The “third-party doctrine” gives a veneer of legality to the bulk
#surveillance
programs revealed by Edward
@Snowden
over ten years ago (!)
If you want to understand it and learn how to restore our Fourth Amendment rights, read this free article:
@Snowden
Here are the 60 Senators who—bolstered by a lie about a phony deadline—decided to vote away our Fourth Amendment rights late on a Friday night when no one was paying attention.
Yes, Twitter has been out of control. But Section 230 itself is not to blame. It’s an interpretation of that section, combined w/ poor judgment at Twitter. Justice Thomas is leading the way on fixing the interpretation. The other part of the solution is to
#twexit
to
@parler_app
.
My piano teacher as a kid gave me a biography of Ronald Reagan & told me to read it. 20 years later, I’m playing one of her favorite pieces on the campaign trail in Iowa.
You know, I almost believe him.
But the problem is in his conception of what govt should do “for” people.
Government is force. It shouldn’t be providing “free” goods or services, because it does not produce—it can only forcibly redistribute what others produce.
No thanks, Joe.
As I said throughout the campaign: I will be a president for all Americans.
I will work just as hard for those of you who didn’t vote for me as I will for those who did.
Taxation is still theft.
The USPS is a govt-established monopoly; is it Amazon's fault that USPS runs at a loss?
If Amazon's "putting many thousands of retailers out of business," it's only because they offer more value.
Are you sure it's *America* you want to make great again?
I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” —English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839
“More to review from the Biden team.” — Unnamed Twitter Executive, fall 2020
#twitterfiles
Hauling
@jack
before a Senate Committee will do nothing to solve the problem, and everything to move us one step closer to creating a cronyist information panopticon—aka Big Brother.
Why not sue, and try out the narrow construction of 230 that Thomas supports? Also
#twexit
.
Time will tell as to whether
@VivekGRamaswamy
’s prediction is correct, but one thing is certain regardless: I am not voting for Trump. Vivek has a better understanding of what made America great than Trump will ever have. Seems like Trump’s campaign finally figured that out.
In which the
@nytimes
demonstrates its refusal to distinguish a tragedy (
#COVID
) from an atrocity (9/11)--i.e., to distinguish the metaphysical from the man-made.
#NeverForget
.
@JoeBiden
We pay every cent owed. You spent 3 decades in the Senate & know that Congress wrote these tax laws to encourage companies to invest in the US economy. We have. 500k jobs w/ a min wage of $15/hr across 40 states. Assume your complaint is w/ the tax code, not Amazon.
Many Americans are now demanding that Fourth Amendment protections for their private conversations and data be restored. Congress has the opportunity to do this, tomorrow, thanks to a motion by
@realannapaulina
to reconsider the reauthorization of FISA Section 702.
Perhaps some
The “third-party doctrine” gives a veneer of legality to the bulk
#surveillance
programs revealed by Edward
@Snowden
over ten years ago (!)
If you want to understand it and learn how to restore our Fourth Amendment rights, read this free article:
There’s a lot I like about
@benshapiro
. And at least some things I dislike about
@mPinoe
. But I’m hoping this is just Ben being taken out of context here. “Outspoken Lesbian” does not define her.
Give CNN credit for clearly stating, in the headline, that Israel’s airstrikes against Gaza are a *response*. That’s not always the case with the big media outlets.
No candidate has shown up for Iowans—and their property rights—more than
@VivekGRamaswamy
has. And it seems like they’re showing up for him (and all of us) as well. Will be watching from Texas tonight!
#caucus4vivek
#iowacaucus
Imagine a government that taxed you, then used that money to purchase private data about you from “third parties,” without your consent, and in violation of your constitutional rights. Using your tax dollars to put you in Bentham’s Panopticon.
That’s exactly what’s happening:
Your tax dollars at work!
“In recent years, U.S. intelligence agencies, the military and even local police departments have gained access to enormous amounts of data through shadowy arrangements with brokers and aggregators. Everything from basic biographical information to
This is a bold promise Vivek is making—one which can not only restore our right to financial self reliance, but also
#legalizeprivacy
.
Just take a minute to think about all the information you share with “third parties”—telephone and internet, retailers, social media, etc.,
Financial self-reliance is a key check against the concentration of powers, surveillance & censorship in the financial system, in a tradition dating back to Jefferson and Jackson. Self-hosted wallets deliver this independence in the digital age & must not be banned nor
So now they’re going to try to bypass the legislative process entirely and get a court to reauthorize unconstitutional bulk surveillance of innocent Americans?!
Yes, it’s your Friday news dump 😅😭😅😭
@AOC
If you and others believe that, then you’re free to pay whatever you wish. But why do you think you are entitled to force your judgment on others, and to confiscate their wealth if they don’t agree with you?
All I want for Christmas (and beyond) is for legislators to stop “reforming” unconstitutional warrantless surveillance of innocent human beings, and address the problem at its root.
We need to correct the wrong turn our Supreme Court took in the 1970s, overturn Smith and Miller,
The “third-party doctrine” gives a veneer of legality to the bulk
#surveillance
programs revealed by Edward
@Snowden
over ten years ago (!)
If you want to understand it and learn how to restore our Fourth Amendment rights, read this free article:
After providing advance warning to civilians & time to evacuate, IDF fighter jets struck a multi-story building containing Hamas military intelligence assets.
The building contained civilian media offices, which Hamas hides behind and deliberately uses as human shields.
@SamHarrisOrg
If he’s that bad, isn’t it important to keep the content posted for the world to see and judge, especially given that he’s running for President again?
Warrantless surveillance of Americans is built upon a faulty premise: a wrong turn our Supreme Court took in the 1970s Smith and Miller cases. Government should have to get a warrant even to intercept/collect our conversations. A warrant to query is the *least* they can do today.
@RobertKennedyJr
@jimmy_dore
During the COVID crisis, Appeal to Authority was somehow transformed from being a logical fallacy into a civic virtue.
Thinking for yourself became verboten in polite society.
@TheKevinDalton
@GavinNewsom
@GOP
No fresh air or sunshine on California beaches in Spring 2020, when people could most use it. Oh, and his hypocrisy on those lockdown rules…that took the cake. He is not a kind person.
THREAD:
“This week marks two years since Amazon Web Services, following closely behind Google and Apple, took burgeoning Twitter competitor
@parler_app
—which had been number one in Apple’s App Store—offline. The reason given was the platform’s alleged contribution…
@AOC
Ad hominem & appeal to laughter, and that’s in addition to begging the question twice—first by calling socialism “progressive” and second by calling your opponents’ messaging “propaganda.”
Perhaps a new record for number of fallacies per tweet?
"First they came for Parler, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't an 'insurrectionist.'
"Then they came for TikTok, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a (Chinese) Communist.
"Then they came for ..."
“In a series of tweets posted Monday morning, De Chiara wrote that the agency decided to terminate Oefelein after her use of Parler and Gab was brought to the agency's attention. The tweets were initially accessible to the public...”
My letter to
@Jim_Jordan
, requesting that he include the deplatforming of Parler in the scope of his
@Weaponization
Committee's investigations, beginning with the lead contained in the attached screenshot from the
#TwitterFiles
. Please RT to have Parler's deplatforming included!
The reaction to
@VivekGRamaswamy
yesterday, based on an incorrect Community Note (that has now been removed) was a case in point. So many were ready to rush to judgment, take glee in the fact that he’d been slapped with a Community Note, when he was correct about the Florida law.
Word is that our Congress Critters plan to pass a FIVE-YEAR reauthorization of FISA Section 702, which permits warrantless surveillance of Americans, in the coming days. To understand why no one who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution should be doing this, read:
The “third-party doctrine” gives a veneer of legality to the bulk
#surveillance
programs revealed by Edward
@Snowden
over ten years ago (!)
If you want to understand it and learn how to restore our Fourth Amendment rights, read this free article:
FISA Section 702 allows for the collection, storage, and queries of Americans' side of countless conversations. All without a warrant requirement. But you say that's not warrantless surveillance?
Chairman
@RepMikeTurner
on reauthorizing FISA Section 702:
“All Americans would want us to try to make certain that we keep ourselves safe from these outside terrorist groups and organizations. We are not spying on Americans. This is not a warrantless surveillance program.”
