In this video, I discuss how to defeat soft or stealth censorship of the Internet by giant social media companies such as Facebook, Google/YouTube, Apple, Twitter and the government using the proven, established, widely used free open-source decentralized technology RSS (Rich Site Summary also known as Really Simple Syndication). I demonstrate this using the RSS reader in the free open-source Thunderbird e-mail program available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and most Linux platforms.
The government has many potential ways to apply pressure on social media companies in the absence of explicit censorship laws:
Facebook FTC Consent Decree
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-ftc-consent-decree-deal-what-you-need-to-know/
Partial List of Google FTC Consent Decrees
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/102-3136/google-inc-matter
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/07/ftc-finalizes-consent-decree-in-google.html
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/1210120/motorola-mobility-llc-google-inc-matter
Apple FTC Consent Decree
Apple Options Backdating Scandal
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-steve-jobs,news-1929.html
http://www.fundamentalfinance.com/opinion/apple-options-backdating-scandal.php
https://www.macworld.com/article/1054902/backdating.html
About Me
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).