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November 01, 2022
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- Constitution? Never heard of it. A closer look at the Department of Homeland Security's ongoing - and completely illegal - attempts to stamp out speech inconvenient to the government. (The Intercept)
And the willing - eager - collaborators in big tech:"Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov't. It's really interesting how hesitant they remain," Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February. Out of a cannon, directly into the Sun.In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Yes. That's the point. That's why you are forbidden to do precisely what you are doing.Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that "we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable." Laura is the agent who led the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story two years ago.
In June, the same DHS advisory committee of CISA &nsash; which includes [former] Twitter head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde and University of Washington professor Kate Starbird – drafted a report to the CISA director calling for an expansive role for the agency in shaping the "information ecosystem." The report called on the agency to closely monitor "social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable news, hyper partisan media, talk radio and other online resources." They argued that the agency needed to take steps to halt the "spread of false and misleading information," with a focus on information that undermines "key democratic institutions, such as the courts, or by other sectors such as the financial system, or public health measures." Two things come to mind:
First, every single thing they want to do is illegal.
Second, every one of the snip-happy censors mentioned here are women.
- Time to start properly furnishing the new house. Put some desks and chairs and stuff in my cart on the Ikea online store. Select delivery.
Yeah, no, change of plans. I was going to furnish one room per month, but with a flat $600 delivery charge I think I'm going to do five rooms in one go. And make very sure I remember every minor item I might need. And buy spares.
Have to keep reminding myself that a similar house in Sydney would have cost - well, at current interest rates, the difference in the mortgage payments would cover a weekly delivery from Ikea with money left over.
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Disclaimer: Still is a lot, really.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:15 AM
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