I hear \Rebekah has hinted at running for Gaetz soon to be vacant seat in order to access this two-tiered segregationist system DeSantis has imposed on Florida's social media. Apparently you only get 1st speech safe space if you're a politician, otherwise you keep getting retaliated against.
More DeSantis winning - Hey look who is running for the Congressional seat of DeSantis' BFF pedophile Matt Gaetz. Now that Rebekah Jones is running for office in Florida wouldn't DeSantis be required to fine social media companies that block her account as a candidate. Especially amusing in view that it appears to be false complaints from DeSantis' new press spokesperson which caused her Twitter account to be suspended. Former DOH data analyst Rebekah Jones announces campaign for U.S. representative Jones will run for Mat Gatez's seat https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-new...ones-announces-campign-for-u-s-representative Former Florida Department of Health data analyst Rebekah Jones announced Monday night she is running for Rep. Matt Gaetz's seat. ABC 27 Capitol reporter Forrest Saunders asked how seriously she is taking this— her response: “Taking a human sex trafficker out of Congress? Very interested.” Jones said she was originally planning to announce her candidacy next month; however, the comments from the DeSantis Administration following the Twitter suspension forced her hand.
Norwegian Cruise Lines flips DeSantis the bird. Norwegian threatens to defy DeSantis with fully vaccinated cruises https://www.sun-sentinel.com/busine...0210607-jqxluutwlvczvbzbcyrvtkrby4-story.html Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings announced Monday that it plans to resume cruising from Miami in August with fully vaccinated passengers, a plan that threatens to defy orders of Gov. Ron DeSantis and creates yet more uncertainty about one of South Florida’s most important tourist draws. The cruise line’s announcement offered no indication that DeSantis has agreed to exempt cruise lines from his edict banning businesses from requiring vaccines, nor did it suggest that any sort of compromise had been reached between Norwegian and the governor. Instead, it creates confusion about plans of cruise lines that in recent days have announced diverging strategies for resuming operations — with some planning test voyages, some requiring vaccines and some welcoming people on board with masks and social distancing. Cruise fans and local workers are left wondering when the industry will get back on track in Florida. “The fact that the public and the businesses and workers who depend on cruises restarting are being forced to read tea leaves is problematic,” said Bob Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University. Carnival Cruise Line, meanwhile, announced that fully vaccinated voyages will take place from Galveston, Texas. Details of its plans in South Florida are still being hammered out in talks with state and federal authorities, the company said. Royal Caribbean is taking the opposite approach — strongly encouraging but not requiring vaccinations and hinting that passengers who cannot prove they are vaccinated will face testing and other “protocols.” Royal Caribbean also said it is continuing to work with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and multiple state and local authorities on requirements for upcoming cruises. Norwegian’s announcement signaled that it would prefer an amicable resolution to its conflict with DeSantis over requiring passenger vaccinations. Its news release listing upcoming cruises quoted Norwegian president and CEO Frank Del Rio as praising DeSantis for publicly supporting Florida-based cruise lines in March and calling upon the CDC to create clear guidelines for cruising to resume. In March, cruise line executives were frustrated that the CDC was not telling them how vaccine availability would affect a complicated set of resumption guidelines issued last fall, before vaccines became widespread. “We want to thank Governor DeSantis and the State of Florida for fighting in support of our industry,” Del Rio was quoted as saying. “His leadership helped bring the CDC to the table. We are currently in communication with his staff and legal counsel to ensure that we can offer the safest cruise experience for our passengers departing from the cruise capital of the world.” RELATED: Battle for the seas: Cruise lines prepare to sail, but clash with DeSantis looms » Yet, by including voyages by Miami-based Norwegian Gem, Norwegian was in effect daring DeSantis to levy fines against the cruise line or use his authority to try to stop it if a compromise is not reached, Jarvis said. Norwegian’s announced sailing from Miami amounts to both sides “playing a very high level game of chicken” that could backfire on either one, he said. Norwegian “puts DeSantis in a spot where, to save face, he has to dig in on his position that the CDC has no authority to require proof of vaccination,” Jarvis said. “DeSantis, on the other hand, risks having to turn thousands of passengers away when they show up at the pier. Caught in the