Mike Benz and his associates at Foundation for Freedom Online have published this report:
The Censorship Industry’s Plan to Censor Latino Communities
SUMMARY:
– The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), a purportedly nonpartisan nonprofit established by a Congressional charter, launched the Algorithmic Transparency Institute (ATI), which pioneered efforts to monitor and censor Spanish online speech.
– ATI targets speech that has “ill effects,” regardless of its factual accuracy.
– An ATI-incubated project called the “Civic Listening Corps” encourages Americans to spy on each other, reporting cases of disfavored speech on an online database called Junkipedia.
-Organizations targeting Spanish speech for censorship hope to use this formula to infiltrate and monitor private messaging groups.
and this as well,
Junkipedia: This “digital public infrastructure for civic listening” is a Frankenstein-like censorship tech tool . It gives the ability for censors to flag and collect insights on speech across and narratives across any platform online, even in closed-messaging communities popular amongst the Spanish-language community such as WhatsApp. This database gave analysts from the Election Integrity Partnership, the nexus of the government’s censorship laundering operations, the ability to analyze speech across different platforms and foreign-language communities that had been flagged for censorship.
Ethnic Media Fellowship: The Ethnic Media Fellowship pilot program recruited foreign-language journalists to flag content for censorship. Nine fellows representing different foreign-language communities were selected for the effort to report “problematic content” within their respective community into Junkipedia. One of the reasons for their recruitment was their access to private messaging groups, because disinformation “spreads in closed and encrypted communications platforms that are nearly impossible to explore by anyone but the members of their respective communities.” Their reporting allowed censors visibility into popular narratives amongst different ethnic communities and the ability to skulk around in their private messaging groups.
Civic Listening Corps: This is the grassroots movement of the censorship industry. The Civic Listening Corps is a program that trains volunteers to monitor content and encouraged to police the speech of fellow citizens, flagging any “problematic content” they find for censorship. They sign up for speech monitoring shifts and report content directly into Junkipedia.
The Ethnic Media Fellowship and Junkipedia became instrumental in the censorship industry’s efforts to to target Spanish-language speech online. ATI recruited foreign-language journalists to carry out the work of the project, which was ostensibly started with the sole focus of “track[ing] problematic content related to the 2020 U.S. census.”
the geezer paloozas are in the sack before 8pm.
tsk tsk.
Jersey boss man Stan may be holding a mandatory meeting tomorrow to talk about y’all’s pieces of flair.
Breaking News…
Clarence Thomas reveals when he will retire from the Supreme Court…
Video Here.
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It’s been so many years since I logged into Fakebook I have no idea what my password is.
It took most of the afternoon, but I got some gardening done: Collected a wheelbarrow+ of leaves from the front yard (actually had to do this twice) Refurbed my planter where my new rosemary bush now resides. Refurbishing involved removing existing dirt, then adding it back in layers, mixed with compostable material (leaves, greens from yard, kitchen waste) Refurbed three… Read more »
I am home! Rolled in about 20 minutes ago, 1 hour and 35 minutes from the airport to the house, I was stacking telephone poles on Fl 79 north. The old Tahoe was heading to the barn. Oh and I met Ltc Col Allen West in the NW Florida Beaches Airport, film at 11. But First! A Beer!
Heinrich Himmler’s back channel attempts to negotiate an end to the WWll with USA and Britain.
Texpat, here’s another comment on the digital dollar issue… I was surprised to find it in Facebook…
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=tab
Mike Johnson
lead singer of the house band called…
Please return your seats to the upright position and fasten your seat belts.
From yesternight: It was an original C-5 transport. The aluminum overcast. Flew in one of those too. Passenger seats are in the “attic” behind the wing spar. Still pretty loud, but turbofans are naturally quieter than turbojets. To get to the cockpit, you go down essentially a couple flights of stairs, walk forward through the cargo bay, then up a… Read more »
Texpat:
RE March 11…
https://investingoutlook.co/beware-executive-order-14067/?cid=MKT788871&eid=MKT792944
Texpat too. I am gonna have ot get me another spam shovel if all this posting continues.
