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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…
727
A radical sharpening of tone is occurring in economic discussions—with deepening convictions as to the assignation of blame—as the ailing currencies of the prior century succumb at last to diseases born from generations of neglect.
This has happened before.
It will get worse.
728
A definitely, totally unrepresentative example:
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
729
The head of Hong Kong's Department of Justice--if such a department can still be said to exist--appears to have personally intervened to deny representation to the lawyer who aided me there, in a case that seems ever-more-obviously constructed to chase him out of the territory. twitter.com/JeromeTaylor/s…
730
No matter what complaints the Hong Kong Bar Association might have about Tibbo, there bottom line is that he fought for many, many years to secure the safety of families that the HK government has shown little interest in protecting--and won.
twitter.com/JeromeTaylor/s…
731
Omicron sounds like the name of an 80s movie's evil Robot King.
732
Question for actual-scientist Twitter: how long until we have a reasonable (but tentative) grasp of Omicron's novel characteristics? How many weeks are we talking?
733
"What you have is a government inside a government, an undemocratic apparatus making all of the decisions beneath a shell of democracy—something that looks like a democracy and is called a democracy, but has almost none of the properties a democracy is defined by." twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
735
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…
736
I wrote about this just a few months ago:
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-ho…
737
Watch this clip to the very end. It will astonish you. twitter.com/60Minutes/stat…
738
Können Sie es sich vorstellen? Haben sich die Zeiten geändert? twitter.com/skoldehoff/sta…
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Roskomnadzor (Russia's censorship bureau) is attempting to block one of the most important rights-respecting networks in the world without issuing so much as a press release.
This is like banning the entire cell phone network because a drug dealer used it—without explanation. twitter.com/torproject/sta…
740
Roskomnadzor should immediately reverse this dangerous and self-defeating decision.
Just as when they tried (and failed) to block Telegram, efforts to block @torproject won't stop criminals, but it will absolutely hurt ordinary people who depend on it for privacy. This is wrong. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
741
This is a very big deal, and not in a good way.
The dissenting judge argues this "extreme departure from accepted constitutional and procedural law" ignores all evidence and totally abandons the Fourth Amendment.
The year has not been kind to the legitimacy of our court system. twitter.com/PatrickCToomey…
742
Julian Assange is one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the western world. Every level of the case against him has been shot through with corruption and the abuse of process.
People justify it by reciting memes to demonstrate their allegiance.
This is dystopia. twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
743
"Not a journalist," chants the mob, unwittingly lobbying for the rights to speak and publish to be afforded only to a class of corporate media businesses consecrated by the state.
It doesn't matter if Assange is a hobo on a soapbox: the First Amendment protects everyone equally.
744
"But her emails," demands the partisan. "Russia!"
The charges against Assange have nothing to do with either. As even @nytimes puts it, the government's case is against the award-winning "2010 publication of diplomatic and military files leaked by Chelsea Manning."
745
"Fine, whatever — I just don't like the bastard," admits another, "Assange deserves to suffer."
The arbitrary punishment of those unlike you for the crime of being unlike you is the very heart of the fascism you claim to oppose.
Free societies are founded on tolerance.
746
It is because I love my country that I seek to reform its government. twitter.com/CerarMilos/sta…
747
CBP abused intelligence databases to trawl through the private lives of 15-20 American journalists in a manner that the Inspector General reported it to the Justice Department as a criminal conspiracy.
But the government refused to prosecute.
news.yahoo.com/operation-whis…
749
Many reflexively criticize Omar, but she has been one of the only members in Congress with the courage to point out the only man jailed over the monstrous abuses of the classified drone program is the whistleblower who revealed that 9 out of 10 we kill are mere bystanders. twitter.com/IlhanMN/status…
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Set aside your feelings the example, for a moment. Can you imagine a US cabinet official nowadays going to jail for implementing a criminal policy? Secretary of State? Homeland Security? Attorney General?
Remember what happened when "we tortured some folks?" What would it take? twitter.com/alfonslopezten…
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