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The world's most central newspapers have joined to declare that going after Julian Assange with the Espionage Act "threatens to undermine America’s First Amendment and the freedom of the press," and that it's time “to end the prosecution of Julian Assange.”
Right on both counts. twitter.com/NicholsUprisin…
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We're halfway to the goal. Can you help us cross the finish line? twitter.com/bjwinnerdavis/…
1128
turns out kanye is not gonna be president
1129
I'm in Russia because the White House intentionally canceled my passport to trap me here. They *downed the President of Bolivia's diplomatic aircraft* to prevent me from leaving, and continue to interfere with my freedom of movement to this day.
In case that was unclear. twitter.com/maxseddon/stat…
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In case you missed it when it happened:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Assange & I were charged under a law designed to prevent fair trials—a law originally aimed at suppressing an old anti-war movement. Defendants are forbidden from mounting a public interest defense, juries prohibited from hearing it.
Whatever your politics, that's an injustice twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Many have yet to realize that history has discredited the old propaganda. It has been nearly *ten years* since I revealed the system of global mass surveillance, and not one person has died.
On the other hand, courts since ruled the *gov* broke the law!
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… twitter.com/SaltzmanJason/…
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You have no idea what you're talking about. Even the United States Government doesn't allege this. It literally never happened, and it *couldn't* happen, because I gave the archive to journalists. Those journalists' reporting, by the way, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service twitter.com/DrinkDonJulio/…
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Source: theguardian.com/world/2014/apr…
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One, I didn't "steal" anything. I created a copy.
Two, that "thing" was **evidence of crimes** (our courts agreed: see link).
Three, exposing a crime should not be a crime, regardless of whether those crimes were committed by a Mafia or a State.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… twitter.com/Roomtofit/stat…
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That is a very big number. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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My good friend @johncusack on the PRESS Act. It's important to keep the limits on the White House's ability to spy on journalists from changing at the stroke of an Attorney General's pen.
chicago.suntimes.com/2022/12/5/2349…
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I'm sorry, but no.
theguardian.com/science/2022/d…
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"The Drug Enforcement Administration is secretly deploying spyware from an Israeli firm," writes the @nytimes.
"The United States has played both arsonist and firefighter" in terms of digital security, funding a deadly bazaar for state hackers.
nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/…
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The DEA refused to answer questions about whether it used this (or other) spyware against Americans abroad, or about how the agency handled Americans' information — messages, phone contacts or other records — that the agency "obtained" when using it against others. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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One notorious digital armaments dealer dismissed his involvement in human rights abuses. “We work with the good guys.” He added, “And sometimes the good guys don’t behave.”
Yeah, you know what they call good guys that don't behave?
Bad guys.
nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/…
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Not liberals, but "liberals."
It bothers me how power struggles within the blue-red corporate uniparty transform complex philosophies into meaningless epithets.
If you argue "censorship is good, actually," you are not a liberal. If you cheer for the FBI, you are not a liberal.
1145
This is absolutely tyrannical. The EU is trying to outlaw any cash transaction over €10,000—which at the current rate of inflation will probably buy you half a shawarma in a decade.
They're claiming this is to protect you. To protect you!
consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…
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@4functions Use private payment systems that are decentralized and independent of state authority.
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"...the Council demands crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to apply customer due diligence measures when carrying out transactions amounting to €1000 or more, AND ADDS MEASURES TO MITIGATE "RISKS" IN RELATION TO SELF-HOSTED WALLETS." twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Let me get this straight: you *want* governments and corporations to more tightly control the flow of information? Because someone said something problematic?
All over the world, people are making the same mistake.
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Started working with NSA in June 2013? So, when every headline in every newspaper is about the NSA violating constitutional and human rights on a scale unprecedented in history, dude is like "hell yeah brother let me in on that." And stays for 6 years?
You hire that? twitter.com/BurritoHunting…
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Update on the Metam*sk/Infura controversy:
Their parent (Consensys) says they have never/won't sell data (what about share?), will aim for 7-day data retention, and promise a "comprehensive redesign" of their privacy policy.
Good start, but keep going.
consensys.net/blog/news/cons…
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