Facebook European Class Action Privacy Lawsuit Due In Vienna Court Today Even As Facebook And Google Capitulate To Turkey Censorship Pressure

     Thursday, 9 April 2015, ISTANBUL, TURKEY and VIENNA, AUSTRIA - In what appears to be shaping up as a challenging week overseas for social media behemoths of United States origin first Facebook and then Google both reportedly unlike Twitter (at least early on) caved to Turkish recurring censorship pressure in order to avoid Internet bans and removed links and images and photographs as well as other visual and audio content related to leftist hostage takers last week at an Istanbul courthouse putting a gun to the head of Prosecutor Memhet Siram Kuraz whom they later killed.
     Twitter in any case is easily accessed even when "banned" by Turkish authorities by social media users using services which do not reveal their actual Internet access points and reportedly was restored to service Monday night without mention of whether it acceded to reportedly frequent Turkish censorship practices. YouTube later also was restored although Burcak Unsal, described as "an expert in digital law", in the New York Times distinguished Google from "hosting providers like Twitter or YouTube". To the extent YouTube "held out" it in any case now is owned by Google which early on caved to censorship pressure.
     Readers interested in more information on the above as well as Turkey's apparently growing Internet censorship practices extending to news organizations in that country can go to the first link provided below to the New York Times article filed from Istanbul, Turkey.
     Meanwhile BBC Technology news today reports that Facebook European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland which registers all users outside of the United States and Canada faces in Vienna, Austria a 25,000 user class action filed lawsuit including 900 United Kingdom site users which alleges violations of European privacy laws. The claim led by Austrian "data protection campaigner" Max Schrems reportedly focuses on the way Facebook collects and forwards data as well as alleging Facebook further violates European privacy laws by its monitoring the use of the site's "Like" button.
     The suit is intended to stop "mass surveillance" by Facebook and further claims moreover that the social media giant has co-operated with the unconstitutional "PRISM" National Security Agency (NSA) mass domestic and foreign spying bulk data collection operation launched in 2007 under the claimed authority of the equally unconstitutional and reprehensible midnight garbage legislation the so-called  "Patriot Act" which even its its alleged author has said under no reading can support such activities by the NSA nor any other United States government entity. Facebook is expected to argue the Vienna court lacks jurisdiction to hear the suit.
     Key provisions of the disingenuously titled Patriot Act hatched from the rank exploitation of fears following the "9/11" disaster by the disgraced Bush-Cheney administration including the widely condemned Section 215 (including by both the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association) are set to expire under "sunset" provisions unless they are again extended by 1 June 2015. Despite sham lawsuits by social media giants against the NSA these technology behemoths' complicity in NSA mass surveillance is well documented including without limitation all of the above-mentioned social media monsters as well as Yahoo! and several others. This was perhaps most recently confirmed by exiled American NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden from his first-hand knowledge in a recent Moscow interview with John Oliver host of "Last Week Tonight" shown on Home Box Office (HBO) and available, of course, on YouTube. Mr. Snowden incidentally in this year's Academy Award winning documentary "CitizenFour" names the NSA British partner in crime GCHQ as even more prone to privacy and other abuse if imaginable than the NSA.
     Readers interested in more information regarding the European class action lawsuit being brought in Vienna against Facebook European Dublin headquarters can go to the second link below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/world/europe/google-turkey-kiraz-prosecutor.html?ref=todayspaper

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32229285

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U.S. Tech Giants In Crosshairs Of Europe Regulators As Antitrust, Privacy And Other Inquiries Of Google, Facebook, Apple And Amazon Intensify