middle is the public and, more importantly, all the businesses and workers who depend on cruises restarting.” RELATED: 80% of cruise enthusiasts would prefer to sail with vaccine requirement » DeSantis’ office did not respond to questions about Norwegian’s announcement. In April, shortly after his public show of support for the cruise lines, DeSantis and the state filed a federal lawsuit challenging the CDC’s authority to prevent cruise ships from sailing from U.S. ports. Afterward — coincidentally or not — cruise lines’ executives revealed that they had begun working closely with the CDC and that the CDC had simplified a number of resumption conditions they had found vague and onerous. The biggest revision was the CDC’s announcement that cruise lines could skip requirements to conduct complicated “test cruises” aimed at verifying effectiveness of pre-vaccine safety protocols if they certified that 95% of passengers and crew for any particular voyage are vaccinated. That option drove a wedge between DeSantis, unyielding in his position forbidding vaccine requirements, and cruise lines eager to expedite their resumption. The problem as it remains now for DeSantis is that a vaccinated cruise will not be possible except under any of a handful of possibilities: DeSantis relents on his position that cruise lines cannot require customers to show proof of vaccines. DeSantis agrees to a compromise that would exempt cruise lines from his edict barring “vaccine passports” while still allowing the governor to claim that his ban was not defied. Cruise lines resume operations amid the threat of DeSantis levying fines or using his authority to stop them. The nation’s two largest cruise lines — Royal Caribbean and Carnival — have so far sidestepped the conflict by opting to conduct test cruises in Florida according to the pre-vaccine safety guidelines while hoping a compromise emerges. Royal Caribbean has said it chose not to require vaccines for upcoming Florida-based cruises aboard its Royal Caribbean International brand because those cruises are popular with families who have unvaccinated children, which would make it difficult to achieve 95% vaccination rates. An announcement on Friday about the cruise line’s upcoming sailings says passengers are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated. Passengers who are unvaccinated or unable to verify vaccination will be required to undergo testing and follow other undetermined protocols. CDC guidance for voyages without vaccine requirements require mask wearing and social distancing outside of guests’ staterooms. Yet Royal Caribbean’s Celebrity Cruises brand, a luxury brand popular with adults who like long voyages, has announced a fully vaccinated cruise out of Port Everglades on June 26, potentially setting up the same showdown with DeSantis as Norwegian. Carnival announced plans to require vaccinations for voyages leaving Galveston, Texas, in July, including a planned July 3 sailing of Carnival Vista and a July 15 voyage on Carnival Breeze. Other Carnival brands are also requiring vaccines, including on ships sailing from Seattle to Alaska this summer. Carnival’s announcement on Monday included an acknowledgement that CDC protocols for unvaccinated voyages, which would be legal in Florida, would nonetheless be unappealing to customers forced to wear masks and practice social distancing throughout the ship. Current CDC requirements for unvaccinated cruises “will make it very difficult to deliver the experience our guests expect, especially given the large number of families with younger children who sail with us,” the cruise line said. The Carnival release said the company “continues to work with both the State of Florida and the CDC for Carnival Horizon sailings and plans to provide an update by Friday concerning protocols specific to these sailings to all booked guests.” RELATED: DeSantis disses Norwegian Cruise Line over threat to leave Florida » After a mediation effort to settle the state’s lawsuit against the CDC failed last week, DeSantis’ office continued to blast the CDC’s regulations, calling them “crippling,” “ridiculous and unlawful,” and asserting that the agency’s requirement that unvaccinated guests wear face masks were “baseless” and “anti-science.” It’s possible that Norwegian included its upcoming Miami-based voyage in its announcement on Monday because it felt enough progress has been made with the governor’s office behind the scenes, Jarvis said. The fact that all three major cruise lines have recently mentioned ongoing talks with Florida officials could be taken as a positive sign, said Chris Gray Faust, managing editor of the consumer focused website CruiseCritic.com. While Celebrity Edge’s vaccinated cruise from Port Everglades is fast approaching, Grey Faust said Norwegian has plenty of time before August to revise details of its August cruise from Miami. “It will be interesting to see where conversations go between now and then — as well as what protocols might be developed — though many cruisers are certainly craving details now, as they begin to plan upcoming sailings,” she said.
