Beware: countering “violent extremism” online risks human rights

Governments around the world are showing increased interest in programs for proactive monitoring, surveillance, censorship, or modification of users’ online content, all advanced under the banner of preventing or countering “violent extremism” (often referred to using the acronyms “PVE” or “CVE”).

However well-intentioned, these proposals are a minefield for human rights. They risk targeting satire, journalism, activism and community organizing, political protest, and other forms of expression, as well as undercutting existing rule of law and protections for both privacy and speech. For this reason, all stakeholders — including public officials, policymakers, companies that run web platforms and social media services, and civil society — should be extremely cautious about advancing, supporting, or implementing them.

 
Obama and, no doubt, his designated successor are already ratcheting forward from “violent extremism” to the next target, so-called “conspiracy theorists.”
Obama decries “wild west” media landscape

Obama's remarks are revealing and ominous. He is telling us what the Masters want .
That seems to have a way of happening.

My Internet went down overnight. I'm at Starbucks right now but can't stay all day, so will check in when I can. But a thread for poll tracking sounds like a great idea to me! I am on pins and needles.

Hope 1: Miraculously, Jill wins.
Hope 2: Jill wins enough to shake up TPTB so they realize they have to be more populist.
Hope 3: There's a four-way split that sends the same message.
Hope 4: Clinton and Trump are very, very close, which sends somewhat the same message.
Hope 5: Trump does not win!! Unlike some of you, I think he would be a disaster from which we may never recover, especially if he colludes with Congressional Repugs to take this country massively in the wrong direction (as opposed to Her Heinous, who will try to take this country slowly in the wrong direction).

We will see. It's going to be an odd day. They have CBS on TV here in the Bucks of Star, and it's pretty much all election, all the time. When it's not the news, it's the ads over and over and over. That'll be one good thing about no Internet - no ads!

Here's a couple of sites dedicated to his quotes...

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9810.Albert_Einstein

http://www.einstein-quotes.com/

really prepare for armeggadon or any other serious major catastrophe, hence I have little interest in following the hour by hour vagaries, predictions and punditizing of the election "counting" process. I shall be busy with assorted other necessary tasks anyway until sometime after dinner, though I will no doubt become entrapped into checking at least California's propositions later in the evening.

Thanks especially, btw, for that Temptations tune. I had forgotten about it entirely and would have used it a lot over the past few years, and now will save the URL so that I can use it over the nest few.

Good luck to all of you who are physically going to the polls today to vote. I'm hearing long lines everywhere. I am anxious to see how many votes Jill and Johnson get - if Hillary doesn't fractionally steal them to beat Trump.