Silicon Valley

Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE.

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire

The UK government has taken the global lead in state-issued propaganda for COVID – so much so that they’re now exporting their expertise to foreign governments in need of help manipulating their domestic populations. Also, Silicon Valley tech firms are now actively censoring important medical and health content related to Coronavirus, which raises the issue of their financial conflict of interest with the Big Pharma firms who are spending millions in advertising on both social media and mainstream media networks.

Nick Johnson says…
Here’s where everyone’s going and why. It used to be the California Dream. Now, it’s the California nightmare. That was basic.
In case you haven’t heard, a ton of people are fleeing California. You can’t blame them. We’ll get into all the reasons why later, but the overall theme here is – California kinda sucks now.

Silicon Valley oligarchs are ushering in a new age of serfdom, aided by the left.
Jorge GONZÁLEZ-GALLARZA
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, by Joel Kotkin, (New York: Encounter Books, 2020), 224 pages.
Few policy items have more ominously heralded the ongoing realignment of our politics than Universal Basic Income. That its proponents and detractors can’t seem to agree on what UBI is intended for in the first place is merely a measure of that omen.

We’re told that institutional ‘bias reduction’ training and ‘diversity’ hiring policies are meant to create an inclusive environment which values and respects minorities. Certainly, Silicon Valley believes it is leading the world in advancing such values. Upon closer inspection, the opposite seems to be the case. Diversity training and hiring practices do not extinguish prejudice – they actually promote it.

Putting aside for one moment the the debate over the health and safety of 5G networks – it’s becoming clear by Washington’s behavior that these networks are more about government-corporate mass surveillance than it is about providing telecoms services.

Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales,…
The post Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO appeared first on The Grayzone.

Somewhere along the road of America’s development, corporations were blessed with not only ‘personhood,’ but with the power to sanction what sort of messages were permissible to enter the public realm. Let’s be clear: This sort of corporate control, which borders on pure fascism, has no place in a democracy.
There is no need to ask. There is no need to be polite. There is no need to debate. It is only necessary to point to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution for this fundamental human right, inscribed into law over 200 years ago, to be returned to the American people.

After garnering 8.3 millions of views on its platform, Google’s Ministry of Censorship removed Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs controversial documentary film Planet of Humans from the YouTube.  The filmmakers are calling the ban a “blatant act of censorship.”
Spokespersons from YouTube are claiming the cancellation of the film was due to an alleged copyright claim over a four second clip contained in the film.