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YouTube is automatically deleting any comments about "black lives matter violence"

Cindy Harper
Reclaim the Net
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:04 UTC
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In recent times, it's been discovered that YouTube has automatic filters in place to auto-delete certain phrases and now it has been shown that YouTube is automatically censoring comments that link Black Lives Matter to violence.

At the time of writing, when commenting on a YouTube video, using the phrase "Black Lives Matter violence" will have your comment automatically deleted.

We first received reports from two YouTube users who were trying to comment on a news video that was talking about peaceful protesting. The users wanted to leave a comment to say that there were several incidences of Black Lives Matter protests that had descended into violence. However, after leaving their comment and checking back on it later, they found that it had disappeared.

After reporting this to us, we tested a few things ourselves to see what was happening.

We've managed to discover that any phrase that mentions "Black lives matter violence" in the YouTube comment system gets automatically deleted.

Comment: Because supporting an ideological movement means covering up for it and keeping its image squeaky clean - despite reality.

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Footprints

Norway data protection authority temporarily bans use of coronavirus tracking app

Lauren Chadwick
Euronews
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:15 UTC
Norway's contact tracing app
© Heiko Junge / NTB scanpix via AP
A man holds a mobile phone showing Norway's National Institute of Public Health new mobile app infection stop for infection tracking, in Oslo, Norway, Friday April 17, 2020
Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of a public health application to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns.

The application Smittestopp "collects large amounts of personal information about those who use the app, including continuous location data and information about users' contact with others," the Norwegian Data Protection Authority said in a statement on Monday.

The app was set up to use both GPS and Bluetooth to track people's movements to determine the effects of social distancing and who the users come into contact with. The information gathered is then stored for 30 days.

Norway's public health institute said the decision to temporarily ban the app would "weaken an important part of our preparedness" and reduce the agency's ability to "fight the ongoing spread of infection."

Norway has recorded 8,631 cases and 242 deaths in a country with a population of 5.3 million people.

Comment: The coronavirus is not and has never been a real existential threat. What is a real threat is government authorities (and private companies for that matter) having access to people's location history and a list of people with whom they've associated. That is what people should be concerned about.

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Bad Guys

Cop who shot Rayshard Brooks is without a job & declared guilty by media before any trial is held

Graham Dockery
RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:38 UTC
wendys burns atlantal
© Reuters / Elijah Nouvelage
A Wendy’s burns following a rally against the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, in Atlanta, Georgia, June 13, 2020
Rayshard Brooks apparently was drunk, resisted arrest, and took a cop's taser. He lost his life for this, and the officer involved has been thrown under the bus by his superiors and fired. Is this justice, or mob rule?

Rayshard Brooks fell asleep at a Wendy's drive-through in Atlanta on Friday night, reportedly prompting staff to call the police. After failing a sobriety test, Brooks resisted arrest, stole a taser from an officer, and fled. He was fatally shot by Officer Garrett Rolfe after he fired the stolen taser at police, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation claims.

Were the country not already consumed with race-infused riots, Brooks' death would likely be another statistic. An unfortunate incident, a local news story for the weekend.

Comment: Atlanta police release complete sequence of Rayshard Brooks arrest & shooting from all angles

[Ed. note: The compilation of bodycam and surveillance footage published by RT has been removed. However, there is footage available showing the entire incident from the bodycams worn by the officers.]


Here is the full incident from the moment the officers find Brooks passed out in his car in the line at the Wendy's drive-through:




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Cell Phone

Norway halts Covid-19 tracking app over privacy fears, low infection spread


RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:58 UTC
Norway covid tracking app
© NTB Scanpix/Heiko Junge via Reuters
Norway is halting its Covid-19 tracking app and will delete the data it has already collected after the country's data protection watchdog criticized its continued use amid privacy concerns.

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority said on Friday that it was no longer reasonable to collect data through the app considering the low spread of the infection and concerns about privacy. It gave the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) notice of its decision to put in place a temporary ban on processing personal data.

The Smittestopp app was created in a bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus but the data watchdog believes its use is no longer appropriate given the low-levels of the virus in the Scandanavian country. The app has been downloaded 1.6 million times and has 600,00 active users, according to NIPH figures.

"We don't agree with the DPA's evaluation, but feel it is necessary to delete all data and put work on hold as a result of this," NIPH's director Camilla Stoltenberg said on Monday. She added that this would "weaken an important part of our preparedness against a spread in infection, as we now lose time for development and testing of the app."
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Dominoes

Russian court finds ex-US marine Paul Whelan guilty of espionage, sentences him to 16 years in prison

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:02 UTC
Paul Whelan
© AFP / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV
Paul Whelan
Eighteen months after he was arrested in a Moscow hotel room and accusing of spying, a Russian court has handed down a 16 year jail term to Paul Whelan, a national of four western countries: Canada, Ireland, the US and the UK.

The 50-year-old defendant described the trial, partly held behind closed doors, as a "sham" and protested his innocence throughout the process. After Monday morning's verdict, he immediately stated that he intends to appeal. There have been suggestions that Whelan could be returned to the US in a prisoner swap.

