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I once warned that the architecture of oppression was near.
It has arrived.
washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
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the government has done such a good job solving our problems boy howdy we should probably just give those rock stars even more power to determine the outcome of our lives
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Scenes from the decline. twitter.com/johnschreiber/…
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Can you name one? Just one?
Because even the government admits nobody died as a result of the 2013 revelations of Global Mass Surveillance. However, US courts *did* rule that they show the NSA broke the law. That reporting also won the Pulitzer Prize.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… t.co/kf0j3dag5b
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BIG:
On Sunday, a new report claimed the US secretly considered killing Julian Assange, and laid criminal charges against him primarily to "legalize" a kidnap operation.
Now the former CIA Director who pushed the scheme has—in a failed damage control effort—confirmed it is true. twitter.com/Isikoff/status…
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Did you know that whistleblowers are sentenced to more time in prison than corrupt officials who trade secrets for sex—more time than even actual spies?
The government has made *telling* the truth a greater crime than *selling* it.
#PardonRealityWinner
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One way of resolving all these secret-document scandals is to acknowledge that after 75 years of experimentation, the chief accomplishment of the "classification system" has been to make our government less trustworthy and our country less free.
Abolish and reform it. All of it.
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Everybody can get back to uninstalling #Whatsapp now. twitter.com/signalapp/stat…
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Reminder: Amazon Web Services runs like half the internet. twitter.com/thetimes/statu…
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In seven years, no one has named a single American who died as a result of revealing the unlawful program of domestic mass surveillance—because it didn't happen. But exposing that crime did reform American laws—and strengthen our rights. twitter.com/LindseyGrahamS…
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Imagine my surprise to find only the worst people in the country willing to speak against a pardon this time around. How far we've come!
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Opportunistic serpents. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
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After the last couple years, hard to ignore the feeling that the CIA's Color Revolutions are coming home.
We may come to regret spending decades normalizing the practice of disregarding elections, the precedent for ousting presidents.
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Neither a law nor a court can truly justify the revocation of a human right; the most fundamental of our freedoms are inabrogable. The repression of such an essential liberty may be effective, for a time, but it cannot be legitimate.
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everyone who disagrees with me is a russian agent
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If you're a journalist, American or otherwise, you need to understand that turning a blind eye to this story moves the entire world toward a paradigm where the criminalization of journalism is routine.
You have to speak up on this one.
Read the source: news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-ass…
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The entire thing is much longer, but *entirely* worth the watch. The government sued Snepp in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled intelligence workers had to submit any statement for censorship, even those unrelated to secrets.
youtube.com/watch?v=UwerBZ…
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It is a federal crime to open a piece of junk mail addressed to someone else. Listening to a phone call without a court order can also be a federal crime.
But an increasing number of companies are warrantlessly tracking—and recording—your every movement. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Thanks, I'll pass. twitter.com/NSA_CSDirector…
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There is no universe in which this is good news. twitter.com/meridithmcgraw…
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The next time you see somebody trying to revive the long-discredited claims that I was some kind of foreign agent because they don't like what I represent, show them this clip of the NSA's Deputy Director—the man who actually ran that investigation—trash-canning it.
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Sometimes I think back to this and wonder how many people bought #Bitcoin then.
It's up ~10x since, despite a coordinated global campaign by governments to undermine public understanding of—and support for—cryptocurrency.
China even banned it, but it just made Bitcoin stronger. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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ok sure but hear me out:
auto-blocking, but for people with flag emoji in their username
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The "great works" of Bezos-money are ruthlessly unimaginative.
You could construct vertical gardens the size of skyscrapers—in the greatest cities of the world. You could colonize the ocean floor! Nothing is impossible.
But Bezos, Bezos builds a boring baby cruise ship. $500M.
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Ten years ago, the government defended unconstitutional surveillance by saying it was necessary to "balance" your right to liberty against their preference for security. The courts at the time viewed that skeptically.
Under the new Court, lawless spying is no longer questioned. twitter.com/ACLU/status/16…
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