I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public.
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When a crooked politician calls me traitor, ask yourself: who did I betray? The courts have ruled repeatedly that the programs I revealed were unlawful, and likely unconstitutional—a violation of your rights.
If this is treason, what they call loyalty is a crime.
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Nobody has stronger opinions about Joe Rogan than people who have never listened to Joe Rogan.
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You want to fix policing? Remove their immunity so that they can be sued, and if you win, damages come out of the department's pension fund instead of from taxpayers.
They'll clean house on their own. Quickly.
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Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange. You alone can save his life. @realDonaldTrump
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it's not aliens
i wish it were aliens
but it's not aliens
it's just the ol' engineered panic, an attractive nuisance ensuring natsec reporters get assigned to investigate balloon bullshit rather than budgets or bombings (à la nordstream)
until next time
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Facebook and Instagram go mysteriously offline and, for one shining day, the world becomes a healthier place.
#facebookdown
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Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them.
And yet that day has arrived.
BREAKING: A federal appeals court just ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records was illegal.
This ruling, which confirms what we have always known, is a victory for our privacy rights.
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He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're awake.
He knows this because your pattern-of-life can be inferred by looking at records of your phone's basic internet activity—called "metadata." This is the core of modern mass surveillance.
He should be in jail.
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If it were iPhones that were leaving the factory with explosives inside, the media would be a hell of a lot faster to cotton on to what a horrific precedent has been set today. Nothing can justify this. It's a crime. A crime. And everyone in the world is less safe for it.
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It's quite simple, Senator: if you're more upset at the whistleblower than you are at the lawbreaking they revealed, you're not in a position to be questioning anybody's judgment.
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The whole system revolves around the idea that the majority can be made to believe 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, so long as it is repeated loudly and often.
And it works.
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sure laugh at zuckerberg's stock crash but remember that in five years he's gonna own your eyeballs and pause the ads every time you blink
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The worst people in politics from both parties have teamed up to demand Congress rubber-stamp a 4,155-page blank check—many times the length of the Bible.
A check for $1,700,000,000,000 of your money.
And they want it stamped before anyone can actually read it.
Sounds legit.
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Coinbase spending $16,000,000 on a Superbowl ad to direct people to their website and $0 to make sure that website doesn't crash 10 seconds after the ad starts is so very internet.
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Everyone in the world needs to see this.
Note that this footage permits no room for "it was a mistake," showing repeated, specifically-targeted strikes on the unarmed and even wounded. The sort of behavior the ICJ explicitly forbid in the genocide ruling against Israel.
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The fact that is considered legal for a corporation to compile perfect records of your private life simply because you had to "click OK to continue" to make your phone work is a perfect expression of who holds the power in society and why they should be cast into the sea.
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The arrest of @Durov is an assault on the basic human rights of speech and association. I am surprised and deeply saddened that Macron has descended to the level of taking hostages as a means for gaining access to private communications. It lowers not only France, but the world.
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What Israel has just done is, via *any* method, reckless. They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism.
As information comes in about the exploding beepers in Lebanon, it seems now more likely than not to be implanted explosives, not a hack. Why? Too many consistent, very serious injuries. If it were overheated batteries exploding, you'd expect many more small fires & misfires.
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First they came for Tiktok, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not twelve years old. Then they came for the Telegram, and I did not speak out—
Because I was using some other app or sth idk. Then they came for literally every other platform for dissent, and I did not speak out—
because bro how tf could i that's the entire point wake up wake up wa—
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Assange & I were charged under a law designed to prevent fair trials—a law originally aimed at suppressing an old anti-war movement. Defendants are forbidden from mounting a public interest defense, juries prohibited from hearing it.
Whatever your politics, that's an injustice
I am not expressing an opinion, but did promise to conduct this poll.
Should Assange and Snowden be pardoned?
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I'm in Russia because the White House intentionally canceled my passport to trap me here. They *downed the President of Bolivia's diplomatic aircraft* to prevent me from leaving, and continue to interfere with my freedom of movement to this day.
In case that was unclear.
