Good. It seems like an “alternative conservative social media” is forming with Parler, Gab, Substance, MeWe, etc, and “alternative dissident left media” is developing among left-leaning journalists that have had falling outs with the Left Inquisition. Journalist, Zaid Jilani, gives his thoughts on Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias’ […]
By Troy Southgate It is foolish to assume that various forms of political correctness are part of a Marxist plot. In reality, the systematic reinterpretation of controversial issues such as race and gender is a means of re-socialisation. A new model of civic organisation is required to meet […]
By Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY America’s crisis of political segregation – we increasingly don’t live alongside, associate with or even marry people who think differently from us – is increasingly leading conservatives to congregate together on social media outlets designed specifically for people who think like them. The […]
Eventually, social media companies may end up like television networks where different tech companies simply pander to different audiences. We will have Parler, MeWe, and Gab for conservatives and Facebook, Twiter, and Google for liberals, just we have CNN and MSNBC for liberals and FOX and CBN for […]
The Zuck sucks. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the tech hearings taking place on Capitol Hill.
This article nails it down pretty down. The main thing I would add is the left’s embrace of scientism (“science” is not merely a process capable of generating error like anything else but the modern version of a papal bull) and therapeutism (“health” is the highest value and […]
Caleb Maupin on the rising ruling class that is becoming dominant among the US power elite.
A pretty good discussion of automation is included in this. Founder of Humanity Forward, Andrew Yang, reacts to the results of the 2020 election. He also discusses his hope for the future of UBI.
Universe Today In May of 2019, SpaceX began launching its Starlink constellation with the launch of its first 60 satellites. To date, the company has launched over 800 satellites and (as of this summer) is producing them at a rate of about 120 a month. By late 2021 […]
By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society Today (Oct. 28) Rachel McKinney, a friend who works as professor of philosophy, complained on Twitter that she was trying to create a midterm exam and “blackboard is complete fucking garbage. No intuitive way to break up questions into sections, […]
The only good laws are those which repeal other laws or place restrictions on the power of institutional authority. As an anarchist, I’ve often been asked if I think there is any such thing as a “good law.” I’m always like, “Yeah, sure, Bill of Rights, 13th Amendment, […]
Controlling the power of technology, and those who possess it, is just as important as controlling the power of the state. Traditional civil libertarianism has mostly been about curbing the power of the political government, the military, and organized religion. But corporations, banks, technology, media, and universities all […]
The wrong side won. By Nicholas Longrich, The Conservation Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis – the Neanderthals. They weren’t our ancestors, but a sister species, […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the issue of tech censorship coming from major tech companies and the threat is poses to public discourse and why the left is singularly silent on this issue.
“Rocket engines burning fuel so fast…” If space colonization became as possible as earthly migration, it seems it would be the final death of the state with an infinite wide open frontier in which perpetual escape from the state was possible. Anthony Cuthbertson, Independent SpaceX will not recognise […]
The techno-oligarchs vs the Senatards in an ultimate heel vs. heel match.
By Tessa The peasants are getting fat, and they are breeding! Oh no. What is “the Great Reset”? The Great Reset is a massively funded, desperately ambitious, internationally coordinated project led by some of the biggest multinational corporations and financial players on the planet and carried out by […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on testimony by Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s CEO’s about their content policies.
By Nicole Perlroth, New York Times President Trump’s campaign website was briefly taken over by hackers who defaced the site on Tuesday. The defacement lasted less than 30 minutes, but the incident came as Mr. Trump’s campaign and that of his opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., as well […]
The following comments were banned from Facebook as “hate speech.” I originally posted these comments in response to a news story about Yemen’s retaliatory strike against the Saudis.
By John Robb, Global Guerrillas Here’s a question you should be asking yourself: What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like? Given what we’ve seen so far, it isn’t likely that we’re going to see a return to the 20th Century model, with its absolute dictators, industrial scale bureaucracies, […]
What do Trumpists, Alt-Rightists, Jacobin magazine, and Brett Weinstein all have in common? They’re all considered to be enemies of the techno-oligarch/new clerisy rising ruling class, and they’ve all been banned by certain powers that be. Jacobin is pro the “pink tide” movements in Latin America so that […]
The Legion of Decency has returned, although in “woke” rather than Catholic traditionalist form. Tech companies are simply the new Standard Oil of the 21st century.
