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Viewing the former Google and Alphabet CEO. WEF 1997 Young Global Leader, and eternal Bilderberger from 1997 into 2024. Most important--the RESISTANCE growing now!

December 31, 2024

Shadow-Banning and Eric Schmidt, the CEO chosen for Google in 2001, four years after he was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader

First, who is Eric Schmidt?

As often, the Wikispooks Website is a great source of Pages and Connections.

Schmidt is a Young Global Leader chosen by the World Economic Forum in the 1990s decades that also enrolled Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos among later WEF Strategic Partners. He’s a devoted Bilderberger. He’s many years into the U.S. Department of Defense and serves, too, in the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

Second, what is Shadow-Banning?

The Website builtin.com relates the experience of a would-be communicator on the Internet who becomes shadow-banned.

‘To a shadowbanned user, the site continues to function as normal — they can still make posts and engage with other people’s posts — but to others, the user appears to have gone silent.[....]’

The would-be communicator, secretly censored, may thus feel unrecognized and unwanted. He or she may despair.

‘While an explicitly banned user is likely to create a new account and keep posting, a shadowbanned user might conclude that other people just don’t care what they have to say. Over time, the thinking goes, they will lose interest and go away.’

Thus Andreas Rekdal, ‘Director of Editorial Content’ for builtin.com, in June 2022.

We turn next to Kontentino.com and Aya Tyschenko in September 2024.

‘Is shadow banning real?

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Yes, it is real, but it’s not as straightforward as many think. Social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook often deny the existence of shadow banning in its most nefarious sense – where content is deliberately hidden without users being informed. [...]

For instance, Instagram has been known to limit the reach of posts that overuse hashtags (so no 30+ hashtags for you anymore) or engage in spammy behavior, while X (Twitter) might downgrade tweets from accounts that exhibit bot-like behavior. Facebook, while not explicitly admitting to this “crime”, has policies that reduce the visibility of what it considers “problematic content,” further blurring the lines , for example some social – political issues.’

Those many who have had their content blocked and removed on the above-named ‘Social-Media’ platform KNOW that Ms. Tychenko’s summary of behavior is very MILD.

Eric Schmidt, the ubject of today’s Post, and subject of a FlippingtheScript Blog-post that apposed him with Dave Chappelle in 2019, when Chappelle was colossally misrepresented on the semi-Social Media platform Rotten Tomatoes and Schmidt continued to insist that communicator’s content be not only censored, but altered (‘ […’ we decide collectively that occasionally somebody not like you should be inserted into your database, which is sort of a social values thing, […] …

In November 2022 Eric Schmidt is straightforward in his Absurd Hyprocisy (or A.H.), as abetted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and writer Dylan Walsh.

Schmidt’s solution. ‘To rein in this problem, Schmidt offered a suggestion rooted in his preferences for free speech: People should be permitted to say what they want, but algorithms should be more discerning in what they boost. “Everyone gets their opinion, but not everyone gets a megaphone,” he said.

“And then once these things are in place, they have to become either an industry standard or a regulated standard,” Schmidt said. The stakes extend beyond entertainment and revenue. “If we don’t solve this problem, we’re going to lose our democracies,” he said.’

That is, again, SHADOW-BANNING, folks. SHADOW-BANNING is PRISON.

Worse, S-B is Prison whose Walls and Gates its victims may not see or know.

Shadow-Banning makes for an A-B-C-D of Techno-Fascism. Shadow-Banning Abuses freedom of speech. S-B Betrays trust. S-B Corrupts Communities through Cowards’ tricks. Shadow-Banning Debilitates, Deceives, and in fact Destroys any premise of Democracy.

You and I and we may speak in the new world Eric Schmidt wants. We may have the seeming ‘microphone’ of a Website, or Blog, or Comments, Likes, and Shares—BUT whether anything we communicate is heard or shown—given the least semblance of ‘a megaphone’—depends on ‘algorithims’ written and enforced by owners of Platforms, Masters of the Digital Universe, … Masters such as Eric Schmidt.

