Tag: Freedom

K9 Police Squad Performing Explosive Material Security Screening At Airports

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Peter Biles
Date
August 15, 2024

Categorized
Censorship

Tagged
America, censorship, Free speech, Freedom, UK}

Tulsi Gabbard Put on Terror Watch List. Is the Dystopia Already Here?

_{Tyranny is starting to rear its head in the western world} _{Peter Biles
August 15, 2024

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Censorship}

Last week, the United Kingdom warned its citizens about what they post online, noting they could be criminally prosecuted for sharing content that can “incite” violence. Free speech advocates were quick to condemn the announcement as censorial and undemocratic. But is America immune from the thought police? Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was recently put on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) terror watchlist. According to whistleblower reports, she and her husband were followed by federal agents and a team of dogs last month and checked multiple times at airports as they traveled across the United States and overseas. Local Hawaiian lawmakers sent a statement to the TSA condemning the “harassment”: The people of Hawaii love Tulsi and your actions Read More ›

Security camera on modern building. Professional surveillance cameras. CCTV on the wall in the city. Security system, technology. Video equipment for safety system area control outdoor. AI generated.

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News
Date
September 26, 2023

Categorized
Surveillance

Tagged
AI, Facial Recognition, Freedom, Technocracy, Wired}

When Video Surveillance Gets It Wrong

_{An incident in Argentina calls the country's facial recognition tech into serious question} _{News
September 26, 2023

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Surveillance}

A new in-depth report from Wired recounts the story of an Argentinian man, Guillermo Ibarrola, who was falsely accused of a crime and pinpointed via video surveillance. According to Wired, Ibarrola spent nearly a week in custody before the “mixup” was spotted and authorities realized they had nabbed the wrong Guillermo Ibarrola. It was a data entry mistake. The case is only one of many others in Argentina’s mishaps with video surveillance, and how data mistakes can end up impacting innocent lives significantly. Karen Naundorf writes, When speaking of South America, mass surveillance technology is likely not the first thing that comes to mind. But a study by the data protection organization Access Now shows Argentina is one of the most surveilled Read More ›

Medical Development Laboratory: Caucasian Female Scientist Looking Under Microscope, Analyzes Petri Dish Sample. Specialists Working on Medicine, Biotechnology Research in Advanced Pharma Lab

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News
Date
September 10, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Biotech, COSM, Discovery Institute, Freedom, Jay Richards, Medicine}

Killing Diseases and Living Longer

_{Can innovations in biotechnology enhance and lengthen human life?} _{News
September 10, 2023

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Technology}

Can innovations in biotechnology enhance and lengthen human life? This is question typical to the COSM Conference, where today’s leading voices in tech and science converge to discuss the potentials of the present and the vision of the future. Here, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards interviews Matt Scholz, CEO Of OISON Biotechnologies, on new approaches to killing disease and living longer. (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023) COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. From artificial intelligence to 5G and WiFi6, from tokenized time to blockchain, from cloud computing to the quantum revolution, and from biotech to the nanotech revolution, COSM brings together some of the greatest minds of our Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 7, 2023

Categorized
Technocracy

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, bioethics, Doctors, Freedom, healthcare, Medicine, Technocracy, Wesley J. Smith}

The Technocracy Continues to Grow

_{We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 7, 2023

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Technocracy}

We live in a time where the most important policy and personal decisions are going to be made not by us but for us by “the experts.” Read More ›

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Andrew McDiarmid and Robert J. Marks
Date
July 14, 2022

Tagged
authentic technology, digital wellness, Freedom, industrial revolution, Jacques Ellul, Technology, Technology (lifestyle management)}

Weaving the Technology of Our Lives

_{Andrew McDiarmid and Robert J. Marks
July 14, 2022

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We have the ability to choose how to weave technology into our lives. How can we use technology in a healthy way? What are the consequences of being always connected and having everything available instantaneously? Andrew McDiarmid discusses technology, digital wellness, and freedom with Robert J. Marks. Additional Resources Andrew McDiarmid’s website Andrew McDiarmid at Discovery.org How to Glorify God Read More ›

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Michael Egnor
Date
November 16, 2020

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind, Science

Tagged
Determinism, Featured, free will, Freedom, Jerry Coyne, John Bell, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Physics}

A Materialist Gives Up on Determinism

_{Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne undercuts his own argument against free will by admitting that quantum phenomena are real} _{Michael Egnor
November 16, 2020

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Philosophy of Mind, Science}

Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne has denied free will for years. But most recently, he has said something that puts the whole matter in doubt. A bit of background: Free will simply cannot be real if determinism is true, that is, if everything in nature falls like dominoes after the first one is pushed: If nature is truly like that, our acts, like those of the dominoes, are wholly determined by natural history and physical laws that we do not control. Nearly all arguments against free will depend critically on determinism. But there is a central problem with determinism: It is clear from physics that determinism in nature is not true. In 1964, theoretical physicist John Bell (1928–1990) proposed relatively simple Read More ›

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John Lennox and Robert J. Marks
Date
July 2, 2020

Tagged
2084 (book), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, ethics, Freedom, human uniqueness, John Lennox, Moral Responsibility, Panpsychism, self-driving cars, surveillance capitalism}

John Lennox: How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact the World by 2084?

_{John Lennox and Robert J. Marks
July 2, 2020

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What will be the effects of artificial intelligence by the year 2084? Robert J. Marks and Dr. John Lennox discuss artificial general intelligence, threats and advantages of artificial intelligence, and Dr. Lennox’s book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Show Notes Additional Resources

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Mind Matters
Date
November 2, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
censorship, China, Freedom, Freedom House, internet, Surveillance}

A chilling snippet from mass surveillance in China

_{China is helping other countries restrict their citizens’ internet, while shunning the U.S.} _{Mind Matters
November 2, 2018

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Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Overall, governments worldwide are restricting the freedom of the internet, especially around election times, and the big social media companies are conspicuous by their silence. Read More ›

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Jay Richards
Date
November 1, 2018

Tagged
art, democracy, free will, Freedom, obsolescence, Technocracy}

The End of Human Drama

_{Part 3: Yuval Harari on the end of democracy, volition, religion, and art?} _{Jay Richards
November 1, 2018

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In this third part of their reflection on Yuval Harari’s Atlantic piece anticipating technology’s march toward tyranny, Jay Richards and Robert J. Marks discuss the many assumptions therein. At the root of these speculations is an overestimation of the power of information processing systems and an underestimation of the human ability to be the true governors of their creations, not their docile “pets”. Harari rightly points to a better understanding of the mind as the way forward, but fails to appreciate its true nature, resulting in a dismal prognosis for art, religion, and democracy.