YouTube censors videos for Saudi Arabia
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Rep. Eric Swalwell defends Apple and Google’s ability to decide what’s on people’s phones
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People who correctly assert that the Biden admin has redefined what it means to be in a recession are being censored for sharing "false information."

The collusion never ends.

https://reason.com/2022/07/29/recession-facebook-fact-check-biden-politifact/

Because they really don't want to which is why they don't hire the needed manpower to do this effectively. The fact that it took hundreds of thousands of reports on the imposter General McInerney and Ezra Cohen accounts to get them marked as "fake" is insane because both of them had made this clear numerous times before.

If there wasn't a brand new viral video of General McInerney himself (the video he sent directly to me) literally saying these imposter accounts of his are all fake, they would likely STILL have them up now.

Telegram really needs to fix this.

@Dschlopes

🍎 Apple told suppliers on Friday to avoid labeling products from Taiwan as "made in Taiwan.”

The tech company told its suppliers that products or parts made in Taiwan must be identified as made either in "Taiwan, China" or "Chinese Taipei" to avoid indicating that the island is independent of China.

@dailyrealtimenews

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-halts-made-in-taiwan-label-anger-china-pelosi-visit-2022-8

I love my work. What could be more exciting than improving the way hundreds of millions of people communicate? Members of our team, myself included, must be some of the luckiest people alive.

The only thing that we find discouraging is that we're often unable to distribute the new versions of Telegram due to the obscure "review process" imposed on all mobile apps by the tech monopolies.

For example, our upcoming update – which is about to revolutionize how people express themselves in messaging – has been stuck in Apple's "review" for two weeks, without explanation or any feedback provided by Apple.

If Telegram, one of the top 10 most popular apps globally, is receiving this treatment, one can only imagine the difficulties experienced by smaller app developers. It's not just demoralizing: it causes direct financial losses to hundred of thousands of mobile apps globally.

This harm goes on top of the 30% tax Apple and Google take from app developers – which, according to them, is supposed to pay for the resources needed to review apps. The regulators in the EU and elsewhere are slowly starting to look into these abusive practices. But the economic damage that has already been inflicted by Apple on the tech industry won't be undone.

Twitter bans NYP columnist Paul Sperry following criticism of FBI Mar-A-Lago raid
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The White House privately demanded Twitter ban Alex Berenson months before the company did so

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privately-demanded

@KanekoaTheGreat

NEW - Biden officials wanted Twitter to ban the former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, a vocal critic of government lockdowns, mask mandates, and mRNA vaccines.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-and-twitter-censorship-alex-berenson-covid-vaccines-white-house-social-media-11660335186

@disclosetv

Facebook is now hiding any posts with the hashtag #DiedSuddenly, saying they are against “Community Standards”

H/T: @jermwarfare

@ChiefNerd

Twitter is reportedly working on a “reply filter” to filter out “potentially unwelcome replies”
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Reuters Released a ‘Special Report’ Yesterday Slamming BitChute, Odysee, and Rumble as Sources of Misinformation and Hate

“Searching for ‘COVID’ on BitChute one recent day produced a short film called Plandemic as the top result. Plandemic was banned by YouTube and Facebook for its potentially harmful misinformation.

Identical YouTube searches on these topics produced almost all factual reports from established news organizations.”

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-media-misinformation/

@ChiefNerd

TikTok’s in-app browser can log all keyboard inputs, including credit cards numbers and passwords
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Mark Zuckerberg Then Vs. Now on Burying Hunter Biden's Laptop Story Before the 2020 Election

https://rumble.com/v1hrk75-mark-zuckerberg-then-vs.-now-on-burying-hunter-bidens-laptop-before-the-202.html

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PayPal bans anti-grooming non-profit
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This is an excellent recap of how we got here.

https://t.co/d9OYCEKkF4

If you're openly against pedophilia, PayPal will permanently ban you. If you're openly for pedophilia, Paypal will gladly serve you.

NEW - UN Secretary for Global Comms Melissa Fleming says they "own the science" on "climate change," and opposing viewpoints have now been pushed down in search results through their partnership with Google.

https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/tackling-disinformation

@disclosetv

Hackers could have full access (!) to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users.

This was possible through a security issue disclosed by WhatsApp itself last week. All a hacker had to do to control your phone was send you a malicious video or start a video call with you on WhatsApp.

You are probably thinking "Yeah, but if I updated WhatsApp to the latest version, I am safe, right"?

Not really.

A WhatsApp security issue exactly like this one was discovered in 2018, then another in 2019 and yet another one in 2020 (tap each year's link to see the corresponding vulnerability). And yes, in 2017 before that. Prior to 2016, WhatsApp didn't have encryption at all.

Every year, we learn about some issue in WhatsApp that puts everything on their users' devices at risk. Which means it's almost certain that a new security flaw already exists there. Such issues are hardly incidental – they are planted backdoors. If one backdoor is discovered and has to be removed, another one is added (read the post "Why WhatsApp will never be secure" to understand why).

It doesn't matter if you are the richest person on earth – if you have WhatsApp installed on your phone, all your data from every app on your device is accessible, as Jeff Bezos found out in 2020. That's why I deleted WhatsApp from my devices years ago. Having it installed creates a door to get into your phone.

I'm not pushing people to switch to Telegram here. With 700M+ active users and 2M+ daily signups, Telegram doesn't need additional promotion. You can use any messaging app you like, but do stay away from WhatsApp – it has now been a surveillance tool for 13 years.

JUST IN - JP Morgan Chase bank has reportedly closed their banking relationship with Kanye West.

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1580331572539949057

@disclosetv

JUST IN - Turkey adopts a law that allows imprisonment of social network users and journalists for spreading "disinformation".

Users who disseminate "disinformation" will face a prison sentence of between one and three years. That sentence can be increased by half for owners of anonymous social media accounts.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/law-that-would-jail-those-spreading-disinformation-progresses-turkey-2022-10-13/

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