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Balkanization in the United States: Is it Coming? | American Partisan
Posted: October 28, 2018 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedIdentity Politics – Social Dynamics – A Human Instruction Manual
Posted: October 28, 2018 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedRead all of it.
Think about it.
Look what’s going on around you right now.
https://socialdynamicsbook.com/2018/10/27/identity-politics-of-division/
Raconteur Report: Inspector Columbo: “Just a couple of more questions…”
Posted: October 27, 2018 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedTim Cook Calls for US Privacy Law to Protect Citizens From Growing ‘Data Industrial Complex’ – Mac Rumors
Posted: October 27, 2018 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized“Our own information — from the everyday to the deeply personal — is being weaponized against us with military efficiency,” warned Cook. “These scraps of data, each one harmless enough on its own, are carefully assembled, synthesized, traded and sold.
“Taken to the extreme this process creates an enduring digital profile and lets companies know you better than you may know yourself. Your profile is a bunch of algorithms that serve up increasingly extreme content, pounding our harmless preferences into harm.”
“We shouldn’t sugarcoat the consequences. This is surveillance,” he added.
Paid protesters? They’re real — and a Beverly Hills firm that hires them stands accused of extortion in a lawsuit – Los Angeles Times
Posted: October 27, 2018 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedMassPrivateI: Appeals Court: Police can violate our rights without fear of being sued
Posted: October 27, 2018 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized4Chan Sparks Mass Triggering With NPC Meme; Twitter Responds With Ban Hammer | Zero Hedge
Posted: October 25, 2018 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedRe-post because link didn’t work in original
October Update on the Second American Civil War – Forward Observer
Posted: October 25, 2018 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized“Q: Is there a developing relationship between the Democratic Party and militant left wing groups?
One of the central themes in contemporary insurgent movements is the relationship between armed combatant groups and their ostensibly peaceful political party cohorts.
The Irish Republican Army and Sinn Fein in Ireland. Hezbollah, the Shi’ite militant group, and Hezbollah, the Shi’ite political party, in Lebanon. The YPG militant group and the Democratic Union Party in Kurdistan/Syria. Jaysh al-Mahdi and the Sadrist Party in Iraq. The Badr Brigade and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
There are numerous other examples of political parties having militant wings, in addition to examples of militant organizations establishing themselves as political parties during a conflict.
Historically, insurgent campaigns are more likely to lead to political resolutions than martial victories, so militant organizations must have political representation. On the other hand, violence carried out by a militant wing provides leverage for the political party and an incentive for governments to solve political issues peacefully.
Neither side necessarily has direct influence or control over the other, but they often act to accomplish mutually beneficial goals. A militant wing can offer muscle to a political party, and the political party can provide judicial protections to the militant wing.”
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https://forwardobserver.com/october-update-on-the-second-american-civil-war/
The Death of the First Amendment in Cyberspace – Quillette
Posted: October 24, 2018 by gamegetterII in Uncategorizedh/t WRSA
“In 1996, cyber activist John Perry Barlow addressed national governments in his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace; a radical call for complete online freedom. “I declare,” he wrote, “the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us.”
In the early 2000s, it seemed as if Barlow’s Declaration was becoming a reality. In 2006, Time magazine named “You”—that is to say, all of us—as their Person of the Year:
It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes. The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web.
Social media became instrumental in the toppling of dictators in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen and, in 2010, it was Mark Zuckerberg’s turn to be awarded Time‘s Person of the Year. A couple of years later Twitter confidently declared itself ”The free speech wing of the free speech party.” This commitment to the global spread of radical free speech and openness was specifically informed by the First Amendment. Through the embrace and global reach of Silicon Valley, it seemed for a brief moment as if American free speech exceptionalism would go viral and impose a Libertas Americana upon cyberspace.
But less than a decade later things look radically different. In a prevailing atmosphere of anxiety, the digital promised land has turned into a dystopia of surveillance, disinformation, trolling, and hatred. As evidence of Russian interference in the American presidential election emerged, the platforms once hailed as the global infrastructure of freedom and democracy are now widely seen as the enemies of these values. In April 2018, the New York Times called Zuckerberg “an Enlightened Despot,” and argued thatFacebook and Twitter had been “turned into engines of deception and propaganda.”
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https://quillette.com/2018/10/22/the-death-of-the-first-amendment-in-cyberspace/
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