'Verkeerschaos' door één persoon met 99 smartphones

Google Maps werd bedrogen door de Berlijnse kunstenaar Simon Wreckert, die met een wagentje gevuld met 99 smartphones door straten van Berlijn liep, waardoor Google Maps aangaf dat die straten vast waren gelopen met auto's, terwijl hij midden over de weg liep en er geen auto was te zien (althans rijdend).....

Wreckert heeft e.e.a. gedaan om onder andere de mensheid te tonen hoeveel ruimte auto's innemen in ons dagelijkse leven.... Waarbij niet moet worden vergeten dat in Nederland ook nog eens 18.000 mensen jaren eerder overlijden na een akelige ziekte, alleen door langdurige inademing van auto-uitstoot, daarnaast loopt jaarlijks een groot aantal kinderen long- en/of luchtwegklachten op door diezelfde uitstoot....... 

Voorts laat Wreckert zien dat we niet zomaar alle data moeten geloven, daar deze gemanipuleerd kunnen worden en daadwerkelijk worden gemanipuleerd, zo laat Google onwelgevallige informatie pas heel ver in de resultaten zien na een zoekopdracht, of toont deze informatie helemaal niet, anders gezegd: Google doet als Facebook zelfs aan censuur! (een populair instrument in dictatoriaal geregeerde landen.....)...... 

Met dank aan Gertjan van Beijnum, die een Twitterbericht besteedde aan het volgende artikel.

This Man Created Traffic Jams on Google Maps Using a Red Wagon Full of Phones

By pulling 99 phones down empty streets, artist Simon Wreckert made it look like they were gridlocked on Google Maps.

by Matthew Gault

Feb 3 2020, 4:41pm

Artist Simon Wreckert walked the streets of Berlin tugging a red wagon behind him. Wherever he went, Google Maps showed a congested traffic jam. People using Google Maps would see a thick red line indicating congestion on the road, even when there was no traffic at all. Each and every one of those 99 phones had Google Maps open, giving the virtual illusion that the roads were jam packed.

“By transporting the smartphones in the street I’m able to generate virtual traffic which will navigate cars on another route,” Wreckert told Motherboard in a Twitter DM. “Ironically that can generate a real traffic jam somewhere else in the city.”

 
Wreckert told Motherboard that he did the hack/art installation to get people to think about the space we give to cars in public life and the data we rely on everyday.

“Isn’t it crazy [how] much space is used by a car in a city compared to the usage?” he said. 
“The hack shows us what is possible with this technology and who we rely on.”

To pull off the trick, Wreckert rented 99 smartphones, all of them Android devices, and purchased 99 sims cards for them online. He said he’d spend an hour or two on each spot, walking back and forth on the street to generate a traffic jam. “My subjective feeling was that even this short time was already enough to change the traffic in the street,” he said.

“‘The map is not the territory ... but another version of reality,’’ Wreckert said, quoting semanticist Alfred Korzybski, one of William S. Burroughs’ biggest influences. “Data is always translated to what they might be presented. The images, lists, graphs, and maps that represent those data are all interpretations, and there is no such thing as neutral data. Data is always collected for a specific purpose, by a combination of people, technology, money, commerce, and government.”

Image: Simon Wreckert

The maps are their own territory, their own objective reality, not just a reflection of the real world but a branch of it. Wreckert was showing us all how data and maps can affect the world they’re meant to chart. “Maps have the potential as an instrument of power,” he said. 
 “They substitute political and military power in a way that represents the state borders between territories and they can repeat, legitimate, and construct the differences of classes and social self-understandings.”

Data is not objective and the maps themselves have biases. Showing how the data can be hacked and manipulated is like pointing out the Emperor has no clothes.

“In this process it is pointing out the fact that we are highly focused on the data and tent to see them as objective, unambiguous, and interpretation free,” Wreckert said. “In doing so, a blindness arises against the processes that data generates and the assumption that numbers speak for themselves. Not only the collection of data provides an interpretative scope, but also computing processes allows further interpretations.”

“Thus data are viewed as the world itself, forgetting that the numbers are only representing a model of the world,” he said.

Coty Levandoski contributed reporting.