By Dan Robitzski, Futurism In order to hold police accountable when they try to hide their identities, a growing number of activists are developing facial recognition tools that identify cops, The New York Times reports — a striking inversion of the way cops tend to use facial recognition […]
By Mark G.E. Kelly, TELOS In this article, I argue against the prevalent tendency, both in popular and scholarly discourse, to understand the Trump presidency as representing an incipient American fascism. I point out that Trump’s actual administration has shown no features distinctive of fascism, and that all […]
YouTube issued a statement about how they are upgrading their efforts to merely be a source of legitimation for ruling class ideologies. Those of us involved in dissident politics need to prepare for the day when it becomes impossible to communicate in an open way online, and when […]
Big Tech goes to bat for their man. Saagar Enjeti blasts Facebook and Twitter for allegedly censoring the New York Post bombshell story that reveals emails between Hunter Biden and top Ukrainian officials.
Tech companies have long argued that users should be able to judge content for themselves – but critics say social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have a responsibility to make sure their platforms are not being used to incite violence or spread misinformation. Facebook says it […]
What Krystal and Saager are not getting is that China is a test market for techno-fascist authoritarianism of the kind that the forces of totalitarian humanism want to bring to the West. Hong Kong is a test market for a future purge of protest movements in the US. […]
By Tom Gash Wired Prisons have become the dominant symbol of punishment in modern democracies. But they are expensive and fundamentally don’t work. In 2020 we will be exploring ways to use technology to create virtual prisons that could eventually replace the bricks-and-mortar type. The opportunities, both for […]
By Frank Martela Philosophy Now If you had everything else you wanted but your life lacked meaning, would it still be worth living? For the rich Russian count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the towering author of such classics as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, this was not a […]
By Hannah Murphy Financial Times Facebook has said it will take aggressive and exceptional measures to “restrict the circulation of content” on its platform if November’s presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic unrest. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company’s head of […]
I’m beginning to understand why Pol Pot exterminated the professional class.
Leftists who favor censorship are ultimately digging their own grave. Look for the Western elites to increasingly try to impose the Chinese model of Internet censorship in the future.
This is what our “antifascists” need to be focused on, not the shenanigans of some carnival barker like Trump. Wrench in the Gears I asked this question on social media today and got quite a few very thoughtful replies. One person asked me what led me to ask […]
If and when the vaccine comes, the Trumpists will suddenly embrace scientism and the “liberals” will suddenly embrace anti-vaxxer conspiracism. Saagar Enjeti blasts Democrats for rejecting the idea of vaccines coming from a Trump administration.
By Edward Feser We are hostages to the clerics of an intolerant faith. As our nation finds itself wracked by violence and threatened with regime failure, questions of authority become ever more urgent. We believe authority in a free society rests with the people and their representatives, and […]
The modern ruling class doesn’t bother with state-imposed censorship and instead farms it out to corporations, social media companies, and universities, which is why the First Amendment needs to be expanded to include all of these institutions. It’s the same as when they don’t bother setting up a […]
Resistance to the surveillance state involves attacking the full range of the power elite.
By Zig We can’t keep expecting platforms owned by far-right billionaires to stay honest. Anarchists are the biggest threat to any capitalist, so of course they’re going to shut us down at every opportunity.
“No cool people allowed on Facebook. Only dweebs, nerds, and losers need apply,” said the Zuck. San Francisco CBS Local OAKLAND (AP) — Facebook said it will restrict the right-wing conspiracy movement QAnon and will no longer recommend that users join groups supporting it, although the company isn’t […]
I feel honored to have already been banned from Facebook. I was ahead of my time, apparently. By Eko Red/Black Notes Social media giant Facebook today banned dozens of anarchist, anti-fascist and anti-capitalist pages after announcing a new crackdown against “anarchist groups that support violent acts”. This crackdown […]
Crimethinc Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages they believe to be connected with crimethinc.com and itsgoingdown.org, among other anarchist and anti-fascist publishing projects,1 officially on the pretext that they “support violence.” This has nothing to do with stopping violence and everything to do with suppressing social movements […]
This is a pretty good discussion of what’s wrong with tech censorship and why anti-statists should not be in favor of it.
Big Tech is part of the government. Big Tech was made possible only through technological development carried out by the government and with taxpayer money. The First Amendment should apply to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon every bit as much as it applies to Michigan, Illinois, Atlanta, and […]
The availability of surveillance technology increases the urgency of the decentralist project. Death to the Empire. By Kim Zetter The Intercept Since May, as protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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