Edward Snowden @Snowden 6h I take payment in Bitcoin. Elon Musk @elonmusk 7h Replying to @WholeMarsBlog The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive 1,872 4,551 549 45,510 Edward Snowden retweeted Ms. Pinky Stanseski 🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇵🇸She/her @undergradwoman 6h Replying to @Snowden @paulg @balajis Good news: I just checked and Paul is no longer banned! 24 27 7 216 Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi 7h Notes from the Twitter Files: Twitter and the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) Twitter didn't just take moderation requests from government, it made rapid attitude adjustments. More below: open.substack.com/pub/taibbi… Notes from the Twitter Files: Twitter and the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) In a curious exchange, the government expresses annoyance with Twitter for reporting little "recent" foreign activity taibbi.substack.com 95 1,348 30 4,171 Edward Snowden retweeted Elon Musk @elonmusk 7h Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again. 16,545 14,250 4,608 253,376 Edward Snowden retweeted Elon Musk @elonmusk 7h Replying to @elonmusk @TheQuartering @levie Policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account’s *primary* purpose is promotion of competitors, which essentially falls under the no spam rule 953 1,523 991 14,576 Edward Snowden @Snowden 7h 🤔 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jun 6 The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one! 224 585 32 5,740 Edward Snowden retweeted Alex Kehr @alexkehr 8h Replying to @elonmusk @TrungTPhan @stillgray Why did you just suspend Paul Graham? He said he no longer believes in Twitter and was instantly suspended. Doesn’t seem like this is a safe place to speak freely anymore. 155 210 30 1,405 Edward Snowden @Snowden 8h Twitter seemingly banned @paulg for this tweet. A major account that was obviously not "solely created to promote other social media platforms." And he didn't even post the link! As @balajis said, this is a bad policy and should be reversed. 495 1,071 177 7,648 Edward Snowden retweeted Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Dec 17 Excerpts from last night’s show on how the very same government officials and media corporations who built and cheered Big Tech’s censorship regime suddenly objected because, for once, the targets were their friends and allies rather than their enemies:👇👇 System Update @SystemUpdate_ Dec 17 Rep. Jane Harman spent much of her time in Congress steadfastly defending the ever-expanding US security state. Then, her own NSA-tapped conversations were released to the public—and her position on civil liberties flipped overnight. Show this thread 82 585 19 2,301 Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Dec 17 - What "law enforcement" objective is served by asking for Billy Baldwin's location information? - Why is the FBI/DHS in the business of analyzing and flagging social media content at all? When were these programs created and who approved them? 849 5,703 244 31,243 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley 12h The growing panic is evident. This hold-the-line warning is meant to stop a cascading failure in the once insurmountable wall of social-media censorship. If Facebook were to restore free-speech protections, the control over social media could evaporate...jonathanturley.org/2022/12/1… Censor or Else: Democratic Members Warn Facebook Not to “Backslide” on Censorship With the restoration of free speech protections on Twitter, panic has grown on the left that its control over social media could come to an end. Now, some of the greatest advocates of censorship in… jonathanturley.org 287 2,095 111 6,484 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted jack @jack 11h Replying to @TwitterSupport Why? 4,419 6,249 4,497 54,308 Edward Snowden @Snowden 11h ayfkm This tweet is unavailable 343 595 50 4,929 Edward Snowden @Snowden Dec 17 Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth. 1,394 7,467 428 42,778 Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Dec 17 This FBI response is disingenuous on multiple fronts. None of this expains flagging the silly jokes of ordinary Americans with low follower counts. Also, they are clearly not doing this in service of investigating crime. This is about domestic intelligence and opinion control. Jon Nicosia @NewsPolitics Dec 16 The FBI replies to @mtaibbi "The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities. Private sector entities independently make decisions about” Show this thread 1,614 8,540 318 35,020 Edward Snowden retweeted Lee Fang @lhfang Dec 16 The FBI pulled hundreds of agents off financial crime to War on Terror stuff in the 00's, resulting in missed signs of the financial crisis, incentives to invent terror plots. Now tons get assigned to social media so they inundate Twitter w/ takedown requests for joke accounts. 285 2,715 88 11,186 Edward Snowden retweeted Lee Fang @lhfang Dec 16 Here’s the FBI just a month ago asking Twitter for *location* information on a bunch of Twitter users, including the conservative news site @RSBNetwork. The FBI asks Twitter to “voluntarily provide” info and helpfully suggests these users violated Terms of Service. Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Dec 16 Replying to @mtaibbi 18.In an internal email from November 5, 2022, the FBI’s National Election Command Post, which compiles and sends on complaints, sent the SF field office a long list of accounts that “may warrant additional action”: Show this thread 535 4,929 290 12,047 Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Dec 16 4. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth. 684 10,426 623 48,711 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Dec 16 8. Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content. 290 8,022 341 40,357 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Dec 16 “HELLO TWITTER CONTACTS”: The master-canine quality of the FBI’s relationship to Twitter comes through in this November 2022 email, in which “FBI San Francisco is notifying you” it wants action on four accounts: 924 9,197 888 38,840 Show this thread Load more