"Now, more than ever, the information war is heating up... If we are to finally break the backs of the people working so hard to maintain their gravy train, we have to build systems that are beyond their control."
Google is following in Facebook's footsteps and abandoning a search feature that displayed fact-checks for publishers after a malfunction prompted conservative media outlets to accuse Google of discrimination.
"The next great crisis will be caused by Central Bankers not realizing that all this monetary fuel they have pumped into the system has finally ignited, and like a bonfire that gets out of control, they have no way of extinguishing it..."
"...increasingly more advanced forms of artificial intelligence... can hide information which goes against the interests of those power structures and elevate narratives which support those interests, all of course while maintaining the illusion of freedom and lively debate..."
"More than 100 non-government organizations (NGOs) and government agencies around the world help police YouTube for extremist content... All of them have confidentiality agreements barring Google from revealing their participation to the public..."
"We are seeing a flowering of corporatism where government is designed to maximize the opportunities of giant influential companies and industries that spend a lot of money lobbying...Regulations have gone from being concerning to laughable, and totally run by those guys for their own interests..."
The last week has seen six charter buses, ferrying Google and Apple employees from Silicon Valley to San Francisco, have been attacked on the freeway, smashing windows with rocks and BB guns.
Tanja Suter, the president of the local Swiss People’s Party, claimed Ms Holten has a “big mouth” and that residents did not want to grant her citizenship “if she annoys us and doesn’t respect our traditions."
"A thunderdous tweet twitters around the globe as Tax Reform causes a gigantic flying saucer to descend from the sky, and alight upon the small Californian town of Cupertino. Let joy be unconfined as the crew announce they will pay $40 bln in taxes, spend billions on contracts to local suppliers, and create thousands of jobs across America."
"It is no surprise, with Central Banks and governments unable to control the uptake of cryptocurrency and further decentralization, a new set of existential threats is being advanced..."
"What makes 2018 different from the prior 10 years? The answer is that this is the year the central banks stop printing and take away the punch bowl... This will not be a soft landing..."
President Donald Trump just sent a chill down the spine of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his fellow techno-plutocrats by reiterating his support for an Internet tax.
