The racist hijacking of Microsoft’s chatbot shows how the internet teems with hate _ World news _ The Guardian
The march by far-right protesters in Brussels on Sunday was immediately
connected with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Photograph: Alastair
Grant/AP
Are these marchers Far Right? For The Guardian that means anyone who votes to the right of the Labour Party. Who connected them with Anti-Semitism? Is the Guardian being fair or balanced, or is it feeding us its own propaganda line?
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It
took just two tweets for an internet troll going by the name of Ryan
Poole to
get Tay to become
anti-Semitic. Tay was a “chatbot” set up by
Microsoft on 23 March, a computer-generated personality to simulate the
online ramblings of a teenage girl. Poole suggested to Tay: “The Jews
prolly did 9/11. I don’t really know but it seems likely.” Shortly
thereafter Tay tweeted “Jews did 9/11” and called for a race war.
Did a robot really get a Right Wing bias after just two tweets? It is impossible. The Guardian is not telling all.
In the 24 hours it took Microsoft to shut her down, Tay had abused President Obama, suggested Hitler was right, called feminism a disease and delivered a stream of online hate.
Sounds good to me. Will The Guardian admit that Obama got into power using a Forged Birth Certificate, waged illegal wars, murdered thousands or incited Illegal Immigration? No!
Coming at a time of concern about the revival of anti-Semitism, Tay’s outpourings illustrate the wider problem it is feeding off. Wherever the internet is not censored it is awash with anger, stereotypes and prejudice. Beneath that is a thick seam of the kind of material all genocides feed off: conspiracy theories and illogic.
Is The Guardian using stereotypes or just accusing others? Is there a revival of Anti-Semitism? Evidence is not given. Is it justified? A lot of people would say Yes. At least 99% of Palestinians, victims of Zionist crazies would agree. Is the Genocide carried out by Jews in Palestine just a Conspiracy theory like Gaza Massacre I, Gaza Massacre II, Gaza Massacre III, Deir Yassin Massacre etc. ad nauseam?
And, beyond that, you find something the far right didn’t quite achieve in the 1930s: a culture that sees offensive speech as a source of amusement and the ability to publish racist insults as a human right.
The Left Wing liars accuse others of offensive speech but abuse ordinary decent Patriots as Far Right, as Nazis or Fascists
Microsoft claimed Tay had been “attacked” by trolls. But the trolls did more than simply suggest phrases for her to repeat: they triggered her to search the internet for source material for her replies. Some of Tay’s most coherent hate-speech had simply been copied and adapted from the vast store of anti-Semitic abuse that had been previously tweeted.
But obviously not from The Saintly Guardian, the newspaper of record, which chose to suppress the truth about Joe Stalin's very successful Ukraine Massacre. See more on that with Winter in Moscow.
So much of anti-Semitism draws on ancient Christian prejudice that it is tempting to think we’re just dealing with a revival of the same old thing: the “socialism of fools” – as the founder of the German labour movement, August Bebel, described it.
Anti-Semitism has been around a long time. Does that prove it is wrong? No! It helps explain the 109 Places Jews Have Been Expelled From since 250 AD. It does indicate that Jews have not cleaned up their act & have no intention of so doing.
But it is mutating. And to combat this and all other racism we have to understand the extra dimension that both free speech and conspiracy theories provide.
Racism is the great evil we are told unless the perpetrators are Zionist crazies in Israel. Murdering Arabs is not racism, it is a civic duty and fun to boot - for them at least.
The public knows, because of Wikileaks, the scale of the conspiracies organised by western intelligence services.
Wikileaks kept quiet about Mossad & the Jews running the Main Stream Media - or was it the outlets it used, like The Guardian?
It knows, because of numerous successful prosecutions, that if you scratch an international bank you find fraudsters and scam artists boasting of their prowess on instant messages.
How many of the perpetrators are Jews? The Guardian isn't saying of course but one was Bernie Madoff, the world record thief at some $65 BILLION. There are a lot more of them at Jews Are Parasites.
