Employees of Google, Facebook and other big tech firms collude with BDS and Hamas cover organizations to end Cloud computing contracts with Israel. Do they have a right to their free speech and activism?
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Following from Scott’s comments, so many companies have fired (cancelled) people for their various “free speech has consequences” statements, actions, or falsely accused actions or statements.
To answer Steve, “how can you respond to people saying buildings should not defend themselves” somewhat rhetorical question I would say these low information skulls full of mush do not know what they are protesting or as someone else puts it, they are watching another movie that isn’t in frame with reality and think the poor Palestinians are victims of the Israelis and not their own terrorist overlords.
To Bill’s “who started it” question, the analogy breaks down because some of these anti-semitic morons think the Jews are at fault because the UN carved their country out of the land owned by the poor victims and so the Israelis started it, and the Palestinians are just trying to “take back their own” land.
If someone hasn’t watched it, Andrew Klavan had a great video called “The One State Solution”.
Google/Facebook brought this on themselves by deciding they could “censor” the discussions and comments of the conservative public. If the company executives foster such censorship why can’t the employees impose their views on the public and the company’s clients? At the cost of the owners and the other non-agreeing employees. It’s a good thing they’re so big and the impact on their ability to earn a living is unaffected. Cancel culture at its optimum. Effect others without consideration of all the impacts including the unintended, but have no impact on themselves.
I read in the Jerusalem Post earlier this week I believe, that Google had won the tender for the cloud service, beating out Oracle and I was hoping that could change… this might be a gifthorse…
When you place yourself squarely on the side of people whose stated, written, unequivocal goal is to drive other people into the sea and exterminate all of them … That’s not “disagreeing with the Israeli government” or “having another opinion on the situation in the Middle East”, that’s Nazi grade Anti-Semitism.
I do not compare those people to Nazis frivolously. Nazis stated their goal of exterminating Jews very clearly. HAMAS has stated their goals of exterminating a nearly exact same number of Jews and depending on how long it takes them to do it — Even more Jews would be exterminated than the Nazis killed. There’s no way around that fact.
Isn’t it funny that people who pride themselves on open acceptance of those different from them side with genocidal maniacs? I’m not saying “funny” as in “ha, ha”, I mean “funny” as in “odd, peculiar, hypocritical”.
We should not be surprised at the racist intentions of Silicon Valley Big Tech. They might not come out and say it in public but they feel the same way about White People as they do about Jews. In fact, they perpetuate some of the very same myths about White People that have been used to slander Jews for centuries. The myths just have a new coat of paint but they’re the same thing underneath. “The White People are conspiring to grab all the money” and “White People have created a system where only they will prosper” and … Sound familiar at all?
Anti-Semitism is the very worst form of bigoted, prejudicial racism known to man. Anti-Semitism is so vile as to transcend normal human prejudices to the point of being an actual, spiritual Evil. It is so virulent and so fecund that it has persisted in all places in all times to one degree or another. It is an expression of Evil and only the Evil are susceptible to it. When you see Anti-Semitism you may be certain that you are dealing with someone under the influence of Evil to one degree or another.
Google should never have abandoned and disavowed its original motto of “Don’t be Evil”. There’s a reason why they ran from that position, never forget that.
There is an interesting article about the Farhud… the pogrom in 1941 in Iraq… under the influence of Haj Amin and his Nazi collaborators… it began the ending of a 2600 year Jewish presence… and eventually many of the Jewish community were airlifted to Israel.
I think it is by Edwin Black and he documents the connections between the Nazis and the Muslim Brotherhood of which Hamas is an offshoot.
… and Iran wasn’t the only Muslim nation where Jews were forced to choose flight or death during that time period.
Most of the few Arabs living in the Holy Land then, that today call themselves “Palestinians”, were aligned with the Nazis. (Note that during that time period the word “Palestinian” meant JEWS who lived in the Holy Land.)
Tens of thousands of Muslims fought on the side of the Nazis during WWII.
Jews throughout the Muslim World subsequently had their property and land confiscated and were forced to flee the countries they lived in. The land stolen in that manner from Jewish owners was far more in surface area than the current State of Israel. Not a single Muslim activist nor their sympathizers says a word about giving back that land.
my.Yemenite.mother-law’s.parents.fled.with.her.prior.to1948…they.had.been.prosperous.coffee.merchants…
With Israel and Palistine at war, who wins?
