Liberty Links 9/29/18 – Big Tech Is Appealing to Congress to Get Around California’s New Online Privacy Law

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Big Tech Is Appealing to Congress to Help Get Around California’s New Online Privacy Law (Another reason we need to strongly support states rights, The Intercept)

Trump’s Phony Anti-Globalism Should Fool No-One (Michael Tracey, Spectator USA)

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information (More shadiness from Facebook, Gizmodo)

Bezos Space Startup Blue Origin to Supply Engines for Boeing-Lockheed Rocket Venture (More evidence of the increasingly close ties between Bezos/Amazon and the U.S. military/surveillance complex, MarketWatch)

Actor James Woods Bashes Twitter After Getting Locked out (AP)

GOP Sees Highest Favorability in Seven Years (Only Democrats could be so bad they make the GOP more popular, CNN)

Why I’m Done with Chrome (Important read, Cryptographic Engineering)

Trump War Whore Celebrates Starvation Of Iranian Civilians At MEK Rally (Caitlin Johnstone, Medium)

Meanwhile, Facebook briefly blocked unfavorable stories about itself, later blaming it on algos.

U.S. News/Politics 

Facebook Unearths Security Breach Affecting 50 Million Users (If you still use Facebook I can’t help you, Reuters)

3 Ways Facebook Is Increasingly Becoming an Arm of the U.S. Government (Zerohedge)

Google Dodges Questions About China During Senate Privacy Hearing (CNBC)

Amazon Comes Up With Another Way to Get Alexa Into Your Home (Not coming in my home, Bloomberg)

GOP Leaders Delay Kavanaugh Confirmation for One-Week FBI Investigation (The Hill)

Corporations Have a Friend in Judge Kavanaugh (The Hill)

Defense Distributed’s New Era—Cody Wilson Resigns, Former Arts Professional Steps in (ArsTechnica)

Pro-Israel Campus Group ‘Monitored’ Progressive Jewish Students (Very creepy, Haaretz)

Mom Regains Custody of 10-Month-Old Son Who Was Taken By CPS Because She Left the Hospital Too Quickly (Madness, Reason)

Texas Prisons Often Deny Dentures to Inmates with No Teeth (AP)

Foreign Affairs/WW3

Iran, Major Powers Labor to Keep Nuclear Deal Afloat (Reuters)

Russia to Give Syria S-300 Air Defense After Accusations Against Israel (Reuters)

Russia Beefs Up Syria’s Air Defenses – Tells “Hotheads” To Cool Down (Moon of Alabama)

Intel: Mattis on ‘Same Sheet of Music’ as Bolton on U.S. Troops Syria (Not a good thing, Al-Monitor)

Trump’s Iran Strategy Could Spark War, Warns Bipartisan Group of Former U.S. Officials (Haaretz)

U.S. Military Forces Put Multidomain Operations to the Test in Pacific (DefenseNews)

Senior Official: Trump Administration Putting ‘a Knife to China’s Neck’ with Tariffs (The Hill)

Any Effective Anti-War Movement Must Readjust Its Understanding Of What War Is (Caitlin Johnstone, Medium)

Emmanuel Macron’s Popularity Plunges To 29% As Migrant Crisis Worsens (Zerohedge)

Macron Returns to UN With Ambitions Curtailed (Bloomberg)

British Media Is Not Waving, It’s Drowning…in a Sea of Its Own Mendacity (George Galloway op-ed, RT)

Swedish Prime Minister Lofven Ousted in Vote of No-Confidence (Zerohedge)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

SEC Charges Tesla CEO Elon Musk with Fraud (CNBC)

Insider Selling Soars: Fastest Pace Of September Sales In Past Decade (Executives selling stock as their companies buy it, Zerohedge)

There Are 3.6 Million College Graduates Living in Poverty (MarketWatch)

Instagram Founders Depart Facebook After Clashes with Zuckerberg (Bloomberg)

Italy Scalds Bond Investors in Replay of Greece (Bloomberg)

Tokyo Whale Sells $230 Million of Bitcoin in Mt. Gox Wind-Down (Bloomberg)

Early Execs Leave Block.one, The Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Startup Behind EOS (Coindesk)

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