Technology

With the now permanent “quarantine” of the popular sub-Reddit The_Donald which acts as the epicenter for  Trump supporters online, we need to take a serious look what the next move will be to silence Conservatives. Based on what we’ve seen so far, there is almost no chance that any popular platform supporting Donald Trump will be allowed to stand as we get closer to the election. The previous bans, censorship, and manipulation was most likely…

Virtually every social media company and their respective CEO has publicly said they are working hard to eliminate so-called “hate speech” from their platform. In fact, many CEO’s like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey even say it’s one of their top priorities. But maybe these CEO’s need to look in the mirror and realize that it’s their own actions that are causing some of these widespread cultural and societal problems. Their manipulation of thought, speech,…

The now famous (or infamous) FaceApp has responded to privacy concerns after their aging filter went viral over the last week or so. Users were concerned after reading the apps TOS when they found out that FaceApp claims to own an irrevocable and lifetime right to all images and likenesses uploaded via the app. In response to user concerns, the Russian based company put out a vague response hoping to allay those concerns. I will…

Peter Thiel started a conversation with his remarks that Google needs to be investigated by the CIA and FBI for possibly treasonous activities regarding their involvement with the Chinese government. Although I applaud Thiel for finally bringing this issue to the forefront, I think many people missed the point of what Thiel was actually trying to say. He wasn’t really trying to get the CIA or the FBI to look into Google’s ties to the…

Facial recognition technology is being put into use faster than people even realize. Almost everything you do is captured and fed into a facial recognition database somewhere. From social media uploads to point-of-sale kiosks at your local Wal-Mart, it’s all going into a database. That database is then shared and merged with others to the point that a simple “deep fake” machine learning program can create an animated 3D replica of anyone. People simply don’t…

The damning video released Monday on YouTube by Project Veritas which showed Google employees talking about how they plan on using the power of Google and YouTube to prevent a “Trump incident” in 2020 has been removed. The reason given when trying to play the video shows a notice citing a privacy claim by a third party. However, a privacy claim would seem to suggest that the information in the video must be accurate. Nobody…

Technology is inching to towards a rather unique and unprecedented place. We are quickly reaching the point where the underlying technology running our lives is no longer something most people can even understand, even on a basic conceptual level. A perfect example of this is facial recognition and data mining. For years people understood that a company like Facebook was storing all of the data they posted. But people were unaware of just how that…