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How To Keep Your Online Browsing Unfiltered By Political Propaganda
How To Keep Your Online Browsing Unfiltered By Political Propaganda
By Jon Del Arroz
The Big Tech giants of Silicon Valley have overreached in pushing far-left positions, sending a message to conservatives: you’re not welcome. It became patently obvious yet again last week when executives from Google parent company Alphabet essentially said conservative viewpoints are illegitimate...
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Alarms first sounded for conservatives when Mozilla, creators of the Firefox browser, fired their CEO over his financial support of California’s Proposition 8—a referendum against recognizing gay marriage that a majority of Californian voters passed.
Silicon Valley went full tilt in 2016, when several Big Tech CEOs and board members called a closed-door meeting to strategize on how to keep Donald Trump from reaching the White House. Silicon Valley’s leadership went further in March of this year, when several prominent industry members, including the co-founders of Facebook and Twitter, signed an anti-Trump open letter that has circulated around the Internet.
Even Our Apps and Browsers Are Politicized
Beyond the political activities of the Big Tech elite, conservative users have dealt with increasing frustration of the politicizing of the products they use. Most browsers and apps track and mine users’ personal information, creating a crisis for those who are privacy-minded. The invasiveness of these giant corporations is borderline criminal, and with the increasing frequency and intensity of cyberattacks, millions of customers have found their information isn’t safe.
Standard reference sites like Wikipedia have also seen a slow decline in their objectivity on information, with any hot-button issue edited with a hard-left slant.
Those nuisances may have been tolerable if not for the Left’s overreach in social media. These sites have created moderation policies with double-standards toward conservatives, while those on the Left get a free pass to say anything they want, even libelous accusations or calls to violence. Twitter has been the most notorious for banning anyone with what they consider wrong ideas, most famously with columnist and provocateur Milo Yiannopolis, but also in their bans of prominent Trump supporters Ricky Vaughn and Pizza Party Ben.
Facebook joined Twitter in censorship by putting forth initiatives to combat what they called fake news, and began implementing a fake news detector funded by the notorious left-wing election meddler George Soros. Reddit recently banned two of its moderators on its pro-Trump sub-forum, “/The_Donald” and closed down the board for a time.
The Left’s Big Tech corporations have had near-monopolies in their respective services for a long time, with competitors unable to gain traction simply because of the overwhelming amount of users who had already settled into these services. But by pushing so hard against the values of half of the country, these companies may have shown an Achilles heel, allowing for a number of freedom-centric competitors to get their feet in the door.
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How To Keep Your Online Browsing Unfiltered By Political Propaganda
By Jon Del Arroz
The Big Tech giants of Silicon Valley have overreached in pushing far-left positions, sending a message to conservatives: you’re not welcome. It became patently obvious yet again last week when executives from Google parent company Alphabet essentially said conservative viewpoints are illegitimate...
...
Alarms first sounded for conservatives when Mozilla, creators of the Firefox browser, fired their CEO over his financial support of California’s Proposition 8—a referendum against recognizing gay marriage that a majority of Californian voters passed.
Silicon Valley went full tilt in 2016, when several Big Tech CEOs and board members called a closed-door meeting to strategize on how to keep Donald Trump from reaching the White House. Silicon Valley’s leadership went further in March of this year, when several prominent industry members, including the co-founders of Facebook and Twitter, signed an anti-Trump open letter that has circulated around the Internet.
Even Our Apps and Browsers Are Politicized
Beyond the political activities of the Big Tech elite, conservative users have dealt with increasing frustration of the politicizing of the products they use. Most browsers and apps track and mine users’ personal information, creating a crisis for those who are privacy-minded. The invasiveness of these giant corporations is borderline criminal, and with the increasing frequency and intensity of cyberattacks, millions of customers have found their information isn’t safe.
Standard reference sites like Wikipedia have also seen a slow decline in their objectivity on information, with any hot-button issue edited with a hard-left slant.
Those nuisances may have been tolerable if not for the Left’s overreach in social media. These sites have created moderation policies with double-standards toward conservatives, while those on the Left get a free pass to say anything they want, even libelous accusations or calls to violence. Twitter has been the most notorious for banning anyone with what they consider wrong ideas, most famously with columnist and provocateur Milo Yiannopolis, but also in their bans of prominent Trump supporters Ricky Vaughn and Pizza Party Ben.
Facebook joined Twitter in censorship by putting forth initiatives to combat what they called fake news, and began implementing a fake news detector funded by the notorious left-wing election meddler George Soros. Reddit recently banned two of its moderators on its pro-Trump sub-forum, “/The_Donald” and closed down the board for a time.
The Left’s Big Tech corporations have had near-monopolies in their respective services for a long time, with competitors unable to gain traction simply because of the overwhelming amount of users who had already settled into these services. But by pushing so hard against the values of half of the country, these companies may have shown an Achilles heel, allowing for a number of freedom-centric competitors to get their feet in the door.
How To Browse the Internet and Maintain Privacy
...read MORE at the website...
