Centralized world power and Net censorship

Centralized world power and Freedom of Speech cannot coexist!

We live in a small world where the actual power structure is hidden and centralized. On the other hand, the Net is all about freedom of speech. Clearly, centralized power and the Net cannot coexist. It is obvious that centralized power is well entrenched so naturally it is the Net that has to back off. This backing off manifests itself in many ways such as malware, P2P clogging, complexity and cost of Internet access, sluggish roll-out, non standard components, obsolescence, information overload, lack of customization and so on.

But the most sinister factor is Google's dominance. The lack of competition allows Google to stick to its keyword centric syntactic strategy where it is able to censor websites much more easily. This SIGNAL vs NOISE kind of censorship is able to confuse even the most determined searchers. In any case, Google is more about Ads than about Search.

The only way to bypass such censorship seems to be to search on the basis of authors as opposed to keywords. This is the only way to keep the SIGNAL NOISE ratio from getting out of control. What is more worrying is not ideology, it is spin. This is the reason we should give up even on authors and follow only individual commenters. The logic is that authors are looking for numbers and only spins see propagation.

To follow individual commenters, we can click on their names, which is usually a link to their website or a page containing other comments made by them. We can also try and Google their name. Savvy commenters pick quirky (hopefully unique) screen names for this very purpose.

But never mind, here too, our rulers have found a way out: botnets. The common perception is that botnets are moronic spreaders of spam and some of the less moronic botnets even try and phish out our passwords. To a certain extent this is true because email is the purest form of addressability so our rulers need spam to dilute it. And also financial scams and economic hardship have forever been used to keep people under control. That such actions keep the insurance and security companies humming is welcome too.

In actual fact, botnets are highly sophisticated networks which are not only able to unceasingly dodge detection but also troll ALL forums and add to the NOISE everywhere. Even complex captchas are no deterrents to these sophisticated bots. It is amazing how many of the comments posted are actually from sophisticated trolls that never be exposed because these behave like human commenters and come from innocent IPs. Recent studies have confirmed that botnets use SEO techniques to capture search engine traffic on controversial keywords.

Moral of the story: Suspect anything and everything because PERCEPTION CONTROL is the biggest game in town.

Internet Censorship Alert

Internet Censorship Alert: Alex Jones exposes agenda to 'blacklist' dissenting sites (March 14, 2010) As I predicted, the Obama Administration is trying to shut down the Internet - at least the parts he doesn't like. Barack Obamas regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein has stated that he wants to ban conspiracy theories from the internet. Think about what this means - Every video, every website, every blog, every email, that exposes or just criticizes the government for any reason whatsoever could be labeled a "conspiracy" and taken down. Your home could be raided in the middle of the night, and you could be carted of to jail for criticizing the government. All they have to do is call it a "conspiracy theory". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAWmBLFodE

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Dr. Lee Carlson's review of Chain of Blame

Dr. Lee Carlsons review of
Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
Amazon.com
July 26, 2008

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1GSVQVRQZGC4E/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm/

From a quantitative perspective, to sort through the current "mortgage mess" would take an intense effort, requiring a large number of researchers and computer time. No one has performed this kind of analysis as of yet, but there have been quite a number of individuals who have given anecdotal and semi-historical accounts of the turmoil in the credit/mortgage markets in the last few years.

There is of course an obvious danger in giving such a narrative account: it imputes market expertise to these individuals at a level that cannot be justified, given the complexities of the financial markets. No individual, whether a low-level analyst or the chief executive officer of a major mortgage firm, has the intellectual capacity or market savvy to describe or move the markets to a degree that is typically reported in the popular and financial press. Such individuals may think they do, and their actions and boasting reflect the mental confabulation that they have fallen prey to, but at best they have a limited picture of financial dynamics, and whatever monetary success they have is due to events that are completely out of their control. Many authors and reporters though have succumbed to an unjustified admiration as regards the senior management of financial firms, wherein they have assumed, falsely, that those who occupy the top echelons of the company hierarchy have special insight or knowledge into financial events that others do not. Frequently these managers are given accolades and awards for this expertise, thus exacerbating the excess of veneration devoted to them.

The authors use the savings and loan fiasco as an example of how things can go completely amok when an economic sector is suddenly deregulated, and how the Washington peddlers of influence can pretend to be in favor of free markets but instead game the system to favor themselves and a few others in their cabal. The authors report the savings and loan fiasco as costing the taxpayers $150 billion: tax dollars extracted from them coercively by those in government at the time who preached about the moral and economic superiority of the "free market". They love "free markets" as long as they do not cost them money. If they do, they quickly use government resources and regulation to "help" the consumer and "stabilize" the economy, masking their real intentions of protecting their economic status and that of their financially incompetent buddies. Put out on their own to compete in a truly free market without the arbitrary and capricious assistance of the federal government, this gang of moochers would fall flat on their faces.

It would take a gargantuan effort from the members of the populace to rid themselves not only of the irrational individuals who populate the governmental hierarchies and monetary regulatory agencies, but also to once and for all rid themselves of the excess of veneration paid to those who head the financial centers of the world.
Posted by amolpatil2k at Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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