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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey finally dropped all pretense at WikiLeaks. Look at this new creepy-as-hell tweet:
WikiLeaks Task Force Verified account
?@WLTaskForce
We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.
10:03 AM - 6 Jan 2017
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They're proposing building an AI database for the purpose of what? Doxxing people. Exposing their family, jobs, addresses, financial information... Creepy as fuck.
How very Big Brother meets McCarthyism.
How very authoritarian.
How very FASCIST.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I swear, I don't understand anything anymore.
Leith
(7,854 posts)Take a look at what it takes for an account to be verified:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174631#
This is for prominent people and organizations and Twitter requires a lot of not easily obtained information from them. This could be doxxing from hell on steroids for anyone who tweets an opinion that the thugs want to silence.
bdamomma
(66,186 posts)oh boy, they are gun-ho to go into full blown fascism.
Crunchy Frog
(26,924 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,887 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,866 posts)herding cats
(19,612 posts)They're having a tantrum over people calling them out for this earlier.
You guys are a f*ckin joke: The internet rips WikiLeaks for whining about leaked report on Russia
TRAVIS GETTYS
06 JAN 2017 AT 12:35 ET
WikiLeaks battled with online critics after attacking U.S. officials for issuing portions of a report on Russian hacking before Donald Trumps intelligence briefing.
The hacktivist group, which posted the emails and other data that U.S. officials believe were obtained at the direction of senior Russian officials, objected to the release of information contained in a U.S. intelligence report about the stolen documents.
WikiLeaks ✔
@wikileaks
The Obama admin/CIA is illegally funneling TOP SECRET//COMINT information to NBC for political reasons before PEOTUS even gets to read it.
5:48 AM - 6 Jan 2017
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The intelligence assessment, which was presented Thursday to President Barack Obama, found that Russian officials fed the material hacked from the Democratic National Committee through third parties to WikiLeaks at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The same assessment will be presented Friday to Trump, who is scheduled to be inaugurated in two weeks.
more
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/you-guys-are-a-fckin-joke-the-internet-rips-wikileaks-for-whining-about-leaked-report-on-russian-hacks/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028438316
TubbersUK
(1,441 posts)posted after WikiLeaks Tweeted.
?@realDonaldTrump
I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.
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4:51 PM - 6 Jan 2017
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts). . . but he will soon learn: The national sport of Washington, DC, is NOT pro football or pro basketball or pro hockey or pro baseball.
No.
The national sport of DC is LEAKING!!!!!!! And damn near everyone in town -- from bigwigs to the janitorial staff -- is very good at it.
Tanuki
(15,279 posts)to your toady Ghouliani prior to Comey's letter? You remember, the lies that both Ghouliani and your daughter in law Lara smirkingly referred to as something up your sleeve? The lies that, coupled with the voter suppression and Putin's disinformation campaign, resulted in a bloodless coup? Now that would be an interesting investigation.
Alekzander
(479 posts)Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)For example: if someone with some savvy connected all of my social media accounts and Google, they could likely piece together a lot of information about me, just from what is public, or what I left in comments here and there. They could also trawl Google. They'd build an smart electronic robot.
What's worrisome is that they'd put it all out there in a database on their site. And how many stalkers, exes, home-invaders, politicians would use that data?
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)As well as Snowden and Greenwald.
eggplant
(3,977 posts)kimbutgar
(23,165 posts)Anyone having success. I followed the direction but there is no deactivate Cxount feature they say there is. I plan to deactivate my Facebook account on January 19th. I know the chump pals are going to go on a liberal hunt.
DU I hope you can guard our accounts.
radical noodle
(8,425 posts)If they want to come after a 69-year-old great grandmother who posts bad things about them, let them. They want to scare us into backing off.
klook
(12,858 posts)Also -- have you tried the steps described on Twitter's "Deactivating your account" page? I know next to nothing about Twitter, but this looks like it should work. I hope that's helpful.
I don't use my real identity online, although I am not a celebrity or even slightly well known -- so I have a luxury that government officials and public figures don't have.
Despite taking precautions, though, it would be all too easy for anyone to be -- for example -- tagged in a Facebook photo and then for their face to be linked to, say, a photo from a protest march, or a pic from a work-related or charity event, etc. And once a malefactor can determine your identity, they can find out all kinds of stuff about you via easily accessed public records. For example, if you're a home owner, your home address is a matter of public record in most places, and it's not hard to determine or at least deduce a lot about your financial status from property tax records, etc.
Even though it's not possible to achieve 100% privacy, I'm as careful about it as I can be, despite the low risk that I could piss off anybody who'd want to come after me (YET!).
The modern world can be a dangerous place, and in this neofascist moment we all have to be a lot more careful than we're accustomed to. At the same time, this moment demands that we take a stand and oppose the new regime where feasible, so it's a balancing act. We all have to think hard about juggling what's best for society and for the personal safety of ourselves and our families.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)he can do whatever he wants. Get used to it.
world wide wally
(21,825 posts)This threat is not even veiled.
Thanks Trump "patriots"
War Horse
(931 posts)so they're apparently not going after your everyday user. But yes, still creepy.
Tanuki
(15,279 posts)or ambush them at their homes or places of employment. Far worse than creepy.
War Horse
(931 posts)HipChick
(25,498 posts)I'll be trolling him as long as I have breath
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)has to live in fear for their family's safety even more now.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)nini
(16,701 posts)I don't know how many times I had crap thrown at me because I voiced my suspicions of them.
People are so desperate (on both sides) to hear anything that supports their views they believe just about anything. At the very least - be careful who you trust.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)OregonBlue
(7,895 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)those who didn't become fawning fans of this group or Assange or Greewald et al., I am furious. We demand vociferous vetting for individuals except for this group which tosses a few tidbits to the left and then screw the nation and the world over. There was nothing to recommend this amorphous group from the beginning.
JHan
(10,173 posts)last year exposed the hypocrisy of many.
Cha
(304,912 posts)from the very beginning. You could smell it.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Pachamama
(17,010 posts)Eugene
(62,626 posts)their threat to dox people who disagree with them.
I was checking whether their account was still active.
They issued a thinly veiled threat against the entire
Twitter community.
alfredo
(60,132 posts)Cha
(304,912 posts)alfredo
(60,132 posts)blogslut
(38,629 posts)Because it is.
Here is the direct link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817431533183238144
If any of you have a Twitter account, click the 3 little dots located underneath the tweet, then click the link: "Report Tweet" from the dropdown box and then follow the steps.
ecstatic
(34,317 posts)SMH. Gullible as fuck!
muriel_volestrangler
(102,396 posts)you know you've given up any chance of ever seeming on the side of open information or personal rights again.
Billy Bragg ✔ @billybragg
The Wikileaks Punishment Battalion are going round taking down names. If you've got a blacklist..... https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817431533183238144
7:21 PM - 6 Jan 2017##
Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, compared the WikiLeaks proposal to a piece of British legislation that has been criticized as a massive boon to the surveillance industry.
Dont.even.think.about.it, he tweeted.
Even the hacktivist organization Anonymous lined up against WikiLeaks.
This is a sickening display of intimidation tactics, it said, tagging the official Twitter accounts for the social network, its support team and chief executive Jack Dorsey.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/01/07/early-morning-open-thread-wikileaks-proposes-weaponizing-doxxing/