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Portland-based designer Daniel Quasar created the progress pride flag. Quasar chose this name for his flag to emphasize the fact that although much has been achieved to highlight the plight of the LGBTQ community and also marginalized people within that community, more progress is needed.

The arrow shape of the chevron that he added to the left side of the flag represents the progress that still needs to be made. Apart from the black and brown stripes of the Philly pride flag, the chevron also contains the colors of the transgender pride flag, which consists of white, pink, and blue stripes.

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The black and brown stripes represent racism, while the white, pink, and blue stripes of the chevron denote the push toward transgender rights. It seems appropriate that they form into a swastika.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-censors-all-content-from-the-epoch-times_4631372.html?rs=SHRKCZW&utm_source=share-btn-copylink

Twitter Censors All Content From The Epoch Times
The social media company 'must explain itself for this outrageous act of censorship,' Senator Marco Rubio says

Twitter on July 28 imposed a blockade on all content from The Epoch Times without explanation, raising further concerns about freedom of speech on the platform and drawing ire from three U.S. senators.

The platform enforced a warning on all links from The Epoch Times. A click on a link directs users to a page titled “Warning: this link may be unsafe,” which prompts users to return to the previous page.

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
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Many assume Big Tech censorship is the byproduct of the liberal ideology of top executives. A much bigger factor are the coercion and threats from Washington Dems to censor more. But another big factor is censorship pressure from within: their overwhelmingly liberal workforce:



While the PACs of tech giants usually distribute their donations more or less evenly among the two parties, it's as difficult to find conservatives or Republicans among employees of those corporations as it is to find them in faculty lounges of Ivy League schools. 2018:

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/make-this-go-viral-please

https://notthebee.com/article/tiktok-bans-media-research-centers-account-without-explanation

TikTok permanently removes media watchdog MRCTV's account without explanation

Interesting that Twitter changed the tagline from:

"Misleading - learn why health officials consider Covid 19 vaccines safe and effective."

to:

"Misleading - learn why health officials consider Covid 19 vaccines safe for most."

Lol, good catch @Headset

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/google-does-not-want-anyone-to-find

We tried to run a simple two question survey to find out just how safe or unsafe the vaccines are. Google refused to let us ask the questions.

Clearly, they don’t want anyone to know the truth. The only truth they want you to know is what the government tells you.

The two question survey
Here are the two questions we tried to ask in our Google Surveys survey:




Google rejected both questions

https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/twitter-censors-pfizer-injured-israeli

Twitter Censors Pfizer-Injured Israeli COVID Vaccine Director
Prof. Shmuel Shapira MD MPH (Col.), who served as Director of the Israel Institute for Biological Research between 2013 and 2021, suggested that the monkeypox outbreak was connected to mRNA vaccines.

Last week, Twitter censored Prof. Shapira—who was "physically injured” after his third Pfizer vaccine—and forced him to remove a post which said: "Monkey pox cases were rare for years. During the last years a single case was documented in Israel. It is well established the mRNA vaccines affect the natural immune system. A monkey pox outbreak following massive covid vaccination: "Is not a coincidence." ...

Prof. Shapira, who started his Twitter account in January 2022, has grown increasingly critical of the mRNA vaccines since he first denounced the Israeli Genesis Award for being delivered to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.

On January 18, 2022, Shapira said (translated from Hebrew by Google): "The Israeli Genesis Award was given to the CEO of Pfizer, so wretched. Instead of giving it to an Israeli scientist, and all this for a mediocre, short-acting vaccine that yielded Pfizer a profit of billions, a wretched and exiled one. Bourla will be appointed the King of Israel now. Let me remind you that vaccinated Israel is the fourth-leading in the number of corona patients in the world. There is a championship!"

On February 6, 2022, Shapira asked: "What grade would you give to a vaccine that people are vaccinated with three times and get sick twice (as of today)? Not to mention significant side effects[.]"

On April 9, 2022, Shapira said: "The CEO of the company, millions of whose vaccines were used in Israel for vaccination, stated in an interview with NBC that Israel serves as the world's laboratory. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first case in history where experimental guinea pigs paid an exorbitant rate for their participation."

On May 13, 2022, Shapira said: "I received 3 vaccinations, I was physically injured in a very significant way as many others were injured[.] And in addition, my trust in the nature of the decisions and in the processes of making them has been severely eroded. No one asked and checked. I will fight with all my might so that truthful answers regarding all decisions and not just regarding the vaccine are given[.]" ...

On July 15, 2022, Shapira shared a chart of New South Wales COVID rates showing an increased risk of COVID infection with every new dose of the mRNA vaccine on which he commented: "According to official data from Australia the more you are injected the more likely you are to get sick as the fourth injection jumps the chance dramatically. According to this study it is supposedly an anti-vaccine at least according to what I have been taught.”




