Samizdata quote of the day
I’ve Got Mine Now Sod Off Says Zuckerberg – Tim Worstall providing a typically succinct summation.
View ArticleIt lets us pretend that it is us talking
Samizdata no longer needs me. Soon it will no longer need you. I took the text from the sidebar: The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect...
View ArticleBig Tech platforms – are they common carriers? Clearly not.
Platforms like YouTube and Vimeo protect themselves from liability springing from what gets published on their platforms by claiming to be common carriers, like a phone company or ISP. But they are...
View ArticleIf Corbyn had won we’d have had free broadband by 2030
As in we would have had it. 15 November 2019: General election 2019: Labour pledges free broadband for all Labour has promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by...
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YouTube went from restricting speech containing “violence and hate” to apparently suppressing information connecting Disney to actual violence and hate in China—the largest mass incarceration of an...
View Article“We are reducing its distribution on our platform”
The New York Post has a big story. Very big. Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad By Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge Hunter Biden introduced his...
View ArticleSo, Mr Dorsey and Mr Zuckerberg, how are your fact checkers getting on with...
“When will they be reporting? Surely not after the election?” “What have they found out so far?” You know you could check on the veracity of the emails by asking other recipients – have you done that?”...
View ArticleThe anti-Watergate
Did you ever watch All The President’s Men? It was a true story about two heroic journalists doggedly tracking down and bringing to light a scandal at the heart of American politics. “The list is...
View ArticleThe mask slips
In today’s Sunday Times Camilla Long has a slight but amusing piece called “Jeffrey Toobin is caught with his pants down and he’s the victim? That’s a touch too much”. I realise that this audience...
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Take action now… because choices will be made for you if you do not
If you do not hold the ‘correct views’, the time is rapidly approaching that you need to find alternative venues for expressing those views. So set up your own blog (& do NOT host it with a company...
View ArticleThe dangers of playing Call of Duty Warcraft on the internets
Significantly, the rapidly growing UK white-nationalist group Patriotic Alternative is actively targeting younger recruits and recently started Call of Duty Warcraft gaming tournaments for its...
View ArticleParler is back
Twitter competitor Parler is back after having been de-hosted by Amazon, a salutary lesson om how unwise it is to make your business dependent on people who hate you. Seems a good time to introduce a...
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For once I actually like something Facebook has done
Facebook unfriends Australia: news sites go dark in content row – for once I actually like something Facebook has done!
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
Wikipedia’s [neutral point of view] is dead. The original policy long since forgotten, Wikipedia no longer has an effective neutrality policy. There is a rewritten policy, but it endorses the utterly...
View ArticleThe Streisand-Challenor effect
On the evening of the 22nd March, visitors to the main UK politics subreddit, /r/ukpolitics found a mysterious message saying that the subreddit, which has nearly 400,000 members, had been set to...
View ArticleI predicted this, it didn’t happen. I predicted this, it didn’t happen. I...
European MPs targeted by deepfake video calls imitating Russian opposition
View ArticleDuckDuckGo going the way of Google?
Yes, ditch Google. By all means. Just be aware that: * Stopping your use of the Google search engine is just the start. A small, very modest start. You will have a lot more work to do to “deGoogle”...
View ArticleA dastardly personal attack
I thought it was a photoshop prank when I first read Matt Walsh’s tweet, but this does appear to be a genuine Independent headline: “Rightwing blogger launches gofundme for AOC’s Puerto Rico...
View ArticleRevoking an apology
Until yesterday Winston Marshall was a member of the English folk rock band Mumford & Sons. In this post on medium.com he explains why he is leaving: At the beginning of March I tweeted to American...
View ArticleDeleting the weather report to make the rain go away
“Facebook axes team over far-right data”, says the Times. Facebook has disbanded one of its teams after the data they produced suggested that far-right commentators outperformed all other users....
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