cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14393091
NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden
As if the NSA ever needed legal permission to do whatever the hell they wanted anyway.
That’s the fun part about power and secrecy. It like when the director lied before Congress.
Why isn’t he posting on fediverse?
Who says he isn’t with a personal/private account and uses the public persona twitter one for the reach. As shitty as twitter is its still the gravitational center for bursting news.
He likely doesn’t want to get too involved with social media. Stuff easily consumes you. Twitter is just good to reach out to people, which is kinda bad that Twitter got that big.
There’s not a lot of people on here.
I’m here
Yeah, I just mean relative to other platforms, there just aren’t many of us.
There’s like five people on here. It’s sometimes scary how often I see the same users.
Hey it’s me, user number 6
I like to think I lurk enough to not generally be recognized.
You’re on my radar now 👀
Hi there
Who the hell are you?
Because he wants people to see what he has to say.
Because it isn’t secure at all?
And Twitter is somehow safer?
Obviously not.
If you’re saying this because Snowden said wait he said on Twitter, I’m sorry but I wouldn’t know. Not because I didn’t try to read the article, I did, but because my custom DNS flagged cointelegraph.com as being malignant and blocked it. True story.
Edit: cointelegraph, not “cointelegram.”
It’s a fearmongering website design to scare people into buying crypto.
Their articles that aren’t about crypto get spammed to social media a lot. It’s to get traffic on their site and hope they can hook some.
While I can’t recommend this site for general news, the article in question is pretty well written.
Cointelegraph might not be for someone who is very anti-crypto, but it’s a legit website with well researched articles, not a source of malware/scams/autogenerated spam.
Their custom DNS is very ant-crypto. Janet Yellen is the personal resolver.
why does security matter?
Can’t he post over I2P/Freenet?
It’s a good question. Anyone have answers that aren’t so obviously wrong?
Someone on twitter could ask him. “Unfortunately” I have no account anymore.
SCARY HEADLINE— oh. It’s just the US again. Not literally the whole internet.
Good thing that all of the giant monolithic internet companies that the NSA will be using for surveillance are used exclusively by Americans. The NSA isn’t interested in foreign intel anyway. /s
These monolithic internet companies all have entities in other countries and are beholden to laws of said countries.
The NSA violates the laws of the US. What makes you think they care about other countries’ laws?
It’s true, people living in Russia and China will safe from this.
They already have, and they can do it in secret and hold people without trial. Once you give someone power, it’s hard to take it away.
Who tabled this bill, and who is supporting it?
The NSA and the NSA
… no? I was asking a serious question.
If Senator Ron Wyden is against it, I’m against it. He seems to take the side of the people pretty consistently.
Google was faster.
This is such a bad idea. I’m sure it will make its way onto the “must pass” list.
Don’t worry this will never work.
Yeah, just like hoping the Patriot Act would go away worked out well for us.
Internet is different, it is impossible to control. Sure they can make it harder but to 100% control - good luck.
