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One of the cool things about Nostr ("Notes and other stuff transmitted by relays", a new decentralized protocol that replaces things like Twitter and Instagram)—beyond censorship resistance—is that you aren't limited to 280 characters.
Find me there.
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@elonmusk I shouldn't have cyberbullied you over that one anime tweet. That was wrong of me, and I apologize.
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Apple and Google intend to push pandemic trackers into most of the world's smartphones. In response, @ACLU just published a whitepaper listing bottom-line principles phone-based contact-tracing systems must follow to comply with basic rights. Summary: aclu.org/news/privacy-t…
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The US Secretary of State really thought "Yes, this is the lecture I want to give the day before we demand Julian Assange be extradited and thrown in a dungeon for publishing evidence of our war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Can't wait to hear more on not jailing dissidents. twitter.com/StateDept/stat…
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The other ones were kept on the desktop in a spreadsheet called "passwords.xls"
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Aber denken Sie daran: Es ist der Whistleblower, der der Feind ist. twitter.com/WDRinvestigati…
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"Governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this." twitter.com/jack/status/16…
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This thread is a remarkable case study on how the FBI overcame a major tech company's resistance to running favors for the Feds by basically running an influence operation against key staffers—and paying to rent others—until they had the censorship crew eating out of their hands. twitter.com/shellenberger/…
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Hacking the NSA is easier than parenting. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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mark zuckerberg suggests congress consider limiting teen use of electricity
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"bLoW a wHisTLe oN rUsSiA aNd sEe wHat hApPenS"
To score points on the idea that a whistleblower would have to flee the Kremlin—just as they must escape the White House—is to define "victory" as equaling *Russia.* Is that winning?
Assange faces 175 years: a death sentence.
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I agree with this. @Apple must go further than merely "listening"—it must drop entirely its plans to put a backdoor into systems that provide vital protections to the public. Don't make us fight you for basic privacy rights.
eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
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Skepticism is a virtue, cynicism is a vice.
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One of these days, people should consider the possibility that the reason we've gone SEVEN YEARS without a single piece of evidence is because it didn't happen. Crazy, right? twitter.com/dnvolz/status/…
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The coming week's stories about the global hacking of phones identical to the one in your pocket, by for-profit companies, make it clear that export controls have failed as a means to regulate this industry.
Only a comprehensive moratorium on sales can remove the profit motive.
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This is the systematic construction of a surveillance state that will dominate the rest of our lives.
People brushing this off with "duh" or "I'm not surprised" should take this seriously: elections are months away. Vote out any politician who defends this in the slightest way. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The world's foremost human rights organization, @amnesty, has issued an extremely strong statement denouncing the Biden administration's political persecution of Julian Assange -- which reignites tomorrow.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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"I am not violating my bail agreement," says man violating his bail agreement. twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status…
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Julian Assange is a prisoner of conscience. twitter.com/POTUS/status/1…
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It is my belief that market forces, democratic decline, and a toxic obsession with “national security”—a euphemism for state supremacy—are drawing the US and China to meet in the middle: a common extreme.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
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I sat down with @joerogan to talk about all the things that can and cannot be said -- and who decides them. From mass surveillance and my new book, Permanent Record, to deplatforming, police violence, and pardon, there's a lot here. youtube.com/watch?v=_Rl82O…
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If a Russian company was behind this, Russia would be facing double-sanctions by lunchtime. No, triple-sanctions! Oprah would be handing out sanctions to everyone in the audience.
Do you think the US will be sanctioning the host nation for this company?
reuters.com/technology/exc…
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Insisting that Assange is somehow “not a journalist” does nothing to take the teeth out of this precedent when the activities for which he’s been charged are indistinguishable from the activities of our most decorated investigative reporters.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/assange01
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The Israeli company behind this -- the NSO group -- should bear direct, criminal liability for the deaths and detentions of those targeted by the digital infection vectors it sells, which have no legitimate use. twitter.com/wcathcart/stat…
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