Author: VD

Bringing Big Tech to heel

The European nations are tired of Big Tech thinking it can ignore their laws and is going to put an end to their incessant shenanigans:

EU Commission decided to put the foot down, and show Big Tech who runs the show. In a proposal of new rules for digital platforms that are meant to make Europe fit for the Digital Age, the European Commission proposed several Acts whose intended purpose is to better protect consumers and their fundamental rights online, as well as lead to fairer and more open digital market for everyone. In the name of European values. Nobody know what those are, but they do always sound nice.

Concretely, the Digital Markets Act will:

Apply only to major providers of the core platform services most prone to unfair practices, such as search engines, social networks or online intermediation services, which meet the objective legislative criteria to be designated as gatekeepers;

Define quantitative thresholds as a basis to identify presumed gatekeepers. The Commission will also have powers to designate companies as gatekeepers following a market investigation;

Prohibit a number of practices which are clearly unfair, such as blocking users from un-installing any pre-installed software or apps;

Require gatekeepers to proactively put in place certain measures, such as targeted measures allowing the software of third parties to properly function and interoperate with their own services;

Impose sanctions for non-compliance, which could include fines of up to 10{e61d147451bc60549e96d95b5c07be35845e0345eab7ed5d54cc3d49f812ab5c} of the gatekeeper’s worldwide turnover, to ensure the effectiveness of the new rules. For recurrent infringers, these sanctions may also involve the obligation to take structural measures, potentially extending to divestiture of certain businesses, where no other equally effective alternative measure is available to ensure compliance;

Allow the Commission to carry out targeted market investigations to assess whether new gatekeeper practices and services need to be added to these rules, in order to ensure that the new gatekeeper rules keep up with the fast pace of digital markets.

The devil, as always, is in the details, but the details actually look fairly smart and effective. Could they be abused? Certainly. Will they be abused at some point? Most likely. Will Big Tech do everything it can to escape being held accountable? Absolutely.

But as much as I dislike and distrust the EU, I dislike and distrust Big Tech even more. I’ve never been treated unfairly or unjustly by any European government, whereas I can count the number of US-based Big Tech companies that haven’t singled me out for some form of harassment or another on one hand.

An unfortunate glitch

Alas, poor SJW. It appears our Googler’s ill-considered efforts have already been overturned by his superiors. And yet, the evidence of his defamatory actions remains in our possession. Whatever shall we do? A question to ponder indeed, as we await the unrelated outcome of Google’s obvious labors in its infrastructure that have been affecting everything from YouTube to Gmail accounts.

In the meantime, Crypto.Fashion has commemorated that great day upon which Google publicly announced that this blog is, in fact, officially dangerous. I so need one of these for the Darkstream. As for those aforementioned efforts, it must be admitted that they did succeed in reducing yesterday’s pageviews to a paltry 295,112, which is a mere 168 percent increase from this year’s daily average of 110,305.

UPDATE: Apparently those warnings about malware and information-gathering apps was all just an accident or something, as this Google systems review – which usually takes several weeks – successfully concluded in record time. Google actually resolved this faster than Amazon did! Thanks very much to everyone who helped chronicle the full extent of this inexplicable and unfortunate software glitch.

Review successful for http://voxday.blogspot.com/

To: Webmaster of http://voxday.blogspot.com/,

Google has received and processed your security review request. Google systems indicate that http://voxday.blogspot.com/ no longer contains links to harmful sites or downloads. The warnings visible to users are being removed from your site. This may take a few hours to happen.

How very good of them to resolve the matter so speedily! I’m sure your appreciation, like mine, knows no bounds.

Bigger margin than expected

 President Trump is clarifying the situation for everyone:

“Study: Dominion Machines shifted 2-3{e61d147451bc60549e96d95b5c07be35845e0345eab7ed5d54cc3d49f812ab5c} of Trump Votes to Biden. Far more votes than needed to sway election.” Florida, Ohio, Texas and many other states were won by even greater margins than projected. Did just as well with Swing States, but bad things happened. 

I don’t think it’s going to take until January 20, 2021 for Biden to publicly concede. Because it’s already apparent that the “hey, it’s a done deal” approach isn’t going to work. 

