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@RepMTG I actually disagree. I hate being lied about, sure, but that's not only the right of every journalist, it's the right of every person. You can't make it a crime to lie without making the government, the cops, and the courts the arbiters of truth.
I'd rather suffer the lies.
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Thieving people's medical supplies and then just... throwing them on the ground is a level of villainy the people who write scripts for cartoons would reject as unrealistic.
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cc @SenWarren every cable news show just called and said they want you to come on every night this week and be mean to Facebook.
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The world's most central newspapers have joined to declare that going after Julian Assange with the Espionage Act "threatens to undermine America’s First Amendment and the freedom of the press," and that it's time “to end the prosecution of Julian Assange.”
Right on both counts. twitter.com/NicholsUprisin…
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Big: The @Apple #spyPhone scandal grows as its own employees begin to turn against its plan to force over one billion iPhones to begin scanning for digital contraband in iOS 15. Apple describes the new system as "expanding protections for children."
reuters.com/technology/exc…
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“They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-ope…
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Every newspaper in America should be saying this. twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
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@elonmusk It's crazy to me that people think content moderation is a binary between "corporate gods must decide for us who is permitted to speak" or "my timeline will be filled with racism and torture videos." There are other, better alternatives.
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Happy New Year, internet friends. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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Started working with NSA in June 2013? So, when every headline in every newspaper is about the NSA violating constitutional and human rights on a scale unprecedented in history, dude is like "hell yeah brother let me in on that." And stays for 6 years?
You hire that? twitter.com/BurritoHunting…
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"trump's sophisticated seven-part plan."
oh sure, let's bet the future of an entire party on a historically unpopular ruling class's ability to persuade everyone that the same guy who can't maintain his focus through even seven sentences was secretly a mastermind. this is wise.
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People have forgotten the entire purpose of rights: to protect the minority from the majority.
The majority never itself requires freedom of speech, press, or religion, because it is their opinion that defines the popular and acceptable. Only the *un*popular requires a defense.
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It is crucial to bear in mind that the industry's problem is not data "protection," it is data COLLECTION. Mass surveillance must be recognized as a crime, not a business model. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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@bengalgod Are you high? The lesson isn't to pick a different charlatan to worship, it is to stop worshipping charlatans.
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locking horns on the holidays smh twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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Every time I use @Blender, I'm blown away by what free and open source software can achieve. I honestly don't know how they do it. It's a monument. blender.org/download/
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The ruling of the court demolishes the longest-held defenses of mass surveillance. After taking into account the best of the government's evidence, the court found the program unlawful and ineffective, establishing the government's public claims of "necessity" were deceitful. twitter.com/PatrickCToomey…
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Apple plans to modify iPhones to constantly scan for contraband:
“It is an absolutely appalling idea, because it is going to lead to distributed bulk surveillance of our phones and laptops,” said Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering. ft.com/content/14440f…
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Some will say, "They didn't fight! They get what they deserve!" To which I say, "And what do we deserve?"
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/kabul
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The idea that people are, like, emerging from their deep caves, eyes blinking against the harshness of a sun whose touch they have never known, on a quest to seek specific medical advice from the glory of a white-robed Rogan is, perhaps, just the slightest bit forced. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"Roughly 4 in 10 (41%) of Biden and half (52%) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it’s time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union."
🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥🐶☕🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥 twitter.com/Mediaite/statu…
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There is also a strain that thinks I recently discovered Bitcoin, simply because I criticize it at times.
You know that whole NSA story from almost TEN YEARS AGO? I paid for the servers that made that possible... using Bitcoin.
I'm just not a maximalist. twitter.com/LastCoinStandn…
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The US Government secretly redefining journalists it doesn't like as "information brokers" in order to attack them with the CIA is horrific crime against the constitution.
It's also braindead branding, because "information broker" sounds waaay cooler than "journalist." twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
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