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Good to see the paper of record highlighting this important national news story that we’ve been covering at @theintercept for the past eight months.
Going to provide some links and info for those who might be interested in reading more on the topic.
In June, a trove of hacked law enforcement documents was posted online. I went through hundreds of those files to look at how law enforcement was treating antifa/anarchists vs groups on the far right.
Part of the reason I did this was because we had already published reporting showing that the NYPD was using a curfew in response to the George Floyd protests to hand over demonstrators to the FBI for questioning. Antifa was a subject of the interviews.
You can find that original reporting here: https://t.co/7vD7QuNLZP
And in more depth here:
As expected, the analysis of the docs posted online showed extensive law enforcement emphasis on antifa/anarchists even amid detailed evidence of threats and action from far right groups, including the murder of law enforcement
Going to provide some links and info for those who might be interested in reading more on the topic.
In June, a trove of hacked law enforcement documents was posted online. I went through hundreds of those files to look at how law enforcement was treating antifa/anarchists vs groups on the far right.
Part of the reason I did this was because we had already published reporting showing that the NYPD was using a curfew in response to the George Floyd protests to hand over demonstrators to the FBI for questioning. Antifa was a subject of the interviews.
You can find that original reporting here: https://t.co/7vD7QuNLZP
And in more depth here:
As expected, the analysis of the docs posted online showed extensive law enforcement emphasis on antifa/anarchists even amid detailed evidence of threats and action from far right groups, including the murder of law enforcement
1/ US tech's ban of Trump gives China a once-in-a-decade opportunity to reset the global tech ecosystem in its favor. China should pay its tech firms to package and release an open source social media app, open source app store and mobile stack, and an open source cloud stack
2/ The blowback from bigtech doing this is going to be the balkanization of the internet. Every country + the EU is going to go for their own social media / mobile / cloud stack now @passluo
3/ China obviously has a trust deficit with other major tech ecosystems, so Chinese apps will have trouble winning worldwide, but it can get around that by making it so that *no one* can dominate the global commons in the way that Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple currently do
4/ Providing a global toolkit to "de-Americanize" your tech stack will be a winning thesis in the 2020s. Besides the EU, for example, India is also concerned about US domination of its social communications channels @bhushan_gyan
5/ And because China booted out US tech firms early, it has a head start in having sufficient software muscle to provide easy, semi-assembled clones that other countries can just pick up and operate - and critically, scale and distribute by fiat
2/ The blowback from bigtech doing this is going to be the balkanization of the internet. Every country + the EU is going to go for their own social media / mobile / cloud stack now @passluo
3/ China obviously has a trust deficit with other major tech ecosystems, so Chinese apps will have trouble winning worldwide, but it can get around that by making it so that *no one* can dominate the global commons in the way that Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple currently do
4/ Providing a global toolkit to "de-Americanize" your tech stack will be a winning thesis in the 2020s. Besides the EU, for example, India is also concerned about US domination of its social communications channels @bhushan_gyan
This is all much bigger than US politics.
— balajis.com (@balajis) January 9, 2021
It is a matter of national security for India, Israel, and every other country to maintain a sovereign communications channel for their leaders to reach their people directly.
The world cannot be ruled by American corporations. https://t.co/2dDtcOICQ8
5/ And because China booted out US tech firms early, it has a head start in having sufficient software muscle to provide easy, semi-assembled clones that other countries can just pick up and operate - and critically, scale and distribute by fiat
How would countries build sovereign apps?
— balajis.com (@balajis) January 9, 2021
1) Clone the features of WeChat, FB, or Twitter, which is much easier than developing from scratch
2) Encourage or requirr citizens to sign up, which is much easier if you\u2019re a state
That\u2019s product and distribution respectively.
Unless you want to ignore the threat of Trump's coup, Trump running our departments, pro Trump people running our inauguration & most of the people in charge of guarding the inauguration are white & therefor many of them are white supremacists & pro Trump. @benFranklin2018
If people were to pay more attention to @benFranklin2018 & take their words seriously, we'd be in a far better place. They argue that posts that one that this tweet is responding to are cringe & instill a false sense of complacency & security. Those voices are promoted on MSM.
This is b/c they don't want to promote any panic among the American people. They also realize that the same corporations serve Trump as them, hence we have a fascist threat.
Something that I notice too is that those who are the most likely to deny that Trump's coup is still going on & that it has a dangerous level of succeeding are white & older. P.o.C & younger people are not as likely to deny the problem.
The part to keep in mind is that older people & white people are more likely to benefit from a Trump dictatorship &/or be indoctrinated w/American exceptionalism. In terms of our gov't, there is no comparison b/t the 1960's & today. Today, our gov't is authoritarian.
Donald Trump will not be president in precisely 48 hours.
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 18, 2021
If people were to pay more attention to @benFranklin2018 & take their words seriously, we'd be in a far better place. They argue that posts that one that this tweet is responding to are cringe & instill a false sense of complacency & security. Those voices are promoted on MSM.
This is b/c they don't want to promote any panic among the American people. They also realize that the same corporations serve Trump as them, hence we have a fascist threat.
Something that I notice too is that those who are the most likely to deny that Trump's coup is still going on & that it has a dangerous level of succeeding are white & older. P.o.C & younger people are not as likely to deny the problem.
The part to keep in mind is that older people & white people are more likely to benefit from a Trump dictatorship &/or be indoctrinated w/American exceptionalism. In terms of our gov't, there is no comparison b/t the 1960's & today. Today, our gov't is authoritarian.
