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Look at how overwhelming public support is for an Assange pardon—in EVERY poll like this—and think about what it says about any President who refuses to shut down THE most dangerous legal case in the journalism because he's afraid of criticism from the worst people in government. twitter.com/ericbolling/st…
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If you judge a man by his enemies, I'm doing pretty well. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
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If Assange goes unpardoned because he didn't bribe somebody, it will say everything that needs to be said about this broken age. nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/…
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Everybody can get back to uninstalling #Whatsapp now. twitter.com/signalapp/stat…
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@jodestiii @signalapp @moxie Their servers are overloaded because so many people are signing up right now. Try again later: twitter.com/signalapp/stat…
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Many of the questions I'm getting about @signalapp can be answered by reading this article a lot of folks missed about its founder, @moxie. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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1) The consensus of the infosec community is that Telegram is significantly less secure than @signalapp.
2) Signal is an independent non-profit with a $50m endowment—they can't be meaningfully influenced by money for a very long time. Telegram is a standard private company. twitter.com/matthewloop/st…
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For those wondering about @signalapp's scaling, #WhatsApp's decision to sell out its users to @facebook has led to what is probably the biggest digital migration to a more secure messenger we've ever seen. Hang in there while the Signal team catches up. twitter.com/signalapp/stat…
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I hope that The Intercept will, in time, come to recognize that they have not handled Laura's concerns appropriately and apologize—if not to Laura, then at least to their source. #FreeRealityWinner
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But no matter how @theintercept handled the Winner case, we should never forget that it is the state that is ultimately responsible for her imprisonment. It is an injustice for a whistleblower to spend one minute in prison, yet she has served years. She must be freed.
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So when Laura says she was fired because she said things that executives found unpalatable, I believe her. That her concerns related to concerns of source protection—in the case of Reality Winner—makes it for me all the more tragic.
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As an intensely private person, Laura Poitras has not sought the credit she deserves for her role in what is now quite literally written about in history books as the biggest story of the last decade. But her work changed the public mind around the world.
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Nobody outside the story understood how much pressure we were under. It is not an exaggeration to say that a single mistake could have sent everyone involved to prison—or worse. And during the most sensitive period of the reporting, Laura had the hardest part of it.
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I've said before that of all the journalists I worked with to break the mass surveillance story, none of them took operational security or source protection as seriously as Laura. I never once saw her cut a corner or break a rule. She was the only one who could make me feel lax.
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This is Laura's statement: praxisfilms.org/open-letter-fr…
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Laura Poitras, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who was the first to work on the top secret NSA mass surveillance story, has been fired by @theintercept in retaliation for speaking to the media about their mishandling of the Reality Winner case. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
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There is no universe in which this is good news. twitter.com/meridithmcgraw…
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I will always admire your courage to speak up for what is right in the face of adversity. It is a pleasure to know you, but a real honor to work with you. Stay free, my friend. @EnesKanter @FreedomofPress twitter.com/EnesFreedom/st…
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This is enormously courageous, and you should take a second to read it. nytimes.com/2020/12/21/opi…
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@jilliancyork For what it's worth, I encourage you to disagree with me. I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again—the only way we find what's right is by challenging it. Even when I hold a different opinion, I value your criticism and am glad you share it. Sorry you had a bad experience.
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What a victory! Though it may take decades, the courts are coming around on mass surveillance. We all owe an enormous debt to @privacyint for suing to end the practice of using a single generic warrant to spy on an unlimited number of people. twitter.com/privacyint/sta…
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I know a lot of folks in the comments read this are like "YAAAAS," which, like—I get it. But imagine for a moment a world that exists for more than the next 13 days, and this becomes a milestone that will endure.
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Facebook officially silences the President of the United States. For better or worse, this will be remembered as a turning point in the battle for control over digital speech. twitter.com/Kantrowitz/sta…
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