Tagged:cars cities traffic maps infrastructure

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'Google helpt de farmaceutische industrie ten koste van alternatieve gezondheidsmedia'

'Grote internetplatforms als Facebook en Twitter weren in de VS anti-oorlog boodschappen en berichten, voorts worden giften geblokkeerd.....' 

'Facebook keurde advertenties goed die waren gericht op neonazi's' (ja ja......)

'Facebook staat valse informatie toe tijdens de (voor-) verkiezingen van het presidentschap in de VS'

'Facebook censuur gestuurd door het westers militair-industrieel complex en de NAVO in het bijzonder..........'

'Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone' (van Zero Hedge)

'Facebook komt met nieuwsshows van betrouwbare media als CNN en Fox News.... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!' 

'Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld......'

'Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur.....'

(zie ook de links in de bovenstaande berichten, anders dan deze hierboven getoonde berichten)

Voor (nog veel) meer berichten over manipulatie, censuur, Google, Twitter en Facebook, klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht (de laatste 2 genoemde internetplatforms doen ook aan censuur, terwijl Facebook wel leugens toestaat als het gaat om de voorverkiezingen in de VS en de presidentsverkiezingen zelf...... (waar Rusland op basis van geen enkel bewijs wordt beschuldigd van het manipuleren van verkiezingen.....)

Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart

Nadat Facebook al een paar jaar lang Palestijnen weert van haar platform, kwam Middle East Monitor (MEMO) met het bericht dat Google Maps Palestijnse gebieden als de Gazastrook en de West Bank niet meer als dusdanig weergeeft op haar 'i-landkaarten.......'

Blijkbaar wil Google aantonen dat ook haar bedrijf de zionisten bedient tot het einde, ook al zijn er bergen bewijs over de ongebreidelde agressie, beter gezegd 'terreur' tegen Palestijnen door de illegaal gestichte staat Israël......

Kortom ook Google ziet Palestijnen niet als mensen, precies zoals Israël en de westerse landen dat niet zien......... Alsof de Palestijnen verantwoordelijk zijn voor de holocaust en de illegale stichting van de staat Israël op het gebied van Palestina......*

De hoogste tijd wellicht om Google voorgoed vaarwel te zeggen, echter dat zal voor velen niet meevallen, neem alleen al dit blog......... Niet iedereen heeft de middelen om een site in de lucht te houden, ofwel Google misbruikt haar macht......

How Google Wipes Palestine Off the Map

Google's dedication to Israel's occupation can be seen in its maps and its refusal to recognise the reality of Israel’s apartheid system for Palestinians

October 30, 2018 at 9:03 am | Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories

    Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley

October 30, 2018 at 9:15 am

Written by Middle East Monitor

(MEMO Op-ed) — Like the other Silicon Valley monopolies, Google habitually takes the side of Israeli occupation and war crimes in Palestine – the very term Palestine is not used by their highly influential maps app.

A new report by a Palestinian human rights group last month exposed the depths of Google’s dedication to the Israeli occupation.

With a known history documented back more than 3,200 years, the name “Palestine” is the only term continuously used for the entire territory of the country lying between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Palestine is the most historically accurate term. But since 1948, when Zionist militias expelled the majority of the Palestinian population from the country by force, a new state, “Israel”, was established.

That state has never declared its borders.

Consequentially, when speaking about “Israel” it is unclear exactly what territory is being referred to. But Zionists of both the right and the “left” commonly claim the entire historic territory of Palestine as the “Land of Israel.”

The new report, by 7amleh (Hamleh), a Palestinian organisation advocating online rights, details how Google seems to almost go out of its way to eradicate the reality of Palestinian life.

In 2016, Google came under fire from Palestinians on social media when the terms “West Bank” and “Gaza” disappeared from Google Maps. Google said that the removal of these terms was down to a glitch and that they had never used the word Palestine in the first place.

(The West Bank and Gaza Strip are regions of Palestine that are important, since they represent

the remaining Palestinian territories which Israel failed to occupy in 1948. In 1967, however, Israel took over those too.)

“Through its mapping and labelling,” the 7amleh report explains, “one can deduce that Google Maps recognises the existence of Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, but not Palestine.”

