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While you were occupied ... This is the real news

While you were occupied ... This is the real news

Tatiana Prophet
Technology

While you were occupied ... This is the real news

But first: BREAKING NEWS: President Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was arrested in Miami on Tuesday. Some reports were saying he was going to be “processed” and held “loosely” by U.S. Marshals. Other reports said he is “in federal custody.” The latter sounds much scarier. This is the first time a former U.S President has been arrested by the federal Department of Justice. Last month he was arrested by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg.

There’s a giant hole where the news should be. Under most circumstances, the following stories would be considered a big deal. Only now, when the only goal of the media industrial complex is to destroy one flashy billionaire, are these stories buried.
But these stories — and the ignorance about them — will have consequences for every single American. They reach into our schools and our homes. But for some reason, they have been minimized, censored and discredited by both corporate and social media.

How is it even possible that Twitter can't keep child porn off of its site?

How is it even possible that Twitter can't keep child porn off of its site?

Tatiana Prophet
Technology

The key to understanding Twitter is to realize that it’s a den of child exploitation, and that the company’s default position is that explicit material is unknowingly becoming part of its revenue stream. But there is evidence going back 10 years that the company is at a minimum guilty of placing children at the bottom of its priority list.

As of December 2020, Twitter received the lowest overall rating, compared to other platforms – including Bing, Facebook, Pornhub, and XVideos – by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection® for its reporting structure of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)..

A brief history of privacy

A brief history of privacy

Tatiana Prophet
Technology

By TATIANA PROPHET
1914 President Woodrow Wilson signs into the law the Federal Trade Commission Act creating the FTC, heir to the Bureau of Corporations created by President Theodore Roosevelt.
The act declares unlawful unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, and empowers the commission to issue “cease and desist” orders to corporations engaged in such behavior. Exemptions are banks, air carriers and “common carriers” which were regulated by the 1887 Interstate Commerce Act, amended by Congress in 1910 to include interstate telephone companies.
1934 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Communications Act on June 19. It replaces the Federal Radio Commission with the Federal Communications Commission, expanding jurisdiction over both wired and wireless communication. The act is codified into law as Chapter 5 of Title 47 of United States Code. It regulates telephone and telegraph common carriers and their rates, allocates radio frequencies and licenses radio operators.

Battle of the Broadbands: Privacy is dead. Long live privacy!

Battle of the Broadbands: Privacy is dead. Long live privacy!

Tatiana Prophet
Technology

By TATIANA PROPHET

As the volatile news month of March came to a close, it was hard to miss the latest gut punch: the Republicans in Congress just killed Internet privacy. And in case there was any doubt, the law they signed killed it for good. Americans who heard or read about it were breathless at the effrontery.

“It totally wipes out privacy protections for consumers on the Internet,” said Menlo Park, Calif., Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo on the House floor, whose remarks were widely quoted. “I don’t want anyone to take my information and sell it to someone and make a ton of money off of it just because they can get their mitts on it.”

So now, because congressional Republicans are greedy, the fact that you bought a dildo online is going to be sold to the highest bidder.