DeSantis promoters pay for fake followers of Rebekah Jones Twitter account in false flag campaign to get her booted from Twitter. The curious case of Rebekah Jones’ suspension from Twitter https://salesground.org/2021/06/08/the-curious-case-of-rebekah-jones-suspension-from-twitter/ This afternoon ‘Rebekah Jones’ was trending on Twitter. A quick check revealed that her account had been suspended by Twitter. Highly polarized tweets applauded her suspension, calling her a scammer; even Florida The office of Governor Ron DeSantis agreed. Governor Ron DeSantis’ press secretary, Christina Pushaw, claimed that Jones had not been suspended for anything she posted to her account. “She was suspended for violating a clear rule against buying followers (platform manipulation) and – all the evidence points to this – hijacking the accounts of unsuspecting users to get them to follow her,” Pushaw wrote on Twitter. As a long-time fraud investigator, that accusation was false. That’s because you don’t have to hijack other users’ accounts and let them follow you. There are literally hordes of fake accounts operated by bots that can be tasked with following an account with millions in minutes. If you google the term “buy twitter followers” you will find thousands of vendors offering services to help you do that. This is a tried and true practice for cheaters, dating back at least 10 years. See: Fake Twitter accounts followers are worth millions of dollars So I asked the #OSINT (“open source intelligence”) community for help. Within minutes, Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0, an investigator specializing in documenting Twitter fraud, wrote back with concrete evidence, including how it was done. The chart below (in yellow box) shows that there was clearly a concentrated increase in new follower activity for @georebekah (red marker on the right). What is not known is whether Rebekah Jones bought the followers herself, or if it was a false flag campaign intended to discredit her (someone else bought the followers and sent them to her account to make it appear that she was breaking Twitter’s rules). follower charts over time Northern conspirator @ conspirator0 In a short time, almost 21,000 followers were added. This turned out to be the work of a family of apps called ‘Round Year Fun’. @conspirator0 told me that these apps, among many others, tricked real users into giving them access permissions to their Twitter accounts so that it could do silly things like plot the user’s friends in a circle. Usually those permissions include the ability to track other accounts; and usually users forget to uninstall the malicious app or revoke account access and manage permissions after getting the circle of friends. That’s when the malicious apps get to work. sample permissions and “circle of friends” diagram Twitter When someone buys Twitter followers from any number of vendors who sell “true active Twitter account followers” for a premium, the network of apps springs into action to deliver exactly the number of followers purchased. The exact same methods are used to increase Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and followers on other social media platforms. The scale of these fraud operations is also enormous. @conspirator0 writes “How many accounts have been affected by Round Year Fun? We downloaded the last 10 days of tweets linking (dot)fun throughout the year, generating 214,830 tweets from 180,402 accounts. The tweets were sent through 1,091 different apps, most with names that are variations of “Round Year Fun.” All of the above has been confirmed in detail and documented by another Twitter Fraud Investigator, Geoff Golberg, CEO of Social Forensic Sciences. MediumTwitter’s negligence is astonishing PSA for Twitter Users – Check Account Access Settings As a public service announcement for Twitter users, be sure to check the “security and account access” section of your settings, check out the apps that have permission to access and manage your account, and revoke permissions for apps you don’t recognize, look shady, or never use it. Also, make sure to delete them from your phone as well as their presence poses further cybersecurity risks beyond hijacking your Twitter account. In the broader context of digital ad fraud, the techniques mentioned above are just some of the tools in the arsenal of hackers and fraudsters. When you think of a pyramid of sophistication, the lowest part of the pyramid, the largest, is made up of the simplest data center bots. These are headless browsers (real browsers, but without anything to display on the screen). Such bots are used to repeatedly load web pages to generate massive amounts of fake ads to sell through ad exchanges. The middle part of