Popular social media outlets and other big tech groups such as Microsoft and Facebook have teamed up to crack down and end terrorism by targeting materials from far-right groups and White supremacists groups.
The collaborative group is called the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT), has a database that has largely focused on videos and pictures from terror groups that the United Nations (UN) deems a threat, which up to this point, largely constituted al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban.
Reuters says, ‘Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.’
The firms will also include data from Alphabet’s Google and YouTube, and Twitter – which share what are dubbed “hashes,” which represent unique data that have ‘numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services,’ reports Reuters. Other platforms use this to identify the exact content on their platforms so it can be reviewed and terminated.
The new steps would effectively remove most of “extremist” content from these mainline outlets. However, the Reuters notes that many of these same “terror” groups can post their ‘rhetoric’ and violent imagery on the internet in general.
GIFCT’s Executive Director Nicholas Rasmussen told Reuters he wants the tech coalition to combat a wider range of threats.
Anyone looking at the terrorism or extremism landscape has to appreciate that there are other parts… that are demanding attention right now.
Rasmussen referring to threats from groups deemed on the far-right
A total of 14 companies have access to the database, also including Reddit, Snap (the parent company of Snapchat), Instagram (owned by Facebook), Verizon Media, and LinkedIn and Dropbox (both owned by Microsoft).
GIFCT recently added Airbnb, a home-retail and renting giant, and Mailchimp, one of the largest email marketing companies around.
GIFCT is continually seeking more members, and is looking to broaden their database to include audio clips and specific symbols.
This expansion of the GIFCT hash database only intensifies the need for GIFCT to improve the transparency and accountability of these content-blocking resources.
As the database expands, the risks of mistaken takedown only increase.
Emma Llanso, director of Free Expression at the Center for Democracy & Technology
PayPal Is No Longer Friends With Some
The banking giant PayPal recently announced a partnership with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to ‘fight extremism and hate,’ reports Business Insider.
The partnership is designed to crack down on hate speech and extremists group’s funding.
‘The intelligence gathered through this research initiative will be shared broadly across the financial industry and with policymakers and law enforcement,’ says the BI report.
ADL’s Center on Extremism – a leading authority on hate, extremism, and terrorism – will spearhead the operation. They and PayPal seek to further uncover and disrupt financial streams that support these extremists groups. The report also notes they will be focusing on actors and outlets ‘spreading and profiting from all forms of hate and bigotry against any community.’
By identifying partners across sectors with common goals and complementary resources, we can make an even greater impact than any of us could do on our own. We are excited to partner with the ADL, other non-profits and law enforcement in our fight against hate in all its forms.
Aaron Karczmer. Chief Risk Officer and EVP, Risk and Platforms for PayPal
All of us, including in the private sector, have a critical role to play in fighting the spread of extremism and hate. With this new initiative, we’re setting a new standard for companies to bring their expertise to critical social issues. We have a unique opportunity to further understand how hate spreads and develop key insights that will inform the efforts of the financial industry, law enforcement, and our communities in mitigating extremist threats.
Jonathan Greenblatt. CEO of ADL
This innovative partnership between ADL and PayPal encourages us to think outside the box when fighting evil. We hope to see more private and public partnerships such as these to help raise the social awareness of the public to the dangers that exist in plain sight. Attacking these hateful groups’ revenue sources weakens their reach and exposes just how unstable they truly are. The data and research collected from experts will help organizations, like LULAC, inform their strategy to combat evil. We congratulate these organizations and will continue to stand alongside them against hate.
Sindy Benavides. CEO of League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) – who is working with the companies
I applaud PayPal and the ADL for joining forces to combat hate and extremist movements who seek to utilize financial platforms to bankroll their criminal activities and profit from the spread of racism and bigotry. My office stands ready to assist financial institutions and businesses of all kinds in this urgent fight to stop hate and protect members of historically marginalized communities.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr.
Moreover, ADL’s CEO Greenblatt sat down for a short interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, about this new partnership.
After Greenblatt told the host Andrew Sorkin what his company does and some of what this new initiative entails, Sorkin asked if this new partnerships means that PayPal will shutdown accounts. Greenblatt said yes, and elaborated.
Sorkin: Just to understand this, is this simply a research effort or is the ultimate goal, I imagine, to effectively defund them, which is to say, that PayPal would effectively turn off the spigot, or at least turn off the ability to fundraise using PayPal?
Greenblatt: That’s correct, Andrew. So certainly a big part of this is how can we disrupt the ability of extremists for those that maraudered through the Capital, to those who were beating up Jews in broad daylight just a few months ago, to other racist and hate movements?
How can we stop them for using certain services like PayPal? – from spreading their hate, and funding their illicit activities. So PayPal sees, as a responsible company, a need to try to put an end to this; and they’ve been at this for years, so this isn’t new. Our job at ADL is to use our expertise, with better access to their systems, so we can monitor what these groups are doing to stop it once and for all.