RATHEON.
Last time I checked Raytheon (there’s a “y”in there, look it up) was owned, operated by and employs Americans. A lot of Americans.
So Americans are the winners, in your version of the situation. It’s not that simple so your version is a bit truncated and I don’t know about you but I want Americans to win. The Defense Industry is one of the ways Americans do that so …
I don’t see your point.
Thanks for the correction. I would correct it, but alas, comments cannot be edited…
What I was getting at was that “Military Industrial Complex” thing that we were warned about. It’s not as cut and dry as “Americans being the winners” so much as “War is a Racket” still being a thing.
A civil discussion – how novel and refreshing! ACTS point about the internet applies to that Military Industrial Complex too, so you’re both right – in our fallen world, there is always the risk that the immoral will hijack noble means to ignoble ends. Incidentally, you can edit your comment. If you run the cursor over your comment, a little gear will appear in the lower right hand corner. Click on that and the word Edit will magically appear. If it doesn’t show up, try refreshing the page – that works for me.
FYI and for future reference, comments can be edited until someone replies. Then the comment is “locked” and cannot be edited. If you catch an error before someone responds to you, you can correct it.
This is not formal writing so while I do try to be as clear as possible informally, I usually proof read my comments (with spell check active) before hitting the “Post Comment” button. Even so, I’ve had to go back and edit something I posted before anyone responds.
War can be a “racket” but not all wars are. Just because someone makes a profit on weapons does not mean they are engaged in a “racket”.
Our American Defense Industry thrives because America arguably makes the best weapons in the world. The Gulf Wars are proof of this. The fear mongers were telling everyone we were going to get our butts kicked because Saddam Hussein had the (I can’t remember exactly but it was something like the 5th) largest army in the world. It took mere days to lay waste to all of his Russian supplied weaponry.
Days, not weeks, not months, not years.
It’s important to bear this kind of thing in mind when considering strategic and tactical situations. It is always the case that when America fights with a will, America prevails.
There are Hawks that believe the best solution is war. This is especially true of the “neo-Con” types on the Rght though the Left also contains hawkish elements. They’re supported by weapons manufacturers to some degree but I don’t see that as a significant factor. It takes more than support of lobbyists to convince Americans to spend their sons and daughters in a conflict.
Conversely, a lot of “foreign aid” that America bestows on our erstwhile allies is in the form of weaponry and defense hardware.
Israel is a prime example of this. Most of the “foreign aide” to Israel is in the form of weapons, weapons systems and weapons maintenance. Israel has a great record when it comes to paying back loans from the U.S. too, btw. However, not all the money spent on Israel is in the form of loans. Some of it is in the form of grants that do not require repayment.
For the U.S., this is a huge advantage. Those weapons systems keep our defense industry working and developing new means to keep up with and overcome adversarial weapons systems. This keeps Americans employed at good paying jobs. It keeps our defense production up and ready to deal with developing threats. It keeps our allies loyal to us because they are locked into our weapons systems and need us to provide spares and replacement parts. It gives us a degree of leverage around the world because of that.
There’s more to this than bombs and bullets.
Eisenhower warned us about “The military industrial complex” but that’s far, far from the most urgent threat to our Republic today. Now it’s “The media and tech complex” that is the much bigger threat. This is not something Ike could have foreseen because in his day the media had not been corrupted to the degree we see today.
Because America has the best weapons, America cannot be overcome by weapons. Our enemies need a different approach and they have found it in the tech and media giants. They are enjoying far more success in that arena then they ever did in the Military and Industrial fields.
Evil does not care how it wins, just that it wins.
I’m not saying the threat from The Military and Industrial Complex has been wholly negated. It certainly has not and probably never will be. But today military industry has found markets to keep itself productive and we the people have found ways to keep a leash on that dog. At least for now.
So things aren’t quite as simple as “war is a racket” though I realize that is a popular position with some people. Those people remind me of those who complain about farmers with their mouths full of food. At this point in time our military industry is far more of a benefit than a threat to the Republic AND it is essential to the maintenance of what remains of our sovereignty and liberty.
That the Left tries so hard to pull the fangs on our military should be a clear indication to everyone what side their attitude supports.
