Kill Switch Upstart for Facebook will Block 'Non-Official' News Stories Welcoming the Propaganda Wagon

""Over the last several days, Facebook has been beta testing a "kill switch" that caused articles from online publishers to be blocked from social sharing. Complaints poured in to Natural News and other independent publishers such as Western Journalism, which wrote an article entitled Multiple Reports: Facebook Blocking Links To Online Publishers.

"Western Journalism received several messages from users who stated they were unable to share or view our content. At the same time, social media users began venting their frustration via Twitter posts," says the article. "Another conservative publisher, National Review, also noticed a steep decline in visits."

Censoring independent media is all about "manufactured consensus"

Facebook is, of course, an extension of the oligarch-ruled surveillance state that now dominates American society. In this surveillance state, "manufactured consensus" is engineered on all the big agendas -- war, vaccines, immigration, etc. -- by the gatekeepers of the internet censoring the truth and spreading lies. Manufactured consensus is best described in this article by the extraordinary journalist Jon Rappoport.

Google, for example, recently partnered with the Mayo Clinic to take over all the top health-related search results, replacing merit-based health results with pharma-controlled Mayo Clinic propaganda that promotes chemotherapy, deadly prescription drugs, surgery and radiation. This is what Jon Rappoport correctly refers to as totalitarian science.

Similarly, Wikipedia, co-founded by Jimmy Wales -- now outed as a "porn king" who ran a porn site before erecting the Wikipedia slander engine -- is almost entirely controlled by biotech trolls and pharmaceutical vandals who use the site to push pro-industry propaganda disguised as "encyclopedia" information. (Wikipedia isn't an encyclopedia. It's a collection of propaganda and defamation pages edited by corporate-funded trolls who hide behind anonymity.) Click here to watch the video: "10 Shocking Things You Never Knew About Jimmy Wales."

Amazon.com's Alexa web traffic ranking engine was caught late last year penalizing prominent conservative and independent websites. One day, all the sites were suddenly penalized by a shift in the algorithm that favored liberal and progressive websites touting the party line (big government, more vaccines, more debt, more war, and so on).

Facebook, Google and Wikipedia all conspire against the truth

The pattern emerging in all this is that gatekeepers of the internet have an intense hatred for truthful information, and they are working diligently to silence all independent sources of information that engage in real investigative journalism and skeptical scientific questioning of the medical status quo.

They will use all their power of censorship, "cheating" their algorithms and outright blocking targeted websites in order to prop up Big Pharma, Big Government and the corporate-government fascist agenda of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, war and social dependence on the system.

Facebook, it seems, may be beta testing an algorithm that allows it to throw a "kill switch" that blocks independent media publishers from sharing anything. This would, of course, immediately crush web traffic for many of those sites. Government propaganda from the CDC, FTC, FBI or other agencies, however, would be granted full access with unrestricted content flow across all Facebook.com users.

In essence, Google, Facebook and Wikipedia now function as the Ministry of Truth Triad from George Orwell's 1984. If this gets any more Orwellian, we might soon see Americans forced at gunpoint to watch official vaccine "re-education videos" featuring Elmo.""

http://www.naturalnews.com/049565_Facebook_censorship_kill_switch.html

A New Year on Day 1 of 2015: Let's Look Back at Ten Ways The World Changed In 2014

1) We Went From People Searching For Things To Things Finding People

"Companies are leveraging data in order to serve people with relevant content, commerce, and ads based on situations and locations. In content, a good example of this is the rise of companies like Taboola and Outbrain, serving relevant content to users based on what they’re currently reading."

2) The Smartphone Became A Remote For The Real World

"In the past, what was once fixed Internet consumption based on where your desktop computer was or your hefty laptop has become ubiquitous Internet consumption via the smartphone. This has allowed a crop of new services where you use your phone to control aspects of the real world."

3) New Platforms Were Born

"For the first time in several years, we have multiple new platforms with exciting opportunities ahead to build applications on top of them. Whether it’s Blockchain technology, virtual reality, 3D printing, or the Internet of Things, there will be no shortage of innovative applications built on top of these platforms in 2015 and beyond."

