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don't take my word for it

#Reddit's #Privacy moderators also censored a New York Times tech journalist's post for "promoting a blog".

The #journalist had written out a lengthy post **exclusively for people on Reddit** and was actively engaging with users and answering their questions before moderators shut it down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1lp6m4j/i_tried_and_failed_to_disappear_from_the_internet/

The #Reddit #Privacy community moderators still censor posts that are inconvenient to the American surveillance apparatus.

This one's title:
"The #Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system"

Reason for removal is allegedly "FUD" and "slander" and "conspiracy theories."

2011—"For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, urging them to investigate claims that Google was invading people’s privacy."

Fun bit of #InternetHistory.

#Facebook #Google

http://web.archive.org/web/20110514183954/http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-12/facebook-busted-in-clumsy-smear-attempt-on-google/full/

Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google

The social network secretly hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about the search giant, The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons reveals—a caper that is blowing up in their face, and escalating their war.

The Daily Beast
To borrow rhetorical form from the NRA:

"when privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy".

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@avery okay they killed DeepSpeech too

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued

But that's all they killed

Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project

One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine

Static pages for your blog are Green IT too. Save energy. Go Jekyll, Hugo etc :) #justsayin

@avery okay they also shut down Deepfake Detector - which is Fakespot adjacent but also has its own extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/deep-fake-detector/

And that's all - for real, this time

I'm just going to remind you, I'm just going to REMIND you that not only is that infamous "frozen peas" footage of Orson Welles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE

But, and I think someone on here notified me of this, but there's a Pinky and the Brain episode where they do things NEARLY VERBATIM minus the sexual references https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs

Orson Welles - Frozen Peas

YouTube

@avery okay maybe just one more

https://orbitbymozilla.com/

Orbit by Mozilla