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viernes, 23 de octubre de 2020

"Otherwise objectionable" otiose?...


Is the excuse/get out of gaol free card/interpretation that Twitter and Facebook use - as they claim innocence due to their being only platforms and not publishers - about to be made redundant? From the Federal Communications Commission's website: FCC General Counsel Thomas M. Johnson Jr. writes "Last week, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his intent to move forward with a rulemaking to interpret Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. Under certain circumstances, Section 230 provides websites, including social media companies, that host or moderate content generated by others with immunity from liability."
"Section 230 provides, among other things, that "[n]o 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." It further provides that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of . . . any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.""


What constitutes material that can be excluded as 'otherwise objectionable'? Well we know that, anything that helps president Trump and/or is a bombshell against a Democrat, most recently Biden and 'the laptop from Hell' to quote The Donald. 

There are critics on both sides, an not just from the 'Orange Man Bad' crew. I heard about it from Dan

Otherwise objectionable gear from: Techdirt 

Update:  'Tech Censorship Is on a Dangerous Path' writes Armstrong Williams at The Daily Signal [LINK]: "The titans of social media, Dorsey at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook... [  ]...want to control what the public sees, which enables them to better monitor and, ultimately, influence every aspect of society and
life. It is akin to China’s "free speech elite,"...[  ] " As we move closer to stifling free speech and elevating only the viewpoints desired by the Silicon Valley elite, let us remember the words of James Madison:

"Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights, even if they are misused by the minority. We can never lose sight of this because the moment we do will be the moment we cease to be free.""

"Otherwise objectionable" otiose?...


Is the excuse/get out of gaol free card/interpretation that Twitter and Facebook use - as they claim innocence due to their being only platforms and not publishers - about to be made redundant? From the Federal Communications Commission's website: FCC General Counsel Thomas M. Johnson Jr. writes "Last week, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his intent to move forward with a rulemaking to interpret Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. Under certain circumstances, Section 230 provides websites, including social media companies, that host or moderate content generated by others with immunity from liability."
"Section 230 provides, among other things, that "[n]o 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." It further provides that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of . . . any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.""

What constitutes material that can be excluded as 'otherwise objectionable'? Well we know that, anything that helps president Trump and/or is a bombshell against a Democrat, most recently Biden and 'the laptop from Hell' to quote The Donald. 

There are critics on both sides, an not just from the 'Orange Man Bad' crew. I heard about it from Dan

Otherwise objectionable gear from: Techdirt 

Update:  'Tech Censorship Is on a Dangerous Path' writes Armstrong Williams at The Daily Signal [LINK]: "The titans of social media, Dorsey at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook... [  ]...want to control what the public sees, which enables them to better monitor and, ultimately, influence every aspect of society and life. It is akin to China’s "free speech elite,"...[  ] " As we move closer to stifling free speech and elevating only the viewpoints desired by the Silicon Valley elite, let us remember the words of James Madison:

"Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights, even if they are misused by the minority. We can never lose sight of this because the moment we do will be the moment we cease to be free.""

jueves, 18 de abril de 2019

Ostara's opera...




[edited 19th April, a.m.]...more than one opus to enjoy reading (along with the comments) this celebration of Ēostre (or Ostara), by complete coincidence now also Easter.


"Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance."  [from De mensibus Anglorum, De temporum ratione. Bede]


Anyway, the reading, firstly:  "The long road to Brexit" on 1828. Margaret Thatcher's momentous 'Bruges Speech' ignored...a potted history from the 1960's to German reunification, ("The euro's creation was mainly the result of longstanding French frustration with the supremacy of Germany’s Bundesbank...") and up to present day and Brexit.


"Referendums were held on the Nice treaty, rejected by the Irish in 2001, the European constitution, rejected by the French and the Dutch in 2005, and its reworked version, the Lisbon treaty, rejected again by the Irish in 2008, who were asked to vote a second time on both."
"The treaty of Maastricht, signed in February 1992…, the UK secured an opt-out. This was the first major British deviation from the European project... "[1992] the Danish population rejected the Maastricht treaty in a referendum, resulting in a Danish opt-out from the euro..."





"Referendums decidedly rejected the EU's preferred outcome in Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands, and Hungary. And Britain's Eurosceptics had been craving a referendum on the EU for decades. So in order to stem the rise of Ukip, Cameron offered a public vote on EU membership in January 2013. The rest is history." [sic]


 A very Interesting read. 





Secondly, and somewhat related, "Entrenched: Fifteen years of BBC bias over Europe"; David


Key: pro = pro EU etc.

Keighley's piece on The Conservative Woman. Details from News-watch, or very full details HERE (PDF). Spoiler, it's about a show with Mark Mardell, yes, he of Obamamessiah complex, cringingly tainting BBC's US coverage for several years. Anyhoo, this show was about Brexit; basically, for an example of the bias, 58 speakers (48%) offered a positive opinion on the EU (or former EEC) or a negative opinion on Brexit, whilst 50 speakers (41%) offered a negative opinion on the EU (or former EEC) or a positive opinion on Brexit...doesn't sound too bad you say, but of those speakers a total of 64-71% of speech was pro EU, a 9:4 ratio bias.



The PDF is only 143 pages long...enjoy :-)



Thirdly but by NO means third in importance: The Donald just keeps on winning:














Ostara's opera...


[edited 19th April, a.m.]...more than one opus to enjoy reading (along with the comments) this celebration of Ēostre (or Ostara), by complete coincidence now also Easter.
"Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance."  [from De mensibus Anglorum, De temporum ratione. Bede]
Anyway, the reading, firstly:  "The long road to Brexit" on 1828. Margaret Thatcher's momentous 'Bruges Speech' ignored...a potted history from the 1960's to German reunification, ("The euro's creation was mainly the result of longstanding French frustration with the supremacy of Germany’s Bundesbank...") and up to present day and Brexit.
"Referendums were held on the Nice treaty, rejected by the Irish in 2001, the European constitution, rejected by the French and the Dutch in 2005, and its reworked version, the Lisbon treaty, rejected again by the Irish in 2008, who were asked to vote a second time on both." "The treaty of Maastricht, signed in February 1992…, the UK secured an opt-out. This was the first major British deviation from the European project... "[1992] the Danish population rejected the Maastricht treaty in a referendum, resulting in a Danish opt-out from the euro..."

"Referendums decidedly rejected the EU's preferred outcome in Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands, and Hungary. And Britain's Eurosceptics had been craving a referendum on the EU for decades. So in order to stem the rise of Ukip, Cameron offered a public vote on EU membership in January 2013. The rest is history." [sic]
 A very Interesting read. 

Secondly, and somewhat related, "Entrenched: Fifteen years of BBC bias over Europe"; David
Key: pro = pro EU etc.
Keighley's piece on The Conservative Woman. Details from News-watch, or very full details HERE (PDF). Spoiler, it's about a show with Mark Mardell, yes, he of Obamamessiah complex, cringingly tainting BBC's US coverage for several years. Anyhoo, this show was about Brexit; basically, for an example of the bias, 58 speakers (48%) offered a positive opinion on the EU (or former EEC) or a negative opinion on Brexit, whilst 50 speakers (41%) offered a negative opinion on the EU (or former EEC) or a positive opinion on Brexit...doesn't sound too bad you say, but of those speakers a total of 64-71% of speech was pro EU, a 9:4 ratio bias.

The PDF is only 143 pages long...enjoy :-)

Thirdly but by NO means third in importance: The Donald just keeps on winning: