BIDEN WATCH: 2.12.22 - The Liberal Media Refuses to Reform

The Liberal Media Refuses to Reform – Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ There has never been a worse point in American history for what passes today as the mainstream media. Hardly a week goes by without me learning about some news personalitythat has been taken to the woodshed over some stupid statement or action. Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from ABC’s The View for two weeks for saying the Holocaust was not about race. CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker was forced to resignfrom his position because of the revelation of an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. Zucker’s stunning announcement came less than two months after he fired prime time anchor Chris Cuomo for improperly advising his brother, then-New York Gov. AndrewCuomo, about how to address sexual misconduct allegations. I think it’s remarkable that Whoopi Goldberg’s original career field was being a comedian. Because I constantly keep track of all forms of media, I’ve known of her for over30 years. I don’t ever recall her saying something that was funny. Goldberg has always been this vile, nasty person with nothing positive to say. When The View was created, she showed up and probably said, ‘Hi, I’m the token black woman, so you have to giveme a job.’ I can’t believe that Goldberg still has a job with ABC. Arguing that the Holocaust was not about race has for decades been one of the quickest ways to get yourself fired.A Harvard professor once argued that it is literally impossible for blacks to be racist to a white person and “Racism against white people doesn’t exist.” This rule must also apply to Jews. Goldberg went on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and tried to arguethat her skin color should allow her to be ignorant of the Holocaust. Jeff Zucker should have been fired at least 10 years ago. When he arrived at CNN, the network was high in the ratings for news. It now trails obscure cable channels likethe Food Network. Despite Zucker’s mismanagement of CNN, he has been given one promotion after another. I remember in the mid 90’s Saturday Night Live had a slight dip in its rating, and management came in and fired people like Adam Sandler and Chris Farley.At one point, Larry King had 7 million viewers. Right now, I don’t think any CNN show has more than a million viewers. Brian Stelter and Don Lemon are two of the dumbest people who have ever worked in news. Lemon must have been hired when his job application said, not only am I black, butI’m also a homosexual. Anderson Cooper was possibly hired because he was gay and his mother was Gloria Vanderbilt. I didn’t see anything special about Chris Cuomo, but hey, his dad was once governor of New York state. When you hand out jobs in news and politicsbased solely on a dynasty, it’s no wonder that both the Cuomo brothers crashed and burned. I can’t think of any leftist media personality that I could say I disagree with their politics but admire their intelligence or tenacity. My general observation of newspeople is that they are either crazy or stupid. Sometimes they are so extreme in these categories that I find them entertaining. Keith Olbermann has turned into such a lunatic, I sometimes listen to his YouTube videos for a laugh. The last leftist I had any respect for was probably Christopher Hitchens. He was a radical atheist, but he would go after anyone or any group that he saw as being in error.He was a huge critic of Hillary Clinton, and he did the best job I’ve ever heard someone do with pointing out the silliness of the Muslim faith. I wonder where we will end up with the news turning into garbage. Many people on the right think that CNN will finally see the error of its ways and reform. They point todeclining ratings as motivation. I don’t see that happening. The major networks have zero concern about ratings. Zucker had years of plunging ratings, and he would get one huge bonus after another. The fixation is on power. Controlling the minds of people is the main focus. CNN has been replaced by a hundred other news formats, so the liberal media can use them toguide public opinion. It was recently discovered that podcaster Joe Rogan has 11 million viewers, which is three times greater than most cable news shows. The left has switched from complainingabout Fox News to griping about Rogan’s views on COVID-19. I think Satan likes to have a low IQ Liberal Media. The press has traditionally been the main source that keeps the public informed of world events. If you have dumb reporters,you will have a clueless audience. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgottenthe law of thy God, I will also forget thy children” (Hosea 4:6). -----------End Of Internet Free Speech as We Know It? Content To BeScanned for Approval � Jason Kelley - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5205 Last year, Apple announced a controversial plan to install photo scanning software in every device. Apple has long been seen as a pro-privacy company--billboards emblazonedwith the slogan "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone" were common sights in 2019. A global coalition pushed back, and the company paused the plan. Now, Congress wants to force Apple's hand--along with essentially every company that allows users to store or share messages or content--and essentially mandate such scanning. While Apple's plan would have put the privacy and security of its users at risk, the EARN IT Act compromises security and free speech for everyone. The bill would createserious legal risk for business that hosts content--messages, photos stored in the cloud, online backups--and, potentially, even cloud-hosting sites like those using Amazon Web Services, unless they use government-approved scanning tools. The bill's proponents claim that this isn't a problem for any service as long as it is scanning files, and then reporting Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) to law enforcement.Internet companies are already required to report suspected CSAM if they come across it, and they report on a massive scale that comes with a lot of mistakes. Facebook is often held up as a positive example by lawmakers, but while new scanning techniques there have produced many millions of reports, many of them are apparentlyinaccurate. Federal law enforcement has frequently (mis)used the massive number of reports to suggest there has been a huge uptick in CSAM images. They won't stop there. Nor will the demands stop at the U.S. border. Once U.S. law enforcement agencies are accustomed to getting a constant stream of reports back from nearly every company hostingor sending content online, other democracies--and then authoritarian regimes--will demand the same tools, and use them to root out dissent. The rules envisioned by EARN IT sponsors don't leave room for any company, small or large, to use uncompromised encryptionand protect user privacy. The bill would also create an unelected federal "commission" headed by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, and dominated by law enforcement personnel. Thiscommission would be responsible for setting best practices for tech companies to follow. It's very likely some states will use that as a basis to create laws enforcing scanning and reporting, upon pain of criminal prosecution and costly civil litigation. Becauseonline companies operate in every state, they'll be required to follow whichever state law is harshest. In fact, the lawmakers behind this bill have already made the plan clear: in a "Myths and Facts" document about the bill, lawmakers take aim at Amazon, of all companies,for its limited reporting of CSAM: According to NCMEC's 2020 statistics on reports of the online exploitation of children, while Facebook issued over 20 million reports that year, in contrast Amazon (whichhosts a significant percentage of global commerce and web infrastructure) reported 2,235 cases. As Techdirt's Mike Masnick put it, that's because Amazon and Facebook are in completely different businesses. Facebook's larger number of reports is consistent with itsbusiness model of sharing content between users. Meanwhile, Amazon is in the entirely separate web hosting business. Apple, which is also not in the social media business, will no doubt also be in lawmakers' crosshairs. In a 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on encryption, Senator Graham--a coauthor of the EARN IT Act--told representatives from Apple and Facebook that encryption wasnot going to block them from access: "​​You're going to find a way to do this or we're going to go do it for you." Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who would have headed the commission under the previous administration, specifically clashed with Apple on its encryption and noted hewas searching for a legislative solution to allow investigators access to encrypted materials. The EARN IT Act, originally introduced when Barr was still Attorney General, is just that. EARN IT doesn't specifically attack encryption, but that's because it doesn't have to. Instead, it allows encryption to be used as evidence against a company in order tofind it liable for hosting CSAM. The end result is clear: state laws will make companies liable if they don't scan and report user content for CSAM, which they can't do unless they break encryption. Applewill likely fold, as will many other companies, in order to protect themselves. EARN IT would thus coerce sites, platforms, and services to do this sort of scanning, not just on messages, but on practically all online content, encrypted or not. Companies that handle online content would have to weigh the benefit to their users of securely encrypting their content against the legal risk of doing so, and encryptionbecomes a much harder ask when it might put a company's bottom line at risk. All of the concerns around Apple's device scanning are magnified in the EARN It Act. Signal--one of the best examples of secure, private, end-to-end encrypted messaging--statedin 2020 that they may not be able to operate in the U.S. if EARN IT becomes law. But end-to-end encryption isn't just for messages--it secures much of the internet, keeping you and what you do online private and safe. You can't have a secure internet where all its content is also screened, because you can't have end-to-end encryption alongside mass scanning requirements. This isn't justan attack on encryption--it's an attack on the fundamental security of the internet. As experts have said before, this sort of scanning is in direct conflict with privacy and security. If EARN IT becomes law, what happens on your iPhone won't stay on your iPhone. It will be scanned by a government-approved tool like everything posted on Facebook. And whathappens on your website, in your cloud backups, behind your DMs, and pretty much everywhere else online--will be right behind it. --------------------- VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM