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Showing Original Post only (View all)They finally dropped all pretense at WikiLeaks. Look at this new creepy-as-hell tweet: [View all]
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.
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They finally dropped all pretense at WikiLeaks. Look at this new creepy-as-hell tweet: [View all]
Turn CO Blue
Jan 2017
OP
This way, Assange can do the work of Trump's minions so they can claim plausible deniability.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2017
#5
So; where is Twitter in all this? How can they do this w/o the cooperation of Twitter?
Alekzander
Jan 2017
#7
They'd do it with a combo of social media trawling and hacking. They're "hactivists" after all.
Turn CO Blue
Jan 2017
#9
I sincerely hope some DU'er have rethought their support of Wikileaks, Assange at this point.
KittyWampus
Jan 2017
#8
They also have a creepy discomfort (lots of deleted tweets) about "the Jews"
Blue_Tires
Jan 2017
#21
Creepy and further confirmation that my decision to never have a Twitter account is a good one
Pachamama
Jan 2017
#24
Now they're sounding like Trump. The "Dishonest Press" supposedly misrepresented
Eugene
Jan 2017
#28
When Billy Bragg, Tim Berners-Lee and Anonymous all condemn your plan
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2017
#39