If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. In Argentina, a court has ordered Google to “reach inside” Android users’ devices with its long censorship arm, and remove an IPTV app called MagisTV – provided those devices have Argentinian IP addresses. The order is considered unprecedented, and so potentially setting a precedent for other countries, while MagisTV is described as a “pirate app” that users sideload, that is, it can’t be found on Google’s Play Store. Nevertheless, the authorities and Argentina appear to be implementing a multi-pronged approach to act on behalf of copyright holders. The extraordinary court order comes in concert with local ISPs blocking 69 domains, seemingly targeted for reselling MagisTV subscriptions. At the same time, a number of arrests have recently happened in Brazil (reports say as part of Operation 404), but also in Argentina, and according to the local press, this has to do with MagisTV as well. Even those considered to be “marketers” with links to the IPTV app are being sought by the police. There have also been raids on-premises and stores believed to be selling TV boxes with MagisTV app installed. Meanwhile, the order issued to Google came from Judge Esteban Rossignoli, who, in addition to approving the investigators’ request to have ISPs block nearly 70 domains, wants the US tech giant to “immediately” uninstall MagisTV app from Android devices with Argentinian IP addresses. The court order names the file that users are sideloading to get the app, as well as associated SHA1 and MD5 hash values. Argentina’s Specialized Unit on Cybercrime (UFEIC) headed by Prosecutor Alejandro Musso is quoted as saying that something of the kind “has never been done before,” but defends the order, which he himself calls “unprecedented,” as necessary. Now observers worry how copyright holders (perpetually hungry for every last drop of profit they can squeeze out of content) will react to this new turn the “war on (software)” piracy has taken. The holders have been known to seize upon every opportunity, including by using methods and rules devised in one country to justify actions in another. At present, one big question remains without any answer: namely, Google’s reaction to all this. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Court Orders Google To Uninstall a Sideloaded Pirate IPTV App From All Android Devices With an Argentinian IP Address appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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On Thursday morning, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell laid into the latest softball-laden Harris interview while appearing on FBN’s Varney and Co. The show’s titular host, Stuart Varney, began with a clip of President Biden’s cozy Wednesday appearance on ABC’s The View. “Softball questions, no serious questions, no follow-ups — but does it work with voters?” he inquired. Bozell led off with a nonsensical quote from co-host Whoopi Goldberg to Biden: “You stepped up to lead us out of a dark and very divisive era, and became one of the most substantial Presidents in the past half-century.” “That wasn’t a question, that was a statement,” Bozell argued, adding: “The day my children put me in an old folks home, and they tell me that I’ve got to be put away, they’re going to be just as nice to me. And this is really what’s going on with Joe Biden. They feel sorry for the man… They’re trying to make him feel nice now that he’s been put into a closet.”   Bozell then turned his sights on MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, who conducted the Wednesday interview with Vice President Harris: “Where Kamala Harris is concerned, she was interviewed by a reporter who a week ago said on the Bill Maher show that [Harris] did not have to take any policy questions, and she did not need to do interviews. And that reporter went on to call Donald Trump a threat to democracy.” “She allowed no policy positions to be given, and she allowed Kamala Harris to attack Donald Trump,” he concluded. “So, no, there’s nothing serious going on.” Varney also cited the MRC’s recent study which found Google search results deliberately favor Harris over Trump. “How do you stop the left-wing push on these platforms?” he asked. Bozell pointed out that according to polling data, 15 percent of the public rely on Google for information about political candidates. “Google is deliberately playing with the algorithms to change the electoral count. If that isn’t tampering with democracy, I don’t know what is,” he concluded.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich now makes videos, like I do. In fact, his channel, Inequality Media, is very much like Stossel TV. He also reaches people via social media platforms, gets millions of views and covers economic topics. Reich does almost exactly what I do, except ... Reich is repeatedly wrong. It’s understandable. Despite being frequently introduced as “economist Robert Reich,” Reich has no economics degree. He’s another liberal lawyer. His videos reflect that. “Inequality Media” is a catchy name. Americans dislike inequality. But my new video points out that inequality isn’t a conspiracy. It’s simply what happens when people are free. Taylor Swift’s a billionaire. Should government force you to listen to me sing to make life more fair? Reich wants to “ban billionaires” like Jeff Bezos. I don’t much like Bezos, but his creation, Amazon, is wonderful. It’s lowered prices so much that it cut America’s core inflation. Reich claims Amazon is a monopoly. But Amazon is far from a monopoly. It has to compete with Walmart, Target, eBay, Alibaba, etc. Where there are free markets, we have choices. If we buy from Amazon, it’s only because we think it’s cheaper or better Reich says it is bad that billionaires “get money from rich relatives.” But the biggest study of millionaires found few do. Bezos got some money from his parents, but most of what he needed to grow Amazon he got from investors. Media “experts” sneered at them for years, because at first, Amazon lost so much money. Capitalism rewards such risk-taking. Progressives and liberal lawyers like Reich believe rich people take most of America’s wealth and leave little for the poor. Like the Hollywood writers for the movie “Wall Street,” they call our economy “a zero-sum game -- somebody wins, somebody loses.” But that’s just dumb. Capitalists create new wealth. They don’t take a big slice of the pie and leave us a sliver. If they get rich, it’s because they find ways to bake lots of new pies. That’s what’s happened in America. Its why today, even poor Americans have access to things European kings only dreamed about. Capitalists can get rich only by making all of us better off. Actual economist Dan Mitchell explains, “Billionaires only kept 2.2% of the additional wealth they generated ... the rest of us captured almost 98% of the benefits.” Reich also mocks trade. In one video, he sneers, “Global trade is good for everyone. That’s bunk!” Of course it’s bunk. Few things are good for everyone.  But trade makes almost everyone richer by allowing us to specialize in what we do best. It’s called comparative advantage. Reich complains, “What if a country’s comparative advantage comes from people working under ... exploitative conditions?” “Exploitation” would be bad, but people in poor countries aren’t forced to work in factories. They took those jobs because their alternatives were worse. Trade allowed a billion people to lift themselves out of poverty. Still, trade does take away some Americans’ jobs. Donald Trump complains about other countries “ripping us off and taking our jobs.” He and Reich don’t understand that trade creates more jobs. It’s why unemployment is low. Companies engaged in global trade created 60% of America’s new jobs. Finally, Reich says it’s “rubbish” that President Joe Biden’s huge spending increases caused Inflation. He claims it’s “corporate greed ... Mega corporations raise prices to increase their profits.” That’s just silly. When prices fall, did companies suddenly get less greedy? My video cites actual economists like Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, who explains, “Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can create money. Any other attribution of other groups to inflation is wrong.” Robert Reich’s videos are wrong about almost everything. It’s sad that colleges pay this fake economist to deliver foolish propaganda to students. His “progressive” ideas would leave all of us poorer. And less free.