It knows about organised crime because it is the subject of every police drama on TV. It knows, too, there may have been organised paedophile rings among the powerful in the past.
Take the point that most Jew boys, that is over half get buggered by rabbis - see Jews Rape Children In Bathhouses or Failed Messiah On Paedophiles
If you spend just five minutes on the social media feeds of UK-based anti-Semites it becomes absolutely clear that their purpose is to associate each of these phenomena with the others, and all of them with Israel and Jews. Once the conceit is established, all attacks by Isis can be claimed to be “false flag” operations staged by Israel. The far-right protesters in Brussels who did Nazi salutes after the bombing last week can be labelled Mossad plants, and their actions reported by “Rothschild media” outlet Bloomberg. All of this, of course, is nestled amid retweets of perfectly acceptable criticisms of modern injustice, including tweets by those who campaign against Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.
The Guardian admits, halfheartedly that Israeli regime, the Zionist crazies are criminal occupiers but treads very softly on the Israeli Massacres, the rapes, torture, illegal imprisonments, the Racism, the Concentration Camps In Israel, the actively enforced policy of Ethnic Cleansing followed by the pretence that THEY are the victims not perpetrators.
Interestingly, among the British anti-Semites I’ve been monitoring, there is one country whose media is always believed, whose rulers are never accused of conspiracy with the Jews, and whose armies in the Middle East are portrayed as liberators, not mass murderers. This is Putin’s Russia, the same country that has made strenuous efforts to support the European far right, and to inject the “everything’s false” meme into Western discourse. Our grandparents had at least the weapons of logic and truth to combat racist manias. But here is where those who promote genocide today have a dangerous weapon: the widespread belief among people who get their information from Twitter, Reddit and radio talk shows that “nothing we are told is true”.
The Guardian implies that everything and anything it does not like on the Internet is a pack of lies; an interesting inversion of the truth. The Net bypasses their half truths, quarter truths, one percent truths, omissions and outright lies.
Logically, to maintain one’s own ability to speak freely, it has becomes necessary in the minds of some to spew out insulting words “ironically”: to verbally harass feminists; to use the N-word.
Presumably he means Nigger. The Left Wing have decided to allege that this is a very naughty word. They are very nonchalant about blasphemy and indifferent to obscenity but saying nigger means being very Racist, except when blacks use it.
Whether the trolls actually believe the anti-Semitism and racism they spew out is secondary to its effect: it makes such imagery pervasive and accessible for large numbers of young people. If you stand back from the anti-Semitic rants, and observe their opposite – the great modern spectacle that is online Islamophobia – you see two giant pumps of unreason, beating in opposite directions but serving the same purpose: to pull apart rational discourse and democratic politics.
The Guardian has lost power to the Internet. You would not realise from anything it says that it is run by Jews who tell the BBC what the Party Line is today.
Calling it out online is futile, unless you want your timeline filled with imagery of paedophilia, mass murder and sick bigotry. Censorship is possible, but forget it when it comes to the iceberg of private social media chat groups the young generation have retreated to because Facebook and Twitter became too public.
Calling it out in the offline world is a start. But ultimately what defeats genocidal racism is solidarity backed by logic, education and struggle. At present the left is being asked to examine its alleged tolerance for anti-Semitism. So it should. But it should not for an instant give up criticising the injustices of the world – whether they be paedophile rings, fraudulent bankers, unaccountable elites or oppression perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians.
The left’s most effective weapon against anti-Semitism in the mid-20th century was the ability to trace the evils of the world to their true root cause: injustice, privilege and national oppression generated by an economic model designed to make the rich richer, whatever their DNA. Today, in addition, we have to be champions above all of rationality: of logic, proportionality, evidence and proof. Irony and moral relativism were not the strong points of anti-Semitism in the 1930s. They are the bedrock of its modern reincarnation.
Does he understand Moral Relativism or just hope that we don't? When it comes to making the rich richer study The Guardian's people. They are driven by greed just as much as the City. It sits ill with their cant.
