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Oh please. This is a social media manager who’s working from home that we’re talking about here. On the basis of these facts alone I can be relatively confide

Oh please. This is a social media manager who’s working from home that we’re talking about here. On the basis of these facts alone I can be relatively confident that the U.S. nuclear posture wasn’t seriously in jeopardy.

jonas21 6y ago
On the other hand, if the child had been a little bit older and thought it would be funny to tweet, "we have launched a nuclear strike on North Korea," or something, I'd imagine that we might be looking at this differently. I don't blame the social media person, but I am pretty surprised that the US Strategic Command allows their Twitter account to be operated from an insecure location.
- peddling-brink 6y ago
  There is a significant difference in decision making by a parent in regards to what they leave out for their children to touch based on the child's age. The things you can leave out at age 1 are different than age 2, or 5, or 10, or 15. Also, significant American politics are not being run from twitter anymore.
- de_nied 6y ago
  That would've been hilarious. And also uneventful. North Korea wouldn't start flinging nukes over a Tweet.
gnulinux 6y ago
This is a genuine question, I'm really curious. What if the kid typed something that implies "US is firing nukes to {insert random non-Western country}". What is the probability of something like that escalating?
- taejo 6y ago
  It wouldn't be completely unprecedented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
  - gnulinux 6y ago
    I didn't know this but this so scandalous. I don't even understand what's funny about going through a potentially species-ending war.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y ago
  Escalating in a 'national security relevant' way? Basically none, I would think. Bear in mind we're talking about the same Twitter that only last year lost control of an administrator account resulting in a Bitcoin scam tweeted from one former U.S. President and one future one. It would be embarrassing, but yeah that's it.
- dylan604 6y ago
  Before 2016, probably nothing would have happened. After 2016 when the Commander in Chief only communicated by tweet, then people probably look at tweets in a slightly different mindset

jonas21 6y ago

On the other hand, if the child had been a little bit older and thought it would be funny to tweet, "we have launched a nuclear strike on North Korea," or something, I'd imagine that we might be looking at this differently. I don't blame the social media person, but I am pretty surprised that the US Strategic Command allows their Twitter account to be operated from an insecure location.

peddling-brink 6y ago
There is a significant difference in decision making by a parent in regards to what they leave out for their children to touch based on the child's age. The things you can leave out at age 1 are different than age 2, or 5, or 10, or 15. Also, significant American politics are not being run from twitter anymore.
de_nied 6y ago
That would've been hilarious. And also uneventful. North Korea wouldn't start flinging nukes over a Tweet.

gnulinux 6y ago

This is a genuine question, I'm really curious. What if the kid typed something that implies "US is firing nukes to {insert random non-Western country}". What is the probability of something like that escalating?

taejo 6y ago
It wouldn't be completely unprecedented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
- gnulinux 6y ago
  I didn't know this but this so scandalous. I don't even understand what's funny about going through a potentially species-ending war.
NovemberWhiskey 6y ago
Escalating in a 'national security relevant' way? Basically none, I would think. Bear in mind we're talking about the same Twitter that only last year lost control of an administrator account resulting in a Bitcoin scam tweeted from one former U.S. President and one future one. It would be embarrassing, but yeah that's it.
dylan604 6y ago
Before 2016, probably nothing would have happened. After 2016 when the Commander in Chief only communicated by tweet, then people probably look at tweets in a slightly different mindset