So, if this is true, Capitol Police are referring Twitter engagement to local PDs for follow up. Apparently the woman in California had retweeted something the capitol police found threatening.

This is very not good.

  • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I don't think it's much less shitty that cops are doing this independently than politicians ordering it

    Also should people only tweet over Tor?

    • hauntingspectre [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I think it's far worse that cops are doing this. There's a lot more cops available to monitor social media than any single politician.

      • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I see now that your OP already said what I said. In theory the way to stop either is through the politicians

      • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Oh, right. I remember that now. Wonder if they would go to that length for a tweet about AOC but no one who tweets would use Tor to do so anyways.

      • ancom20 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Also he had poor opsec: https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/images/3/3e/SilkRoad.Presentation.pdf https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/silk-road-mastermind-unmasked-by-rookie-goofs-complaint-alleges/