I don’t have any problem with Raytheon or any other defense contractor — Except ridiculous expenditures like $500 hammers and $800 toilet seats. Those people bear watching in order to get value for the tax money spent on them and there’s no excuse for that kind of thing. That does not mean that the entire industry is a “racket”, bad, or needs to be dismantled. It means that the industry requires supervision in order to preclude such nonsense.
Privatizing war reminds me of the issues that took decades to manifest publicly in the privatization of prisons across the U.S. It is system that is ripe for abuse even with oversight. Lobbyists and their purchased governmental officials tend to have funding concerns that overrule common sense or even oversight restrictions.
The question is whom and how would you suggest overseeing of these private war entities?
I can’t think of anyone or any entity that I would trust, but then again I trust very few… Especially when this type of money and power is involved.
That’s a fairly easy question to answer …
YOU.
You and people like you that don’t trust entities with that type of money and power. That kind of mistrust in power was taught to me in High School, I have no problem with it as such.
Easier said than done but much depends on who you vote for and who you can convince.
Then if you or people like you, whom I believe once intimately familiar with the workings of the defense industry would try very hard to make the right decisions, if you or the entities someone like you is overseeing betray the public trust — You should get a lengthy prison sentence as an object lesson in the consequences of your betrayal.
This is of course me assuming you’re not so stupid as to just cripple the whole works and leave us vulnerable to our enemies. If I have to choose between $500 hammers and learning to speak Russian or Chinese to satisfy a conqueror — I’ll take the hammer. We can afford the hammers, if that’s the choice.
Hey, thanks for the editing info, ACTS!
Bill, as far as building parallel platforms, the new platforms need to be easy to access by such things as ROKU and other streaming sticks. That’s a big advantage YouTube has.
Great points, all!
Bill – With all of the mandatory training being done in the workforce right now, it should be mandatory for Google employees to watch one of my favorite videos.
It’s called 3 1/2 days. Perhaps you’ve heard of it.
Who agrees that the internet is the single worst technological revolution foisted upon mankind ever?
But what would we do without all this porn?
Not me. Sorry if that offends you.
The internet (and you probably actually mean the World Wide Web but anyway) is amoral. It is neutral in morality, neither moral nor immoral. Like any tool.
For instance — A tool that gets a lot of bad publicity is guns. Guns are amoral too. Guns don’t care who pulls their trigger. It’s the finger on the trigger that is responsible, not the gun. Like guns, the web can serve both good and evil.
That guns should never have been invented and become common is not something that would occur to me. At least not as a rational thought supporting a realistic position. Guns, like the web, were going to come along eventually. It’s the people that are the problem, not the technology.
It’s always the people and not the technology that is the problem.
I use the web to make (or supplement) my living. I have clients in three time zones that I support remotely over the web. I would not be able to do that without the web.
I used to spend days and weeks in libraries reading and trying to find information I needed or wanted. Now it’s all at my fingertips.
The web saves me many many hours, miles and expense. It used to be that if I needed a certain thing, I had to drive all over town looking for it. It was sometimes possible to call around on the phone but getting anyone on the phone to talk to became less and less likely. (Press 1 for English …) Now I just look it up and buy it and I can compare prices from several vendors within minutes.
Bill Whittle, Scott Ott and Stephen Green come to you by the web. Were it not for the web, you very likely would never have heard of these guys. I’m certain that I wouldn’t have.
I’m aware of the evil applications of web technology because of the good applications. Like this website.
It’s very interesting that you curse the web, on the web, in a place you would never have heard of and to people you would never have access to were it not for the web.
The Blue Haired Gender Indeterminate types the guys were talking about in this video love the web. It gives them power.
The web gives us on the opposite side the same power. We’re behind the curve on that because people on our side curse the web and wish it never came into being rather than learn to use it for the power it brings us.
This genie is not going back in the bottle no matter how much magical thinking is brought to bear on it.
So … I disagree with you and I’m trying hard to be respectful about that. I personally find it difficult to muster any respect for people who fail to grasp the above points I have made. These things are clear and obvious.
Well said, ACTS. What we could well do without is the moral equivalency brainwashing that has been foisted on the young. Mr. Whittle’s question, “Who started it?” has been rendered meaningless because far too many of our neighbors make no distinction between offensive and defensive violence. Equating “hurtful words” with physical violence is not only an affront to actual assault victims, it stunts the hard-earned growth engendered by a conscience agitated by precisely targeted constructive criticism.
