(Jay Syrmopoulos) At least a dozen Google employees have resigned in protest over the company collaborating with the Department of Defense by supplying artificial intelligence for a controversial military pilot program for the DoD known as Project Maven, after thousands of employees signed a letter last month asking the company to cancel the Pentagon contract and institute a policy against working for the military.
The Blowback Against Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Just Beginning
(Charles Hugh Smith) This is how we end up with a neofeudal society that benefits the Protected Few at the expense of the powerless, exploited Many.
Training AI to understand how people think: Google’s DeepMind is one step closer to “thinking” like humans… what could possibly go wrong?
(Vicki Batts) AI machines or programs capable of understanding and executing human thought patterns have been a popular theme in sci-fi for decades. Countless movies and books have explored the possibilities of future AI — and most of it looks pretty darn grim for humans — and now Google’s DeepMind firm could be bringing what was once considered fiction to life. The ushering in of new AI advancements could come at a steep price, as DeepMind trains their AI bot, named Theory of Mind-net, or ToM-net, to understand how humans think.
Thousands Of Google Employees REVOLT, Demand Company Stop Supporting US War Machine
(John Vibes) More than 3,100 Google employees are calling for the cancellation of a controversial drone program and saying that they want out of the business of war.
“Want To Freak Yourself Out?” Here Is All The Personal Data That Facebook/Google Collect
(Zero Hedge) The Cambridge Analytica scandal was never really about Cambridge Analytica.
The Personal Data Google Has on You Is Shocking & Dwarfs that of Facebook, Here’s How to Stop It
(Matt Agorist) As TFTP reported last week, it was revealed that both the Obama campaign and the Trump campaign used third-party integrations to collect private information on millions of unsuspecting Facebook users.
Google Caught Red-Handed Censoring Search Results Asking Questions About Parkland Shooting
(John Vibes) When searching for terms that challenged the official narrative of the Parkland shooting, the results on Google varied drastically, compared to other search engines.
Google Just Partnered With Mainstream Media to Wipe Independent Journalism Off the Map
(Elliott Gabriel) The “new media” monopolists of Silicon Valley and the once-dominant traditional print media have clearly agreed that the “fake news” frenzy is a convenient pretext to step up their censorship of the internet through new algorithms, allowing them to boost their profit margins and silence opposition through a new framework of “algorithmic censorship.”
Google Tried to Censor What Americans Can Buy Online — but It Totally Backfired
(Anti-Media Team) Very silently — and very temporarily — this week Google appeared to have chosen a side in the gun control debate in the wake of the recent school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead. Disappointingly, that stance involved censorship of what shoppers using the corporation’s search engine could find online. Related WATCH: Hero FL […]
Report: “Internet Bill of Rights” Concept Gains Traction as Trump Gets Alerted to Big Tech’s Censorship
(JD Heyes) A concept first introduced by communications giant AT&T — calls for Congress to pass an “Internet Bill of Rights” (IBOR) — is gaining new converts as well as traction since it was first reported by Infowars in January. Related Google Now Waging All-Out Censorship War Against Conservative Websites Through “Fact Checking” That’s No More Than Biased […]
Snowden: Facebook is a Surveillance Company Lying to the World About Being “Social Media”
(Zero Hedge) NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data.
The Video YouTube Keeps Scrubbing: Parkland Survivor Says There Were 2 Shooters
(The Daily Sheeple) Censorship is here. If you’ve ever wondered what it might have been like to not support the Nazi movement while living in Germany in 1942, it’s exactly what it looks like questioning the mainstream media’s “official narrative” in 2018. Related Fighting Fake News: Back Door Trick to Enact Censorship Source – The Daily Sheeple […]
Google and Facebook Are Making Your Kids Stupid: Access to Immediate Information Inhibits the Ability to Think Critically and Creatively
(Isabelle Z) When we think of the dangers of Google and Facebook for kids, we tend to worry about them stumbling across information that isn’t age-appropriate or that they will become victims of internet predators. However, there is yet another legitimate concern that not everyone takes into account and that even the best parental control […]
Google Now Waging All-Out Censorship War Against Conservative Websites Through “Fact Checking” That’s No More Than Biased Opinion
(Jayson Veley) Google’s war on conservatism continues.As reported earlier this week by The Daily Caller, the world’s most powerful search engine is now displaying fact checks almost exclusively for conservative and right-of-center publications in its results. Prominent liberal websites, on the other hand, don’t seem to be receiving the same amount of scrutiny. Related The Google […]
Man Just Filed Class Action Lawsuit Against Google for Discrimination Against White Male Conservatives
(The Daily Sheeple) James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August, has now filed a class action lawsuit against Google for discriminating against him as a white male conservative. He has filed his lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California. Related Massive Nationwide #marchongoogle August 19th … Join […]