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

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Lehman likely to follow Bear Stearns into the grave-Ken Rogoff

Lehman likely to follow Bear Stearns into the grave-Ken Rogoff
Maverick
equitycollector
Aug 21, 2008

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Yesterday, Kenneth S. Rogoff jumped on the bandwagon, warning that not ONLY will we see many mid-sized banks go belly-up in the months ahead; we’re about to see one of the biggest banks or investment banks in the nation crash and burn!

Rogoff, former Fed governor and Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and currently professor of economics at Harvard University, went even farther; warning that and I quote ...

"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not going to exist in their present form in a few years."

As if to validate Mr. Rogoff’s warning, financial stocks plummeted AGAIN yesterday. Lehman cratered a staggering 13% in a single session and Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Bank of America plunged in tandem.

And late yesterday, Goldman Sachs slashed its third-quarter forecasts on most Wall Street banks, pushing financials even lower after hours.

Lehman Brothers is on life support: In the second quarter, Lehman lost $2.8 billion, mostly in residential real estate investments.

Now, JPMorgan Chase says the firm may have to write-down $4 billion in assets in the third quarter to cover mounting losses from bad bets made in the mortgage market.

Bank of America is suffering huge loan losses: When BofA bought Countrywide, it was thought that the big bank would save the subprime lender from failure. Now, it’s looking more like Countrywide could bring Bank of America to its knees.

American International Group America’s largest insurer is on the ropes: AIG plunged 5.9% yesterday after Goldman Sachs warned that the company may have to pay $20 billion on credit-default swaps, suffer ratings-downgrades on its debt and have to raise capital on a "large scale."

CapitalOne is headed for disaster: Just this Monday, shares of Capital One Financial plunged nearly 5% after the credit card lender released data showing loan losses in its auto finance and international divisions are soaring.
Posted by amolpatil2k at Saturday, August 23, 2008
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