There are further aspects of the way Google has wiped Palestinian life off the map though. As the 7amleh report maps in some detail, Palestinian villages in the Naqab (Negev desert) deemed “unrecognised” by Israel (inside of what is sometimes termed “Israel proper” – the territories of Palestine occupied in 1948) are not properly mapped by Google.

These villages are only visible in Google Maps “when zooming in very closely,” the report explains, “but otherwise appear to be non-existent. This means that when looking at Google Maps, these villages appear to be not there.”

The report details how small Israeli villages are “displayed even when zoomed-out, while unrecognised Palestinian Bedouin villages, regardless of their size are only visible when zooming in very closely.”

This is despite the fact that there “are in total 46 Bedouin villages in the Naqab, the majority of which existed before Israel’s creation in 1948. Some claim to have existed since the 7th century.”

Israel has repeatedly attempted to physically remove these villages, but has repeatedly failed, thanks to the resistance of the Palestinians who live there, and thanks also to national and international solidarity shown to those villages.

Their Israeli (lack of) status as “unrecognised” also means that the state refuses to connect the villages to basic services like water and electricity – despite the fact that nearby Israeli-Jewish settlements are given all the support possible.

As Basma Abu-Qwaider, one Palestinian Naqab villager, explains in the report:

“Google Maps acts in a discriminatory manner towards the unrecognised village the same [way] as the Israeli government does. Google ignores the existence of these villages just like Israel and for me if you do not exist on the map it means that you are invisible and that’s exactly what Israel wants us to be.”

This solidarity with Israeli racism expressed by Google’s helpful attitude towards Israel’s wiping of

Palestinians quite literally off the map extends across the 1967 “Green Line” ceasefire boundary.

Palestinian villages even within the “West Bank” area of the Jordan Valley are not properly mapped by Google either. The report documents that while Israeli settlements “can be seen when looking at the larger area of the map” some Palestinian villages are only visible when zoomed in – and even that only as a result of pressure being put on by a human rights organisation.

Google also refuses to recognise or map the reality of Israel’s apartheid roads system for Palestinians.

As part of Israel’s ongoing settler-colonisation of Palestine, large parts of the West Bank – which is ruled by Israeli military decree – are prohibited access for Palestinians. Many roads are reserved for the use of Jews only.

Despite the illegality of these practices under international law, Google’s route-planning apps do not designate Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal.

7amleh’s report concludes: “Google Maps, as the largest global mapping and route planning service, has the power to influence global public opinion and therefore bears the responsibility to abide by international human rights standards and to offer a service that reflects the Palestinian reality.”

Google should be compelled to end its complicity with Israeli racism and apartheid.

By Asa Winstanley / Creative Commons / Middle East Monitor / Report a typo

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* Zelf noem ik de staat Palestina maar zelden, immers daarmee zou ik aangeven dat deze staat nog steeds bestaat en daar is geen sprake van, zelfs niet op de West Bank of in de Gazastrook, beiden in feite openluchtgevangenissen van de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël........

Zie ook:
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'Facebook: uit gelekte documenten worden de steeds veranderende regels voor censuur op dit platform openbaar gemaakt: Facebook als geheime tak van de VS overheid'

'Two More Spiegel Employees Out After Fake News Scandal Expands' Ofwel: het zoveelste 'gevalletje fake news', gebracht door de reguliere massamedia........

'Facebook censureert foto's van verhongerende Jemenitische kinderen als 'sexual content''

'Facebook gebruikte 'fake news' beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden'

Israel demolishes Al-Araqeeb for 135th time, arrests residents

Khan Al-Ahmar resident: ‘We are imprisoned here’

'Google manipuleerde VS presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 en censureert niet alleen linkse/alternatieve sociale media' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

'Facebook: uit gelekte documenten worden de steeds veranderende regels voor censuur op dit platform openbaar gemaakt: Facebook als geheime tak van de VS overheid'

'Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten'

'Israël misbruikt de aanslag op de synagoge in Pittsburgh voor demonisering van steun a
an de Palestijnen.......'

'De film over de pro-Israëlische lobby in de VS, die Israël verboden wil zien.........'

'Israël zet snelle reactiemacht op poten tegen anti-Israëlische kritiek'

'Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet.......'

'Britse justitie gaat 'hate crimes' van Labour onderzoeken'


'Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen'