Apple wirbt mit Datenschutz – in China wirkt das wie eine Farce

Apple's Kotau angesichts der Kommunistischen Diktatur! Hätte der 2010 verstorbene Steve Jobs dem zugestimmt? Möglicherweise nicht!

Apple wirbt mit Datenschutz – in China wirkt das wie eine Farce (behinc paywall) Apples neuer Filter gegen Kinderpornografie könnte von autoritären Staaten missbraucht werden, um etwa Dissidenten zu verfolgen, warnen IT-Experten. In China kooperiert der Tech-Konzern bereits eng mit den Machthabern.

Rob Schmitt: Donald Trump is taking on Tech Giants in latest lawsuit

Very recommendable!

Trump launches class action lawsuit against Big Tech giants

Update of 7/9/2021:

Here is the op ed article in the Wall Street Journal by former President Trump on his law suit dated 9/8/2021:  Donald J. Trump: Why I’m Suing Big Tech If Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can censor me, they can censor you—and believe me, they are.

"One of the gravest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of Big Tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people. This is not only wrong—it is unconstitutional. To restore free speech for myself and for every American, I am suing Big Tech to stop it.
Social media has become as central to free speech as town meeting halls, newspapers and television networks were in prior generations. The internet is the new public square. In recent years, however, Big Tech platforms have become increasingly brazen and shameless in censoring and discriminating against ideas, information and people on social media—banning users, deplatforming organizations, and aggressively blocking the free flow of information on which our democracy depends. ...
No longer are Big Tech giants simply removing specific threats of violence. They are manipulating and controlling the political debate itself. ...
Democrats in Congress are exploiting this leverage to coerce platforms into censoring their political opponents. In recent years, we have all watched Congress haul Big Tech CEOs before their committees and demand that they censor “false” stories and “disinformation”—labels determined by an army of partisan fact-checkers loyal to the Democrat Party.  ..."

And worse, the mindset of the people running these Big Tech companies is roughly the same leftist, authoritarian ideology!

This should be interesting to follow! Will this become a clash of titans future generations will talk about?

Free speech versus censorship by large private enterprise operating under government protection of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996! This ideologically motivated, unfair, discriminative, and targeted censorship must end on the Internet!

"Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" (47 U.S.C. § 230). In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do." (Source)

" ... today, in conjunction with the America First Policy Institute, I'm filing as the lead class action representative a major class action lawsuit against the Big Tech giants including Facebook, Google and Twitter, as well as their CEOs," Trump said. ..."

Trump launches class action lawsuit against Big Tech giants - TheBlaze

Florida Governor DeSantis Drops NUKE on Big Tech and Their Censorship of Conservatives

Recommendable! At least his proposals to apply stricter campaign contribution enforcement and hefty fines if candidates are discriminated against by Big Tech deserve further consideration!

Gina Shakespeare: How Much Did Big Tech Influence the Biden Ticket?

Recommendable! Mark Zuckerberg spent over $400 million dollar on the November 2020 election (see also my blog post here)!

Big Tech and Political Manipulation with Robert Epstein

Very recommendable! Very concerning! Learn among other things about hard to prove in the court of law ephemeral manipulations of voter behavior by Google. The speech is actually only 37 minutes long. Unfortunately, Eppstein did not use any presentation material or visual aides etc.

To give you a little idea what those ephemeral manipulations look like here is what Google YouTube is doing or days now to all videos critical of the outcome of the November election (right below each video Google reminds who won). Is this not pernicious or what?: