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Member of Congress: twitter.com/mattgaetz/stat…
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Re-read this thread, but with the understanding that the Iraq War could have been avoided if this Senator (or any other with similar knowledge) had cared more about his country than a TOP SECRET stamp.
This is the cost of classifying information the public needs to know. twitter.com/vermontgmg/sta…
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The NSO Group is running a disinformation campaign to undermine the Pegasus Project—because of course they are—but @amnesty just demolished it: twitter.com/AmnestyTech/st…
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Ordinary Chinese readers and translators united to help me remove all censorship from the mainland edition of my first book, entitled《永久记录》. Now we're making it available it to the world for free. Please download and share it everywhere. Link: a.temporaryrecord.com twitter.com/aiww/status/12…
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Do you feel safer? twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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Sitting Member of Congress. twitter.com/RepThomasMassi…
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One of the cool things about Nostr ("Notes and other stuff transmitted by relays", a new decentralized protocol that replaces things like Twitter and Instagram)—beyond censorship resistance—is that you aren't limited to 280 characters.
Find me there.
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The @nytimes just reported that the White House, concerned about the appearance of a "domestically damaging" "Saigon moment," ignored "weeks" of warnings that the evacuation operation should be started sooner: nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/…
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@elonmusk There is also, of course, Julian Assange. Most know the name, but have no idea what he really did. He has been detained or in prison since 2012. Kept under maximum-security conditions today for the "crime" of publishing true information -- despite having never been convicted.
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Zuckerberg responds to a global outage and national scandal by claiming @facebook is the real victim here, and modestly proposing Congress consider:
A) legally restricting teen use of internet services
B) identify verification mandates
C) limiting teen privacy
On-brand, really.
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The government is attempting to exploit anger at tech companies to pass a law that intentionally undermines digital security (eff.org/deeplinks/2020…), and censors speech. That such a law is even being considered by Congress is a national disgrace.
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You think you've got willpower, but then you remember Satoshi Nakamoto has left untouched what will probably end up being history's greatest fortune.
cointelegraph.com/news/at-what-b…
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The Assange NFT is doing real numbers. Very much looks like a protest vote against the White House's abuse of the Espionage Act. twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
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The primary public figures still openly against ending the War on Whistleblowers are now down to John Brennan, Dick Cheney's progeny, and (literally) one tentacle-porn enthusiast. That's how far we've come.
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#July4th: Declaring a higher loyalty to the people than to the state.
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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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"Fine, whatever — I just don't like the bastard," admits another, "Assange deserves to suffer."
The arbitrary punishment of those unlike you for the crime of being unlike you is the very heart of the fascism you claim to oppose.
Free societies are founded on tolerance.
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من فقط می گویم دلیلی وجود دارد که گربه ها محبوب هستند twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The FBI is breaking into Americans' computers to delete malware—and going beyond the law to do it. (Thread by an ACLU attorney:) twitter.com/granick/status…
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"Originally, tracking phones was the only way to deliver service, but that’s not true anymore—now the carriers are lining their pockets by tracking us while turning a blind eye to techniques that can protect our privacy."
Worth reading:
aclu.org/news/privacy-t…
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Glenn Greenwald broke the story that freed Lula from prison. For that same reporting, Bolsonaro sought to put Greenwald *IN* prison—he actually brought charges!
Today on this site: "Glenn must be sad Bolsonaro lost and Lula won." twitter.com/figgityfigs/st…
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