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Turn CO Blue

(4,221 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:03 PM Jan 2017

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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Should we delete our accounts? femmocrat Jan 2017 #1
It's for Public Service Accounts Leith Jan 2017 #15
is this their way of tracking people? bdamomma Jan 2017 #2
It's their way of intimidating people, I'm pretty sure. Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #3
They've basically just said they have all the info already. 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2017 #4
This way, Assange can do the work of Trump's minions so they can claim plausible deniability. TheBlackAdder Jan 2017 #5
They're going full on Trump. herding cats Jan 2017 #6
Trump's Tweet re NBC TubbersUK Jan 2017 #30
Something Trump doesn't understand . . . OldRedneck Jan 2017 #33
Hey Donald, how about investigating the FBI'S leak of fake info Tanuki Jan 2017 #37
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
Snowden and Assange are VERY different people. eggplant Jan 2017 #25
I have tried multiple times to delete my twitter account and it's impossible kimbutgar Jan 2017 #10
I'm not deleting anything radical noodle Jan 2017 #31
FYI - "Protecting Yourself on Social Networks" klook Jan 2017 #35
We need hackers on our side!!!! Lint Head Jan 2017 #11
Putin has a new mandate thanks to the dumbass ameriKan voter elmac Jan 2017 #12
Looks like we are officially at war with Wikileaks to me world wide wally Jan 2017 #13
It says "verified" accounts War Horse Jan 2017 #14
They are making it easy to stalk the children of verified account holders Tanuki Jan 2017 #26
good point n/t War Horse Jan 2017 #27
Fuck'em...they are doing that, so folks can't troll Trump HipChick Jan 2017 #16
So basically any journalist that decides to report on Trump... SaschaHM Jan 2017 #17
Hate to tell folks "I told you so...", but... Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #18
Same here nini Jan 2017 #32
and as expected, WL just keeps digging: Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #19
For the purpose of blackmail or just getting people killed? OregonBlue Jan 2017 #20
They also have a creepy discomfort (lots of deleted tweets) about "the Jews" Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #21
When I think of all the verbal abuse heaped on Skidmore Jan 2017 #22
A lot of those fawning fans forgot their so called "principles".. JHan Jan 2017 #34
Well said, Skidmore.. I was one of those who thought they were Hogwash Cha Jan 2017 #40
No wonder Donnie likes him Angry Dragon Jan 2017 #23
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
Remember, Assange is in Ecuador to escape rape charges. alfredo Jan 2017 #29
Isn't he in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to escape rape charges? Cha Jan 2017 #41
Once you are inside an embassy, you are on their land. alfredo Jan 2017 #42
Report the tweet as abuse to Twitter blogslut Jan 2017 #36
and yet some will still defend them. ecstatic Jan 2017 #38
When Billy Bragg, Tim Berners-Lee and Anonymous all condemn your plan muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #39
Kick ck4829 Jan 2017 #43
K & R Scurrilous Jan 2017 #44
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