Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @jenvalentino @runasand @nytimes @gabrieldance @SteveBellovin Surveillance at scale is precisely the problem, because it is an expression of influence at scale. If you look at the problems we're dealing with in almost every country, they are variations on this theme. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @jenvalentino @runasand @nytimes @gabrieldance @SteveBellovin From a human rights perspective, a global reduction in mass surveillance capability is a desirable reversion to the mean. It is astonishing, and I would argue discrediting, for those claiming a public safety interest advocating for any new means of surveillance "at scale." — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @jenvalentino @runasand @nytimes @gabrieldance @SteveBellovin Solid point. Much reporting on LE access demands (or "concerns") overlooks that the powers they have today are unprecedented and abnormal in a way our constitutional system does not anticipate. Status quo "should" be presumptively undesirable, yet editorial tone implies otherwise — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jenvalentino @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance Ha, fair. That one's on me. I was not actually thinking about the "explosion" line (though clearly it stuck in my head!), but the DOJ statement: “Online child exploitation has increased dramatically in the past few years..." — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jenvalentino @runasand @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance This is open for debate, but I'd take a position that it's actively worse, because it normalizes prior restraint rather than traditional investigation. The right answer for e2e is the traditional police work that has always been effective: go after the actors and end points. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@runasand @jenvalentino @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance All I'm saying is any case in which the government or proxies are invoking terrorism or child abuse in order to limit access to the most basic safeguards for the public's rights online, a platform as influential as NYT should require exceptional evidence for exceptional claims. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@runasand @jenvalentino @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance I should be clear I don't mean this as a personal criticism. I do get it. I simply don't agree it's in the public interest to merely gesture toward even respected technical figures, if in recent years they are taking increasingly controversial positions... — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@runasand @jenvalentino @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance Exactly this, which would have been nice to see more represented in the article (NYT has in-house experts!). Forcing a pre-transmission prior restraint into the central means of comms for the general public is a heinous thing to see NYT letting pass without ruthless skepticism. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jenvalentino @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance It is not that there is an explosion of criminal activity: there is little evidence for that, beyond perhaps an increase in yoy number of connected users, rather there is an explosion of detection. But that is being intentionally misrepresented by the AG as cause for alarm. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jenvalentino @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance The entirety of the trend that the surveillance folks are pushing here are quite clearly the product of increased sophistication in fingerprinting and flagging systems being adopted and operated by companies that are, at the same time, increasingly the center of the internet. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jenvalentino @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance "It was unclear whether photos and videos of abuse were actually more prevalent on Facebook or were just being detected at a high rate." This is a rather breezy dismissal of what is the overwhelmingly clear explanation for the figures the pro-surveillance folks are citing here. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jenvalentino @AlecMuffett @nytimes @gabrieldance While I do appreciate the reporting on this issue, not to mention your much longer history of work, which I have long followed with interest, but I have to agree with Alec that the editorial tone in this particular article is dangerously unskeptical. To cite a quick example: — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

"Is it not chilling to realize that if citizens ever felt a need to challenge a fascist government, or a brutal dictatorship, the power balance now is overwhelmingly in favor of the state?" An absolutely essential read by the extraordinary Iraq War whistleblower Katherine Gun. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Jeffrey Sterling is the CIA whistleblower convicted in 2015 of—in the government's telling—"talking to a @NYTimes reporter" after the Senate Intel Committee buried his warning that a bungled @CIA operation ended up advancing Iran's nuclear weapons development. Welcome to Twitter! — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @MylesSiedlecki: Just impulse bought Permanent Record by @Snowden — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." ~ JFK — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @MTVNEWS: Is the whistleblower a spy? NSA whistleblower Edward @snowden weighed in on recently leaked audio of President Trump during a… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @samuelmoyn: “Essentially, the problem Snowden faced with his direct military superiors was the same he faced in considering mainstream… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @ACLU: Blowing the whistle is not a radical act. It's rather a conventional act of return. It is saying to the government, it is saying… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @gilmenegolirj: Meu livro de cabeceira. Parabens @Snowden !! O meu apoio continua firme e forte e principalmente, consciente. https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @redmatriz: Termina mi primer día en Madrid, preparando el X Congreso @GIGAPP acompañado de dos muy buenos libros a cargo de @minipetite… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @pomonacollege: Professor Jonathan Lethem reviews Permanent Record by Edward Snowden for @nybooks. https://t.co/kIvNzT9e1s — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @MacmillanAus: "If the revelations that came from Snowden were explosive, his recounting of their disclosure is a crescendo" https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Snowden: Everything we do now lasts forever; not because we want to remember, but because we are no longer permitted to forget. Do you… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Snowden: At the moment of the worst terrorist attack in US history, the staff of the NSA – the major signals-intelligence agency of th… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

I am neither Democrat nor Republican, but Sanders is in my opinion the most fundamentally decent man in politics. His life-long struggle for a more equitable society is a reminder of how far we have come—and a challenge to complete the journey. #GetWellBernie — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry An especially timely conversation on whistleblowing with the @ACLU. https://t.co/dQ7u9t9Hok — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @InspiraExspira: @Snowden You can also write to Chelsea to let her know you support her and haven’t forgotten her: https://t.co/ldRcYvDP… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @CronGM: He seguido la historia de @Snowden desde que publicó los abusos del gobierno norteamericano en vigilancia excesiva y me emocion… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Want to support a whistleblower? Here's your chance: — PolitiTweet.org