That's actually new as far as we know and actually matters, because it's not suspending or canceling accounts for supposed TOS violations as has happened for years, it's the acknowledgement of the practical replacement of telephony with person-to-person communications through non-publicly-regulated channels whose managers have the inclination and practical & legal ability to interdict specific, "private" messages in the moment by their content, e.g. messages between family members in an emergency if the companies' bourgeois/government allies decide no one should know that downtown just got annihilated by U.S. National Guardzillas.
They couldn't do that with landline phone calls because unlike the Internet, that infrastructure wasn't and couldn't have been built with the purpose in mind of tapping every end user and cutting any particular communication off if someone said the wrong thing. But now... yeah ha ha oh well, better hope they don't pull that trick on some future deadly event where the Alphabet Boys tell them it's a matter of public safety that 1) no one should be talking to anyone outside the zone about what's going on inside it, and 2) no one who's talking about any other topic should ever even notice communications have been interrupted. Better hope it hasn't happened already!
cars posted:seeing a lot of people who should know better, all demanding that Marxists, anti-imperialists, "leftists" etc. freak out online about Twitter & Facebook firing Trump and his mob, when the clear explanation for why their audience doesn't care is: those sites have been doing the same thing over and over, for years, to Marxists, anti-imperialists & governments critical of NATO, and nothing happening now changes any of that or will change any of it in the future. "This sets a precedent"? Oh no they might do the same thing for the 10,000th time (they definitely will??) Ben Norton my dude the reason a bunch of people aren't wigging out now is because they read what you write. Yasha Levine, people read your book and that's why they don't think this is anything special. give me a break!
Half of Central & South America's news services' accounts get taken down whenever the CIA wants an agent to piss in a river... For the far-right bourgeois guy to get the same, he only had to spend One thousand, Four hundred and Fifty Days as the most powerful lone human being on planet Earth, then lead a gang that broke into the fortress of the United $naKKKe$ House of Lords in broad daylight. I guess when Communists reach their last month as sitting president of NATO the official Communist Instagram account had better watch out!!
before I did have a bit of similar unease about how swiftly all of capital in unison acted to make him an unperson but this helped me understand that's exactly what happens when someone gets sanctioned, and I reached enlightenment, and I loled
cars posted:They couldn't do that with landline phone calls because unlike the Internet, that infrastructure wasn't and couldn't have been built with the purpose in mind of tapping every end user and cutting any particular communication off if someone said the wrong thing. But now... yeah ha ha oh well, better hope they don't pull that trick on some future deadly event where the Alphabet Boys tell them it's a matter of public safety that 1) no one should be talking to anyone outside the zone about what's going on inside it, and 2) no one who's talking about any other topic should ever even notice communications have been interrupted. Better hope it hasn't happened already!
https://t.co/Jsi3zBhZSD pic.twitter.com/xWEvjPwq3g
— HK (@HenryKrinkIe) January 13, 2021
c’mon man! pic.twitter.com/a4jnCSbRcN
— michael (@having__trouble) January 16, 2021
“If it wasn't my job I would have done it for free, it was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection” https://t.co/9ebnAblXzl
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) January 16, 2021
cop who screamed a lot while getting owned and bloodied by a door... welcome to the resistance
MarxUltor posted:
lmao
cars posted:you will hear the Jersey in the voice of the president of estonia and it will move you, to a bigger house
Update on the favorite guy to own online, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who’s from New Jersey and ended up president of Estonia.... somehow!! A little bow tie man who can’t help but get owned ;_;
Estonian Ex-President Toomy Boy posted on Twitter that the Capitol clown circus was secretly led by a secret Russian secret spy squad. To prove it, he posted a picture of one of them holding a big ol “Russian flag”. As your Russian spies do you know.
The “Russian flag” was a red white and blue flag that said “TRUMP”. it was the same “TRUMP” flag everyone else was carrying. The Turnpike Man of Estonia deleted his post because of “the trolls” and Now, He’s Owned Again!! Darn!
cars posted:Update on the favorite guy to own online, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who’s from New Jersey and ended up president of Estonia.... somehow!!