     Saturday, 4 April 2015, LONDON, ENGLAND - Although the halcyon days may be continuing to the present in the United States for giant tech companies Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and others given the longtime lassitude of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in its enforcement of U.S. antitrust laws and Americans' privacy rights taking a far back seat to many of these tech monsters' documented collusion along with telecommunications companies with the United States' spy agencies, with the CIA for example even having ownership and joint partnership interests with Google and these companies routinely feeding information to the NSA and other unconstitutional domestic spying apparatus, with the occasional charade of sham suits by these filthy rich tech behemoths back against the U.S. government in lame disingenuous efforts to demonstrate to the American people that they are are not part of the U.S. government's out of control grossly unconstitutional domestic spying ubiquitous tentacles as exposed most dramatically by the the staggering NSA universal domestic spying disclosures by Booz Allen contractor Edward J. Snowden, European regulators nevertheless reportedly are losing all patience with the abuses and encroachments of these American tech giants acting in flagrant violation of European anti-trust laws and routine invasions of European citizens' privacy.
     The list of American tech monsters' physical and internet invasion of Europe especially via Ireland is well documented in previous partial European regulators' inquiries and assessment of enormous essentially meaningless fines as well as court rulings seeking to curb American tech giants' encroachments extending right into Europeans' homes in flagrant violation of free market principles and core privacy rights where a company such as Google reportedly controls 80% of internet searches effectively dictating what information European citizens will and will not see including about each other as well as undoubtedly making this information readily available to American spy agencies such as the CIA and NSA which routinely share it with the British spook octopus GCHQ which according to Mr. Snowden is even far worse in its citizen surveillance abuses than its American counterparts if such is imaginable.
     Now European regulators reportedly have these U.S. technology giants in their crosshairs with the loudest complaints perhaps against Google's market domination and Facebook's laughable "privacy" policies just being the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile in the United States it is not known if the Obama administration will order DOJ out of its dormancy while on the issue of the rank constitutional abuses of the NSA, CIA, FBI and so-called "alphabet soup" of American spy agencies the very telling sunset, i.e., end of several supposedly empowering sections supporting their illegal actions of the loathsome "Patriot Act" will be allowed to expire or will be extended by a Republican-controlled Congress seemingly incapable of doing anything positive and given the Obama Administration's latest betrayal of its voter base by taking the position that the Bush-Cheney midnight-created monstrosity should be extended.
     To date however the Obama Administration has said it will not intervene to preserve the expiring provisions of the clearly unconstitutional "law" which if anything has played right into the hands of terrorists by wrenching the fabric of fundamental American values but will allow this grotesque blemish on United States legislative history to slowly and painfully die its long-overdue death as by all accounts of their debates to the Founding Fathers it no doubt immediately would have been declared "DOA" dead on arrival.
     Interested readers in the below linked-to article can find many more specifics touching on some of European regulators past actions against U.S. tech giants as well as more details as to what these U.S. monsters "stomping the terra" to quote Dr. Hunter S. Thompson can anticipate coming at them hard from European regulators in the not-too-distant future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/technology/europe-regulators-apple-google-facebook.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

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CIA Front Google Loads Deceptive New "Gadgets" In Blogspot After Antitrust CIA Facebook Zuckerboy Misdeeds Crushed By Staggering European Fines

     Friday, 8 March 2013, LANGLEY, VA. - Just days after perennial sneak criminal CIA Tool Zuckerboy (aka "Zuckerman") through his Facebook (CIA codename "Facelog" or "Mugbook") franchise has been slapped down again by European regulators with a staggering antitrust fine nearing one billion dollars, the CIA through its direct Google database retrieval and storage front is encouraging "blogsters" to add new gadgets embedded with costly deceptive "advertising" traps for unwary readers.
     Google allegedly originally was hatched under cover at MIT where many classically illegal CIA covert Vietnam projects were funded (ask Noam Chomsky) as a new generation link-based "searchtool". The CIA believed to have a phony indemnification agreement with Zuckerboy's Facebook reportedly is scrambling for more money through whatever means possible, including duping American readers directly rather than through its so-called "Black-Ops" budget dumped on it annually by Americans' representatives.
     Apparently once European allies are not so amused with CIA attempts to catalog every face and location on the planet via Facebook and Google. Moreover they are recouping the price of former "President" George "little shrub" Bush.dragging them into bogus conflicts which cost them untold amounts of casualties, money and the fall of governments.
     The CIA after the debacle of General Moron Petraeus whose CIA computer was hacked while he served as Director of the CIA spending his time corresponding by e-mail with his paid mistress and using the computer password "Spot" oversaw the CIA through a stunning series of setbacks starting with the Taliban walking unchallenged into the CIA's main Afghanistan headquarters base and mowing down CIA agents eventually all forcing President Obama to fire him from his CIA job as well as his previous job as Afghanistan military commander.
     The CIA is so desperate for funds through its Google front reportedly it also actually is encouraging "blogsters" to put "Paypal" donation buttons as new features on their so-called "blogs" reportedly to siphon off funds for its latest misadventures. Not to mention a daily Marine Corps quote. Reportedly worthy General Petraeus quotes also were to be a proposed new "gadget", but few could be located and those would be unsuitable as they all appeared to CIA analysts to be inarticulate criticisms of the United States Government and/or arguably pornographic.
     As for the "Paypal" begging plan The Ninth Amendment editorial board assures readers it has no plans to join in the classically deceptive new CIA-Google begging plan at least until the CIA either goes away or abides by its charter to stay out of the United States and do something good for the world that would once again make this Great Country proud that it is something more than a base for U.S. Government-funded worldwide assassins, an avid creator and supporter of terrorists who then turn on the United States, an enemy of worldwide democracy, and has proven at least one sadly inept and dangerous spy agency, both to the CIA itself where like the DEA it routinely turns on its own operatives and leaves them out to dry (as documented in its attempted effort to do so in the recent Academy Award winning 2013 Best Picture of the Year "Argo"), and to the citizens of the United States who inevitably unknowingly suffer the "blowback" of its ill-conceived murderous misadventures. God Bless America..

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