 exempts social networks from responsibility for almost anything their users might publish so no one can sue facebook for anything posted on their platform only the original poster at the same time the social networks have free rein to block any content they deem undesirable . if administrator choose to remove your content you'd have no chance in court you must play by their rules. this says shall i knew by now playing your costs low that they love that are playing a swing at us kind of wild card someone just throwing our social today and would take me across quite so i found out 8 the one that out soon to really come what if i am wrong platform a park i mean 0 showing you what the empowering mainly means i will stop buying tickets i have found out the sextile in canada some most but only i am letting it all count.
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only. this is the safety internet league's office a major russian organization specifically created to counter dangerous information and fake news across the world wide web. every day. appropriate content. specialist at the center says you can find almost anything on you tube public beatings abuse. which appears life from time to time. and. teenagers make up the main demographic for shocking content like that they have
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mastered the art of composing the search queries to find exactly what they're looking for even if a video is a to restrict it easily work around it. however neither violence nor the live broadcast of crimes being committed the internet giants seem content to turn a blind eye to that but what about politics former u.s. president donald trump has clashed openly with twitter and facebook on numerous occasions and accused both of being biased and restrictive when it comes to the grand. they cite several examples to support that claim for several years
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facebook's trending news section basically functioned as a mass media editorial team which systematically removed articles generated by conservative media outlets from trending topics. copies of internal guidelines were leaks to journalists of the guardian newspaper. this document shows that choices weren't made by a computer algorithm alone as facebook had claimed up to the last moment. you should mark a topic is national story importance if it is among the one to 3 top stories of the day we measure this by checking if it is leading at least 5 of the following 10 news websites. me. so there's no this is. going to be the program it's. one of those words where they stand up to me and.
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to me that she will get of news also seized in late may 2020 before the end of his presidential term donald trump signed an executive order preventing online censorship of the content of the document was published on the white house's website but on joe biden's 1st day in office it mysteriously disappeared the executive order was to impact section 230 specifically. trump suggested revoking the social networks immunity from legal claims and he wanted to check on more than 16 felzenberg ports on internet political censorship. to 30 was granted on the communications. to 3rd. but they said this is what's critical no time during the course of your existence social media are you to be ever to.
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centered a publisher you're not a publisher noodle make editorial decisions as to what goes on your site. donald trump issued those instructions after yet another conflict with twitter the service marks 2 of his messages as misleading specifically the one relating to a possible mail in voting fraud trump responded by accusing the social network of interfering with the coming election with us or. matters came to a head you know the january. a rally from supporters and to save america erupted into a storming of the capitol practically controlled the congress building for several alice some posed for photos in the congress hole and in congressman's offices others chased police officers along colorado's upstairs gunfire was heard repeatedly on different floors 4 people died in the assault and more than 50 were
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injured democrats in american media outlets immediately held trump responsible for inciting the violence with his tweets. as i have been saying for a long time twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech and tonight twitter employees have coordinated with the democrats and radical left in removing my account from their platform to silence me and you the 75000000 great patriots who voted for me. twitter the platform the trumpeter used for years as his main political mel's piece imposed a permanent ban on the president and he had 88000000 followers then it snowballed even further. to e-commerce platform shock if i blow the whole of donald trump's online stores pay pal also shut down all fundraising activities for trump and his associates after twitter he's also been banned from snap chat reddit and twitch.
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was viewed as a no censorship social network with a lot of conservative users google has removed it from its place. in your on the phone one day you're talking to somebody. oh miss on your phone goes dead. when you say that was odd and you call the person back and you say i'm sorry i was just i was just talking to you about colvin door traum or whoever and he goes dead again what if your phone carrier were to say well we don't want you to talk about certain things that are disinformation why incorrect hate you would say you're all solar company you're a phone carrier you can't limit what i'm saying that's the way i feel when social media kicked you off of their platform.
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it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't tailed. into some of them thought i was pretty famous. because for me from a gold. medal feat a market economy. in the us at the source me note of that i notice that the same question which we know. of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption and only.
