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It is crucial to bear in mind that the industry's problem is not data "protection," it is data COLLECTION. Mass surveillance must be recognized as a crime, not a business model. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Yes, Trump and Biden and Hillary all mishandled classified documents. You could argue "who did it worse," or you can question if we really need a system that crushes ordinary workers who fall afoul of it while excusing the same "crimes" if done by elites.
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"Egal, was meine Wähler denken." twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The coming week's stories about the global hacking of phones identical to the one in your pocket, by for-profit companies, make it clear that export controls have failed as a means to regulate this industry.
Only a comprehensive moratorium on sales can remove the profit motive.
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Jeunes amis, n'oubliez pas que vous n'avez pas besoin de carte d'électeur pour voter. Ne vous inquiétez pas, il est encore temps. Allez voter!
#LEGISLATIVES2022 #JeVote twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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I talked about this back in early 2020 and was dismissed as paranoid—as is our tradition when someone points to the predictable outcome of a dangerous but popular new trend. Stopping this will be harder, now.
You can watch the original interview here:
youtube.com/watch?v=yMMoEJ… twitter.com/AP/status/1606…
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Apple’s new system, regardless of how anyone tries to justify it, will permanently redefine what belongs to you, and what belongs to them. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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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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This has happened year after year since the program began. twitter.com/CNN/status/148…
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Think about the worst economic injustice you've ever seen.
Think about how much it would cost to make better.
And then think about the T R I L L I O N dollar budget bastards like this get Congress to rob from the nation *every year.* twitter.com/nick_cleveland…
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Thank you to everyone who campaigned against one of the most dangerous threats to press freedom in decades. twitter.com/AgnesCallamard…
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If there are any lessons to be learned from this tragic sequel to Saigon, you can be assured, we will not learn them.
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Important to understand that the court isn't pushing this on the White House, the White House is pushing it on the court.
As @AP notes, when he needed your vote, Biden swore he'd make a “pariah” of the same despot he's now gifting an extraordinary special immunity.
Despicable. twitter.com/AP/status/1593…
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Our statement at @FreedomofPress on the false charges laid by Brazil's Bolsonaro regime against @ggreenwald for reporting the biggest corruption story in years -- corruption in the Justice Ministry itself! These charges are unbelievable, unsupported, and indefensible.
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"...young people are terrified to tweet. The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene." chimamanda.com
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The Lord of the Rings: a story where the social elite coerce a trust-fund kid's hard-working gardener into shouldering global risks.
Before it's over, he has to physically carry his useless employer (and their jewelry collection) up an active volcano.
Ahead of its time, really.
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Tell me again about "proper channels." nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/…
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Check the temperature in Moscow today before you tell me climate change is a hoax. A couple more years of this and they'll be planting palm trees.
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Whatever your political inclination, it's astonishing how many question like this these days break down to a roughly 50/50 split, as if it were a choice between Coke or Pepsi. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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So now that we know who it wasn't, anyone care to venture a guess as to who it was?
"The explosions may never be definitively attributed" sounds a bit like the groundwork being laid to let an "ally" off the hook for dynamiting Europe's energy policy. twitter.com/John_Hudson/st…
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Insisting that Assange is somehow “not a journalist” does nothing to take the teeth out of this precedent when the activities for which he’s been charged are indistinguishable from the activities of our most decorated investigative reporters.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/assange01
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