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sticks and stones may break my bones but a professor said tweets are violence
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“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble."
― President Harry Truman, who created the CIA
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Harassing people over small political donations does not pass the public interest test. Did a ghoulish corporation or nefarious billionaire funnel $1,000,000 to protestors? Sure, expose them.
But chasing down grandma over her pocket money is a reprehensible violation of privacy. twitter.com/esaagar/status…
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The government is establishing a precedent for prosecuting news organizations—anywhere on Earth—who report on an activity they would rather keep locked away in the classified dark.
Do you feel safer?
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/assange01
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When you see snide quote-tweets of this from the boot-licking think-tank crowd, look at the ratio and remember that even if they're loud, they are in the minority.
Being pro-war is not smart, cool, or sophisticated, and their performative outrage doesn't change that. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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I sat down with @joerogan to talk about all the things that can and cannot be said -- and who decides them. From mass surveillance and my new book, Permanent Record, to deplatforming, police violence, and pardon, there's a lot here. youtube.com/watch?v=_Rl82O…
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Watch this clip to the very end. It will astonish you. twitter.com/60Minutes/stat…
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People have forgotten the entire purpose of rights: to protect the minority from the majority.
The majority never itself requires freedom of speech, press, or religion, because it is their opinion that defines the popular and acceptable. Only the *un*popular requires a defense.
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it works
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Domestic surveillance is alive and well. Use @signalapp to protect voice and video calls (for free). twitter.com/rdevro/status/…
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This can't possibly be right, can it? Is it a mistranslation? This sounds an awful lot like Macron's priority when the Taliban are in the midst of door-to-door reprisals is covering his flank for some election, not saving lives. twitter.com/AFP/status/142…
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Gerard Butler starring in a CIA propaganda film... sponsored by Saudi Arabia. The world of 2021 is really something. twitter.com/AndrewBartlett…
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A journalist (@drzax) monitored their devices and found 72% of traffic was tracking-related, with 46 different servers contacted on the second night while they slept. Averaged across a week, how frequently were their devices transmitting? Answer in link: abc.net.au/news/2018-11-1…
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NSO's claim that it is "technologically impossible” to spy on American phone numbers is a bald-faced lie: a exploit that works against Macron's iPhone will work the same on Biden's iPhone.
Any code written to prohibit targeting a country can also be unwritten. It's a fig leaf. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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For what it's worth, leaving is the right choice—just made decades too late.
Terrorists are criminals, not states. Declaring a fruitless war when we had the sympathy of the world—rather than an international police action—will be remembered as an era-defining catastrophe.
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"Governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this." twitter.com/jack/status/16…
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There are certain industries, certain sectors, from which there is no protection. We don’t allow a commercial market in nuclear weapons. If you want to protect yourself you have to change the game, and the way we do that is by ending this trade.
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But sure, blame the magic, third-eye radio man for the decline of basic trust in institutions.
Throw him in the volcano and we'll have world peace by Monday.
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"Nothing will fundamentally change." twitter.com/CNBC/status/14…
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If we don’t do anything to stop the sale of this technology, it’s not just going to be 50,000 targets: It’s going to be 50 million targets, and it’s going to happen much more quickly than any of us expect.
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After years of separation from our parents, my wife and I have no desire to be separated from our son. That's why, in this era of pandemics and closed borders, we're applying for dual US-Russian citizenship. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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It is my belief that market forces, democratic decline, and a toxic obsession with “national security”—a euphemism for state supremacy—are drawing the US and China to meet in the middle: a common extreme.
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