Sorry
@tim_cook
, you cannot say the free market has failed when the fundamental pillars of the free market and privacy--property and contract rights--have been banished from the realm of the legal protection of privacy for over a century!
SURVEILLANCE WITHOUT REPRESENTATION:
In December, Congress rushed through a National Defense Authorization Act which included a short-term reauthorization of Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. Section 702 permits warrantless interception, collection, storage, and
Please share this if you think FISA 702 should NOT be in the NDAA.
Including it would allow 702 collection—even if 702 expires after the NDAA’s April 2024 deadline—into 2025.
Ask senators to OPPOSE today’s motion to waive the Rule 28 point of order.
No longer subdued by the pablum that if they have nothing to hide, they shouldn’t be concerned about invasions of their privacy, many Americans realize that there is something very wrong with allowing our government to vacuum up our communications and store them indefinitely in a
@elonmusk
And very shortly after, Amazon, Apple, and Google deplatformed
@parler_app
, then
#1
on the App Store, which Trump was rumored to be joining after having been banned here.
Do the Chinese want to survive long-term? Or do they want to destroy Hong Kong, and just survive on the carcass a little while, clinging to their anti-life ideology?
#HongKongProtests
I can’t believe malevolent Twitter’s reaction to today’s
@virgingalactic
flight. No human being should be able to pursue and accomplish his lifelong dream, so long as others, anywhere, are suffering?
How about no?
Some thoughts on “hate” as a category in content moderation. 1/x
First, much of what is classified as “hate speech” today is legal speech, protected by our First Amendment.
Second, hate is an *emotion*, and different people feel that emotion for many different reasons.
Vivek on fire:
"The FBI has been rotten since its inception. You've got to shut it down. We don't need an FBI. I think we patently need to NOT have an FBI. I'm gonna make Javier Milei look like a moderate."
Is
@YouTube
doing some sort of "shadow banning"? Or?? You be the judge. The first pic is the screenshot of my channel, this morning, when someone is *not* logged into the app. My latest video, an interview with a
#HongKong
pro-freedom activist, isn't even displayed. ...
Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar calls for regulations on social media companies that "focus on certain kinds of speech, misinformation, disinformation."
It looks like
@SpeakerJohnson
will be trying to ram through a FISA Section 702 reauthorization this week, with very little in the way of reform. The fearmongering has already begun, apparently.
@peterboghossian
@elonmusk
@eltonofficial
But also: should a social media platform be the arbiter of truth, “misinformation,” “disinformation,” or “Malinformation” anyway? Should people be outsourcing their critical thinking to others? Especially at scale, powered by algorithms? Why?
The treatment of
@RobertKennedyJr
by
@TheDemocrats
at this week’s hearing tells you all you need to know about your prospects for free thought and free expression if they have their way.
Watch
@nytimes
continue its push to regulate big tech (read the part after the "as well as" in the second bullet point). Question: what if the decline in prices is due primarily to the calls to regulate? Maybe NYT thinks regulation is the answer, but investors know better!
Seems like a pretty basic issue. No eminent domain in service of a cronyist fraudulent scheme. Period. Why is Vivek the only one bringing grifts like this to our attention?
The climate change agenda is a hoax & it’s hurting farmers in Iowa. Here’s how: the U.S. government enacted crony subsidies to reward those who build CO₂ pipelines across the Midwest to bury CO₂ in the ground, but most farmers don’t want the pipeline on their land because there
The leftists are using the
#CambridgeAnalytica
story to push a particular narrative.
There is something real & disturbing about the
#CambridgeAnalytica
story, something that goes beyond mere politics.
Both can be true.
(Form of this tweet borrowed from
@benshapiro
)
"But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. 1/
@AOC
Whatever happened to the idea upon which America was founded: that we are born with certain inalienable rights, and government’s proper role is only to *recognize* them, *uphold* them, *respect* them?
Why do you say *establish*? Because healthcare is not and cannot be a *right*.
@AOC
What if we went beyond process to substance: take away government’s power to pick winners and losers in the market, so nothing could be gained by giving money to politicians. Until we do that, all you’ll achieve is swapping one flavor of
#cronyism
for another.
#trycapitalism