1026
1. people who accept climate change and think it is caused by humans
2. people who accept climate change and think it is caused by nature
3. people who don’t accept climate change at all
What do they have in common?
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-deni…
1027
A consensus-challenging internet is perceived as a threat to central authority, and the surveillance and speech restrictions that have emerged in response are producing an authoritarian center of gravity.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
1028
This quotes one of the judges at the European Court of Human Rights today. It is hard to overemphasize how far we've come from the pre-2013 world when even the highest judicial authorities are beginning to acknowledge the devastating consequence of two decades' mass surveillance: twitter.com/silkiecarlo/st…
1029
@wallstreetbets 🦍🤝💪 is the independent rediscovery of solidarity by an atomized and indentured generation apprehending the rigged nature of the system.
But solidarity *alone* won't win against rule-by-decree. So when they change the rules to rug you: remember it wasn't an accident. Stay mad.
1031
“Secret law prevents the public from understanding and shaping the law and thus inhibits democratic accountability; disables checks on governmental abuses of law; and weakens the quality of the law itself."
Will the Supreme Court hear @ACLU's challenge?
nytimes.com/2021/09/20/us/…
1032
I use GrapheneOS every day. twitter.com/Schwubdiwub1/s…
1033
Sehr wichtig Thread: twitter.com/andre_meister/…
1034
An excerpt from my thoughts on the tragic conclusion to our invasion of Afghanistan—a hell of our own making.
If you're not yet on the mailing list, you can access the full article using this link: edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/kabul )
1035
The @ACLU is exactly right, here. Call Congress. twitter.com/ACLU/status/16…
1036
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. twitter.com/UKDefJournal/s…
1037
A major case: twitter.com/ACLU/status/15…
1038
#Brexit seems to be going about as well as expected. I'm surprised I haven't seen "Bare Shelves Boris" trending. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
1039
Among the “crimes” that Hale was convicted was exposing the secret watchlisting rulebook used to label people, including U.S. citizens, as “known or suspected terrorists” without evidence that they did anything wrong.
theintercept.com/2021/07/30/dan…
1040
@DingoPrincess1 @wikileaks I don't care if James Clapper released it—I care if it is true. I know first-hand that just as credible sources sometimes get things wrong, terrible sources can get things right. What matters most is the evidence.
1041
Reporters writing on the Apple-NSO story should understand this lawsuit would not be *possible* without the years-long investigations of @citizenlab, who are close to single-handedly responsible for uncovering the bulk of what we know about the NSO group's darkest deeds. twitter.com/jsrailton/stat…
1042
This is the effect of the institutional exploitation of the internet, of corporate algorithms that thrive on controversy and division: the degradation of the soul as a source of profit. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/on-censorshi…
1043
A young officer rushed past them down the hall and said, “They just bombed the Pentagon.” Met with expressions of disbelief, the young officer repeated, “I’m serious—they just bombed the Pentagon.” edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
1044
Attenborough voice: "Look, look there! Bent-backed and sweating, a little reply guy emerges to defend his bubble. And there's another! Though they look different, if you listen carefully, you'll hear the same sounds."
1045
remember that time when congressional progressives totally caved to neoliberal pressure on the infrastructure bill and gave up absolutely every last bit of leverage they had in return for a big heaping plate of nothing and how it was definitely a good idea? twitter.com/mkraju/status/…
1046
Let me be clear: export regulations, licensing, and reviews have been in place for years. They did not work, and cannot work.
A moratorium on the trade in intrusion software is the bare minimum for a credible response—mere triage. Anything less and the problem gets worse. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
1047
If your newsroom handles tips from confidential sources, you should take a look at this. The new @SecureDrop Workstation is a huge step forward. This is the kind of tool I wished we had had during the global mass surveillance scandal. twitter.com/SecureDrop/sta…
1048
Congressperson (with 7 years on the Intel Committee) surprisingly denounces US surveillance law (correctly) as overbroad, calls for new limits on EO12333 and FAA702 surveillance.
Says "the US is the only industrialized country that lacks an agency focused on privacy."
Wow. twitter.com/maxschrems/sta…
1050
The next wave of digital authoritarianism.
cpj.org/2023/01/how-uk…
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