the pyramid consists of more advanced bots, for example malware or malicious apps that live on real human devices. Their preferred environment is mobile as gullible people inadvertently give consent without reading properly and the malware detection and prevention ecosystem is much less mature in mobile environments. Once the malicious apps are downloaded on the mobile devices, they may continuously load ads in the background to make money. Most people don’t turn off their smartphone even at night when they sleep. The devices have continuous access to the internet, allowing rogue apps to monetize 24/7, unlike laptops and PCs that people turn off overnight. The top of the pyramid consists of the sophisticated malicious apps that can fake touch events, page scrolling or other human interaction events. Some bad apps can even record the interactions of real human users and replay them to evade more advanced fraud detection. So what? The simple lesson that marketers should learn from this story is that fraudsters and malicious parties have many tools at their disposal. While a handful of fraud cases are discovered, most of the fraud occasionally remains hidden so that the perpetrators can continue to make money. Because all of this takes place in the digital realm, the fraud schemes are highly scalable and highly profitable – whether it be selling involuntary Twitter followers or hundreds of billions of false ad impressions. MORE FROM FORBESBots do what you pay for, at scaleThrough dr. Augustine Fou
FAUCISM new term.... Governor Ron DeSantis “In Florida, we chose freedom over ‘Faucism’ and we’re much better off for doing that.
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As DeSantis takes aim at cruise industry, Republicans step up attacks on longtime allies in corporate America Cruise ship companies announce varying vaccine rules as they face stiff political pressure in the South. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/08/republicans-business-desantis-cruise/ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s refusal to allow cruise ship operators to require proof of passenger vaccinations reflects a mounting willingness by top Republicans to demonize and defy corporations that have been among the party’s closest allies. DeSantis has barred businesses in the state from insisting that customers be vaccinated, calling it a matter of individual liberty. In recent days, the cruise ship industry has splintered into different camps after beginning the year largely unified behind the idea of compulsory vaccines. Now, some companies are backing down while others such as Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings remain adamant. The clash between the governor, a likely 2024 presidential candidate, and one of Florida’s major employers highlights the anti-corporate mood of a Republican Party reshaped by former president Donald Trump’s populism. This Republican souring on big business — and enthusiasm to use government power against it — already has rattled companies such as Facebook, Coke, Apple and Delta and may just be getting started. “It’s a different day and age. In the last 30 years, you’ve seen the big multinational corporations prioritize their own short-term bottom line over American workers,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). “When you see the behavior of these corporations that have sent jobs overseas, that have weakened the American worker, that frankly have weakened American industry and, at the same time, many of them pursuing a monopoly size status and control … It’s a set of dangers there that we need to confront.” During the Trump administration, many Republican lawmakers abandoned party orthodoxy on trade and deficits and embraced protectionist tariffs and budget-busting spending that they would previously have shunned. Now, even with Trump defeated, leading Republicans are slamming CEOs for acting “woke” and exercising excessive influence over the U.S. economy. Some lash corporate leaders with rhetoric that resembles that of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, accusing them of placing greed above principle and even of aiding the country’s enemies. Several of the party’s most prominent voices are taking a fresh look at policies on technology, labor, antitrust and finance and, in some cases, are proposing regulations or laws that would explicitly target giant companies. “There is a well-represented faction on the political right that is openly hostile to Big Business,” said economist Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute. “It has real policy significance. It’s not just rhetoric.” In Florida, DeSantis has signed an executive order and legislation forbidding businesses from requiring