And of course President Trump is not planning to attend the inauguration of Joe Biden. For the very good reason that he knows it’s not going to happen. Forget Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, I think it is more likely that Ezra Cohen Watnick will be the next President of the United States than Joe Biden.

If Google wants to dance

They’re practically begging for it now. That’s straight-up defamation and it is completely and utterly untrue. The only entity recording information here is Google themselves.

PLEASE STOP SENDING RED SCREEN SCREENSHOTS. I already have hundreds. 

Then we dance, and ever so beautifully:

Google put up a full page red warning against this page. A warning that it contains malicious software. It did let me through after a couple clicks.

Smells like defamation. This may have been a major miscalculation on some low-level SJWs part that will hand us skulls on a silver platter. First, there are no apps or software on this site. Second, this site is hosted by a Google-owned company. Third, I know what they’re doing and how to prove it to a jury. So, if you’re outside the USA and you know how to take a video of your screen, email me and I will provide you with instructions. We only need one video per country, so if you see your country crossed off, don’t email me.

  • USA
  • UK
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Singapore
  • Denmark
  • Hungary
  • Japan
  • Germany
  • France
  • Italy
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Slovakia
That should do for starters. For the record, the first observation of this false alert was December 15, 2020 16:54.
UPDATE: They are so screwed. I know exactly what they did, and it was not only retarded, but obvious.
UPDATE: The Legion is on it. Notice the conspicuous lack of URLs that are supposedly causing a problem.
UPDATE: If you’re making a video, stop and think for two seconds about what you are trying to demonstrate for two seconds before you record it. If you go directly from the transparency page to the .com page, you prove NOTHING. You have to go from the transparency page to the country-specific page, because THAT will show the redirect as well as prove the malicious intent and the falsity of the “warning”.
UPDATE: I’m going to test if it’s the post I suspect it is. As you can see below, Google hasn’t specified anything at all.
To: Webmaster of http://voxday.blogspot.com/ ,
Google systems have detected that some downloadable files on your site might contain malware or unwanted software. To protect your site’s visitors, browsers such as Google Chrome now display a warning when users visit or click links to download these files from your site.
Act now to fix this problem and remove the warning:
1 Identify problematic URLs
Check the example URLs in the “Security Issues” page in Search Console. Note that this page displays a list of samples and not an exhaustive list of problematic URLs. Do not click the URLs for risk of infecting yourself with malware. View Examples
2 Scan files hosted on your site with antivirus software
Antivirus software can help identify many types of malicious or unwanted software.
3 Read our Unwanted Software Policy
Make sure all downloadable files from your site comply with the criteria listed in the policy. Files that violate these criteria will be identified as unwanted software. View Policy
4 Request a security review
Only do this once you’re sure your site is free of problematic content. Include any details or documentation that can help us understand the changes made to your site. Request a Review
Here is a sample of URLs from your site where we detected malware:
https://voxday.blogspot[.]com/

A first time for everything

 From Twitter:

BREAKING: Both Biden and @realDonaldTrump sent enough electors to give them both 270+ electoral votes. This is the first time since 1887 this has happened. The election will be settled by the Electoral Count Act of 1887. #DuelingElectors

Trust the plans…. 

Massive Wikileaks drop

 I expect there is going to be a significant amount of news being generated by the latest Wikileaks data drop.

Wow!!! Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton’s emails, McCains being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic.

Happy Digging!

I haven’t seen anything damning yet, but it’s just a matter of time now, and not very much of it at that. 

More Dominion systems seized

From Major Patriot:

BREAKING:  Subpoenas are being issued in Maricopa Country to seize ALL of the Dominion systems for a full forensic audit.

This is significant, because if Dominion voting machines are shown to be shifting votes in a third straight county in three different states, that will prove that the reported election results were, in fact, substantively fraudulent. 

Black Anne Boleyn

The House of Tudor wuz kangz:

Jodie Turner-Smith has been spotted as Anne Boleyn for the first time while filming a Channel 5 drama that its producers say seeks to ‘challenge conventions’ and shine a ‘feminist light’ on her story.  