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We know little so far, but w alleged Trump shooter's personal and public participation in military activity in Ukraine, it is hard to imagine this White House's agencies can claim zero contact—"clean hands." Something of an Oswald vibe, here. Congress should get answers.
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I have seen more calls for pardon this year than in all others combined. No other issue in our time unites left, right, and center like the struggle to end governments' abuse of mass surveillance and secrecy, and that would not be true without you -- and your advocacy. Thank you.
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They've gone full mask-off: 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. You have been warned.
🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: OPENAI APPOINTS FORMER NSA HEAD PAUL NAKASONE TO BOARD
OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, retired US Army general and former NSA head, to its board of directors.
Nakasone, who led the NSA from 2018 to 2023, will join OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee.
He will help improve AI’s role in cybersecurity by detecting and responding to threats quickly.
His appointment follows concerns over safety culture at OpenAI.
Source: The Verge
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I am neither Democrat nor Republican, but Sanders is in my opinion the most fundamentally decent man in politics. His life-long struggle for a more equitable society is a reminder of how far we have come—and a challenge to complete the journey. #GetWellBernie
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After this clip, Assange was forced into asylum. Today he is locked in a dungeon -- and kept incommunicado.
Listen to this, then ask yourself why it was so important that he be silenced.
Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" #Afghanistan
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Let me get this straight: you *want* governments and corporations to more tightly control the flow of information? Because someone said something problematic?
All over the world, people are making the same mistake.
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This FBI Director has sought for years to jail me on account of my political activities. If I can oppose his firing, so can you.
Set aside politics: every American should condemn such political interference in the Bureau's work. nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/po…
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Stop what you're doing and read this. This leak is going to be the story of the year: (LINK: theguardian.com/world/2021/j…)
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Facebook is Facebook. Don't write about the name, write about what they do, because that's what matters.
Paperwork doesn't change the nature of a thing.
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Behold, dear reader, what the New York Times describes as "the politics of joy."
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Looking at the reaction to Israel's Unabomber-style booby trap campaign from people who actually live in the region, it has created a hundred times more enemies than Hezbollah could ever hope to recruit. Even from a military perspective, it is terribly shortsighted.
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Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.
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Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all going down at the same time sure seems like an easily-understandable and publicly-popular example of why breaking up a certain monopoly into at least three pieces might not be a bad idea.
Somebody should tell Elizabeth Warren.
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Sometimes I try to imagine a world where scientific young minds enjoyed greater rewards for revolutionizing, like, farming methods, manufacturing, or energy, rather than the dark patterns used to optimize ad-clicks at Google and Facebook.
How did we get here?
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No matter your politics, it should appall you that the media outlets which claim to care the most about "misinformation" suppressed coverage of South Africa's case against the Gaza genocide, but fully covered Israel's defense the next day—intentionally denying you the full story.
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The Senate Intel Committee spent nearly the entirety of its session today furiously demanding that DNI nominee Gabbard condemn me personally, a position now opposed by something like 94% of Americans.
Courts have been ruling for ten years that NSA broke the law, guys. Move on.
President Trump should pardon Edward Snowden. He is a national hero for exposing egregious violations of the Constitution by the Bush and Obama administrations.
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You have no idea what you're talking about. Even the United States Government doesn't allege this. It literally never happened, and it *couldn't* happen, because I gave the archive to journalists. Those journalists' reporting, by the way, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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Julian Assange is locked in a dungeon as a political prisoner for the "crime" of publishing award-winning stories nearly fifteen years ago, and yet there are people on here claiming that we have a justice system.
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Facebook officially silences the President of the United States. For better or worse, this will be remembered as a turning point in the battle for control over digital speech.
BREAKING: Facebook blocks Trump from accessing his accounts indefinitely, per Zuckerberg. "We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great." facebook.com/zuck/posts/1011…
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Julian Assange is a political prisoner, and the sole reason he remains a political prisoner is because the White House remains afraid of his voice.
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Facebook-owned Whatsapp being down is a reminder that you and your friends should probably be using a more private, non-profit alternative like @Signalapp anyway (or another open-source app of your choice).
