Tech, monopolies, censorship
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This could have gone in any number of threads, I’ve posted related memes elsewhere, but i’ll post it here. This is now into it’s 7th day, no signs of ending, and one of the most revealing look-behind-the-curtain media embarrassments in living memory. People are starting to realize the so-called prestige Washington Post is a lot less like All The Presidents Men and instead closer to Carrie and Mean Girls.
Here’s a backgrounder:
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“The public appearance is that the inmates are running the Jeffrey Preston Bezos Asylum and that the Post has a completely upside-down idea of what constitutes an ethical lapse. A single retweet, swiftly retracted, is worth a month-long suspension. However calling out colleagues on a public timeline, siccing online mobs on them, leaking internal emails and refusing to comply with workplace directives are allowed to continue. Something stinks at the Washington Post and for once it’s not Dave Weigel.”
Update: (I think this and her lawsuit was her meltdown motivation the whole time.)
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Long-form read, but fascinating. I didn’t know anything about this guy.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/death-of-pink-ariel-pink
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This is starting to get interesting.
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/29/gops-gmail-feud-escalates
“The Republican National Committee fired the latest shot on Wednesday, when chairwoman Ronna McDaniel claimed in a statement to Axios that Google has "systematically attacked" its digital program.
“The RNC claims Google's Gmail, the nation's top email client, has been suppressing fundraising emails during strategically critical periods this year.
Google told Axios its spam filter is thoroughly apolitical, and that it's taking steps to ensure political messages aren't inadvertently flagged.“The RNC shared internal data showing regular and dramatic increases in the number of its fundraising and voter-activation emails being sent to Gmail recipients' spam folder.
Ordinarily, the committee said, Gmail flags up to 10% of its emails as spam.
“But it says during the final four days of every month since December 2021 — a crucial period for digital fundraising operations — that number has skyrocketed to 100% or close to it, even as the rate of emails marked as spam by recipients remains steady.”
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PayPal to charge users $2500 per incident of violating new speech rules
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@Kirwan said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
@booboo said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
@Bones said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
Not sure if the right place...
I'm struggling to work out how that tweet (was there just the one?) is in any way anti-Semitic.
Hint. It’s not.
Saying Jewish people were beaten by their neighbours not Nazis seems to be shifting the blame somewhat (also depends on what she means by neighbours I guess)
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@nostrildamus said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
She wasn't saying that, she was saying that the Nazi's used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other. It was a point about demonising the "other".
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@Kirwan said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
She wasn't saying that, she was saying that the Nazi's used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other. It was a point about demonising the "other".
isn't this what she tweeted?
Edit: here is a bit more context/opinion
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Here's an interesting thing.
When slavery was abolished in 1807, a group of African potentates (West Africa, I think) repeatedly petitioned the King against abolition as selling their own people and those they'd conquered was highly lucrative. It's mentioned in my Open University materials
I recall reading this on a number of websites about 15 years ago but can't find a single reference today. I wonder if you brought it up on Twitter or FB it'd be taken down and you'd be banned.
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@Kirwan said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
Yep, I saw it. If you think she was somehow letting Nazis off the hook with that or that was anti-Semitic, I can’t help you.
Typical fern. I didn't say what my interpretation was.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
Here's an interesting thing.
When slavery was abolished in 1807, a group of African potentates (West Africa, I think) repeatedly petitioned the King against abolition as selling their own people and those they'd conquered was highly lucrative. It's mentioned in my Open University materials
I recall reading this on a number of websites about 15 years ago but can't find a single reference today. I wonder if you brought it up on Twitter or FB it'd be taken down and you'd be banned.
I don't know specifically about that but https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/curious-history-slavery-west-africa
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@Victor-Meldrew the Saharan slave trade , mainly from West Africa, survived into the 2oth century. Some would say it still exists. It's estimated that as many slaves went north as crossed the Atlantic. The Ghanaian, Mali and Songhai empires all profited from slavery. Mansa Musa's wealth was based on gold and salt but he is estimated to have enslaved 5,000 people every year of his reign. When he went on his famous haj, he took 12,000 slaves with him.
In NZ the Treaty of Waitangi outlawed the taking of slaves but did not free anyone who was already a slave so the custom took a while to die out. Most, if not all, of the famous chiefs were slave owners as slavery was an established part of Maori civilisation.
Understandably slaves were keen converts to Christianity.
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@dogmeat said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
@Victor-Meldrew the Saharan slave trade , mainly from West Africa, survived into the 2oth century. Some would say it still exists. It's estimated that as many slaves went north as crossed the Atlantic. The Ghanaian, Mali and Songhai empires all profited from slavery. Mansa Musa's wealth was based on gold and salt but he is estimated to have enslaved 5,000 people every year of his reign. When he went on his famous haj, he took 12,000 slaves with him.
In NZ the Treaty of Waitangi outlawed the taking of slaves but did not free anyone who was already a slave so the custom took a while to die out. Most, if not all, of the famous chiefs were slave owners as slavery was an established part of Maori civilisation.
Understandably slaves were keen converts to Christianity.
Was very much aware of West African and Nth African slavery - estimated that 2-3 Europeans were traded. I didn't know that about the Treaty and slavery. Fascinating.
My point was African leaders fighting against abolition as much as the US South did, was more about censorship. It is almost impossible to find out about this on the web - whether due to institutions pulling references or search engines pulling results.
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@Victor-Meldrew Listened to a pod last night on the history of Brazil
FFS - the slave trade to Brazil is staggering. Way, way more than the combined Confederate states / Caribbean.
England got Portugal to abandon the trade as part of the deal to move the Portuguese Court to Brazil (fleeing from the Corsican), but the reality was the trade continued for another 70 years. There is apparently a Portuguese expression that translates as tell the English what they want to hear.
As an aside moving the court was on a much bigger scale than I imagined - 15,000 people and all their effects.