Saturday, June 16, 2018

Facebook did the right thing in removing social website's "trending."

It is all too easy to see how "trending" can be helpful to those seeking to influence an election. But, Facebook hasn't completely removed trending, it just placed it at its own web-address.

"What's Trending Now" (click here)

That isn't all Facebook is doing to reposition it as a 'safe site.'

If "Facebook" wants to be a reliable and safe site, it just might need to ask whom it's friends are. Because the report from below is from Sputnik, a Russian media and is hardly what I call friendly.

In all the years Facebook has been online (I was a member from the beginning.) there was never one instance when I paid attention to "Trending." Never once. I didn't even notice when it was taken down.

Facebook is an invention of a very talented American. Why would any communist country see Facebook other than a tool rather than a social website? Facebook, along with other American media, should take this opportunity seriously to decide what information on their websites serve the purpose of foreign intelligence that harm the USA. In some ways I am glad Facebook is taking itself seriously and looking to ways to handle Fake News effectively; but, should those efforts prove useless, a higher conscience needs to be applied.

The Democratic Party should compete with "Facebook" and provide their own "My Space" that is void of news at all. Just a place where Americans can go to find friends rather than Fake News. Guarantee "No propaganda" where American hearts and minds are safe. Someone needs to offer that service. Facebook is trying to carry out that mission, but, it's "What's Trending Now" is in place because of competition in the industry. Facebook doesn't believe it can hold it's place in Wall Street without this webpage that carries trending. 

Facebook and other social websites should be asking how important the USA is to them. I have been eliminating foreign persons on my webpage that have been there forever. I don't know them. They don't know me and it is silly to worry about a number of friends accumulated. I don't want to be harmed by anyone, nor do I want my country harmed either.

One other thing, with ZTE (click here) and Huawei (click here) facing congressional sanctions soon because they violated Iran Sanctions and North Korean sanctions, that means Facebook and other American social networks are safer and closer to their own security from the adaptation of American technology by other hostile networks.

I think there is something to appreciate in that the USA has to be very secure in order to be safe from hostile Artificial Intelligence. It's getting a little scary and Americans have a right to know exactly how scary it is going to get or will they be safe from hate. AI is becoming into American homes. It is time to get real about this entire issue.

June 6, 2018
Facebook (click here) is looking to hire people to help remove the fake news that its users post to its website.
As of Thursday, Facebook had two positions for "news credibility specialists" on its job site, as reported by Gizmodo.
The two job listings have since been removed from the social media giant's career page although whether there is a corollary between the deletion and consistent accusations against Facebook of passing along false information clothed in authentic-seeming reports is unclear.
"We're working to effectively identify and differentiate news and news sources across our platform," company spokesman Adam Isserlis asserted to Business Insider.
In April, Facebook announced that it would allow users to appeal decisions to remove questionable content from the social media platform....

Part of what 'goes on' with Trump is his bigoted obsession with ending President Obama's policies and legacy in any way.

What impressed me as notable is the zealotry of Sessions and his god culture. He has now crossed the line of implementing the rule of law and justification by the Bible. US Law does not support all Bible precepts, some are just innate to justice be it atheist or in the context of White Supremacy's fascism which Sessions now embraces.

There is the understanding of "Catch and release" which is far more benign to the integrity of "the human being" than the current Trump policy. The reporting from VOX shows a high traffic border crossing area known to receive families could have been actively separating children from the custody of their parents as far back as summer of 2017. In fact, the USA Justice Department does not have a clear accounting of these people. That is convenient for the US Justice Department practicing an alien emphasis in it's application of current legal statutes. 

If there are no records, there is no crime.

Americans need to understand "Catch and Release" has been the practice of the USA which worked well to preserve human integrity and protecting national security. It is vital Americans understand separating children from their parents has never been the practice of the US government when it comes to asylum seekers and families. There is far too much risk of doing harm to children in the practices now invoked by Trump and Sessions.

The current practice by Trump and Sessions in destroying the integrity of human families in relation to immigration is an international crime categorized under human rights abuses. "Catch and Release" is recognized under international law as a system that will handle the legal and national security aspects of border crossers. 

Donald Trump's administration has departed from US law and international law as early as August 2017 without changes in law, policy or standards. This entire paradigm is covert and remains so in that the disposition of the children remains unknown and the integrity of a child's identity to natural parents has been destroyed.

Trump has definitely crossed the line of USA policy and has definitely entered the paradigm of an international criminal. There is no gray here. The change has occurred and the zealotry of Jeff Sessions is obvious.

“Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. ‘Caravans’ coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!”— President Trump, in a tweet, April 1, 2018

...“Catch and release” (click here) entered the political lexicon during the George W. Bush administration.

Immigration rose sharply from 2000 to 2010, as 14 million new legal and undocumented immigrants settled in the United States, according to census data. At the same time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not have enough space to house all the undocumented immigrants being apprehended.

So the Bush administration would release many of these immigrants under their own recognizance — and many of them would then fail to report for their immigration hearings....