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In reply to the discussion: They finally dropped all pretense at WikiLeaks. Look at this new creepy-as-hell tweet: [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(102,389 posts)39. When Billy Bragg, Tim Berners-Lee and Anonymous all condemn your plan
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/
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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