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Twitter Files 16. Matt Taibbi Woodstock of the Censorship-Industrial Complex

• starkd 4y ago
  << 16. Their taxpayer-backed conclusions: the state should have total access to data to make searching speech easier, speech offenders should be put in a “holding area," and government should probably restrict disinformation, “even if it means losing some freedom.” This should be chilling to anyone paying attention.
  • smoldesu 4y ago
    It shouldn't surprise anyone paying attention, though. It's common knowledge that FAANG complies with hundreds-of-thousands of subpeonas for personal data, these "Twitter files" are peanuts next to what Snowden revealed about Facebook 9 years ago.
    • starkd 4y ago
      But search warrants and subpoenas generally respect a due process. This reveals an elaborate government/corporate partnership to subvert due process. Not to mention free speech. The first amendment applies because you can no longer say "because its a private company".
• starkd 4y ago
  >> 41. The far worse scandal was “Project Birmingham,” in which thousands of fake Russian Twitter accounts were created to follow Alabama Republican Roy Moore in his 2017 race for US Senate. >>Newspapers reported Russia seemed to take an interest in the race, favoring Moore. What other information was faked? All that information about being a pedophile? Was that faked?