customers to provide evidence of vaccination. Each violation is subject to a $5,000 fine, meaning one ship could incur millions of dollars in potential penalties. DeSantis said any vaccine requirement would create “huge” privacy issues and lead to individuals handing over personal information to “big corporations.” DeSantis sued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April seeking an unconditional return to cruising. A court-ordered mediation effort ran aground Thursday with the governor’s office blasting the CDC’s “ridiculous and unlawful” regulations. The CDC requires 95 percent of passengers and 98 percent of crew members to be vaccinated, fearing the tight quarters at sea are ideal for the spread of infectious-disease. In the pandemic’s early days, one of the first known outbreaks occurred aboard a cruise ship called the Diamond Princess, sparking an international scramble to offload hundreds of infected passengers. It has become clear in recent days that the cruise ship industry does not have a uniform policy regarding how to proceed on vaccines. On June 4, Royal Caribbean said passengers are “strongly recommended,” though not required, to get vaccinated before traveling aboard its first post-pandemic cruise from Miami on July 2. Carnival Cruise Line said Monday it will require vaccines when it resumes U.S. cruises from Galveston, Texas on July 3. The company plans Friday to announce its rules for July sailings from Miami. DeSantis’s resistance to companies’ use of so-called vaccine passports, which would certify an individual’s immunization, is just the latest rejection of corporate preferences in favor of cultural appeals that resonate with Trump voters. The Florida governor remains at odds with certain cruise ship operators such as Frank Del Rio, chief executive of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. Del Rio, with more than 25 years industry experience, says vaccinating 100 percent of the crew and passengers is the key to winning back customers spooked by the pandemic. “We’re going to have one rule, and one rule only, and that is, at least in the beginning, 100 percent of our guests and our crew will be vaccinated,” Del Rio said on an earnings call in May. Del Rio told investors that federal law will likely override DeSantis’s refusal to permit businesses to require proof of vaccination. But if it does not, Norwegian may move its ships from Miami to the Caribbean. That would cost Florida. The cruise industry employs roughly 159,000 state residents and contributes $9 billion to the state’s economy, according to Andria Muniz-Amador, director of public affairs for PortMiami. In its last pre-pandemic year, the port, which bills itself as “the cruise capital of the world,” welcomed more than 1,200 cruise ships and nearly 6 million passengers. After this story appeared online, Christina Pushaw, DeSantis’s press secretary, said the governor’s fight against CDC mandates had contributed to the resumption of cruises from U.S. ports. “His stance isn’t anti-business — it’s anti-bureaucratic overreach,” Pushaw said, adding: “Governor DeSantis has never hesitated to take a stand against corporations that attempt to overpower or subvert individual rights.” Republicans’ populist turn, breaking with the party’s laissez-faire past, has its roots in the last administration. Though he boasted of loosening regulations, Trump wielded federal powers to pick winners and losers throughout the economy. He ordered power plants to purchase energy from uncompetitive coal and nuclear plants and let the Commerce Department choose which companies could avoid costly tariffs on industrial metals. He also attacked companies, such as Amazon, General Motors and Harley Davidson for their business practices, including factory locations. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) “The real fault line was trade. The party of free trade based in the suburbs became the party of quotas, tariffs and industrial policy based in rural America,” said Chris Krueger, a strategist with Cowen Washington Research Group. “It just flipped on its head.” The result is a Republican Party whose members are increasingly comfortable with government involvement in business decisions. Hawley, who says multinationals have pursued a “mega-globalization” agenda at workers’ expense, earlier this year proposed legislation requiring corporations with annual revenue of at least $1 billion to pay an hourly minimum wage of $15, a mandate that would likely apply to more than 1,000 companies. The Missouri Republican, another possible 2024 contender, has criticized “elites” on Wall Street and proposed an antitrust push to combat growing economywide industrial concentration, starting with technology and