But Andrew, it won’t end there: the goal is to also share what we learn with other companies that are dealing with some of the same challenges, as well as with law enforcement and elected officials. Because we need a whole of society strategy if we are really going to put an end to extremism and hate.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[17] As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. [18] They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. [19] Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.Lamentations 4:17-19
[6] O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. [7] But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. [8] And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. [9] The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. [10] And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.Psalms 9:6-10
Regular readers know these major developments were only a formality, but it is still frustrating all the same.
Basically, this move is now setting the crosshairs on not just the controlled opposition and the “useful idiots” that follow them – such as Qanon, that The WinePress has kicked repeatedly – the crosshairs are on people such as The WinePress. Longtime readers from the beginning have known that The WinePress has always been, and always will be, politically neutral. The WinePress is only interested in separating truth from lies; hence, the scripture in our logo.
[31] Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; [32] And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [33] They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? [34] Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. [35] And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. [36] If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.John 8:31-36
But that’s “hate speech” don’t ya know? Of course, I am being sarcastic, as truth to those wicked devils is relative; and just like when Pontius Pilate looked into the eyes of truth personified, he rhetorically and snidely asked Jesus “What is truth?” (John 18:38).
And The WinePress will continue to preach the truth without apology, no matter what any of these goons will do. Period.
[5] I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. [6] The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? [7] The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. [8] It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. [9] It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. [10] All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. [11] They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. [12] They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. [13] Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. [14] The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. [15] The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. [16] The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. [17] I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. [18] The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.Psalms 118:5-18
Aside from all of that, did you catch what one of those loonybirds defined this new PayPal partnership as?
We hope to see more private and public partnerships such as these to help raise the social awareness of the public to the dangers that exist in plain sight. Attacking these hateful groups’ revenue sources weakens their reach and exposes just how unstable they truly are.
In mid-February The WinePress analyzed a video released by the World Economic Forum explaining what their “Great Reset” entails. That video can still be viewed below. I will not get into everything here again, but what they describe as “stakeholder capitalism” is quite literally defined as a public and private partnership. In other words, the future will be fascism and communism combined.
Fascism should rightly be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’ This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
Adam McKay
But within this video the WEF released, two screenshots were most notably and pompously flashed in front of all our eyes to see.
Here is what I said regarding these statements and imagery in that video:
At [the] 1:07 mark, they spin another newspaper report that says “‘hands up’ – this slogan hasn’t gone down well.” This carries dual meaning. The one perspective is “you (the viewer) caught us (the globalists) in the act.” The other perspective is to say “hands up – you are under arrest for not obeying and submitting to this new great reset.”
If you do not believe me, what proceeds then is an image of a billboard that says “THE GREAT RESET;” and then a pair of glasses overlaid the billboard and it says “OBEY.” That is precisely what this is: a great reset where the ruling class make the rules, and you are the slave working on the giant plantation of oppression.
At 1:45 into the video, an aforementioned picture of some of the most untrustworthy and hated political figures are thrown in our faces of people we need to trust. Then they acknowledge this by saying “even those you may not like,” as a hand holding a smart phone that says “ACCOUNT SUSPENDED.” This signifies that if you don’t accept and agree with this new paradigm, then you will be censored. This is I what I said the subsequent result of the continued Qanon and election fraud push [and Capital riots] will bring: so there is further confirmation on that prediction.
And now we are seeing these actions further playout, with big tech and PayPal, and other groups, joining together to suppress any thought other than theirs. They are only doing it now more openly because the masses have had ample time to forget that the WEF showed their hand of cards to us all.
But there is no way to stop all these “hate groups.” It was subtly alluded to in this report, but they want to scour the internet to get rid of all those they do not want. But WinePress readers know that we have been sounding the alarm that one of the next majorly staged crises will be a cyber grid attack that will takedown the internet and the national systems as we know it; and it’s place will rise a newer and robust internet, with social credit scores and aptitude tests and everything, so the elites will dictate the narrative.
The Coming “Global Citizen” Test That Will Be Mandated For People To Use The Internet
In the meantime The WinePress will be looking for a new payment method. Many of you have been incredibly charitable to this ministry, and I thank you dearly for that, but for the obvious reasons, PayPal no doubtably be coming after us soon. So if you could say a prayer for us on where to go next, that be fantastic. Additionally, if you have any suggestions about different payment methods, drop a comment or to email The WinePress at winepressnews@aol.com.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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They already did this to Peggy Hall of The Healthy American. Unreal! Thinking I should just ditch my PayPal account.
The only reason I can see for PayPal to exist at all is that people are too lazy to punch in their credit card number when ordering online. Or they can’t navigate their way around a checkbook. Otherwise, I don’t see the need for this outfit.
I closed my paypal account months ago. No use for them.