Censorship: Twitter Takeover Totally Panics Political Regime of LeftLibDemSocMediaTechPol

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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
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Ms. Pinky Stanseski 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸She/her @undergradwoman
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Replying to @Snowden @paulg @balajis
Good news: I just checked and Paul is no longer banned!
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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
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
7h
Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My
apologies. Won’t happen again.
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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
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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!
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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.
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Edward Snowden
@Snowden
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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…
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jack
@jack
11h
Replying to @TwitterSupport
Why?
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Edward Snowden
@Snowden
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ayfkm
This tweet is unavailable
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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.
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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”
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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.
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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”:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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