Hashtag Wars: Big Brother Saves the Day!

At it again...all for you. 

by Angela K. Durden
The Most Brilliant Woman in the World

Acccording to Big Brother's Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb:

— If a hashtag mentions opioids, sales will accrue.

— Social Media Tech Giants (SMTG) are part of the opioid pipeline.

Scott Gottlieb,
FDA commisioner

And what is Mr. Gottlieb's two-pronged solution to the opioid crisis? 

One: It is to require SMTGs to stop drug pushers.

Two: It is to invite SMTG CEOs from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit to attend a summit wherein a plan will be laid out to stop the latest crisis in the never-ending but stupid war on drugs. 

Typical Big Gubment solutions, wouldn't you agree? Don't go after the pushers, go after the roads they drive on. What kind of idiocy is this?

But they will acquiesce and make nice at Gottlieb's most very important garden party...especially after Facebook's giant meltdown over sales of user information to Ol' Hill's competition and Twitter's big but failing effort to get her elected by suppressing negative hashtags against her.

Assuming their houses were built on rock, these SMTGs built houses of cards on sand. They got the big heads about their role in social justice and societal engineering. They lied and misrepresented themselves to users while quietly stealing from them. And now two stiff winds are blowing and their houses are shaking.

Stiff wind number one is Big Gubment asking their dutiful dupes to take on a larger role in policing the world. 

Stiff wind number two are other social media tech companies who have been patiently waiting in the wings. One of those is a company called MeWe.com*. What do you think about their Bill of Rights?

Can the company deliver? I don't know. Because here are a few other things they have to say about their terms of service:

• Violate any law or regulation. 

[Angela: Too open-ended. Any law? What if that law is itself unlawful?]

• Send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or commercial communications, such as spam. 

[Angela: One man's spam is another man's self-promotion. Again with the open-ended?]

• Use automated methods to use the Site or Services. 

[Angela: I am checking with CoSchedule.com to see if this applies to them.]

• Post unlawful, harmful, obscene, or pornographic content. 

[Angela: Who decides the status of these things?]

• Post content that is hateful, threatening, harmful, incites violence; or contains graphic or gratuitous violence. 

[Angela: They have obviously never met a Radical Feminist or a P-HWPCDLRSFC**.]

• Post content you do not have the right to transmit. 

[Angela: What about YouTube videos and other content like memes or images used in satire or comedy?]

• Post content that infringes on trademarks or copyrights. 

[Angela: What denotes infringement here?]

See what I mean? Look, if all of this is CYA language that will keep them from being sued, then okay, I get it. But if MeWe.com is saying they are different, what's with the broad strokes here? 

* As of today, Sunday morning April 8 in the year of our Lord 2018, I'm testing this site. Here is the link to my profile: mewe.com/i/angela.durden. Tell me what you think about it.


** P-HWPCDLRSFC is Pussy-Hat Wearing Politically Correct Democrat Liberal RINO Socialist Fascist Commies

No pain, no gain: Silos and Socialists

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.


All social media are simply companies trying to keep eyeballs on their silo in order to attract paying advertisers. In other words, you are the corn they hope the cows will want.

To keep you there, they redesign interfaces and change how they work, changes which often screw with very corn they want to keep. They change APIs so that companies servicing mutual customers have difficulty connecting if that connect has potential to take the corn to another silo.

After that add the scatter shot, please-God-this-time-let-it-work posts that are badly written and poorly aimed, and you then can begin to wonder how it is anybody sees anything at all on these here worldwide Internets.

Next, throw in the PC-Socialist-We-Know-What's-Best-For-You corporate manipulations of post notifications — especially if those posts are from or are connected to any black-listed phrases, words, people, images, sites, or topics they have prohibited by dictate.

Case in point. 

I was looking for an image to illustrate this article using the theme of "no pain, no gain" and went to Google. But all the images I saw were the same old thing. Images of hard bodies beautifully lit pushing the corporate-spreadsheet-driven narrative that painful exercise is good for you but only when you pay big bucks for it.

I go back to redo the search when I notice —

"Report Inappropriate Predictions"?

What the hell did Google/Alphabet mean by inappropriate? And who would I report that to?

You don't even have to ask. I'm way ahead of you on this. Of course I clicked it. I am Citizen Journalist, after all. Here's what came up —

Hateful?

Hateful? Sexually explicit? Violent? Dangerous and harmful activity? How does one report those? What happens then? 

I clicked the Legal Help page link which led me to Lumen Database.

