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which show to watch, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, or High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Special

Think about this. I've been posting about privacy issues for quite some time. It's real. Folks are too willing to give up their privacy in exchange for an 'app.' Check this out and pass it along. The article is long by today's 'short attention span' standards. But, it's worth it.

"It doesn’t take much imagination to conjure the powers such always-on surveillance can provide an authoritarian regime like China’s. Within America’s own representative democracy, citizens would surely rise up in outrage if the government attempted to mandate that every person above the age of 12 carry a tracking device that revealed their location 24 hours a day. Yet, in the decade since Apple’s App Store was created, Americans have, app by app, consented to just such a system run by private companies. Now, as the decade ends, tens of millions of Americans, including many children, find themselves carrying spies in their pockets during the day and leaving them beside their beds at night — even though the corporations that control their data are far less accountable than the government would be. . ."

". . .one thing is certain: We are living in the world’s most advanced surveillance system. This system wasn’t created deliberately. It was built through the interplay of technological advance and the profit motive. It was built to make money. The greatest trick technology companies ever played was persuading society to surveil itself."

nytimes.com/interactive/2019/1

Hey, you know why they have to air 6 hours of Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry per day? Because you have the fucking Boomerang app. TV is fucking dead, you know!https://twitter.com/nickandmore/status/1208205368465281029 …

Despite the redactions, when placed against the publicly-known timeline of the Ukraine events, these emails show top DOD and OMB officials taking personal interest in the aid suspension issue at key moments.

There are only five pages in this production—and they're heavily redacted—but like the State Department records we obtained in late November, these records were also not released to Congress during the House impeachment inquiry.

NEW: We just received DOD records relating to the Trump administration's withholding of aid to Ukraine -- including an email from Secretary Esper asking about the funding.https://www.americanoversight.org/document/dod-senior-officials-emails-containing-terms-related-to-ukraine …pic.twitter.com/vTGmQrTryj

Next you make it fast, easy, and cheap for anyone to literally “build their own” server on top of that protocol. One where they own their data. They make the rules. They won’t ban or silence themselves on their own server.

This is so important and Tucker nails it. Republicans are doing nothing about this. They did nothing when they had total control of all three branches of government. Trump has done nothing but “monitor the situation.” It’s on us to build the solutions, and we are.

The solution is technological but will also require consumers to EXIT the Big Tech matrix. First you build the protocols, like Gab Social, an open source and decentralized social networking protocol. https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1208065140156821505?s=21 …https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1208065140156821505 …

Tucker Carlson Slamming Conservative Inc. for Defending Big Tech Tucker Calls Out -Kochs -Heritage Foundation -American Conservative Union -AEI "Big Tech Companies silence Conservatives, Conservative Non-Profits try to prevent the government from doing anything about it." pic.twitter.com/pskAfg4tTB

Feeling like with the holidays there is * far * less engagement than before. Many of the Indians I was following seem not to be as active, either.

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