Eric Schmidt Inserts into our ‘Database’ and Rewards Google

Below is the banner for a FlippingtheScript blogpost of mine from October 2019.

Eric Schmidt caught my eye in Fall of 2019. He was target then of a Letter by Silicon Valley professionals that cited and protested his behavior at Google. More than thn 70 rallied against him.

On September 1, 2019 Jack Poulson, age 33, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Stanford from 2014 to 2016 and a Senior Research Scientist at Google from May 2016 till his resignation in September 2018, wrote a Letter the co-directors of Stanford's Institute for Human-Center Artificial Intelligence, Professors Fei-Fei Li and John Etchemendy.

Jack Poulson's Letter protested Eric Schmidt's being a keynote speaker for the Institute's upcoming (October 28 and 29) Conference on 'AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance.'

Poulson’s Letter early on had over 40 signatories, including many from Google. Into October its signatories grew to more than 70. You can read from the Letter and see it whole, with many links, over on my Flipping the Script Blog.

Schmidt was cited in Autumn 2019 for going along to get along with mainland China’s censorship of the Internet so that Google could continue to profit from Ad-Sales there.

He and Jeff Bezos of Amazon were cited for colluding on the ouster of Roma Laster from the the Defense Innovations Board in the U.S. Department of Defense, as Ms. Laster insisted on ‘avoiding problematic conflicts of interest’ and “following the rules.”

Schmidt’s overlooking another Letter, signed by ‘more than 700 Google employees’ in protest of partnership between the Corporation and mainland China in surveilling and censoring citizens there, was also cited in the Poulson group’s Letter.

‘Yet, to this day, the company refuses to state that profiting from the suppression of democracy and dissent violates any of its principles.’

Schmidt is noted, too, for his ‘allowing a $90M payout to Andy Rubin despite the company having verified sexual harassment claims against him’

And: ‘More recently, former Google legal manager, Jennifer Blakely, went public with the abuse she suffered due to the unethical conduct of Google’s former Head of Legal, David Drummond.’

Jack Poulson and his 70+ signatories conclude: ‘I believe that, given the above-mentioned points, it would be inappropriate for Stanford University, and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, to elevate Mr. Schmidt as a keynote speaker at an ethics conference.

Signed,

Jack Poulson, Founder, Tech Inquiry

Co-signed,

Ade Adewunmi
Evan Anderson, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Badiucao, Artist
Gordon Barber, Software Engineer, YouTube
Lindsey Barrett, Staff Attorney, Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown Law
Varoon Bashyakaria, Data Scientist, Tactical Technology Collective
Laurence Berland, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Google
Tim Chevalier, former Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Rumman Chowdhury
Matthew Dempsky, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Ojas Deshpande, Software Engineer, Google
Roel Dobbe, Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Now Institute, NYU
Jon Doe, Manager, Google
Kate Donahue, Software Engineer, Google
Veena Dubal, Associate Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings, College of Law
Paul Duke, Software Engineer, Google
Dionna Glaze, Software Engineer, Google
Will Hayworth, Software Engineer, Google
Eliah Hecht, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Emily Hurdle, Site Reliability Engineer, Google
Jevan Hutson, Gregoire Fellow, University of Washington School of Law
Martin Johnson, Co-founder, GreatFire.org
Liz Fong-Jones, former Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google; current Principal Developer Advocate at honeycomb.io
Alexa Hagerty, Executive Director, Dovetail Labs
Anees Hasnain, Program Manager, Google
Matt Hughes, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Os Keyes, Who Has Never Applauded Their Employer Building Murder Drones, University of Washington
Mai Khoi, Vietnamese Artist and Activist
Irene Knapp, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Abi LaBounty, Site Reliability Engineer, YouTube
Ryan Lester, Software Engineer, Google
Vincent Lucero, Program Manager & Union Leader, Google
Garrett Maron, Analyst, Google
Colin McMillen, Former Staff Software Engineer at Google
Miguel Mendez, Site Reliability Engineer, Google
Ryan Metcalf, Building Automation & Security Engineer, Google
Phillips Mitchell, Deals Lead, Google
Yves Moreau, Professor of Engineering, KU Leuven
Mutale Nkonde, Fellow, Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society, Harvard University
Laura Nolan, Member, International Committee for Robot Arms Control
Vanja Pejovic, Software Engineer, Google
Hannah Pascal, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Ross Popoff-Walker, Senior UX Designer, Google
Zac R, Software Engineer, Google
Rose, Software Engineer, Google
Alex Shepherd, Founder, Sentinel
Andrew Sherman, Software Engineer, Google
Zachary Siegel, Software Engineer, Google
Charlie Smith, Co-founder, GreatFire.org
Danny Spitzberg, UX Researcher, Start.coop
Mathana Stender, Tech Ethicist
Shawn Tabai, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Ben Tarnoff, Co-founder, Logic Magazine
Steve Trush, Research Fellow, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Author of Googlization of Everything; Professor, University of Virginia
Jeff Warshaw, User Experience Researcher, Google
Masrour Zoghi, Software Engineer, Google
Fengsuo Zhou, President, Humanitarian China’

