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Democrat Groups Plan to “Fact Check” Private Text Messages

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Re: Democrat Groups Plan to “Fact Check” Private Text Messages

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Post by caskstrength »

berinateni wrote: post #10

Politics aside this isn't going to be technically possible apart from plain SMS. iMessage and WhatsApp are encrypted so it won't be possible to intercept and fact check them.

But they don't need to break the encryption because iMessage and WhatsApp are closed platforms without support for third party clients, so Apple and Facebook can just create a list of "undesirable" keywords and push it to the client (automatically, without any way for the user to opt-out) that would mark such messages or completely delete them.

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Post by native_samples »

6f8986c3 wrote: post #14
berinateni wrote: post #10

Politics aside this isn't going to be technically possible apart from plain SMS. iMessage and WhatsApp are encrypted so it won't be possible to intercept and fact check them.

Both Apple and Facebook support this type of censorship. As do many of their employees. You don’t even need to make encryption illegal. You just need to backdoor it. Trivial for one or two well-placed developers.

You don't even need to back door it. WhatsApp already implemented restrictions on forwarding of messages, which shouldn't be possible if the encryption worked. Of course they didn't need to: you can just include a "forwarded counter" in the message and enforce it on the client. That trick can be done for any rule they wish to enforce.

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cirrus3 wrote: post #20

"Zero Hedge (or ZeroHedge)[b] is a far-right[12] libertarian[17] financial blog,[13][14] presenting staff-written articles and aggregating news and opinions from external sources." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge

And yet it's just repeating something that appeared in Politico, so if you wish to ad hominem this page you need to also do it to them.

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Post by underseacables »

pseudalopex wrote: post #29
underseacables wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a good point. I was listening to a podcast of a comedy historian explain how comedy is very generational. If you go back and listen to the comedians of our parents generation, it’s very different than what we hear today, it’s very rare to see comedians cross generations. Twenty years ago what did we have? No Twitter, Facebook, nascent digital photos, mostly VHS and DVD. Today a digital image, video, or screens…

The men involved in the PyCon dongle incident found other jobs quickly. The woman did not.

She lied and made false accusations that got two people fired. When the facts came out it became clear that she was the bully.

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Post by alanlovestea »

berinateni wrote: post #10

Politics aside this isn't going to be technically possible apart from plain SMS. iMessage and WhatsApp are encrypted so it won't be possible to intercept and fact check them.

FB has always censored many of its media. I have no doubt WhatsApp will be the next.

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Post by bassman9000 »

bassman9000 wrote: post #24
6f8986c3 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The RINOs won’t save us, and there are a few good Dems (Tulsi). The bullshit doesn’t fall along party lines.

Didn't say who to vote. I know there are a few good Democrats. Do your own research, or don't vote. I have no doubt many in the GOP salivate at the prospect of enjoying the Orwellian tools the Democrats are building. There's a cartel of media, big tech execs, and Dem members that are pushing all of this, and people keep voting them, every. single. time. Since, at least, the Obama days. So much "collusion" mentioned,…

For the downvoters

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1415725320381079569?s=...

It's happening. Been happening for a while. We must take responsibility.

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