pharmaceuticals. “There’s hardly a major industry in this country that has not grown more concentrated in the last 30 years, and that’s a big problem,” he said, blaming it for disappointing long-term wage growth. DeSantis, too, favors action against executives he disparages as “the leftist oligarchs of Silicon Valley.” Last month, he signed a bill banning social media companies from “deplatforming” political candidates. Industry groups representing Facebook, Amazon, Google and Twitter have sued the governor, alleging the law is unconstitutional. The GOP’s populist transformation is especially striking since so many CEOs are party supporters. Researchers led by Alma Cohen, an economist at Harvard Law School, reviewed the political contributions of 3,800 CEOs over an 18-year period and found 57 percent gave at least two-thirds of their political donations to Republican candidates while just 19 percent similarly backed Democrats. To be sure, there are limits to the GOP makeover. While Big Tech and Wall Street are under fire, many other large or concentrated industries retain Republican support, such as oil and gas producers. The party remains uniformly opposed to President Biden’s call to raise the corporate tax rate, which was cut in 2017 from 35 percent to 21 percent, back to 28 percent. Likewise, even as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and others talk of rebranding the GOP as a “workers’ party” and giving workers a greater say in corporate decision-making, they remain hostile to organized labor and the Davis Bacon Act, a federal law that requires contractors to pay the locally prevailing wage rates determined by the government. Geoff Kabaservice, the author of “Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party,” said the anti-corporatist activity is largely performative. “The road to popularity is to be seen standing up to the big institutions of American life for the little people, and that’s what DeSantis is trying to do,” said Kabaservice, vice president of political studies at the Niskanen Center. “I don’t think the DeSantis position ultimately is tenable. But it may be politically worth it to him.” The Republican rethinking accelerated over the past year amid protests following the murder of George Floyd. The response of many CEOs to demands from customers and employees to speak out on issues such as societal racism, climate change and voting rights has left Republican politicians itching for a fight. After several top executives, including those of Apple, Coke, Merck and Major League Baseball, criticized legislation in Georgia that they said restricted voting, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate Minority Leader, vowed they would face “serious consequences.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) called for revoking MLB’s antitrust exemption while Republicans in the Georgia legislature sought to ax a jet fuel subsidy worth $35 million to Delta Air Lines. Corporations in consumer-facing industries face a combustible environment. They must try to sell products such as beer, athletic shoes or airline tickets to Americans who marched for Black Lives Matter as well as to the insurrectionists who stormed Capitol Hill on Jan. 6th. “It’s not the business community that’s moving,” said one CEO who asked not to be named to speak candidly. “It’s the populist wing of the Republican Party that’s moving, and that’s actually a big part of the party.” Other Republicans said the corporate chieftains were guilty of selective indignation, attacking alleged Democratic shortcomings at home while turning a blind eye to those in overseas markets. “#Apple lectures Americans, but does the bidding of Beijing because they want access to Chinese customers and enslaved person labor,” Rubio tweeted last month, following a report that seven Apple suppliers in China had employed Muslim detainees in Xinjiang, where U.S. officials say genocide is occurring. A spokesman for Apple declined to respond. With populists ascendant in the GOP, and the jockeying for 2024 underway, some CEOs fear the anti-corporate mood will grow. On Thursday, Rubio accused Wall Street of “helping to finance the Chinese Communist Party’s effort to weaken and ultimately replace American leadership.” In Florida, meanwhile, Taryn Fenske, the governor’s communications director, denied reports of a potential compromise over vaccine passports. DeSantis appeared on Fox Newsto discuss another front in his war with big business, telling Tucker Carlson he had withstood corporate pressure when he signed legislation this week barring transgender athletes from girls’ sports. “You can’t be cowed by these organizations, particularly by woke corporations, from doing the right thing,” DeSantis said.