So Bones and I are on WordPress’ list this morning?
Landed in Dallas 40 minutes early, heck of a tail-wind but that’ll help with the 25 minute lay over. Extended just long enough to stop and get a beer.
I saw something yesterday that recommended turning the southern border into a moat; aka “shipping channel”. So many birds killed with that stone: immigration control negates dependence on Panama Canal increased income opportunities via new ports shorter shipping times and, oh so many jobs created! It’s estimated to cost less than what we’re sending to Ukraine. Certainly less that supporting… Read more »
Texpat and Squawk: Thank you for removing my screeds from the garbage.
Lucy is holding the football and he’s about to try and kick it.
Paxton’s recommended voting list.
https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1759290326697525316
I see that Paxton is suing a “Catholic” charity called “Annunciation House,” its purpose being the facilitation of human trafficking the illegals into the U.S. As a Catholic, I have ceased donating to any special collections which give money to the bishop or the Pope. No more Peter’s Pence. No more “Black and Indian outreach,” which was last week’s second… Read more »
If I haven’t posted enough for y’all to be outraged about, then you need to go over and read West Virginian Don Surber’s rant today. The lack of outrage or any courage is why the media has lost clout. Regardless of one’s political stripe, adults see the media as mere mouthpieces for a corrupt central government. This has been going… Read more »
Think I’m gong outside to garden in this beautiful weather. I hear we’re going to get close to some record temps soon, which means I need to get seeds outside before bolt-worthy heat gets here. I’m probably already too late for some of my greens. BTW – I caught two videos of cabbage being dehydrated and freeze dried. My last… Read more »
Finally finished my beadwork. It took longer than usual because I broke my cardinal rule of rosary making, which is especially important in a strung rosary (as opposed to a wired, linked rosary). Count the beads! Count, count, count! Count them before. Count each decade as it’s put together. Count at the end. I failed to do the middle count,… Read more »
Now ya got two of them
BC
Your last attempt to comment went to Trash and I sprung it loose.
Bones
I done recovered your first comment. It is up above somewhere.
Second Republic of Texas, anyone?
Good windy morning, Hamsters, Clouds are busily covering the lovely blue sky as the wind gets stronger and very briskly waves Old Glory on the front porch. Likewise the St. Paddy’s Day banner is flying on the other side of the porch. Texpat’s comments provide serious stuff we likely would not know about by reading or watching the news in… Read more »
I tried again from my phone and it went poof again.
No quarter to be given to the Hamas, Hezbollah, or Houthi terrorists and their financiers and enablers. Hamas set the rules by their sadistic behavior on 07Oct2023 and they rightfully have brought down hell on their heads. No quarter, eliminate them all.
Texpat 0823: No quarter! Those monsters established the rules; it is now the duty of Israel ( to her people particularly and to humanity in general) to utterly wipe out Hamas, Hesbollah, the Houthis, and all the rest of the terrorists and their enablers. Would that our government and the UN would be on the right side of this issue,… Read more »
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Do tell.
You must have more inside info than I do.
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I have nothing in purgatory on the dashboard. I don’t know what happened to it.
Eli Lake at The Free Press/Substack: When America was retreating from its 20-year-war in Afghanistan in August 2021, Omar was one of the Afghan allies President Joe Biden promised to rescue. He had performed a perilous task for the U.S. military: identifying and neutralizing roadside mines embedded by the Taliban insurgency. Omar was supposed to receive a special immigrant visa,… Read more »
Morning, Texpat! I’m hoping you will comment on the March 11 currency event, when the “digital dollar” will replace our current savings accounts.
Texpat 1059: Sam Bank Fraud is going to be real popular in that place; he may be a tight end now but soon he will be a wide receiver.
I gots one in the bucket. It said it was posting for almost an hour from my phone. I copied the post, refreshed, and reposted and poof. . . . . It’s gone.