Please email info@techinquiry.org if you would like to have your name/title added.'

A lot of names with consequential employment, within Google and closely proximate to Google, Autumn of the pre-’COVID’ 2019 year, six months before the World Health Organization declared a ‘Global Pandemic.’

Schmidt did speak.

He was unabaashed and undeterred. The online publicatin Venture Beat and writer Khari Johnson quote him.

‘Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged cooperation with Chinese scientists, warned against the threat of misinformation, and advised against overregulation by governments today in a broad-ranging speech about AI ethics and regulation of big tech companies. He also talked about conflict deterrence between nation-states in the age of AI and pondered how secretaries of state might share information in the coming age of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

“What are the norms of this? This area strikes me as one that’s nascent but will become very important as general intelligence becomes more and more possible some time from now,” he said. “We haven’t had a common regime around how all that works.”

Does pondering ‘how secretaries of state might share informaiton in the coming age of artificial general intelligence (AGI)’ worry you? Does a supranational ‘common regime’ as ‘general intellgience becomes more and more possible’ worry you?

Who else do you think should be arrested and questioned, as 2024 moves into 2025?

Two years before 2019, Schmidt had another opportunity to mangle the English language/ He spoke at the International Security Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on November 18, 2017. He allied in this Capital, named after a Lord of the British Empire, with broader censorship.

He talked about a perceived 'problem' for social-media platforms such as Google and YouTube (same Corporation) and Facebook and Instagram (same Corporation) and their ready remedy.

Schmidt said: '“That is a core problem of humans that they tend to learn from each other and their friends are like them. And so until we decide collectively that occasionally somebody not like you should be inserted into your database, which is sort of a social values thing, I think we are going to have this problem.'

The 'core problem of humans' for Schmidt is plainly 'that they tend to learn from each other and their friends.'

I wrote in October 2019:

‘We, you know, talk. We exchange observations online. We communicate without mediation. Thus a widespread apprehension or understanding--such as may arise regarding Banks' trillions-dollar Bailouts, or the middle classes frozen earnings, or working-class suffering, or memory-loss and worse from 'smart-phones'--can multiply by millions.

Such understanding can 'go viral' overnight! Pesky humans!

Like so much else in 2019 (cashless cities, driverless cars) , Schmidt's 'inserted into your data base' is but a few steps from 'humans' submitting to the insertion of 'chips' to manage lives that are ever more dependent upon technology that ultimately serves supranational financial institutions--those Banks that received such handsome bailouts 11 years ago.

Speaking of which, Eric Schmidt, attendee at every Bilderberg Meeting since 2007 except that of 2009, also spoke at 2015's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He predicted that the Internet would disappear.

