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Facebook confirms spying on private messages to moderate them for 'violations'

Tom Ciccotta
Breitbart
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 06:39 UTC

Facebook Messenger scans photos and links sent by users on the messaging platform, according to a recent statement by the company itself.

Facebook released the statement for a report by Bloomberg, which states that messages on Facebook's Messenger platform are analyzed for violation of Facebook's conduct policies. If they are flagged by the automated system, they are then read by moderators. If the content is deemed in violation of Facebook policy, the moderator is then permitted to taken action.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself has admitted to monitoring Messenger conversations. "In that case, our systems detect what's going on," Zuckerberg said in an interview with Vox. "We stop those messages from going through."

Unlike WhatsApp, the popular messaging platform Facebook acquired in 2014 for approximately $19.4 billion, Facebook Messenger does not automatically provide end-to-end encryption. Users must activate "secret conversations" on the Messenger platform in order to take advantage of encryption. Through end-to-end encryption, only participants in a conversation are able to read the messages that are exchanged.

Israeli Terrorism Against Palestinians Will Never End if Western Hypocrisy in Middle East Continues

Eva Bartlett
RT
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:50 UTC

© Suhaib Salem / Reuters
A Palestinian stands inside the remains of a house, that witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war in 2014 summer, during a sandstorm in Gaza September 8, 2015

The US is fine with "rebels" like Al-Qaeda "protesting" in Syria, but when genuinely unarmed Palestinians protest the occupiers who violently expelled them from their homes and land, they are "inciting violence."

During peaceful protests on March 30 in eastern Gaza, an unarmed Palestinian man walked on farmland towards the fence built by his occupiers. Within minutes, he was shot by one of the 100 Israeli special forces snipers deployed along the fence precisely to quash dissent-by any means necessary-under the old pretext of "self-defense."

On the same day, a Palestinian woman, armed solely with a flag, walked towards the fence which has imprisoned her for so many years. She, too, was targeted by one of the snipers.

Among the 17 killed that day was a 16-year-old girl and a 27-year-old farmer, the latter killed by Israeli tank fire.

French TV show featuring transgender man as baby's mother leads to mass confusion

RT
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:56 UTC

The French Twittersphere is abuzz over a TV show that invited on a couple of transgender men and their child, calling the one who gave birth "a mother." Some have slammed the show as intolerant.

The now hotly-discussed show called 'Hello, earthlings!' was aired on Saturday. It featured an American transgender couple, Biff Chaplow and Trystan Reese, who were both born women. The latter chose to keep his uterus to bear their child, who was also present on the show.

During the show a banner reading "Mom is on the left" appeared on the screen, referring to the 34-year-old, causing an uproar on social media and splitting it into two camps.

Comment: So, according to this post-modern thinking... a woman who 'transitions' to a man, can be both a man and a mother... and a man who transitions to a woman can also be a mother. Eh, is that about it?

Video captures Australian cops drag innocent disabled man from home, torture him in his own yard

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:17 UTC

Police were caught on surveillance camera dragging an elderly, disabled man from his home and then beating him with a baton, taunting him, and covering his face with pepper spray.

Horrifying surveillance footage has been released that shows multiple police officers aggressively assaulting and torturing a disabled man in his front yard after they dragged him from his home during a welfare check.

John, a retiree in Melbourne, Australia, was supposed to be enjoying his golden years in peace-but after his psychologist called the Australian equivalent of 911, all hell broke loose. Victoria Police arrived to presumably perform an unwanted welfare check. When John refused to speak with the officers, they dragged him into the yard and beat him, pepper-sprayed him, and then hosed him down with his own water hose-all while mocking him.

The entire incident was caught on video recording principally because the homeowner had installed a surveillance system after his house was previously burglarized. In the graphic video, Victoria Police can be heard taunting the elderly man, cursing at him, beating him in the legs with their batons and covering his face with pepper spray.

Comment: Murikanism is spreading.

Canadian governments target illegal tobacco with new funding

Molly Hayes
The Globe and Mail
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:56 UTC

The federal and provincial governments are planning to put more money into the fight against contraband tobacco − a thriving black market that is rife with organized crime, costing billions of dollars a year in lost tax revenue.

In Ontario, it's believed that roughly one third of cigarettes are from an illicit source, OPP Detective Sergeant Luc Bouvier of the Contraband Tobacco Enforcement Team said.

His small unit - which falls under the OPP's broader organized crime enforcement bureau - has spent the past two years investigating the smuggling and trafficking of contraband tobacco across Ontario.

B'Tselem ad urges Israeli soldiers to defy shooting orders, lest they commit war crimes

Yossi Gurvitz
Mondoweiss
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 20:26 UTC

B'Tselem ad soldiers don't shoot palestinians

B'Tselem, the respected Israeli human rights NGO, began a media campaign today urging Israel Defense Forces soldiers posted on the Gaza border to disobey "patently illegal" shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed protesters. Last week, the IDF gunned down 17 such protesters and wounded more than 700 of them. Another wounded protester later died of his wounds. Fresh protests are expected on Friday and the IDF already announced it will keep its Rules of Engagement (ROE) as they are.