The help page belied its name as it seemed more self-serving than helpful. In other words, Google/Alphabet affirmed over and over their methods were transparent and blah, blah, blah. On the other hand, the Lumen Database was very informative and fun, too.

Still, hateful, sexually explicit, violent, dangerous, and harmful are all adjectives subject to the eye of the beholder. 

For instance, one person's sexually explicit is another person's regular Saturday night. One's hateful is another's righteous dogma, and so forth. Right? Am I lying? I am not.

In other words, the categories above are all based on an opinion, a viewpoint.

Now, Google promises they will only take action if a law is broken, but ask me how much I believe that from them? Go on. Ask me!

"Angela, how much do you believe Google?"

Thank you for asking. I appreciate that. 

Answer: Not at all. 

Especially in light of their continued leading position in the gutting of copyright protections and other data manipulations they employ to feed business to themselves while they screw everybody else.

Protesting the titans manipulating masses

by Angela K. Durden 

Manipulate: Definition

Controlling someone or something to your own advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly.

If Hitler, Amin, Shaka Zulu, Vlad the Impaler, Pol Pot, Saddam, and Stalin had had the social media titans on their sides...I shudder to think. The damage these men could have done more quickly would have been...yes, I shudder. 

But don't think the same thing isn't happening now. Think North Korea for one example. But that is a closed border situation mostly contained. It's the ones who cross borders with impunity these days that are the problem. 

Want to know why?

Want to know why Facebook keeps adding and varying emoticons and color blocks? Because they are trying to distract users. It's their version of squirrel! They manipulate your feed because they know what's best for you, so they say. But actually, they have an agenda and it is Socialist.

Want to know why Google keeps changing their Adwords interface? Because they are trying to keep you from taking their business. Yes, their versioning is designed to keep Little Business from becoming Big Business. They, too, have a Socialist agenda.

Want to know why all of a sudden messaging is being pushed that websites without an SSL certificate will not rank on search engines no matter what you do with your SEO? Because...well, it does cost only $100 per year to get that and that is called easy money to fund the new Socialist elite. 

Want to know why Twitter can get away with shadow banning? The same reason J. Brien can keep a straight face when testifying in front of Congressional panels: Try finding the proof that Twitter is manipulating on purpose. They, too, have a Socialist agenda. 

You might think I'm complaining. 

I am not.

I am protesting. I am resisting. I am defending.

Those who manipulate for the sole purpose of depriving others of opportunity are despicable. I don't want a level playing field, but how dare they keep me from making my own playing field?

That is what is happening on the Internet these days. There is no use denying it. These are the facts of the matter. They could rightly be called monopolies ripe for governmental intervention to break them up, except that they are in bed with the Socialists. 

Too big to fail?

At one time, all roads led to Rome.

At one time, the sun never set on the British Empire.

At one time, you could trip over a Blockbuster on your way to the bathroom. 

But where are they now? There is no such thing as too big to fail and as we study the rise and fall of empires — both governmental and business — we see a common theme. That's right! They all begin to believe their own press.

You are awesome!

You can do no wrong!

All your decisions are brilliant!

When in truth they stopped being so awesome a long time ago, they make massive amounts of wrong moves, and their decisions become mired in middle-manager hell.

So there is hope after all.

Just as in the 1500s when literacy rates rose and book production rates rose with it, we are now seeing a populace that is fast leaning how this new system is working — and they are beginning to think twice, if not totally eschew, gee-whiz technology and sound-bite news clips, and go old school.

Heck, even Google does not solely rely on the Internet to grow their own business. Alphabet, as they are now known by, sends out mail pieces and makes robo calls to get small businesses to advertise locally.

Why is Google/Alphabet doing that? It can only be because they have screwed themselves by manipulating their own portals and keeping paying users out of it. 

See? The masses might move slowly but when they do move there is no stopping them. Just like the mills of the gods get moving slowly and seem not to make any headway, when they do move, they grind exceedingly small. Then...

Poof! Google, gone. 

Poof! Twitter, gone.

Poof! Facebook, gone.

Taking their places? 

Who knows? I don't. But I know the future is coming. Heck. I'm one of those working on the future know. Taking back control.

I've done it by creating MyDigitalCatalog.com so independent songwriters can have their own record of proof of right to copyright and license their own works. Proof that is complete and separate from any performing rights organization since they are all in bed with The Majors and The Bigs anyway. 

I've done it by becoming a Citizen Journalist, writing and sharing as I research.

If you are reading this blog feed, more than likely you are doing something of the same right where you stand, and to that I say "Good on you. Go git 'em."

To read more from Angela Durden, visit her site here.