It's just as free, and takes like 30 seconds to switch.
#facebookdown
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One, I didn't "steal" anything. I created a copy.
Two, that "thing" was **evidence of crimes** (our courts agreed: see link).
Three, exposing a crime should not be a crime, regardless of whether those crimes were committed by a Mafia or a State.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020…
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Images of Ecuador's ambassador inviting the UK's secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of--like it or not--award-winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books. Assange's critics may cheer, but this is a dark moment for press freedom.
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Unpopular but true: Bitcoin is the most significant monetary advance since the creation of coinage.
If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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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…
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Netanyahu nurtured a zillion-dollar industry selling spying tools to despots that use them to break into the iPhones of critics, elected opponents, human rights lawyers, and even students (these are all real examples).
Turns out they're not very useful for spying on Hamas, tho. haaretz.com/israel-news/tech…
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The tides of Brasil's VPNs are about to teach King Canute a very important lesson.
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Crowd looks bigger than some inaugurations.
We're not only going to win.
We're going to transform the country.
Thank you to the more than 25,000 people in Queens who made this an incredible day. #BerniesBack
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Tulsi Gabbard will be required to disown all prior support for whistleblowers as a condition of confirmation today. I encourage her to do so. Tell them I harmed national security and the sweet, soft feelings of staff. In D.C., that's what passes for the pledge of allegiance.
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As information comes in about the exploding beepers in Lebanon, it seems now more likely than not to be implanted explosives, not a hack. Why? Too many consistent, very serious injuries. If it were overheated batteries exploding, you'd expect many more small fires & misfires.
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Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document.
Meanwhile Biden, Trump, Clinton, Petraeus... these guys have dozens, hundreds. No jail.
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Whoa.
Bernie Sanders pledges to end practice of prosecuting whistleblowers under the Espionage Act interc.pt/2P7zXbr
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If you ever wonder where we're at on the dystopia scale, consider that it's normal to believe the government is spying on you, and crazy to believe that they're not.
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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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You are holding Julian Assange in a dungeon for exercising the freedom of expression you so ardently claim to defend. How about decriminalizing it at home before you take to a podium and point your finger abroad?
.@StateDeptSpox: "We've made consistently clear to Saudi authorities that freedom of expression should never be criminalized. The exercise of the universal right like freedom of expression should never be criminalized."
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Watch the voting machine used in US swing states get hacked to rig an election. @Jhalderm, @UMich, and @nytimes demonstrate why every voting district needs an auditable paper ballot. Voting machines are *known* to be insecure. nytimes.com/video/opinion/10…
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No matter the outcome, #Brexit polls demonstrate how quickly half of any population can be convinced to vote against itself. Quite a lesson.
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the masculine urge to complain about the cost of living from your gold chair while wearing meemaw's snow-leopard snuggie and egg-sized diamond hat
King Charles announces that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government will "continue to take action... to ease the cost of living for families" trib.al/qO6ywcl
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Note: Gina Haspel participated in a torture program that involved beating an (innocent) pregnant woman's stomach, anally raping a man with meals he tried to refuse, and freezing a shackled prisoner until he died. She personally wrote the order to destroy 92 tapes of CIA torture.
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Imagine killing an aid worker. Imagine killing his family too. Imagine seven of them were actually children, smiling little tots.
Then just rising from your chair to grab a coffee and saying, "mistakes were made."
This is absolutely unforgivable.
BREAKING: A Pentagon review concludes that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and doesn't recommend disciplinary action, @AP learns. apne.ws/b30bj00
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Prediction: A national government will be revealed this year to have been buying Bitcoin—the modern replacement for monetary gold—without having disclosed that fact publicly.
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darkly amusing to watch panicked dems suddenly searching under the couch cushions for a candidate when kennedy is literally standing right there
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okay so the plan is to force everybody to plow their entire life's earnings into real estate but then nobody can afford to have kids so when the boomers disappear like the elves with no one to replace them everybody ends up both poor and alone do i have that right mr satan sir
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