His lawyer has named Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko - two Russians jailed in the US - as potential candidates. Bout, who Russia considers a 'political prisoner,' is serving a 25-year term for arms dealing. Meanwhile, Yaroshenko was arrested in Liberia in 2010 in what the Russian Foreign Ministry described as a "kidnapping" and brought to the US. He had never set foot in the country before. Russian authorities have repeatedly complained about the harsh conditions and lack of medical care he has received in US prison.

Comment: Previously:

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NPC

Anti-Cultural Revolution: Portland protesters topple statue of Thomas Jefferson, father of US Declaration of Independence


RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:54 UTC
jefferson statue
© Twitter / @Pdx_resistance
A group of demonstrators in Portland has torn down a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of a school bearing his name, fanning the flames of a growing cultural divide in the US as activists target landmarks deemed racist.

Around 1,000 people gathered at Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon on Sunday to listen to speeches before setting off on a Black Lives Matter march across the city. Later in the evening, a crowd reconvened at the school and set their sights on a statue of the third US president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Two ropes were tied around the statue's neck as the group labored to pull Jefferson off his pedestal - which had already been defaced with graffiti reading "slave owner."

Videos show the group tugging on the ropes, eventually sending the statue falling onto the concrete steps in front of the school.

Comment: As the Left's "cancel culture" has proven, it does not matter how much good a person has done, past or present. If they represent traditional Western culture and society and have done even one "bad thing," they will attack. Today's version of totalitarianism isn't in the form of a soldier's boot on our throats, but rather a bunch of Karens scolding people and destroying anything that they don't like. Be careful if they are able to get a hold of any real political power.

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Pilot missing after US Air Force F-15C fighter jet crashes in North Sea off UK coast

Don Jacobson
UPI
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:37 UTC
US Air Force F-15C Eagle jet
© AFP / PETRAS MALUKAS
US Air Force F-15C Eagle jet
A U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jet crashed into the North Sea off the coast of Britain on Monday and the condition of the pilot is unknown.

The USAF 48th Fighter Wing, based at the RAF Lakenheath station, said in a statement the F-15C Eagle crashed during a training mission early Monday morning. Though some F-15s can carry two pilots, military officials said the "C" variant involved in Monday's crash carried just one.

"The cause of the crash as well as the status of the pilot are unknown at this time, and U.K. Search and Rescue have been called to support," it said.
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Dominoes

Britain was oppressive 'empire of thievery', rapper Lowkey tells RT's Going Underground, as monuments torn down & vandalized in UK


RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:32 UTC
vandalised statue of Winston Churchill
© REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Famous hip-hop artist and activist Kareem Dennis (stage name Lowkey) unloaded on British imperialism in an interview with RT, saying it's the bitter legacy of slavery and persecution that is being avenged at the moment.

People are coming to terms with the fact that "Britain didn't have an empire, Britain was an empire," Lowkey told RT's Going Underground when asked for his take on the heated debate on the removal of controversial statues. The subjugated colonies were essentially based upon people "long considered upstarts, if not barbarians."

The empire prospered as its per capita GDP "actually increased by 347 percent" between 1757 and 1900 - but that boomeranged in the 21st century, Lowkey said.

Comment: It is good to become aware of the reality of what has occurred under Western imperialism, but then one has to question what kind of world is being created to replace the one that the Left is attempting to tear down. It seems to be more about who wants power than about removing warmongers and psychopaths from power.

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Red Pill

As the Left now controls every lever of power, we face nothing less than Regime Change

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 15:01 UTC
boarding up of Winston Churchill's statue

The boarding up of Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square was act of appeasement if ever there truly was one.
As the Left now controls every lever of power, we face nothing less than Regime Change

What we now face is regime change. That is why these strange crowds have begun to gather round ancient and forgotten monuments, demanding their removal and destruction.

They do not know what they want, or understand what they are destroying. But that no longer matters. They think their moment has come, and they may well be right.

This is why the memorial to Winston Churchill, and the Cenotaph itself, were shamefully boarded up on Thursday night - an act of appeasement if ever there truly was one.

That is why police chiefs kneel like conquered slaves to the new gods of woke, and the leaders of the Labour Party do likewise. I have seen it happen before, but only when things were moving in the opposite direction.
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Che Guevara

New York Gov. Cuomo ignores THOUSANDS of BLM protesters in Brooklyn but threatens party goers in the Hamptons for 'violating social distancing'

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 18:14 UTC
'black trans lives matter’ protesters
Thousands of 'black trans lives matter' protesters gathered outside of the Brooklyn museum on Sunday.

The protesters were shoulder-to-shoulder and not practicing social distancing.

Watch:


Comment: Anyone who hasn't succumbed to the incredible amount of cognitive dissonance being induced by authoritarian leaders like Cuomo, and who have a shred of common sense - are now asking themselves how they can live under such subjective and arbitrary "laws" that seek only to satisfy the ideologically-motivated whims of those in charge. It will not be long before many more respond to this sort of oppression, and voice their discontent with action. And when the now silent majority does this, a roar may be heard that will make the recent protests sound like a Sunday church choir.

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