4) Virtual Reality Became More Than Just A Gaming Platform

"I have to admit, when I first heard about Facebook buying Oculus for $2 billion I didn’t understand it. I realized the merits of virtual reality in gaming and know firsthand how big the gaming community is from my experience at IGN, but such a high price tag and from a company whose mission it is to “make the world more open and connected” just didn’t make very much sense to me. Then my friend and Metamorphic adviser Jane Rosenthal introduced me to Chris Milk who, along with Beck, created an immersive virtual reality live concert experience. It was amazing to sit outside this coffee shop in Venice Beach and feel as if I were at the concert."

"5) We Learned That The Next Smart Devices Won’t Be Phones

In a lot of ways, Google’s Nest acquisition showed the world that the Internet of Things is here to stay. There will be Internet-enabled devices in just about every category that will come online in the next few years. These devices show us that the next generation of web-enabled devices won’t be smartphones but rather a world where all of your devices are “smart” whether it’s wearables on your body or in your home or office."

6) Personalization Became Universal

"The logged-in vs. logged-out experience of Amazon has changed the expectations for personalization among users. While it used to be a luxury for consumers, now it’s simply expected. This is the human API, and companies are finding all sorts of ways to leverage our data to create an experience personalized just for us. If companies are sending promotional emails to customers with irrelevant offers and products, it’s likely that consumers will unsubscribe (or worse, report as spam)."

7) Content Became King Again

"Whether it was BuzzFeed, Vice, Vox Media or Elite Daily, business models based on content are back and better than ever. A lot of this is attributed to the new “platisher” model, where it isn’t quite a publisher and isn’t quite a platform but both professional journalists and users are creating content under one umbrella."

"This model provides for strong communities and brand for the content companies. Advertisers also like the branded content side of things where these professional journalists and users are creating content specially tailored for them."

8) Urbanization Returned To The U.S.

"In 2013, 2.3 million more people moved into metro areas than in 2012, driven by the demands of America’s two most powerful demographics. Baby boomers are retiring and moving back to the cities they left when they started families, and millennials want to live closer to each other and where the action is. This has provided a massive opportunity for businesses to be built that leverage the space and time constraints of urban areas."

9) Mindfulness And Nutrition Were More Prevalent Than Ever

"2014 really was the year that mindfulness became mainstream. The Seattle Seahawks were meditating prior to the Super Bowl and companies are being created like Headspace, which helps to teach people to meditate and in turn clear their mind."

"Not only do we try to incorporate fitness and mindfulness into the culture at Metamorphic with our founders and our team, but we added Eddie Stern as a formal adviser who meditates with us and teaches meditation and yoga to our portfolio companies. I recently joined the board of the Sonima Foundation, which is bringing mindfulness into public schools. We have lots of work to do, so you’ll be hearing from me in 2015."

10) Gender Inequality In Tech Finally Got More Attention

"It seems like in 2014, we’ve finally begun to address tech’s gender inequality problem. When I got involved with Girls Who Code a few years ago, there was a problem deeper than just female engineers not being hired by large tech companies. The problem was that there really weren’t a lot of female engineers. And it starts earlier as women haven’t traditionally been empowered to become engineers. Girls Who Code is doing a great job of changing this."

Original Article Found Here:

 http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/ten-ways-the-world-changed-in-2014/

Astonishingly, More Digital Data Was Transmitted Over the Internet in The Year 2010 *Than All Previous Years Combined* !!!

""Skaugen said although there are currently 4 billion connected devices around the world, Intel expects that number to increase to 15 billion by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020.

Many servers and computers will face challenges from these increases, including those that support the 48 hours of YouTube videos uploaded each minute, 200 million tweets sent per day and 7.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month.

To support this amount of data sharing around the world, Intel and other computer companies have to find ways to make the Internet hardware cheaper and easier to use. It is an extension of Moore’s Law, and is necessary for the expected increases in data sharing.

“When Intel entered the server market, the average server price was $58,000, and today we’re under $3,800 and dropping,” said Skaugen.""

http://mashable.com/2011/10/20/kirk-skaugen-web-2/