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.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah I disabled my account this week. Best decision this year so far.

      • hauntingspectre [he/him]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        I'm keeping mine (it's an anonymous account purely for local stuff), but I'm damn sure gonna be a lot more careful about engagement.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Her fritter on fdroid and have that be the default app for twitter links.

          It proxies it so you aren't giving Twitter any useful data. Then if you want to visit the tweet from your own account, you can open it from there or whatever and they don't have the whole link chain.

          Honestly, posting twitter links here is bad opsec. It should default to nitter just because of how much data the b*rd site collects on everything you do.

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    4 years ago

    wait I can swat someone by just mentioning their handle on Twitter? lmao

    sup @neeratanden

  • 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/

  • bewts [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I am sure AOC will stand up for our comrades getting harassed by the police any minute now

  • cilantrofellow [any]
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    4 years ago

    Yo Glenn was on the case about it though he’s gonna citizenfour this whole thing wide open.

  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    In communist China blah blah blah

    Also this woman is obsessed with defending AOC