On July 31, 2022, Shapira shared a link to the OpenVaers COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports which showed a total of 1,357,937 reports including 170,151 hospitalizations and 29,790 deaths, above which he simply commented: "Safe & Efficient"

In summary, as the Director General of the Israel Institute for Biological Research, Professor Shmuel Shapira might be the most senior ranking medical-scientist in the world to openly criticize the COVID vaccines.

Prof Shmuel C. Shapira MD MPH
@shmuelcshapira
Myocarditis, fatal arrhythmias, 20% increase in strokes, facialis, Herpes Zoster, tinnitus (ear ringing), gynecological excessive bleeding, monkey-pox, obscured long term side effects.
No worries. Be happy.

https://marypatriotnews.com/2022/08/05/pbs-news-drops-senate-judiciary-committee-livestream-right-when-veritas-fbi-leaks-are-mentioned-video/

PBS News DROPS Senate Judiciary Committee Livestream Right When Veritas FBI Leaks Are Mentioned [Video]

Video won't load for me. Strange...

https://conservativebrief.com/judge-34-65213/

A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to hand over communication documents between the federal government and big tech companies.

U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty, of the Western District of Louisiana, granted the order of discovery sought by Republican Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana.

President Joe Biden, members of his administration, and select social media companies must turn over documents and answer questions within the next 30 days during a discovery phase of a lawsuit alleging collusion to suppress freedom of speech, a court ruled.

https://reclaimthenet.org/mark-changizi-censored-twitter/

August 6, 2022
Twitter is continuing to censor scientist involved in anti-censorship lawsuit

https://www.ntd.com/multiple-scientists-join-lawsuit-against-biden-administrations-alleged-social-media-censorship-on-covid-19_820957.html

Several scientists have joined a lawsuit filed by the states of Louisiana and Missouri alleging that the Biden administration worked with tech companies to censor American citizens discussing issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) joined the lawsuit representing Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, and Martin Kulldorff, former professor of medicine at Harvard University as well as a former member of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Vaccine Safety Subgroup. Two more doctors, Jill Hines and Aaron Kheriaty, are also represented by NCLA in the lawsuit.

At the behest of the federal government, social media platforms “repeatedly censored” NCLA clients because their views on the platforms about COVID-19 restrictions opposed “government-approved” views, the NCLA said in an Aug. 2 press release.

The censorship is part of the federal government’s “ongoing campaign to silence” those with opposing views, said NCLA. Government officials have issued “public threats” to punish social media firms that do not comply, they said.

The federal government “fostered, encouraged, and empowered the creation” of social media firms with “disproportionate ability” to suppress and censor speech based on the speaker, content, and viewpoint, the lawsuit states (pdf).

Government censorship can take several forms like shadow bans, de-platforming, de-boosting, restricting access to content, demonetizing, requiring users to take down content, and imposing warning labels requiring click-through to access content, said NCLA.

Note that the ACLU has ironically become 100% dedicated to the destruction of civil liberties, so the NCLA is handling this.

https://nclalegal.org/

https://reclaimthenet.org/wales-nhs-website-censors-terms-girls-and-women/

Wales NHS website censors terms “girls” and “women”

Bloody Brilliant, a website created by the Welsh government and NHS Wales to provide advice on menstruation and periods, has censored the terms “girls” and “women” from its guidance on periods.

Instead, it is calling them “people who bleed” or “half the population.”

“We are Bloody Brilliant, a source of knowledge, support, information and empowerment for young people who bleed across Wales,” the website states. ...

“Ironic when you think of how people didn’t used to be able to say the word “period” or name the parts of women’s bodies – and just as we were starting to make some headway with challenging that, here we are with this new taboo,” Gribble said.

“Imagine how much effort it must have taken to create an entire website about periods without mentioning the word woman or girl once.”

Earlier this year NHS England censored the words’ “women” and “girl” from guidances on cancers that only affect women, like ovarian cancer, and the guidance on menopause.

https://reclaimthenet.org/tiktok-ramps-up-censorship-related-to-election-fraud-allegations/

TikTok was quick to react by preventing users from searching for “several” of the six hashtags. Among them is that referring to a documentary by Dinesh D’Souza, “2,000 Mules” that the author says looks into vote fraud in several states.

https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-blocks-diedsuddenly-hashtag/

Facebook blocks #diedsuddenly hashtag
The latest of many hashtag blackouts.

Russia is going to start putting members of the Azov battalion on trial for war crimes. I expect these trials will get airtime in Russia. I am certain the prosecution will provide all kinds of evidence including video evidence of the Azov battalion using weapons against the civilians of the Donblas region. The evidence will be overwhelming. There will also be overwhelming evidence of the Azov battalion's Nazi influences.

This will strengthen support for the military operation from average Russians.

Western media will try to censor the shit out of the proceedings, but the rest of the world will be able to clearly see the war crimes Russia says it was there to stop. Even with extreme censorship, news of these trials will make its way to citizens of Western Europe and here in the US.

Support for Ukraine in the conflict will drop.

Misc says

Even with extreme censorship, news of these trials will make its way to citizens of Western Europe and here in the US.

