Twitter removed 800 followers from my account today. People have been writing saying twitter automatically unfollowed me for them. Follow me on Parler @robinmonotti & Telegram https://t.co/o5rFaSrCpa to bypass this.

I have already left both Facebook & Instagram. We need to keep agile.
They will try to ban Parler, blaming it for Capitol theatre. I think Telegram may survive as it's not based in the US
https://t.co/NeZ1t39S1q
Yes Telegram owner @durov received & accepted what effectively is an award, not a partnership: the Young Global Leaders membership of the World Economic Forum in 2017. Does this mean he passes users info on? I don't think so. https://t.co/8P232uBQZZ
This is what @Snowden had to say about @durov. Since then Telegram introduced the option of end to end encrypted chats not saved in Telegram servers. These private chats cannot be forwarded, and none of the participants can capture screenshots of the chats
https://t.co/m70uj6vviC
The year after @durov received the WEF YGL membership award, Theresa May attacked @telegram from the WEF podium in Davos, calling it a "home to criminals & terrorists". Saying tech firms "need to do more" to stop illegal activity. This is a very good sign
https://t.co/QnfUzGiAW9
On the same day, Matt Hancock gave a speech about a new Digital Charter for the UK. He said: "The internet can be used to spread terrorist material; it can be a tool for abuse and bullying; and, it can undermine civil discourse, objective news and intellectual property"
.@Telegram's Mike Ravdonikas replied to Theresa May, Matt Hancock & others with this post called "Don't Shoot the Messenger", which twitter is not allowing me to add to this thread as a link. This is another good sign. I will extract key parts of it:
Mike Ravdonikas from @telegram: "Government officials call for backdoors in popular end-to-end encrypted apps to "stop terrorism", neglecting the fact that this can't and won't work." [Hint: it's not about terrorism it's about controlling the narrative].
"To this day, @Telegram has disclosed zero bytes of user data to third parties, including governments." [March 2017]
"What makes terrorism possible is not the weapons terrorists use, and not the messages they exchange –  they have a rich history of improvisation in both these fields. But there exists one truly indispensable enabling element: the media."
"Cancer, heart disease, road accidents, and soap on the bathroom floor kill more people each day than terrorists have in any given year."

Think about this with reference to the media operation on Covid19.
👉 "So the main job of a terrorist [the media] is to convince you that their savage acts [Covid19 figures] are more relevant to you than the roughly 150.000 deaths from other causes that occur every day." 👈
👉"They need to distort the perception in order to make us feel threatened by them [Covid19 figures] and not by the myriad of other dangers that we are actually exposed to."👈
"Sadly, mass media willingly lend their magnifying glass to the terrorists [Covid19 inflated figures]. After all, unsettling news brings page-views and advertising dollars – especially when the news has to do with gripping pictures of victims."
"Thus, terror spreads on the wings of the click-hungry press, 👉spurred on by those politicians who are looking for more power and less accountability👈."
"We should never forget that terrorist organizations [i.e. the corporate media relentlessly promoting Covid19 inflated figures] are first and foremost after our fear. They will try as hard as they can to make us feel insecure in our own cities and in our own homes."
"We must not panic & fall prey to the many powers that use our fear of terrorism [Covid19] to achieve their own selfish goals. And we must always remember that terrorists [media] are fighting a battle for our minds, in our minds. In the end, it is up to us to ensure that we win"
Public channels like mine https://t.co/o5rFaSrCpa on @Telegram have clear rules: "Criticizing local authorities, challenging the status quo and engaging in political debate are OK. Meanwhile, promoting violence and calling for actions that can harm innocent people are not OK."
See Durov explain the rules for public channels here: https://t.co/RtJgFhYDLu
I would like to end this thread with a reply that @telegram's @Durov posted to Theresa May, in whose cabinet Matt Hancock was already working, in 2017. It seems prescient & somewhat prophetic with hindsight:
https://t.co/i0MidqAR6i
UPDATE: As of now, I am also on https://t.co/lupv0aKeHP with the same username: @robinmonotti
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➡️ https://t.co/o5rFaSrCpa
➡️ https://t.co/7uGDCHGr0Y @robinmonotti
➡️ https://t.co/PxkLO0CrDj @robinmonotti

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dependency Confusion; Adam Curtis on criti-hype; Catalytic converter theft; Apple puts North Dakota on blast; and more!

Archived at: https://t.co/Osts9lAjPo

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This weekend, I'll be participating in Boskone 58, Boston's annual sf convention, where I'm doing panels and a reading.

https://t.co/2LfFssVcZQ

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Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.

https://t.co/TDRNHUX0Ug

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Adam Curtis on criti-hype: Big Tech as an epiphenomenon of sociopathic mediocrity, not supergenius.

https://t.co/MYmHOosTk3

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Catalytic converter theft: Rhodium at $21,900/oz.

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Always. No, your company is not an exception.

A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.

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I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.

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