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GreyGeek:
https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/google-manipulates-25-of-worlds-elections/

--- Quote ---“Humanity will survive, but it won’t be free,” says Epstein, a liberal who favored Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election but who now has become a champion in exposing the bias and censorship of opinions on the right side of the political spectrum.

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On the "right side of the political spectrum:?

It's wacky, I know, coming from Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, to equate Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other bastions of Marxist politics with the "right side".   Despite that neck breaking twist in reality, Schweizer does give some good reasons and practical advice for escaping from manipulation by those social media sites.

His reasons:

--- Quote ---Throughout history totalitarianism has been associated with storm troopers, blitzkriegs and superior firepower, but a bestselling author and filmmaker says it’s creeping into American culture, subverting privacy rights, instituting censorship, imposing speech codes and threatening free elections – without a government action or a shot being fired.
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It’s all about surveillance capitalism, manipulation of the political culture, blacklisting and the potential for a stealth power coup.

Already, one of the scientists featured in the film claims one-quarter of the world’s elections are already being impacted.

“You don’t see it, it’s not visible – you are not seeing police coming into your house,” explained Schweizer. “But they are, in a real way, like Big Brother, sifting and determining what you should see and what you shouldn’t see. “The problem is you can see storm troopers – you can see the fist of government trying to infringe on your rights – you can’t see what Google is doing because its hidden and we don’t know what we don’t know.”

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Amazing.  The Marxist controlled social websites are massively shadow  banning, blocking and deactivating Conservative accounts, leaving only the Marxist and their allies the AntiFa and Democrats (I repeat myself) to be able to freely post.  The AntiFa's call for 5 man sniper teams to shoot individuals is still on Twitter.    This website linked to a blog which contained a call to "slaughter" President Trump.   The link fails because CloudFlare blocked the access to the DNS server.

--- Quote ---You've requested a page on a website (archive.fo) that is on the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare is currently not routing the requested domain (archive.fo). There are two potential causes of this:

    Most likely: a Cloudflare administrator flagged the site to be routed around Cloudflare at the DNS level. The DNS change may not have propagated yet or the site owner may have hard wired DNS to statically point at Cloudflare.

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The Google article continues:

--- Quote ---“All three of these are connected to each other: if you are censoring information and people don’t see it, you are manipulating them – you are manipulating their thinking,” the Harvard psychologist told WND. “If you are surveilling them, it’s easier to manipulate them because the more you know about someone, the easier it is to manipulate him or her. The danger has to do with the mountains of information that these companies are accumulating which is being used to manipulate us and to make decisions about us without us even understanding that these decisions are being made. More and more algorithms are being used to make decisions about whether we can get credit, whether we can get a certain job, a certain promotion. People are unaware of that, but that’s what’s happening more and more.”
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“What’s at stake here is not just free and fair elections – it’s not just democracy, its human autonomy,” he warned. “If one or two private companies can manipulate billions of people around the world in significant ways and get away with it, what’s left of human autonomy? It means morning ’til night, we are doing, thinking and feeling things that they want us to do and feel and think as we enrich them, as they accumulate more money. We are losing ourselves and in so doing we are enriching a very small number of people. That’s not the kind of world I think we want to live in.”

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What to do?

The authors suggestions are spot on, and they will go far to reduce Marxist influence in your lives:

--- Quote ---“First and foremost, do not use Gmail,” Epstein told WND. “It’s not an email system. From Google’s perspective, it’s just a surveillance tool. Instead of using Gmail, use one of the newer systems which guarantee the privacy of your emails. I use Protonmail, which is at protonmail.com. Proton mail is based in Switzerland, it’s subject to strict Swiss privacy laws and it uses end-to-end encryption to ensure emails are private.

“Do not use Chrome which is Google’s browser. They created Chrome because they weren’t getting quite enough information from your search engine about what websites you were visiting, so they invented a browser, Chrome. Chrome monitors every single thing you do when you are online.

“Do not use the Google search engine. So, what do you do instead? I use a search engine called ‘Start Page.’ Start Page, which is at StartPage.com, gives you full access to Google’s index, but it doesn’t track you. That’s because of an arrangement that they have with Google. Google can cut them off at any time. But in the meantime, instead of using Google.com, use StartPage.com and you’re not tracked.”

He recommends using a browser called “Brave” that is faster than Chrome, doesn’t show advertising at all and it protects your privacy.

Android phones, he argued, are the most unsafe devices: “Do not use Android phones. Android is also Google and Android records what you are doing whether you are online or not online.”

While there is no competitive alternative to Facebook, Epstein emphasized the information consumers publish on Facebook can be “used against you.”


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You can supplement Brave's security by using your computer's hosts file.  Linux's hosts file is at /etc/hosts.  I don't know where the WinX hosts file is located, but this github link may help.

If you have an entry in your host file like this:
127.0.0.1   somewebsite.com
or
0.0.0.0 somewebsite.com

then if some active pixel on some website you visit tries to pull something off of somewebsite that line redirects the HTML GET command to the infinite bit bucket in the sky.  Some webpages force your browser to visit 3 or 4 dozen or more websites for tracking, monitoring, ads and other nonsense.  These calls slow down your browser significantly.  With those calls short circuited your browser's speed picks up amazingly.

The following website is to a text file that can be selected and pasted into hosts, or replace it.  It blocks over 57,000 ad sites, tracker sites, etc.  It's the one I use.  Some sites won't let you see their content if you block their ads.  Too bad for them.  There are MANY other sites that usually have the same content.  I just go elsewhere.  It's exactly like encountering a "No Guns" sign while shopping. 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts

That hosts file is less than 300Kb.  I've used one that is 17Mb.   The smaller one works for most because I restrict my browsing habits to a few sites and generally don't go randomly clicking around.  I also never use Tor to visit the onion side of the web, i.e., the "Dark Web"..

Above I posted how CloudFlare blocked access to the DNS servers for sites being hosted on its online server.  You can let your hosts file act as your own private DNS by including an entry in hosts something like this:
1.2.3.4  someblockedsite
Your browser, which always interrogates hosts first to see if the domain name you're asking for is listed in it, sees someblockedsite listed and uses the IP address in front as the destination to query.

Linux, and some other operating systems also use a second paradigm called hosts.allow and hosts.deny.  Its syntax is a little different:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-security-cookbook/0596003919/ch03s10.html

shooter:
 I tried, but can your translate that into english?

GreyGeek:
Which part?

shooter:
 The confusing part !

Mali:

--- Quote from: shooter on October 02, 2018, 12:32:41 AM --- The confusing part !

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I believe Shooter is referring to pretty much all of it since it is pretty technical for the average user. I understood what you had to say, but most of our readers won't get it since topics like hosts files are a bit more technical that the average user understands.

Let me see if I can Barney this down for you, Shooter.

To get to whoozits.com you need the IP address to be able to communicate with the website and to get that address your computer asks a DNS server to look up that address so your computer can get to the website. This would be much like when you would dial 411 to get Suzy Q's phone number so you can ask her out on a date. IN this case the host file would be the equivalent of using a phone book to look it up yourself instead of paying Ma Bell to do it.

Basically, GG is saying that if you use your own "telephone book" for certain locations on the Internet you can actually defeat a lot of the known spam and malware, as well as tracking, because you changed the name to point to 555-1212 instead of the actual phone number.

That better?

BTW, I have been using Brave for a few weeks now and I am not impressed. It may load pages faster sometimes, and it does a great job of blocking ads, but it tends to "pause" a lot and uses more resources when I have a lot of tabs open.

I looked at ProtonMail, and I am looking for an alternative to GMail, but it costs money and I am not ready to change my email address... yet.

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