Turner-Smith, a black actress born in Britain, is portraying Anne who was the second wife of English King Henry VIII, whom he famously had beheaded in 1536. 

Boleyn, who was the white daughter of English nobility, is also one of the key causes of the English Reformation and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. 

She was executed by Henry for high treason after failing to produce a male heir. 

Producers Fable Pictures say the drama ‘challenges all the conventions of who we think Anne Boleyn was and shines a feminist light on her story. 

In related news, Fable Pictures announced it will be filming a documentary about Michelle Obama for Netflix, starring Owen Benjamin as the former First Lady.

No, he’s really not

The Fake News doubles-down again on its false narrative about the fake president-elect:

BREAKING NEWS: Joe Biden IS president-elect as California puts him over the 270 mark – and he will address the nation saying ‘it is time to turn the page’ despite Donald Trump STILL not admitting he lost.

Meanwhile, there are now dual sets of electors for PA, GA, MI, WI, AZ, NV, and NM. The media isn’t covering this, for the most part, and they wouldn’t know how to cover it, what it means, or how it plays out even if they did. But this should assure you that the President has matters well in hand, and that everything is playing out according to his plan.

On a not-necessarily-unrelated note, Bill Barr has resigned as the Attorney General, effective December 23, 2020.

I told you there would be a surprise today, didn’t I? You may recall that just this very situation was addressed yesterday over at the Tree of Woe.

There is a very strong Constitutional theory that the power to open and count the votes of the presidential electors is vested exclusively in the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate is actually the Vice President of the United States – Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence. 

Therefore, if this theory is true, Mike Pence can simply open the Republican certificates and toss the Democrat certificates into the trash. The Democrats could howl and shout and gnash their teeth, but they cannot count votes that Pence doesn’t open.

I have laid out the legal arguments and historical precedent for Pence’s power in my earlier article, so I wont repeat them here. Suffice to say, if opening and counting the votes of the presidential electors is like playing white box D&D, then Mike Pence is the designated dungeonmaster. And nobody gets to argue with the DM.

Don’t forget, the outcome has already been assured by no less than Gen. Michael Flynn himself.

First of all, there’s a whole number of paths that the president has, and like I say, asked on a scale of one to 10 who’ll be the next president, I’d say 10, Donald Trump! I will tell you one more time—because I’ve been asked—on a scale of one to 10, who will be the next president of the United States, and I say Donald Trump. Ten. A 10.

It’s hard to be any more clear than that. The dual electors are just one of the less painful paths to cutting through the fraud. It’s interesting to see that only one governor, the idiot in Michigan, attempted to obstruct this one.

Monday surprises

This is being reported by multiple sources.

President Trump to pardon Julian Assange.

It looks as if a lot of secrets are about to be revealed, starting today. 

UPDATE: PA Republicans select an alternate set of electors:

At the request of the Trump campaign, the Republican presidential electors met today in Harrisburg to cast a conditional vote for Donald Trump and Mike Pence for President and Vice President respectively.

“We took this procedural vote to preserve any legal claims that may be presented going forward” said Bernie Comfort, Pennsylvania Chair of the Trump campaign. “This was in no way an effort to usurp or contest the will of the Pennsylvania voters.”

Today’s move by Republican party electors is fashioned after the 1960 Presidential election, in which President Nixon was declared the winner in Hawaii. While Democrat legal challenges were pending, Democratic presidential electors met to cast a conditional vote for John F. Kennedy to preserve their intent in the event of future favorable legal outcomes.

The conditional resolution states that electors certify their vote for the President and Vice President “on the understanding that if, as a result of a final non-appealable Court Order or other proceeding prescribed by law, [they] are ultimately recognized as being the duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from the State of Pennsylvania…”

UPDATE: Georgia has also selected a rival set of electors:

Because the President’s lawsuit contesting the Georgia election is still pending, the Republican nominees for Presidential Elector met today at noon at the State Capitol today and cast their votes for President and Vice President. 

Keep in mind that if a state submits two sets of electors, the President of the Senate decides which group of electors to hear, as per the precedent set when Rutherford B. Hayes was elected. The President of the Senate is the Vice-President, Mike Pence. He also has the option of leaving the state out of the count.