The ad appeared on line today and is set to appear in major newspapers tomorrow. The text on B'Tselem's ad reads:

"Sorry Sir, I cannot shoot

Soldier, the order to use lethal force against civilians who do not pose mortal danger is patently illegal. Using lethal force is only allowed when an actual, immediate threat to human life exists, and when there is no other option.

The responsibility for issuing these unlawful orders rests first and foremost with the policy makers, including the prime minister, defense minister, and the chief of staff. Yet obeying patently illegal orders is a criminal offense and you are duty-bound to refuse complying with them."

"Huge caravan" of Central American refugees moving north towards U.S. border

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:25 UTC

Over 1,500 Central Americans are on a crusade across Mexico in the hopes of being granted asylum at the U.S. border - a move which is set to pose an enormous challenge to the Trump administration's much campaigned about immigration policies, while reminding Trump's base that they still don't have the wall they elected him to build 14 months into his presidency.

"We want to become one, supporting us shoulder to shoulder and show that together we can break down borders," say the caravan's organizers.

Setting out six days ago and marching under the slogan "Migrantes en la lucha" ("Migrants in the Fight") during holy week, the caravan comprised mostly of Hondurans was organized roughly a month ago by the mysterious group Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) - which solicited donations via Facebook and encouraged volunteers to contact them.

Comment: Not if Trump can galvanize support for his stance on illegal immigration:

PWOB is a murky organization which has published the minimal details required for a 501-3(c). They apparently work under the umbrella of the Washington International Church. This is the PWOB's third attempt to organize a mass migration to the United States. How does an organization which claims a measly $25k total in donations for 2017 managing such a large multi-country project? The "kindness of strangers" cannot account for all of it.

Evidence before solidarity? German official blasts UK and allies for blaming Russia for Skripal poisoning

RT
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:25 UTC

The minister president of Germany's most populous state has lambasted the UK for prematurely pinning the blame for the Skripal poisoning case on Russia, writing that you need "sound evidence" before asking allies for solidarity.

Armin Laschet, the leader of North Rhine-Westphalia and a deputy chairman of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), took to Twitter after the UK's Porton Down government laboratory announced on Tuesday that it could not link nerve agent samples it had collected to Russia.

"If you force almost all NATO countries to show solidarity, shouldn't you have sound evidence?" Laschet said. "You can think of Russia what you want, but I have learned a different way of dealing with states from studying international law."

Comment: Evidence was last on the list of qualifiers for Russia's vilification. UK is now first on the list for, well, lots of unpleasant things: deceitfulness, ineptness, defamation, untrustworthiness...

'The war isn't over': Protesters burn Union Jack in remembrance of Falklands War

RT
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:11 UTC

Protesters have taken to the streets of Buenos Aires to burn the UK flag and to make their voices heard, with a clear message 36 years on from the Falklands War: "The war is not over and we are not dead."

Nearly four decades since the British asserted their control over the Falkland Islands - known as Islas Malvinas in Argentina - protesters clashed with police outside the British embassy in Buenos Aires on Monday. One protester was filmed setting fire to an enormous Union Jack.

Falklands War veteran Norberto Covacevich said: "The war is not over and we are not dead, it is not the dead who fight, we are going to fight to the last, to the last drop of blood [we are going to fight] the pirates, long live the homeland."

Comment: The Falkland Islands are also important to both the UK and Argentina because of the adjacent undersea oil fields.

Army Radio pundit claims 'I'm embarrassed to be Israeli'

Tzvi Lev
Arutz Sheva
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 11:51 UTC

Popular Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) pundit Koby Meidan has come under fire for writing on Facebook that he is "embarrassed to be Israeli" after the IDF killed 17 Gazans, including 10 Hamas gunmen, during Friday's violent riot next to the Gaza-Israel border fence.

Meidan's words caused an outcry, with many journalists wondering why a pundit who expressed anti-IDF sentiments should work for an IDF radio station.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman called Meidan's words "shameful" and suggested that the broadcaster be fired over his remarks. "I am ashamed that we have a broadcaster like that on a military station. I hope the station commander will respond clearly and do what is needed," Liberman told 103FM.

"If he is ashamed, he should draw the appropriate conclusions and leave the station."

Comment: Notice the lack of remorse from the criticizers. None of them had outrage nor sympathy for the victims, nor empathy with the reaction by Mr. Meidan. It is a telling snapshot as to what kind of leadership and society has been incubated in Israel - and why any reasonable, normal approach to solving the Palestinian-Israel loggerhead will never work.

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

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Society's Child

Facebook confirms spying on private messages to moderate them for 'violations'

Israeli Terrorism Against Palestinians Will Never End if Western Hypocrisy in Middle East Continues

French TV show featuring transgender man as baby's mother leads to mass confusion

Video captures Australian cops drag innocent disabled man from home, torture him in his own yard

Canadian governments target illegal tobacco with new funding

B'Tselem ad urges Israeli soldiers to defy shooting orders, lest they commit war crimes

"Huge caravan" of Central American refugees moving north towards U.S. border

Evidence before solidarity? German official blasts UK and allies for blaming Russia for Skripal poisoning

'The war isn't over': Protesters burn Union Jack in remembrance of Falklands War

Army Radio pundit claims 'I'm embarrassed to be Israeli'

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