ABC News quoted: 'Schmidt expanded on his comments, saying that the Internet will become so seamlessly integrated into our daily lives that it will simply fade into the background.

As wearables gain traction and our homes become smarter and more connected, Schmidt sees a future where the Internet is all around us.

"It will be part of your presence all the time," Schmidt said, according to CNET. "Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room." '

And of course the ultimate 'wearable' is the chip implanted beneath a person's skin. With it, you won't have to worry about that clunky smart-phone and its broken screens and failing features and trips to the repair-shop. with it. YOU will be your phone. At last ...

Oh, and what happens when your implanted features prove faulty, or grow too slow, or otherwise under-perform and thereby become less than cost-effective. Time for a new chip? Or will the directive from programmers on high be: "Right this way, friends, ladies and gentlemen--that train there--follow those folks with the batons and the helmets ...

Resisting Schmidt and His Fellows’ Kind of Internet, 2019 into 2024

Eric Schmidt's framing of invisible and omnipresent control may be rejected.

Youth may be otherwise served. Michael Humphrey was a teacher of media at Colorado State University when he responded to Schmidt's 2015 Davos predictions with a piece in Forbes. He reported on his students answers to a survey he'd asked them each of the preceding three years. What do they like about the Internet? What do they not like? How might we have a more perfectly communicating Internet?

Above all else, Humphrey writes, he's learned from students: 'They don't trust you, Internet.'

Humphrey, winner of a 'Best Teacher' award from Colorado State U. students in 2019, wrote further in 2015. 'Here are some of the concerns my students voiced in yesterday's class. The Internet is: cheapening language, it is stunting curiosity (because answers come so easily), we are never bored so we lose creativity, it steals innocence too quickly, it makes us impulsive with our buying and talking, it is creating narcissists, it creates filter bubbles which limits discovery, it hurts local business, it is filled with false evidence, it desensitizes us to tragedy, it makes us lonely.'

Four years later, in this year 2019, sales of 'smart-phones' are registering their 'worst-ever decline'.

As millions unto billions more become informed of the damage from 5-G networks to our brains, bodies, environments and freedoms (see studies by Americans for Responsible Technology and Investigate Europe on the very vigorous and multiply sourced website of Physicians for Safe Technology ), millions unto billions will turn away from addictions that ultimately deprive them of tactile communication and creation--of touch and love.

The 5G Appeal, calling for a moriatorium on deployment of 5G technology, has 253 scientists as signatories as of September 17, 2019.

The future, in short, may be very different from dependencies engineered and imagined by Eric Schmidt.

Consciousness is growing. Rebellion against technocratic invasions of communities is growing. We may choose to reject the insertion of another's 'facts' into our databases. Adieu to Google algorithms shadowbanning the free flow of information! Hello to polyrhythms! We may choose, too, to shield ourselves and our descendants from the cancers linked to cellphones and cellphone towers.

Hello to longer spans of attention. Hello to conversations in coffeehouses. Hello to the time for thinking that makes for creation. Hello to reading books. Hello even, maybe, to reading books aloud!

Revolutions are underway. We may flip a whole set of scripts.

Now, on December 31, 2024, we see 139,000-some Followers for the Americans for Responsible Technology page on … Facebook.

We see numerous remedies underway via the Americans for Responsible Technology website.

We see numberless manifestations of awareness and care, finishing this year 2024, and we may look forward to endless achievements for Justice and Progress from our perceptions and our unity in the coming year. Check out the Declaration below and the children in Diseased Captivity (Eric Schmidt’s dream for a world he and his fellows would control) represented.

A.I. itself, December 2024, offers a Straightforward Summary of how the Evil of Suppression through Shadow-Banning is named by us—’stealth banning, hell banning, ghost banning, and comment ghosting.’

That is, A.I. is learning ethics from a Humanity who want Freedoms and Justice.