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A CBDC is a perversion of cryptocurrency, or at least the founding principles and protocols of it—a cryptofascist currency, expressly designed to deny you the basic ownership of your money by installing the State at the center of every transaction. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
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“They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-ope…
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I'm sure this is unrelated to anything else going on, but I thought you should know: apnews.com/article/govern…
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In case you missed it when it happened:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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This is the unvarnished truth: the establishment of an institution charged with breaking the law within a nation of laws has mortally wounded its founding precept.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-ope…
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If you host a website on Amazon (or are a regulator) and you're not in the US, read about "Section 702," the law the NSA and FBI uses to demand data from US companies about non-US persons—without individual warrants! cdt.org/wp-content/upl… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Facebook's vision of the future is seen in how they steal and repackage the VRchat concept.
They could have you meet in a designer lounge, on a tropical island, or even atop the helicopter pad of a ship at sea.
Instead they trap you in a low-rez workplace and cut off your legs. twitter.com/boztank/status…
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Every newspaper in America should be saying this. twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
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This is very much worth reading. Daniel Hale did a brave and important thing for the United States, and what is being done to him in response is a national disgrace. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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من به شدت سطح فعالیت توییتر فارسی را دست کم گرفتم.
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.@elonmusk really shouldn't be fighting #Nostr, since it's just about the only thing that can save his business.
The fate of the old platform model over the next decade is clear. (cf. Daniel 5:5)
theintercept.com/2023/01/24/twi…
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Every serious press freedom group in the world has petitioned the Biden administration to drop the political charges against Assange even Obama rejected, citing the tremendous damage to First Amendment freedoms.
Every day Biden stonewalls, we suffer for it—Assange most of all: twitter.com/Stella_Assange…
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The consequences of a failure to pardon Assange mean he'll remain in prison indefinitely while the DOJ endlessly files meritless appeals out of spite. twitter.com/benlewismedia/…
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Overlooked news items this week: the US Postal Service running a covert operation to spy on protestors, Congress proposing a (surprisingly good) "The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act," and more.
For more information, source links are in the reply to this tweet:
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Downing aircraft to pursue the arrest of dissidents has always been outrageous. It is the modern expression of Bush-era "extraordinary rendition" (international kidnapping by state agents), and should be opposed no matter the flag under which it occurs.
greenwald.substack.com/p/as-anger-tow…
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Looks like the official Biden-Afghanistan livestream is going about as well as expected.
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@JaredMGordon @JoeBiden If you think this is a Biden v. Trump thing, you're really missing the scale of this two-decade tragedy.
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🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Which corporatist authoritarian sect will you vote for? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Today I learned the dollar has lost 99.93% of its value since 2013 (relative to Bitcoin). twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Because Windows collects and reports information about your computer and how you use it, and this behavior cannot be fully disabled.
If we had a single functioning major government on this planet, that would be illegal. twitter.com/sequitur_broke…
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Aber denken Sie daran: Es ist der Whistleblower, der der Feind ist. twitter.com/WDRinvestigati…
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My wife's Twitter has been locked for a week for posting a baby picture. She appealed the ban. I mentioned it to @TwitterSupport. I mentioned it to @elonmusk. Zero response.
Instagram etc have no prob with the same pic.
You can put *porn* on Twitter, but not a baby? Bad policy. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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