901
Agree.
Gating off speech rights via an implied threat (the point of identification)—on a site famous for exhuming and scandalizing the forgotten tweets of youth—leads not to debate but recrimination and group-think, culminating in the endless recitation of orthodoxies.
Mistake. twitter.com/jack/status/15…
902
Very legal, very cool. twitter.com/CNBCnow/status…
903
Half the kids in school had Biblical names, but not once did I get the chance to sit next to a Jehoshaphat.
905
Schauen Sie zurück auf diese Geschichte und fragen Sie sich, ob diese Entscheidung frei von politischem Einfluss war.
spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
906
I want you to try and imagine a public intellectual arguing the proper response to the revelation of his years-long harrassment of critics is to claim:
1) His victims were the real bullies
2) He is the real victim
3) The true problem is my speaking out
And then attacking *me.* twitter.com/Snowden/status…
907
"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.
908
I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Proper Handling of Classified Material" with your host, Edward Snowden. See you next time.
910
The true challenge is not to enumerate the risk, but to live with it.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-deni…
911
#Facebook's reply here is a near copy-paste of the Obama administration's response to the revelation of the NSA's unlawful mass surveillance program.
Mark seems unaware that the "false picture" defense did not do well in court. It did not do well at all:
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… twitter.com/MikeIsaac/stat…
912
Once you wake up to the idea that the world has been patterned, intentionally or unintentionally, in ways you don’t agree with, you can begin to change it.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
914
replies like "how dare you shame this magnificent creature" as the most iconic figure in american comic history tries once again to pick their pocket
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_cat
915
神様、私はあなたに多くを尋ねませんが、聞いてください。 また本気でサッカーアニメを作ろうとしているようですね。 わかってる、わかってる、でも頼むよ… 私たちはもう十分苦しんだ。
917
The depredations of surveillance have become more entrenched, with capabilities that used to be the province of governments now in the hands of private companies, too, which employ them to track, tether us, and attenuate our freedoms. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-…
918
For what it's worth, I've thought VR/AR meetings are going to be a killer app ever since I lost the ability to travel. But this? This ain't it, and Facebook has gone to extreme lengths to prove it cannot be trusted to respect the boundaries required for private meetings.
919
A consensus-challenging internet is perceived as a threat to central authority, and the surveillance and speech restrictions that have emerged in response are producing an authoritarian center of gravity.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
920
When most people say "this is not financial advice," they're lying, but this is actually not financial advice, since I have zero financial education and no idea what I'm doing.
921
@iamtestr Please don't take medical advice from Joe Rogan.
922
@markcianci Well, a previous group of extremists gathered in 1776 to contemplate that issue and arrived at a solution that seemed okay for the previous two hundred some years:
923
A major case: twitter.com/ACLU/status/15…
924
Congratulations on making insignificance an aspiration, I guess? We're all very happy for you.
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