The west will just claim they are kangaroo courts and the evidence fraudulent. People, after being fooled for 9 months, won't change their opinion. Their opinion is really formed by other people - they won't leave the group.

Also every war has warcrimes in it. The US commits warcrimes, they did it in Vietnam and Iraq and are doing it in Syria. I'm certain Russia has committed some war crimes in Ukraine.

I wish @richwicks had copied my entire post. --- Seems it has gone missing. --- Funny for a censorship OP.

@Patrick looks like there is a bug in the postings. My post was zapped in this thread and then when I replied to @richwicks his post went missing.

There's a bug that when you click on latest it only shows the last comment, not the last page anymore. Same after submitting a new comment.

I was just about to make the same post.

@Misc Thanks for telling me.

Are you sure it's missing?

Yes, I see the bug about showing only the last comment after submitting a comment.

@Patrick I was able to see it one time using the "previous" button, but most often it is simply gone. The number of the posts have been arranged that the posting is simply gone.

@Patrick When I hit "Last" it now brings up the post that was missing, but has deleted all postings after it.

OK, now when you add a new comment, it should show you your new comment in the context of the last page of comments.

But there still might be some comment numbering bug.

Please send me an @ message if you see the bug again.

@Misc None of the comment are deleted, I think. It's just that the numbering is fucked up.

@Patrick Looks like everything is all cleared up.

Good.

Pagination is surprisingly complicated.

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/350749/twitter-owes-salman-rushdie-an-apology/

Twitter Owes Salman Rushdie an Apology
After the attack on Rushdie, will Twitter finally ban the man and the regime who are still calling for his murder?

Twitter must be the epitome of hypocrisy. It bans The New York Post’s reporting of Hunter Biden’s laptop, or bans columnist Paul Sperry because of his recent tweet on the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, but allows Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of the world’s #1 sponsor of terror, to freely use its platform.

Khamenei, you might remember, endorsed Iran’s murderous fatwa against author Salman Rushdie with this tweet...

Now that Hadi Matar, an Iran sympathizer whose now-deleted Facebook page was plastered with pictures of Iranian politicians, has been arrested for stabbing Rushdie about 10 times at a conference in Buffalo, I wonder if Twitter will call an emergency meeting.

I wonder if the higher ups will ask things like: Are we going too far with our selective censorship? If we’re cracking down on speech we dislike here in the U.S., should we crack down harder on Islamist speech that may incite violence? Should we toughen our guidelines?

https://slaynews.com/news/swat-team-deployed-arrest-man-spray-painted-swastikas-lgbtq-rainbow-crosswalk/

A police SWAT team was deployed in Atlanta to arrest a Georgia man who was spotted spray-painting swastikas on an LGBTQ rainbow crosswalk.

Why is it permitted to promote pedophilia and anal warts in public, but not to spray-paint a swastika on top of that message?

In any case, the guy was doing it wrong. He should have spray-painted "RACIST" on the flag promoting pedophilia and anal warts.

No one can ever be arrested for calling anyone racist these days, and it would have made woke heads explode much better.

https://reclaimthenet.org/spotify-never-recommends-the-joe-rogan-podcast/

Patrick says

No one can ever be arrested for calling anyone racist these days, and it would have made woke heads explode much better.

But you can be arrested for felony vandalism.

If you protest election fraud they might throw you in jail without trial.

Patrick says

I just want to comment on how impossible it is to do this..

AI depends on reducing something to its most simple rules. For example, one of the first AI attempts was to make a computer recognize when a tank was present, and when a tank was not present. One day, they setup cameras and photographed 1000's of scenes from different angles, and the next day, they drove tanks into the scenes and took 1000's of more pictures, and fed the two data sets into the AI to (hopefully) be able to detect when a tank was present.

The AI was trained on the data set until 100% of the time it would correctly classify its own data set, so then they put it in the field, and it was only 50% accurate (meaning entirely random) and they couldn't figure out what went wrong. What the AI turned out to have actually figured out was when it was cloudy. In the training data, one day it was cloudy, the other day clear. It entirely ignored the presence of the tanks. This was like a 6 month project too.

You will have a VERY difficult time programming an AI to make "exceptions to the rule". It's very hard to make an AI "hypocritical". If you program an AI to recognize "instances of violence" by showing it videos of what is "violence" and "not violence" - it won't apply different standards depending on the situation, and if you FORCE it to, such as when somebody is wearing a MAGA hat and a victim of violence (and calling it non violence) and when MAGA hat wearing person holds up a religious symbol, it will just identify their clothing.

An AI wouldn't be so bad, because it would be EXTREMELY consistent - the problem is hypocrites run the world. It's not THEY that really want AI, they just want cost reduction in censorship and oversight, WE want AI. They simply don't have the technological knowledge to know what an AI does.

All the AI will actually do is excuse anything that person Type A does, and condemn everything Type B does. That's the simplest solution. It won't be content moderation, it will be censoring of individual people and complete censorship. That's the simplest solution.