Indeed, the ruling class, which controls politics, wants the farmers to disappear indeed the ruling class, which controls Amerikan politicians, wants the entire west to disappear, especially America. fundamentally deformed by the WEF owned creature from the Kenyan lagoon regime III and Kentucky swamp turtles from hades who lick NY Mayo stain wormholes. vue vill veet zee vugs vand vrink… Read more »
Texpat 0823: No quarter! Those monsters established the rules; it is now the duty of Israel ( to her people particularly and to humanity in general) to utterly wipe out Hamas, Hesbollah, the Houthis, and all the rest of the terrorists and their enablers. Would that our government and the UN would be on the right side of this… Read more »
New York City gets weirder and weirder by the day. NEW YORK (AP) — A criminal case involving handwritten lyrics to the classic rock megahit “Hotel California”and other Eagles favorites went to trial Wednesday in New York, with three men accused of scheming to thwart band co-founder Don Henley’s efforts to reclaim the allegedly ill-gotten documents. The trial concerns about 100 pages… Read more »
The first photo of master con artist Sam Bankman-Fried in jail at MDC Brooklyn.
Egads !!!
Tracey Beanz and Michelle Edwards: Indeed, the ruling class, which controls politics, wants the farmers to disappear by crushing them with one regulation after another and then concluding trade agreements with the entire world where they see fit, all under the guise of climate change. Once farmers are out of the picture, this reliance on the global elite’s strategy for… Read more »
I’ve always been a little skeptical of JD Vance, but he had the guts to slap the crowd with real facts in Munich. “If the $61 billion of supplemental aid to Ukraine goes through, I have to be honest to you, that is not going to fundamentally change the reality on the battlefield,” Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio said to a shocked… Read more »
There used to be a large banner across the top of Roger Simon’s page at PJMedia for several years after he published his 2009 autobiographical bestseller, Blacklisting Myself, about his political conversion from Left to Right. There was an image of the book, three quotes including Rush Limbaugh, Andrew Breitbart…and the Lone Star Times review I wrote of his book… Read more »
Almost exactly 1 hour from Moorpark to LAX! Left a little before 5:30 and arrived at 6:27. Un-Dang-Believable. We had plenty of time for our $28 bucks and change Chic-Fil-A Sausage/Chicken biscuits, hash browns and OJ.
Native Texan, lawyer and conservative commentator Mark Pulliam reviews Roger Simon’s new book, American Refugees. Roger Simon is a screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of PJMedia with law professor Glenn Reynolds. As blue states continue to deteriorate, the exodus will grow. Roger L. Simon, himself an expat from California (“a madhouse of the woke”) now living in Nashville, has written a… Read more »
Hamas sexual sadism on Oct. 7 was systematic – and included forcing families to watch their acts The evidence is clear that Hamas’ sexual sadism during its October 7 invasion of Israel was a strategic choice, said an official report publicized Tuesday as the first of its kind. The statement revealed that the terrorists even forced families to watch their… Read more »
I posted this yesterday and didn’t realize it never made it out of the Spam file. Draining the Pentagon Swamp To make matters worse, public interest groups and lawmakers are busily working behind the scenes to put pressure on the military to defy orders in a potential second Trump Administration. This internal opposition from both the military and intelligence agencies… Read more »
There is some axiom somewhere that states: All organizations will eventually skew left unless they are specifically chartered to promote the right/sanity.
Whut?! My # 4 “Graveyard Dead” comment landed in Spit Bucket? No linkies or nuttin’.
Well that’s 2 I guess I’m on the S#!T List? 😀
Graveyard Dead! Ole Dave can kill a blog from 2300 miles away, am I good or what? 😉
From the O.C. piece I found this interesting; NCoC was chartered by congress in 1953, “to harness the patriotic energy and civic involvement surrounding World War II,” but in recent years the organization – one of the fewer than 100 nonprofits nationwide established directly by congress – has redirected its mission towards suppressing online speech. The ATI was launched by… Read more »