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"We got South African firefighters coming to help put out fires in Los Angeles. And a white American representative from Ohio saying cut funding and don’t help. What kind of country is this!"

~ Celly Blue

Note the TikTok video Celly Blue embeds here.

#California #fires #LosAngeles #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ecology #Canada #Mexico #Trump #Republicans
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https://substack.com/@cellyblue/note/c-85706585

Yesterday evening, I somehow found myself down and online rabbit hole — as we all know, this can happen easily — where I was reading comments about the Los Angeles fires in an online discussion group. In the group, members were blaming
"coloreds" for starting the fires, and claiming a man of color had been arrested as a key culprit. Group members wanted him executed in public, with t.v. coverage.

#California #fires #LosAngeles #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #racism
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I've seen no news reports at all corroborating their claims about who "started" the Los Angeles fires or the arrest of a key culprit. The word "coloreds" was obviously codespeak to avoid having the site hosting this filthy racist discussion shut it down for using more overtly racist language.

This kind of filth has long been out there. Now, though, it's out and proud and claiming center stage.

#California #fires #LosAngeles #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #racism
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"Most of the press coverage focused on Meta ending its fact-checking partnerships, but I think that misses the real harm. The fact-checking program was never as robust as it needed to be, and there are multiple examples of fact-checkers being overruled due to political pressure from the Right.

The bigger story, at least in my mind, is that Meta’s policy changes now make it easier to target marginalized groups with harassment."

~ Melissa Ryan

#Meta #Zuckerberg
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https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/big-tech-chose-violence

@wdlindsy
They didn't say they would stop screening content. They just absolved themselves of responsibility for it. I fully expect them to continue removing content that they consider against their own interests.

@CassandraVert You'll have to help me understand which comemnt you're directing your statement to — Melissa Ryan's? If so, I don't find her even using the word "screen."

@wdlindsy
No, screen is my word. Zuck said they would no longer be responsible for fact checking, but that's only part of screening, which they have done and will continue to do.
It's just that I think people think "no fact checking" means letting content run wild, but that's not what it means.

@CassandraVert Yes — I think what you are saying is Melissa Ryan's point.

@peterbrown Yes, they are, and so insidious, since nothing about them is transparent, yet they exert tremendous influence on what we see and what we end up knowing and thinking.

@wdlindsy and what we think we know

@peterbrown Indeed.