Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jbaert @mmasnick @MattPotter Why decent people make the cynical error of casting government explorations of how much censorship it can get away with as "reasonable," and journalists exposing it as "grifters," is that they mistake those who understand gov is not permitted to referee speech as partisan. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jbaert @mmasnick @MattPotter It's long on dudgeon and short on substance. The story clearly adds to the public understanding of how, exactly, the government is increasingly seeking to influence digital speech. Even apologists concede the state is doing it, they just believe MDM justifies it. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jbaert @mmasnick @MattPotter I think you guys misread the "that" in the tweet. I'm not saying Mike doesn't demonstrate good work, I'm saying he didn't demonstrate the article was bullshit. An overly cynical eye turned toward colleagues and blind to government led to a thin polemic. https://t.co/U5E2BLcENl — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@mmasnick @MattPotter With respect, you're replying to the answer to your question. But to elaborate: https://t.co/N044Xpv1SJ — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @ryangrim: The targets of the DHS monitoring and pressure campaign are disturbing: https://t.co/Ma5ht2EgPd — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@MattPotter I like Mike Masnick and he's done a lot of good work, but he didn't demonstrate that in the piece you're talking about. It's overly generous to the government, deeply uncharitable to the reporters, and bizarrely pretends to be unable to see the forest for the trees. Cheers. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Skepticism is a virtue, cynicism is a vice. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @AshleyRParker: George Will offers a pretty devastating takedown of Biden and Harris today, but especially Harris — who, he writes, "sou… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Once you wake up to the idea that the world has been patterned, intentionally or unintentionally, in ways you don’t agree with, you can begin to change it. https://t.co/6kHKskKvnY — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @heathercampbell: here’s a great take on how to make Twitter work — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@r3shelton You should read more. https://t.co/QO7KZeEmVJ — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@abner1d 1) I'm still an American citizen. 2) Not even the US government claims I'm a Russian agent. 3) It wasn't my choice to be in Russia. Those who don't want me here should end the policy that prevents me from traveling. If you want more details, there's a book: "Permanent Record." — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@DejvidRizov Another one that should go right in the trash. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @paulg: A government department with (a) a focus on law enforcement and (b) no genuine raison d'etre is a very dangerous thing. It will… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@bjornhedman It's incredible how many people have never heard of dual citizenship. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@bjornhedman Good thing I'm still an American citizen, then. https://t.co/nNoeYnbrN8 — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @RyanHanley_Com: This is an incredibly interesting take on paid @Twitter… All I know is “Wild West” Twitter of the early days is still… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

It's time to talk about shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. It was always a mistake, a costly artifact of the hysteric post-9/11 authoritarianism that left us no more safe, but much less free. Its plan to become the Speech Police is the final straw. Shut it down. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @ACLU: The First Amendment bars the government from deciding for us what is true or false, online or anywhere. Our government can’t use… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AnneOneamous Apple kicks advertisers right between the legs about once a year, now, and it's only making them more money. https://t.co/gGHNKsXJTf — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@BobDaStreamer @elonmusk Facebook isn't dying because it is bad (although I wish it were). Facebook is dying because it is boring. People will forgive bad (see: Tiktok), but not boring. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

There are ways to make this app print money, and ways to kill it, @elonmusk. Put people over ads and you'll get both, but "ads over people leads to neither." — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

"Twitter will still have a free tier." Yeah, but if pay-to-win accounts are prioritized for visibility, as Elon suggested, you're going to be drowned in tweets by the lethally boring blob that will expense annual Twitter Blue subs via line items in institutional budgets. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AnneOneamous Counterpoint: Tumblr. PH et al are massively successful within an extremely narrow niche. Tumblr banned its highest-engagement content at the request of advertisers -- which was a quick way to solve its ad revenue problem, since it destroyed the business. Twitter isn't PH. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Asking people to pay $8/month to read tweets by NGOs and Hillary Clinton is only going to shrink the user base, because there's no audience for boring. It's short-term revenue at the cost of network itself. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Anybody at Twitter who cares about what advertisers think should not be working at Twitter. Twitter lives or dies based on a single metric: is the most important conversation in the world happening here? Make it fun and make it matter. That's how you win. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

The entire point of advertisers is to carry out watering-hole attacks on human attention. If you keep enough attention, they're always going to be there -- right behind the tall grass. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

The obsession with platforms prostrating themselves before advertisers has always been misplaced, because on any scale longer than one bad news cycle, advertisers go where the audience is. Optimize platforms for people, not brands, because people have a choice. Brands don't. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @lhfang: DHS official working on disinfo noted, during an internal strategy discussion, that the agency should use third party nonprofit… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @kenvogel: THE SURVEILLANCE STATE: As the 1st @Snowden leaks were being published, the @NSAOIG was investigating an @NSAGov analyst who… — PolitiTweet.org