Digital Criminal

…Analysts are quick to stress that online terrorist recruiting efforts remain a problem and that popular platforms such as Facebook and YouTube need to do more to combat the messages, but the days of the Islamic State’s state-of-the-art propaganda and recruiting mission online seem to have ended.…

And it gets weirder on twitter: apparently they are also now suspending accounts that are posting info about the sketchy Kashoggi disappearance/suspected murder --- anyone who disputes Turkey's version of events.

I don't know enough about this to know who's propaganda and who's reporting the facts, but it sure looks sketchy that twitter is taking a very pro-Turkey approach to censorship. …

Here is my go-to Google search boilerplate when I am looking for news on a particular story:

"-site:cnn.com -site:nytimes.com -site:washingtonpost.com -site:cnbc.com -site:nbcnews.com -site:usatoday.com -site:latimes.com -site:abcnews.com -site:cbsnews.com -site:vanityfair.com -site:abcnews.go.com -site:bloomberg.com -site:independent.co.uk.com -site:vox.com"

MIT Creates Psychopath Artificial Intelligence… Norman was inserted into one of the seedier corners of Reddit at the inception of his artificial life, fed a steady diet of disturbing imagery and conversation. Then he was subjected to a Rorschach test…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey personally chooses which accounts should be banned and sanctioned on his social network, according to a report.…

Twitter has frequently banned prominent conservatives and libertarians, both temporarily and permanently, including Roger Stone, Tommy Robinson, Sargon of Akkad, Steven Crowder, Pizza Party Ben, Sheriff David Clarke, Guccifer 2.0, and Raheem Kassam.…

Ten years of my videos are gone. I was notified this morning that my account was no longer wanted on YT because it “drives people off their site.”

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.…

…Alexa comes pre-installed on pretty much all Android phones now, and you are not able to delete it.

Class Action lawsuit against Google for discrimination against conservatives, whites and males
Commenced by James Damore, Google employee terminated after release of internal memo on “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”…

“Google’s management goes to extreme — and illegal — lengths to encourage hiring managers to take protected categories such as race and/or gender into consideration as determinative hiring factors, to the detriment of Caucasian and male employees and potential employees at Google,” the suit reads.

…“We reached the end of needing passwords maybe seven years ago, but we still use them,” said Steve Winterfeld, Director of Cybersecurity, at clothing retailer Nordstrom. “They’re still the primary layer of defense.”

“It’s hard to kill them,” noted Shalini Mayor, who is a Senior Director at Visa Inc. “The question is what to replace them with.”…

…I am also now in the habit of checking my bank accounts, if not daily then every other day, to catch anything that may be wrong. Probably something I should have been doing all along, but had not been. It's a good thing for me that Navy Fed has such a sharp anti-fraud division.

The upside to all this technology is it makes things convenient. The down side to all this technology is...it makes things convenient. We have always had scammers of one sort or another, the digital world just gives them another outlet to perpetuate their fraud. This one is just immediate and more convenient since they never have to leave their mother's basements in order to scam you out of all your hard earned life savings, as well as your good name.…

Some of the internet’s most popular services, including Twitter, Spotify, SoundCloud, AirBnB, and Reddit, were taken offline Friday by a major cyber-attack across the internet.… across the east coast of the U.S. and lasted for roughly two hours…

…Top law enforcement officials in four states filed suit Wednesday to delay the Obama administration’s proposed transfer on October 1st of a critical Internet agency to an international authority, saying the grantee would have the power to “effectively enable or prohibit the exercise of free speech on the Internet.”…

President Barack Obama’s drive to hand off control of Internet domains to a foreign multi-national operation will give some very unpleasant regimes equal say over the future of online speech and commerce… Here’s a look at some of the regimes that will begin shaping the future of the Internet in just a few days, if President Obama gets his way…

President Barack Obama called for a series of international agreements to regulate activity on the Internet, citing his preference not to start an arms race in cyberspace.…