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I am not a twitter user, but I guess the focus is on circumventing censorship rather than privacy.

by Whateverest 5y ago

edgyquant 5y ago
I don’t see how those are exclusive? You need privacy to circumvent censorship
- notatoad 5y ago
  imagine you're living in a country that's currently blocking twitter, but somebody is posting essential information on twitter that you need to read. twitter on Tor circumvents that censorship. giving twitter your phone number is irrelevant to that.
  - pjerem 5y ago
    > but somebody is posting essential information on twitter Tell that somebody that websites exists.
    - sodality2 5y ago
      Which have terrible discovery compared to social media. Make a website about a hobby and you're unlikely to get many views. Post it on social media and you'll get way more
      - pjerem 5y ago
        Ok. But here someone is going to use Tor to reach "essential" information on Twitter. I don't think there is so essential information on Twitter that anyone would take the hassle to read it through Tor.
    - roywiggins 5y ago
      A surprising amount of timely information from public institutions (everything from road conditions to "it's not a real nuclear attack[0]") is often much more accessible via Twitter than anywhere else. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/what-the-hell-happened-in-hawaii/550514/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/wh...
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  - micromacrofoot 5y ago
    It's a little relevant. Twitter limits what you can see when you're logged out now, and if Twitter were breached your personally identifying information could leak out and put you in a dangerous situation. Be careful out there friends!
    - notatoad 5y ago
      it's a little relevant if you're the person sharing sensitive information that the government is trying to suppress. And if you're doing that, then yeah, take steps to keep yourself safe. if you're just trying to read information, like 99% of the people on twitter, then it's not really relevant. it's an unlikely hypothetical in the first place that twitter leaks those phone numbers, but no government is using phone numbers to hunt down consumers of information.
      - micromacrofoot 5y ago
        It's not at all unlikely that a major service is hacked, especially at wartime. Twitter has been breached multiple times before.
  - thaumasiotes 5y ago
    > Twitter on Tor circumvents that censorship. Giving Twitter your phone number is irrelevant to that. Until the country you're living in gets your phone number from Twitter...
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I am not a twitter user, but I guess the focus is on circumventing censorship rather than privacy.

edgyquant 5y ago

I don’t see how those are exclusive? You need privacy to circumvent censorship

notatoad 5y ago
imagine you're living in a country that's currently blocking twitter, but somebody is posting essential information on twitter that you need to read. twitter on Tor circumvents that censorship. giving twitter your phone number is irrelevant to that.
- pjerem 5y ago
  > but somebody is posting essential information on twitter Tell that somebody that websites exists.
  - sodality2 5y ago
    Which have terrible discovery compared to social media. Make a website about a hobby and you're unlikely to get many views. Post it on social media and you'll get way more
    - pjerem 5y ago
      Ok. But here someone is going to use Tor to reach "essential" information on Twitter. I don't think there is so essential information on Twitter that anyone would take the hassle to read it through Tor.
  - roywiggins 5y ago
    A surprising amount of timely information from public institutions (everything from road conditions to "it's not a real nuclear attack[0]") is often much more accessible via Twitter than anywhere else. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/what-the-hell-happened-in-hawaii/550514/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/wh...
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- micromacrofoot 5y ago
  It's a little relevant. Twitter limits what you can see when you're logged out now, and if Twitter were breached your personally identifying information could leak out and put you in a dangerous situation. Be careful out there friends!
  - notatoad 5y ago
    it's a little relevant if you're the person sharing sensitive information that the government is trying to suppress. And if you're doing that, then yeah, take steps to keep yourself safe. if you're just trying to read information, like 99% of the people on twitter, then it's not really relevant. it's an unlikely hypothetical in the first place that twitter leaks those phone numbers, but no government is using phone numbers to hunt down consumers of information.
    - micromacrofoot 5y ago
      It's not at all unlikely that a major service is hacked, especially at wartime. Twitter has been breached multiple times before.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago
  > Twitter on Tor circumvents that censorship. Giving Twitter your phone number is irrelevant to that. Until the country you're living in gets your phone number from Twitter...

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