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from the tomb of the unknown soldier in the kremlin's walls the lamp lit from the attorney flame was delivered to belgrade particular importance was attached to this ceremony and anything to do with world war 2 in both serbia and russia. because it was with the russian delegation for several years now she has headed the national civic movement victory volunteers their website suffers regular d.o.'s attacks and their you tube videos are often blocked to access can't only be restricted by you tube administrators by ordinary users as well all you have to do is complain if enough complaints are filed the video is banned that's what happened in november when the victory volunteers held an international historical online event commemorating the nuremberg trials star signs here stamped i sat separate out of it
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i snatched there he's a cock now up on top of me you talk about how after much time should be hollis but the mushtaq ahmed has it secretary much just what i want to get out just the way it shall but last edition of content that is true on the margins the 0201 story is true and if i don't abruptly now probably in that regard it's sad when you start it is that sickly she was afraid of what if i meet islam or any one person i see. facebook too had issues with similar content. and dozens of users who posted this iconic photo raising a flag over the right by military photographer you have guinea how they were temporarily banned. your post violates our community standards concerning dangerous individuals and organizations your publication has been hidden from others these rules have been enacted to prevent harm to anyone in the real world facebook recently became embroiled in a scandal over a neo nazi content a london based advocacy organization discovered several groups with around
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$80000.00 followers all belonging to white racists. groups as well as radical propaganda they have actively been selling extremist merchandise swastikas black uniforms and. it was a very long time before facebook took action observer journalist brought the issue to the attention of the network's officials they started to delete the neo nazi materials however traces of them can still be found quite easily. so. even. if. russia's communications watchdog there were more than 20 instances of censorship against russian media outlets by foreign internet companies in 2020 twitter went further and introduced.
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for accounts belonging to officials and russian state affiliated media then suddenly searches for russia today. returning any results. you know appropriate and. featuring material that. a film titled in the name of the prophet is about the so-called islamic states oil trade in northeastern syria possible connection between turkey and the terrorists it was openly accessible for years. on the same. judge can be seen justifying the murder of a school teacher because he showed caricature of the prophet muhammad. to be viewed with no restriction anyone can still see it. can't. be any.
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american radical groups and street protests. thank you. alexander a god is a famous journalist in russia what happened to him and his documentary is now much talked about this film tells the head of 2004 when terrorists held an entire school in beslan hostage more than 300 people died in that atrocity including 186 children
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. the film was aired by the national t.v. channel. but a few days later google suddenly blocked the film from a wider audience by giving it an age restriction. court order to google to lift the restrictions as they contravenes the constitutional rights of russian citizens to freedom of speech and information. however google representatives officially stated that they disagreed with the ruling would appeal and would not lift the restrictions. but.
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a new law introduces the concept of a web resource owner who will be held responsible for violating russian users' rights this could be applied to almost any platform that restricts content intended for a russian audience decisions will immediately be sent to the federal service for the supervision of information technology and mass media. that will stop. all the. infamous. i was. one of the bill's sponsors alexandra de and of the state duma refers to these measures as disincentives he claims that until recently they had no way to counter the tech giants they don't really have permanent bases in russia and are not subject to russian law. and they usually ignore any demands sent their way not to mention that all user information is stored on servers abroad.
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results of those that are with. the book the room you were. going to get a minute he. took a sip of some others to get those. dishes there just be sure. to know here it is there. is a reporter inside knowledge of she's worked for several chinese media outlets and witnessed hail the internet and the rules controlling it have changed in china where an entire generation has grown up with us strictly sulfur and internet only a handful of people mostly foreigners use v.p.n. tools to circumvent the restrictions. kid that's a sim deaf boneyard just to. be facebook. in this town the side of the family and now i'm going to it that i'm watching it
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and i get on their board messed up what sample cathartics that does something like you know on this serious to chat. shit as i chat or what i'm doing get a little war. come on my lael slow gear is a cousin and you don't doubt that it has an ace born there so i don't. get what he had been a better chair than the. digital walls are now being built on every continent india is blocking chinese apps and creating its own tick-tock like turkey is passing a law to control social media content it requires i.t. companies to help local offices to interact with government officials facebook twitter and you tube have long gone from their own instead to radio and users have their own social networks. with the persian language into face the list goes on and on governments are no longer just blocking web resources in rare cases it's
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becoming a global trend. the 1st machine understood that the balloon. could but it's a bigger story when you go stop. you're going to be strongly politicians i mean i'm loyal by only agree with me on you will probably go by you see if you do something is also interesting that much of what i spot a cockleshell is sheer beauty to watch cod to be in the police say for all plus.
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one else seemed wrong. rowles just don't call. me old yet to shape our disdain for the conflict as a whole and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests while you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological
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interrogation psychological torture the cia disseminated within the us intelligence community and worldwide among allies for the next 30 years bent out the victims say they still live with the consequences today. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. what is truth what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us
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in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. the headlines this hour the world health organization states against hoarding faxing supplies pointing to drastic shortages importations that as humanitarian groups raise the alarm there's any good jobs going to waste in your. every back seeing that he's in. not. in the army but person is a potential death due to. 19. meanwhile half a 1000000 american cobra deaths and counting yet no mass vaccination inside but despite a morbid milestone joe biden escapes the criticism previously left with donald trump's handling of the crisis and russia slams the us on the mining free trade unfair competition is washington about european companies.
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