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I was not aware the app did that. I'm a little disappointed in the service to learn about this.
Go to Settings > Timeline and uncheck "Show me the best tweets first"
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> An approach that would care about customers and show some more guts would be simple refusal. In essence, civil disobedience in the face of someone who is violating the law. Let the government take them to court, and let it be disclosed in that way. Is that how it works? You can refuse anything the government tells you to do until they take you to court and the court orders you?
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Either way, you make it messy for them and you do probably defeat their primary objective, which is secrecy. How do you think they'd respond? With SEAL Team 6 while keeping everything quiet? When the government shows up to force you to turn over the information, no violence is required, but you can make sure the newspapers are there when it happens, and that the knowledge of it happening is not…
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But when dealing with a corporate entity, who do you go after? Since this sort of coercion seems to only work on an individual level, going after the entire corporate entity won't invoke the same emotional response.
I don't know how the law works. But my completely-unfounded guess is that whoever is supposed to authorize this and who is refusing would be the one convicted.
This is great Twitter is being open about these. Do these releases get media coverage? Is anyone talking about the various lawsuits and blog posts about public releases of NSLs by tech companies? I wish the NYTimes and WaPo spent as much time caring about this stuff as they did about being the non-critical mouthpiece for various "anonymous intelligence officials". There is definitely a story that could be made out of…
Twitter need to pull their finger out and get end-to-end encryption sorted on their DM's. I mean they onced acuihired Moxie and Whisper Systems yet they still don't have this in place? Many journalists and others are finding that Twitter is the place where initial contact with people/public/sources is being made first, because it's so easy to find and reach out to people. Yet they have no e-2-e on that. Even Facebook…
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It's just virtue signaling, something Jack is very big on.
Virtue signaling is a meaningless phrase.
That said, no it isn't. the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue.
In other words, it's a way to proclaim "I am a good person!" to the world, usually in a vacuous or shallow way.
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An unconstitutional act is void.
If you're talking about NSLs, they've been found constitutional for almost a year now. Still time to buy that first birthday gift! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/in-a-reversal-ju...
This is a welcome message, especially seeing Twitter continue to fight for their freedom of speech in court (Twitter v. Lynch), along with the host of other Internet service companies. While I understand government agencies' desires to investigate persons of interest, the checks and balances of the system were put in place to do just that – check and balance the power of the system. It's outrageous that agencies feel…
I may be in the minority, but I still think these companies are being cowardly. They disclose as soon as they're permitted to, but the trouble with that is that the permission is coming from the people who are the problem in the first place. An approach that would care about customers and show some more guts would be simple refusal. In essence, civil disobedience in the face of someone who is violating the law. Let t…
Is this the same Twitter that has allegedly shadowbanned Scott Adams multiple times for his political positions? If Twitter is interested in transparency, how about some transparency on that? Twitter's actions make me distrust any "transparency" talk, even if I disagree with Adams on certain things.
Care to cite a source? And what sort of transparency, exactly, do you want to see out of Twitter to disprove something that cannot be disproven?
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Twitter need to pull their finger out and get end-to-end encryption sorted on their DM's. I mean they onced acuihired Moxie and Whisper Systems yet they still don't have this in place? Many journalists and others are finding that Twitter is the place where initial contact with people/public/sources is being made first, because it's so easy to find and reach out to people. Yet they have no e-2-e on that. Even Facebook…
What does end-to-end encryption mean for a tool with browser-based interfaces and where people often log on from multiple devices? I'm having trouble imagining how I'd do safe and easy key management between my phone, the old phone I stuck to my fridge, my tablet, and then Chrome and Firefox on my work laptop, my personal laptop, and that old laptop that hangs out by the couch for use when I'm watching TV. I also don…
I know that Signal messages can be sent to mobile and desktop at the same time, and it is seamless to do so. The sender does not even know that they are sending it to two devices
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I've stopped reading Dilbert let alone Twitter. Seeing him post pictures of himself acting in the role of sugar daddy to a petulant child-woman is well beyond my initial scope of interest in him. My interest was Dilbert. It was all about making fun of the disconnect between management and employees. Ironically, his public persona is now at odds with the general theme of his work. I suspect his original material is ju…
So you reject the art because of the views of the artist? Have a fun time being able to enjoy anything.