RESTRICT Act Is Orwellian Censorship Grab Disguised As Anti-TikTok Legislation
March 30th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
The RESTRICT Act, introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tom Thune (R-SD), is aimed at blocking or disrupting transactions and financial holdings linked to foreign adversaries that pose a risk to national security, however the language of the bill could be used to give the US government enormous power to punish free speech.
Warner, a longtime opponent of free speech who, as Michael Krieger pointed out in 2018 (and confirmed in the Twitter Files) pushed for the ‘weaponization’ of big tech, crafted the RESTRICT act to “ake swift action against technology companies suspected of cavorting with foreign governments and spies, to effectively vanish their products from shelves and app stores when the threat they pose gets too big to ignore,” according to Wired.
Bad actors listed in the bill are; China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.
In reality, the RESTRICT Act has very little to do with TikTok and everything to do with controlling online content.
In very specific terms a lot of U.S. websites would be impacted. Why? Because a lot of websites use third-party ‘plug-ins’ or ‘widgets’ or software created in foreign countries to support the content on their site. The “Restrict Act” gives the DNI the ability to tell a website using any “foreign content” or software; that might be engaged in platform communication the U.S Government views as against their interests; to shut down or face a criminal charge. In very direct terms, the passage of SB686 would give the Dept of Commerce, DNI and DHS the ability to shut down what you are reading right now. This is a big deal.
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The RESTRICT Act can also be used to punish people using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) if they’re used to access banned websites, and directs the Secretary of Commerce to “identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate, or otherwise mitigate” that which is deemed a national security risk associated with technology linked to the above countries.
Penalties include fines of up to $1 million or 20 years in prison, or both.
New California Transgender Law Endangers Parental Rights Worldwide, Legal Group Warns: ‘Drastic Overreach’
March 30th, 2023Gender distress.
Via: Fox:
A new state law in California could incentivize “bad actors” from around the world to skirt custodial laws by relocating to the Golden State, a conservative legal group claims.
“We think it’s a drastic overreach by California,” Emilie Kao, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), told Fox News Digital. “Not only does it violate parents’ fundamental rights to direct the upbringing of their children, it also violates federal law on child custody and jurisdiction because it basically supersedes the federal law that gives jurisdiction to states on child custody matters.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week signed SB 107, which will block state officials from enforcing laws from other states that hinder access to transgender medical procedures and drugs.
“With this law, California is basically saying it can take temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child from anywhere if there’s a disagreement between a parent and the state of California over how to treat a child’s gender distress,” said Kao, whose organization was one of 50 groups that sent a letter of protest to Newsom over SB 107.
Extraordinary: The Seeding
March 30th, 2023If this topic interests you, see the books by David M. Jacobs:
Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of Ufo Abductions
The THREAT: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda
Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity
Via: Unidentified:
Musk, Experts Urge Pause on AI Systems, Citing ‘Risks to Society’
March 29th, 2023Leading AGI developers will not heed this warning, but at least it was said
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2023
Via: New York Post:
Elon Musk is part of a group urging a six-month pause in the training of advanced artificial intelligence models following ChatGPT’s rise – arguing the systems could pose “profound risks to society and humanity.”
The CEO of Twitter and Tesla joined more than 1,000 experts in signing an open letter organized by the nonprofit Future of Life Institute, which is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation, the billionaire’s charity grantmaking organization.
The group also gets funds from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the effective altruism group Founders Pledge, the European Union’s transparency register shows.
The letter calls for an industrywide pause until proper safety protocols have been developed and vetted by independent experts — and details potential risks that advanced AI poses without proper oversight.
Risks include the spread of “propaganda and untruth,” job losses, the development of “nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us,” and the risk of “loss of control of our civilization.”
The Age of Average
March 29th, 2023Via: Alex Murrell:
This article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.
Welcome to the age of average.
Potential Massive Money Laundering into Political Campaigns
March 29th, 2023Via: O’Keefe Media Group:
$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs
March 29th, 2023This sounds like something that would pay about a dollar per hour on Mechanical Turk.
Via: Bloomberg:
Everybody is talking about the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT. Less noticed is a jobs market mushrooming around the technology, where these newly created roles can pay upwards of $335,000 a year.
And for many a computer engineering degree is optional.
They’re called “prompt engineers,” people who spend their day coaxing the AI to produce better results and help companies train their workforce to harness the tools.
Ed Dowd on Covid Vax: $147 Billion In Economic Damage, Tens Of Millions Injured Or Disabled
March 28th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
A new report estimates that 26.6 million people were injured, 1.36 million disabled, and 300,000 excess deaths can be attributed to COVID-19 vaccine damages in 2022 alone, which cost the economy nearly $150 billion.
Britain: Staff Who Process Payments for Vaccine Injuries Increased from 4 to 80
March 28th, 2023Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Some Clips from Utopia
March 28th, 2023Reminds of of something. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Hmm…
Via: Jason Stuermer Roberts:
Related: Utopia (British TV series)
