Apple, that bastion of user privacy, just sold out its users in China to the communist government. The U.S. tech giant handed over user iCloud access to Chinese authorities, to cement its opening of a mainland data center in a partnership deal with the Chinese state-owned firm Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD). The joint venture housing...
Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran
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THE “PROGRESS” OF LEAVING HUMANS BEHIND
The idea that cutting-edge technologies are providing widespread benefits to humankind is failing the test of observation. The prime current example is new mRNA and DNA COVID “vaccine” technology. They have been lauded for saving the world from a deadly virus. But the world wouldn’t have needed saving, if the virus were never created in...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SURVEILLING U.S. CITIZENS WITH BLACKLISTED CHINESE TECH. The appetite for spying on thy neighbor is running rampant among local governments throughout the U.S. If that’s not bad enough, it’s being fueled by illicit deals between blacklisted Chinese companies and domestic political authorities. Two Chinese companies, Dahua Technology and Hikvision, have been barred from...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
FED AND CHINA MOVES POUND BITCOIN AND ETHER. Investors continued to run away from cryptos in droves following a crackdown against crypto payments in China and emerging regulatory moves by the Biden administration in the U.S. Some of the news might not have been quite what it seemed, but it affected buying and selling nonetheless....
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UNDER THE RADAR RADICAL: LAURENE POWELL JOBS
While many big tech political funders are highly visible, others manage to push their agendas while retaining much lower profiles. Laurene Powell Jobs is one example. The widow of Steve Jobs has managed to stay off the tip of the tongue, while funding endeavors that have huge political influence and objectives. Breitbart Editor-In-Chief Alex Marlow...
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SEARCH & BUY: GOOGLE & AMAZON BATTLE FOR DOMINANCE
Google has announced a partnership with Shopify to build out an enhanced platform that may look and feel quite a bit like shopping on Amazon. It signals an intent to challenge Amazon’s online retail dominance. Google won’t hold inventory. But the company will leverage its huge taps into data and analytics to power a platform...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
PRETZEL LOGIC: GOVERNMENT MASK-PUSHING NECESSITATES NEW SURVEILLANCE TECH. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is holding a 2021 Biometric Rally this fall in Maryland. One of the items on their agenda: solving problems with identifying citizens wearing face masks. DHS is calling on tech companies that specialize in biometric “acquisition” technologies (i.e. facial recognition, etc.)...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
DRUG GANGS POUR ACROSS SOUTHERN BORDER WHILE U.S. GOES AFTER BINANCE. The stock market sinking 600 points early last week off horrible inflation numbers and the Colonial Pipeline fiasco needed something to turn it around. Cue a crackdown on Binance specifically and decentralized cryptos more generally. U.S authorities announced an investigation into supposed rampant drug-related...
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PRAGERU CANCELED BY JW PLAYER VIDEO SERVICE
PragerU, an assiduously polite organization that puts out effective primers on basic conservative principles and thought, has been banned by another tech company. This time, it’s JW Player, which had been providing video services for the PragerU website. According to a 14 May 14 PragerU statement: “Just as our contract was coming up for renewal,...
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BUYING AMERICA’S NEWSROOMS
“Report For America,” an organization that subsidizes the hiring of selected reporters at regional and local newspaper outlets, recently announced an expanded initiative. A new “Report For The World” program has been launched to place journalists in newsrooms in Africa and other nations. Since 2017, Facebook and Google, among other left-leaning funders, have used “Report...