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The FBI assigned so many agents to search for ways to deplatform accounts they didn't like (by gaming Twitter's Terms of Service) that it was even making the FBI's former top lawyer uncomfortable. The FBI's former top lawyer **who had left to go work at Twitter.** twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're awake.
He knows this because your pattern-of-life can be inferred by looking at records of your phone's basic internet activity—called "metadata." This is the core of modern mass surveillance.
He should be in jail.
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He doesn't actually *know* if you've been bad or good, but historically speaking, people who engage in these kinds of unconstitutional activities (like @NSAGov) simply *pretend* to know. Instead, they make a guess and then kill people on the basis of that guess.
Merry Christmas.
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@NSAGov Look, I'm just saying if a fat man comes down my chimney, I'm not taking any chances.
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@FBI Tell that to Daniel Hale, Reality Winner, Chelsea Manning, and Thomas Drake.
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Can you name one? Just one?
Because even the government admits nobody died as a result of the 2013 revelations of Global Mass Surveillance. However, US courts *did* rule that they show the NSA broke the law. That reporting also won the Pulitzer Prize.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… t.co/kf0j3dag5b
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And arrogant? Me?
Well, I suppose I have to be guilty of something.
Merry Christmas.
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Don't mess with Greta. twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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"I am not violating my bail agreement," says man violating his bail agreement. twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status…
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Happy New Year, internet friends. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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"Almost all the projects of social reformers in these days are really 𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚."
— John Stuart Mill, discussing the need for a book "on liberty." January 15th, 𝟭𝟴𝟱𝟱.
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*sigh* gonna be a big week twitter.com/cameron/status…
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"Bug," or "undocumented feature?" twitter.com/BreitbartNews/…
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The US gov, through the FBI, had the censorship units at major internet platforms on speed dial.
Public figures that claimed such a year ago were cast out of polite society as lunatics. When it is now established to be true, the same polite people now shrug: "Trust the ruler." twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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There is the faintest sense of deja vu with this one.
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This was more than 15 years ago now, but at the actual CIA, the default password used by the systems engineering team for *all kinds* of things was basically "password1234".
Not a joke. twitter.com/bankman_fraud/…
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The other ones were kept on the desktop in a spreadsheet called "passwords.xls"
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delivering a sermon on the dangers of "seed oils" as he washes down his Whopper™ with a liter of Mountain Dew™
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After the last couple years, hard to ignore the feeling that the CIA's Color Revolutions are coming home.
We may come to regret spending decades normalizing the practice of disregarding elections, the precedent for ousting presidents.
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Or, you know, because I actually worked for the CIA and know exactly what they do. Or maybe I just opened a book at some point in my life.
I swear, these new-wave infowarrior types see the hidden hand of the Kremlin as the reason they got shorted a McNugget. Totally lost. twitter.com/OzKaterji/stat…
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