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Facebook says even content “in the voice of Donald Trump” is banned, deletes major interview
Scorched earth censorship.
Facebook removed a video interview of President Trump with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, a Fox News contributor. The social media company said that any content representing the “voice” of Donald Trump will not be allowed on Facebook’s main platform and Instagram.
On Tuesday, Lara uploaded a photo on Instagram of her sitting across from the former president, calling on followers to watch the interview that night.
Shortly after posting the image, a Facebook staff sent Trump officials an email warning that content “in the voice of President Trump is not currently allowed on our platforms (including new posts with President Trump speaking).”
The email further warned that such content “will be removed if posted, resulting in additional limitations on accounts that posted it.”
“This guidance applies to all campaign accounts and Pages, including Team Trump, other campaign messaging vehicles on our platforms, and former surrogates,” the email, whose screenshot was posted by Trump on Instagram, further stated.
Lara did not heed the warning, and posted the video interview on her Facebook page. Facebook removed the video and an employee sent a removal notice email.
“We are reaching out to let you know that we removed content from Lara Trump’s Facebook Page that featured President Trump speaking,” the email stated.
Amazon-owned Twitch deletes footage of the full details of George Floyd’s death, as shown in court
Twitch removed a video showing the full details of George Floyd’s death, which was shown during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer charged with the murder of Floyd. The Amazon-owned video streaming platform claimed the video violated its policies.
Unicorn Riot, a non-profit news site, said that Twitch suspended its account for 30 days for showing the court footage of the death of George Floyd. The video was shown to trial witnesses.
Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.” ...
The document, produced as part of the pilot program in 2018 and marked “Amazon.com Confidential,” also includes examples of how its ambassadors can snarkily respond to criticisms of the company and its CEO. Several examples involve Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime critic of the $1 trillion firm who has been targeted by it in recent days. It also provides examples of how to defend Bezos.
Since 2000, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been mobilising 五毛党 colloquially known as the 50-cent army – internet trolls that sway public opinion in favour of the CCP.
A US labor agency has reportedly found that Amazon illegally fired two employees last year who had publicly blasted the company’s employment and environmental policies.
The National Labor Relations Board informed the targeted employees — Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa — that their terminations a year ago amounted to retaliation and that the agency would take action against Amazon unless it settled their cases, according to documents cited in a New York Times report.
Top Spenders
Lobbying Client Total Spent
National Assn of Realtors $84,113,368
US Chamber of Commerce $81,910,000
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America $25,946,000
American Hospital Assn $23,648,466
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $22,662,720
Facebook Inc $19,680,000
American Medical Assn $19,575,000
Amazon.com $18,725,000
Business Roundtable $16,970,000
NCTA The Internet & Television Assn $15,460,000
Comcast Corp $14,430,000
American Chemistry Council $14,000,000
Lockheed Martin $12,960,810
Boeing Co $12,630,000
Biotechnology Innovation Organization $12,560,000
CTIA $12,448,477
Northrop Grumman $12,050,000
Raytheon Technologies $11,960,000
American Bankers Assn $11,830,000
Unilever $11,460,000
It's also quite shocking how cheap it is to bribe the American government.
The only way to rid the country of these sellouts is term limits.
You are leaving out a few things. The above list is above board contributions only. ... It does not include high paying no-show jobs
True, I've heard that the real bribery is in the future jobs for doing our corporate masters' bidding today.
Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a database, and does not currently have plans to do so, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.
The big tech companies are the Stasi now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
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Since then, reports of employees using third-party seller information to bolster Amazon's own sales and evidence of lax IT access controls at the company suggest that efforts to fix the issue have been lackluster.
The revelations come as trustbusters worldwide are increasingly targeting Amazon, including over how it uses third-party seller data to boost its own offerings. The European Commission opened an investigation into precisely this issue in November 2020, with preliminary findings suggesting Amazon had breached EU competition law.
“This is fuel for the suspicions I had,” Dutch internet entrepreneur Peter Sorber said when told about the audit. Sorber sold children's clothes on Amazon, but 18 months after setting up his "Brandkids" store on the platform and entering the required sales data, his products disappeared from the search rankings.
“You cannot ask a retailer to show his entire story with all sales statistics and then show that to your own purchasers. This is worse than not done. This is simply unfair competition,” Sorber said.
But here’s the rub. Not all multinational corporations have a profit margin of over 10 percent. Amazon, for example, had a profit margin of 6.3 percent of its $386 billion global profits in 2020. In other words, it is not going to be caught by this tax at all. Many other companies who do currently have profit margins above 10 percent will presumably already be thinking up ways of engineering margins below this threshold.
https://spectator.us/topic/amazon-exempt-biden-global-tax/But here’s the rub. Not all multinational corporations have a profit margin of over 10 percent. Amazon, for example, had a profit margin of 6.3 percent of its $386 billion global profits in 2020. In other words, it is not going to be caught by this tax at all. Many other companies who do currently have profit margins above 10 percent will presumably already be thinking up ways of engineering margins below this threshold.
Following the revelation that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in email communication with the country’s top epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, House Republicans sent a letter demanding answers on why the company censored lab leak theories.
According to the Republican legislators, the emails suggest that Fauci advised Facebook to censor the lab leak theories.
They will simply increase the compensation of their executives to avoid the extra taxes. ---- Win Win
Court Dismisses Federal Government’s Antitrust Case Against Facebook
BY JACK PHILLIPS June 28, 2021
A federal court has dismissed two antitrust cases that were brought against Facebook, representing a significant setback for federal and state regulators in their attempts to rein in Big Tech.
The lawsuits were filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general seeking to break up what they’ve described as Facebook’s monopoly on social networking.
1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
Amazon employs 950,000 workers in the US, the company said in its latest earnings report.
The US has a population of 261 million and an employed non-farm workforce of 145 million, per the BLS.
More people work for Amazon than are employed in the entire residential construction industry.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-number-1-of-153-us-workers-head-count-2021-71 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
Amazon employs 950,000 workers in the US, the company said in its latest earnings report.
The US has a population of 261 million and an employed non-farm workforce of 145 million, per the BLS.
More people work for Amazon than are employed in the entire residential construction industry.
Facebook suspends Canadian political candidate Marc Emery during campaign season
For criticizing what he says is the "the evil Covid dictatorship."
AMAZON WILL BLOCK and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon’s working conditions, like “slave labor,” “prison,” and “plantation,” as well as “restrooms” — presumably related to reports of Amazon employees relieving themselves in bottles to meet punishing quotas.
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