1026
"bUt YoU'rE iN rUsSiA"
Not the jab you think it is, since otherwise I'd be muzzled in a dungeon right next to Assange. What does it say about our system if a whistleblower opposed by Washington can walk free in *Russia,* but not in the US—or EU?
Don't like it? Then fix it.
1027
"bLoW a wHisTLe oN rUsSiA aNd sEe wHat hApPenS"
To score points on the idea that a whistleblower would have to flee the Kremlin—just as they must escape the White House—is to define "victory" as equaling *Russia.* Is that winning?
Assange faces 175 years: a death sentence.
1028
sure laugh at zuckerberg's stock crash but remember that in five years he's gonna own your eyeballs and pause the ads every time you blink
1029
This is going to cause controversy, but platform censorship had clearly gone too far. Content moderation should be an individual decision, not a corporate prison.
Let people make their own choices—and not just on Twitter. twitter.com/unusual_whales…
1030
Wrong. If I can in one command pull a blocklist of mean tweets you don't like (see pictures), there's no reason @elonmusk can't add a tool for you to auto-block people talking about your personal list of "things I don't want to see."
It's not hard. Corps just give you bad tools. twitter.com/DrunkVoltron/s…
1031
@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.
1032
You could literally check boxes to opt-in to community moderation lists. You can outsource these decisions to people you trust. There is a whole universe of possibility out there, and every point within it is superior to letting some underpaid Facebook drone decide what you read.
1034
When Daniel Hale did just that, you threw him in prison. Reality Winner did it. Guess what? Prison. Chelsea Manning did it—still prison.
The answer isn't for the government to stop talking like this—the answer is to stop ruling in a way that makes it the blackest kind of lie. twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/…
1035
ok sure but hear me out:
auto-blocking, but for people with flag emoji in their username
1036
anybody with a flag emoji can only see tweets from other people with flag emoji
twitter wins the nobel peace prize
1037
Vote na esperança. Vote na história. Vote no futuro. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
1038
Meus parabéns a @LulaOficial e ao Brasil pela vitória. twitter.com/folha/status/1…
1039
Glenn Greenwald broke the story that freed Lula from prison. For that same reporting, Bolsonaro sought to put Greenwald *IN* prison—he actually brought charges!
Today on this site: "Glenn must be sad Bolsonaro lost and Lula won." twitter.com/figgityfigs/st…
1041
14 years ago today, yet Satoshi remains anonymous. Remarkable.
1042
@LelandEMcKnight Transactions are basically instantaneous on lightning-enabled wallets these days. Have you tried it?
1043
@Dr_CSWright That's the point, brother.
Remember two weeks ago when the court affirmed that @hodlonaut calling you a “pathetic scammer,” “cringe,” “clearly mentally ill,” and (repeatedly) a “fraud” was A-OK? And ordered you to pay like $348,257?
lmao welcome to law
bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/hodlonau…
1044
@Dr_CSWright @hodlonaut And hey while we're playing the memory game, the next time you want to tell Twitter you were never anonymous, try and keep your story straight, you miserable corncob.
1045
@Dr_CSWright @hodlonaut Dude can't even commit fraud properly. Just embarrassing.
1046
This is absolutely wild. The government is secretly transforming "national security" agencies into a new Narrative Police.
“If a foreign government sent these messages,” said the former ACLU president, “there is no doubt we would call it censorship.”
Read the story: twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
1047
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
Any effort by the state to claim a mission or authority regulating speech—especially speech it dislikes—is a willful violation of the limits imposed by the First Amendment, and it must be resisted. twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
1049
@poordart The idea of a watchlist is antiquated, because mass surveillance means everyone is on it. It's a ranked ladder, a tier-list. You can't get off it: you can only move up or down.
1050
The obsession with platforms prostrating themselves before advertisers has always been misplaced, because on any scale longer than one bad news cycle, advertisers go where the audience is.
Optimize platforms for people, not brands, because people have a choice. Brands don't. twitter.com/balajis/status…
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