Cubelogic Improv

Matteo Salvini, a member of the Italian Parliament has been banned from Facebook. Upset by this outcome, he raised the issue in the Italian Parliament asking the minister of telecommunications to do a background check on Facebook (sic), asking who determines the bans, why, where are Facebook HQs and the PR persons, how many “acts of censorships” have been done, etc (sic)

Salvini hypothesizes that he was banned because he was surfing FB on his laptop for more than 5 hours while the opposition was speaking in the Parliament. He was “killing time”, in his own words. (sic)

Salvini, who does not even hold a degree, was surprised that the automated answer from Facebook was written in English.

Facebook is a private enterprise and has the full right to ban anyone without explanation. It’s written in their terms of use.

This moron fails to understand the basics of how things work with data on 3rd parties software. I am sure FB banned his apparent stupidity.

Repubblica, Italy’s most widespread newspaper, dedicates an article to this non-issue, reinvigorating its leadership as best news-toilet.

I am translating and relaying this nonsense.

ps
Salvini’s website has a 1997 table-driven design.

via Umanesimo

“A conflict of interests exists when a person takes care of its own interests against the interests of the community. If, by doing the interests of the community, I’m also doing MY OWN interests because I am one of the community… this is not a conflict of interests.”

Silvio Berlusconi, current Italian Prime Minister, owner of three major nation-wide analogue TV stations, many digital TV channels, radio stations, one nation-spread newspaper, numerous magazines, advertisement agencies, publishing companies (big ones like Mondadori), a major insurance and banking company (Mediolanum), one football team, countless real estate properties, one major film production company (Medusa), legions of whores placed in his own TV programs, and who knows what the fuck else.

(Thanks Mazapegul for the video)

Finally somebody understood the problem from its roots. Why did it take so long? This is a ground-breaking step in US politics. Go Larry.

Technorati Tags: lessig, corruption, lobbying

Two things I can see from the CNN screenshot (taken today Feb 5 around 11:20 PM):
1. People are voting for a candidate who already bailed from the race (Edwards got out a week ago)
   Corollary: Either I am missing something basic (votes for Edwards’ are transfered to whoever he endorses?) or somebody is pretty disconnected from reality.

2. CNN doesn’t even report results for the only “other” democratic candidate around, Mike Gravel.

It has to be said that CNN (and all other mainstream media outlets) has totally ignored Gravel giving him no TV air time, so at least they are coherent bastards. However, how can legit “alternative” candidates like Gravel ever stand a chance if no-one even consider them? Has he lost before even trying, or are we making him lose? Is this democratic? Is this giving everybody a fair chance? I don’t pretend equality, just the fairness of doing your job.

Technorati Tags: mike gravel, cnn, primaries, air time

Ok, ho la mia personale dimostrazione che è inutile commentare sul blog di Mastella. La censura riguarda non solo gli insulti, come si affanna a sostenere, ma anche i commenti non allineati. Avevo inviato due commenti rispettosi e propositivi ed entrambi sono stati censurati. L’ultimo era riferito al suo ultimo post:

No, non è necessario registrarsi sul blog di Grillo per commentare. Ad ogni modo, posso assicurarle che la registrazione obbligatoria non fermerà gli insulti. Pure Grillo si becca qualche insulto, ma sul suo blog non c’è nessun filtro. Tutto viene pubblicato, subito, senza approvazione.

Rendiamoci conto che nessuno insulta mai a vanvera su internet. E’ fatica insultare in rete, non è come in strada dove basta aprire bocca. Ci si deve collegare, aprire il browser, caricare la pagina, battere tasti… chi lo fa, lo fa perchè veramente non ne può più. Se sono in molti ad insultare, vuol dire che sono estremamente insoddisfatti del suo operato.

Se vuole fare un blog serio, cominci col pubblicare tutti i commenti, dimostri questo coraggio. Siamo tutti rappresentati da lei. Altrimenti se pubblica solo chi piace a lei, non ha senso avere un blog.

Ne avevo inviato anche un altro, usando idiomi simili, con medesimi risultati: censura.

E’ interessante però osservare chi è invece stato giudicato degno. Due individui, entrambi anonimi (io avevo avuto il coraggio di firmarmi). Il primo dei due commenti (by mcz) è servile da far schifo e suggerisce di far cadere il governo di cui lo stesso ministro fa parte. Il secondo (Max) è di un fascista. Wow, complimenti!

Technorati Tags: Clemente Mastella, censura blog

A me piacerebbe pure tornare a votare con una legge elettorale decente, ma cosa cambierebbe? Le faccie da votare sarebbero sempre quelle. Se non e’ Berlusconi, e’ Prodi; se non e’ Prodi, e’ Fassino; se non e’ Fassino, e’ Bertinotti; se non e’ Bertinotti, e’ Bonino; se non e’ Bonino, e’ Mastella. E di Di Pietro ce n’e’ soltanto uno.

Servono nuove persone e soprattutto nuovi metodi per controllare ‘sta gente in modo piu’ diretto. Devono essere braccio e meno mente.

This election seems to me like an example of direct democracy but you need to be informed for it to work!

• Info for all states (including all electorial contests for direct election of State Senate, State Assembly, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judges, school and city officials, various municipal directors):
  smartvoter.org
• California:
  voterguide.ss.ca.gov
• MoveOn ballot endorsements:
  snipurl.com/zfke

I just finished watching Iraq for Sale and I am probably missing something. Why only 21 Democrats voted for the Waxman amendment? What was the other 180 of them doing? Were they oN Vacation? Something analogous happened for all the other amendments on war profiteering. Did Halliburton lobby them too? If my representative is not there in the building, I am simply not represented. (Yeah, I am not a citizen but whatever.)