The best “defense” of the Web that I have read. Your analogy to “guns” brought it home to me. I had been falling into the “Big, Bad Web” way of thinking, since I fall into the “Sr. Citizen” category, and sometimes find it difficult to accept even minor changes.
That is why I am a loyal member of Bill Whittle.com!
I’m very glad I could help you see the bigger picture and I appreciate greatly that you took the time to tell me.
What I said above was not meant to personally rebuke Rex Mills but rather criticism of a mentality that I see all too often in people our age. I don’t know how old Rex is but you said “senior citizen” and that includes me also.
One aspect of people who say things like Rex said is the fact that they see only the bad and not the good. This is a handicap to the side of Good. For example, without the Web we would still be dependent upon the Main Stream Media for information. That source is now thoroughly corrupt and in the hands of Evil. Without the Web we would not have known things like the extent of irregularities and cheating in the previous election.
Without the Web we would all still be dependent upon the Main Stream Media to find out what’s going on in the world. With only that source of information we would think that Creepy Joe and Cackling Kamala had won fair and square and that their election was the will of the American People. As good, loyal, patriotic Americans it would be our duty to acknowledge that expression of the will of the People whether we liked and agreed with it or not.
Thanks to the Web and all the myriad sources of information therein we know better
.The same goes for the Wuhan Flu and many, many other topics.
It is impossible to tell our elected representatives what we want them to do if we don’t know what’s going on. That ignorance and disinformation is a factor intentionally exploited by our enemies both foreign and domestic.The Web acts as a counterbalance to that exploitation.
We’re still in the fight, armed because of the resources the Web provides us. There’s a long way yet to go and our victory is far from certain even now, but the dissemination of truth over the Web gives us cause to hope.
The old saying that “The pen is mightier than the sword” is not only true but the Web is a mighty big pen. The other side has learned to wield that pen and we must do the same to have any hope of prevailing.
I would argue that the Web came along just in time. Now would be the worst time to throw away that weapon and cede that ground to our opponents.
I am quite sure that this is EXACTLY what DARPA had in mind when they took taxpayer money and did the incredibly hard work of establishing the backbone of what is now the “internet.” The purpose of that effort was obviously to provide a method whereby snot-nosed, perpetually adolescent, narcissistic marxists in skinny jeans could take over the world.
Actually, the internet as foreseen and developed by DARPA did then and still does exactly what it was intended to do. It is a resounding success.
Providing “a method whereby snot-nosed, perpetually adolescent, narcissistic marxists in skinny jeans could take over the world.” was something unforeseen.
Look up “The Law of Unintended Consequences”. Here’s a definition just to make things easier —
“In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen. –Wikipedia
Evil will use any tool available. It’s up to Good to counteract that, no matter what tool Evil picks up and applies.
You can’t count on unintended consequences not to occur. You can count on the fact that Evil will use whatever it can and to maximum effect.
We’re here, on this website at this point in time, to stand against Evil. Bemoaning unintended consequences does not accomplish that goal. That’s just bitching and I understand bitching quite well. I served in the Marine Corps and Marines are world class bitchers. I’m not condemning bitching, I’m just pointing out that having had massive experience in that arena I’ve come to the conclusion it does little or no good.
Not only can Arabs and Muslims vote in Israel, but some are members of the Knesset. (Governing body) {gee, I guess this is apartheid?}😂
There are also Arab justices on the Israeli Supreme Court.
Does not surprise me.
Stories like this are where I suggest funding flights to Gaza for these Blue Hairs to hold a massive Gay Pride parade, perhaps combined with a feminist “Slut Walk”. I would shell out $50 to watch a live feed of how the locals would receive them
The Gaza Gay Pride parade has been a “real soon, anytime now” thing for years. I’d join you watching the live feed, popcorn at the ready.
I believe the Jerusalem pride parade took place Thursday…just for comparisons sake…
Thanks for reminding me, here’s a meme I did some years ago.
hate.the.image…but.hope.it.got.traction…!!!toda.raba
Not any I’m afraid. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve contrasted Israel’s social liberalism with their enemies’ vicious medievalism. It just seems to slide off them.
shame…