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2021-02-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Thousands of Aussies DELETE Facebook Profiles!!!
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★★★ THE POPULIST REVOLT HAS JUST BEGUN ★★★ Australia STOMPS on BIG TECH as Thousands DELETE their Facebook Profiles! In this video, we're going to look at the clash that has arisen between Big Tech and the Australian government, how Facebook’s retaliation has resulted in a massive campaign to delete the tech giant's app, and how more and more nations around the world are striking back against Big Tech oligarchs once and for all; you are NOT going to want to miss this!

None of these pontificaters look at the Venture Capitalists involved in these firms like Facebook. It's a big mistake that they don't. Consider, for instance, Peter Theil. Thiel became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake for $500,000 in August 2004. He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012, but remains on the board of directors. Peter was and is a very strong supporter of Trump and much of the right. If he is on the board of Facebook (Wikipedia says so but might be wrong) why didn't he do something about the attack on the right and Trump by Facebook? That becomes a more interesting question. One sees similar dichotomies by VCs from the left. Perhaps they are just modulating the rubes in a way that somehow earns them a lot of money? Maybe all the conflict just helps them data mine the rubes into more salable groups?

Posted by Slavish Gleaner8387 2021-02-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ]  Top

#1 It's not like Facebook exists to let people talk. It exists to data mine people talking and their photos and their videos and their cats... or dogs..
Posted by 3dc 2021-02-19 00:15||   2021-02-19 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The VC's are best viewed as the old rich guys in the Larry Niven Science Fiction Universe who finance anything to get out of aging.

Left or right doesn't matter. Getting out of aging to enjoy their money forever does.

Left right or center they all invest in attempts to work around aging and having instant control.
So modified DNA- Yes, brain implants for instant data access - Yes, Aging research Yes..

and

all this takes gobs and gobs of money... so...

So we now live in a SciFi world... sigh..


Posted by 3dc 2021-02-19 00:37||   2021-02-19 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Why else would one need to develop bio-quantum computers on your DNA or RNA? Seriously!
Posted by 3dc 2021-02-19 00:39||   2021-02-19 00:39|| Front Page Top

#4 The aging war requires nano-tech also.
Think about that.
Posted by 3dc 2021-02-19 01:00||   2021-02-19 01:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Stem cells too. And they are best harvested how?..... (paging planned parenthood ...)
Posted by 3dc 2021-02-19 01:03||   2021-02-19 01:03|| Front Page Top

#6 And Instagram (owned by Farcebook) angered members by changing the terms and will sell your info.

But if only more & more...millions more...would dump that FB garbage.
Posted by Clem 2021-02-19 01:58||   2021-02-19 01:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I think its the reverse as Facebook is busy now deleting Australian facebook pages that they think are fake.
Posted by BernardZ 2021-02-19 02:35||   2021-02-19 02:35|| Front Page Top

#8 FB = freedom-robbing bastids. Dump it for something else (or nothing).
Posted by JohnQC 2021-02-19 09:14||   2021-02-19 09:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Sadly our neighborhood uses it so I use it for that but nothing else.
Posted by Silentbrick  2021-02-19 10:09||   2021-02-19 10:09|| Front Page Top

#10 If he is on the board of Facebook (Wikipedia says so but might be wrong) why didn't he do something about the attack on the right and Trump by Facebook?

Is this a serious question? He is just one person and probably outnumbered. He's a board member, not an executive.
Posted by Elmenter Ulerenter5192 2021-02-19 12:58||   2021-02-19 12:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Elmenter -SO?
You stand up for right and wrong or you belong in the trash as a human.
Posted by 3dc 2021-02-19 20:27||   2021-02-19 20:27|| Front Page Top

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