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"Egal, was meine Wähler denken." twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"Good news, sir! There's enough money in the budget to build that global surveillance system you asked for, as long as we put off affordable housing policies til next year."
Repeat forever. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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You want to fix policing? Remove their immunity so that they can be sued, and if you win, damages come out of the department's pension fund instead of from taxpayers.
They'll clean house on their own. Quickly.
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Imagine using all those capital letters and still nobody hears you.
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Pretty funny how even after all this time, the guy still hasn't realized that without a Twitter account, he doesn't exist.
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This gaggle of spies and neos ran a disinformation campaign against the biggest corporate newsdesks in the world, knowingly misrepresenting ordinary Twitter users who simply disagreed with their politics as foreign agents and dupes.
Incredible thread blowing the hoax wide open: twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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👀 gonna be a big week twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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There are solutions to the censorship problem that will keep Twitter out of bankruptcy, @elonmusk. You've seen them. You could change the world within twelve months. It will work. Take the risk. twitter.com/ryangrim/statu…
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I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Proper Handling of Classified Material" with your host, Edward Snowden. See you next time.
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You can't routinely take classified material home (itself a crime):
…from 1973-2009 ("docs dating from his time as a Senator"),
…again from the WH (2009-2017),
…report it only after somebody ELSE stumbles across your stash
…and claim it's OK bc 𝙣𝙤𝙬 you're "cooperating"
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I recall that the Department of Justice was somewhat less generous when I self-reported, even after I went to the trouble of doing so on the front page of every major newspaper in the world.
s m h twitter.com/DailyCaller/st…
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@PLT_cheater @elonmusk Today, internet businesses need to be looking at user-generated content as a liability, not an asset.
The first movers to (honestly) show governments their company *legitimately* lacks the ability to unilaterally delete inconvenient speech from the internet will benefit.
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@PLT_cheater @elonmusk Twitter's core political problem is liability for content they exclusively control.
By moving user-generated content to the Nostr protocol (and getting encrypted DMs for free), while retaining control of their own front-end experience, government must go chase somebody else.
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.@elonmusk really shouldn't be fighting #Nostr, since it's just about the only thing that can save his business.
The fate of the old platform model over the next decade is clear. (cf. Daniel 5:5)
theintercept.com/2023/01/24/twi…
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If you work at the CIA or NSA, don't let a security officer write you up for failing to secure a document within the safe.
Instead, inform them that recent policy demonstrates that DOJ may accept your home, corvette, random college, or underwear drawer as an approved container.
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How is it possible that I have fewer classified documents in my house than the last few White House admins?
The Espionage Act is a "strict liability" crime: good intentions are no defense. Under the (dumb) law, these guys are all unindicted criminals.
foxnews.com/politics/vice-…
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My public key on Nostr:
npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9
Check it out at snort.social, iris.to (which looks like the only one working in the Tor Browser), or via one of the iOS/Android apps like github.com/vitorpamplona/…
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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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Julian Assange is a political prisoner.
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@RepMTG Speaking up in defense of Julian Assange is a brave thing in Congress, and I do hope you'll continue. Given recent administrations' own cavalier handling of classified, it's past time for gov to correct its error in persecuting Assange for publishing stories of public importance.
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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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For those of you who are curious about what happened in real life, as opposed to whatever planet these people are on, I wrote a book about it called "Permanent Record." You can find it at just about any bookstore or library.
us.macmillan.com/books/97812502…
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)