*mixing this 50/50 with some mikheil saakashvili then hoovering the whole lot up with my nose, which immediately starts gushing blood*
tears posted:the thing people should Actually care about instead is how a few weeks ago, Twitter told people (including in Twitter's own home country) who put any links to a certain news story in their private messages that their message was being blocked for the mental sanitation of the recipient & the interests of Senile Goodwife the Senator Vice President.
What's the story here? I cannot google it
e: is it the nypost hunter biden article?
cars posted:Estonian Ex-President Toomy Boy posted on Twitter that the Capitol clown circus was secretly led by a secret Russian secret spy squad. To prove it, he posted a picture of one of them holding a big ol “Russian flag”. As your Russian spies do you know.
I think you're correct about Americans being a bunch of bored theatre kids who are acting out spy movies. A French bitcoin guy who committed suicide apparently sent his crypto monies (~$500,000) to several #stopthesteal "organizers" as a going away present, which indeed is merely further proof of what we knew all along... that secret Russian intelligence monies funded the coup. On the other side of the coin, there were these guys were rummaging through Ted Cruz's binder and saying to each other "there's got to be something in here we can use against these scumbags." We've found the motherlode of secret documents that's going to bust this case wide open.
Someone else allegedly, according to the cops FWIW, wanted to hawk a laptop from Nancy Pelosi's office to the Russians. But I can believe that someone who dropped a deuce in Pelosi's office and booked it with some aide's laptop would come up with a scheme like that. This is some highly sensitive shit! But again, on the other side of the coin, it smells like... treason. Well it can't be that hard to locate the missing laptop containing the classified national security information, you can just activate the homing device. Uh oh, it's already inside the Russian embassy. You're fucked!!!
Another alarmist story less exciting than the headline: “The transfer of the computer device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and Williams still has the computer device or destroyed it." https://t.co/1uUbuynTrd
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) January 18, 2021
— scooby doo saying "race riot" (@RudeboyKipling) January 19, 2021
burritostan posted:the thing people should Actually care about instead is how a few weeks ago, Twitter told people (including in Twitter's own home country) who put any links to a certain news story in their private messages that their message was being blocked for the mental sanitation of the recipient & the interests of Senile Goodwife the Senator Vice President.
What's the story here? I cannot google it
e: is it the nypost hunter biden article?
Yes
We need to fix problems like this. pic.twitter.com/arIEfaBwpS
— Parlertakes🇺🇸 (@parlertakes) January 20, 2021
MarxUltor posted:damn you rick scott, damn you to hell for what you've done to our boy
Like, keep them from reproducing? I agree
— Deejay Smith (@deejsmithsonian) January 20, 2021
liberals: what if we do a eugenics.. haha jk.. unless..??
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cars posted:the Occultation of the 45th Imam
I want this to happen and I believe it will happen. Like that Twitter account about the alternate universe where President Hillary Clinton made Rihanna the secretary of state or whatever, but instead, a remaining QAnon faction starts to believe Trump is secretly still president and governs through other Twitter accounts they interpret using numerology. Everything they like from the government is Trump acting as Hidden President, and everything they don't like is an attempt by his enemies to contain his awesome secret power. It will extend the deadline on their belief about Trump arresting everyone indefinitely, for decades if they want. There will be Forty-fivers and they will be real. It's perfect
cars posted:I want this to happen and I believe it will happen. Like that Twitter account about the alternate universe where President Hillary Clinton made Rihanna the secretary of state or whatever, but instead, a remaining QAnon faction starts to believe Trump is secretly still president and governs through other Twitter accounts they interpret using numerology. Everything they like from the government is Trump acting as Hidden President, and everything they don't like is an attempt by his enemies to contain his awesome secret power. It will extend the deadline on their belief about Trump arresting everyone indefinitely, for decades if they want. There will be Forty-fivers and they will be real. It's perfect
80 years from now they will be talking about the secret longevity drugs Trump is being given so that he can continue his divinely mandated rule from the shadows which will culminate in the public arrest of all the deep state pedophiles this coming Tuesday, definitely, for real this time,
Thank you @chubbychaserlee. https://t.co/C3fK1jCPZl
— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) January 21, 2021
招瑤 posted:yea that all makes sense but im not really following on the lion king reference
you know that song, Drops of Jupiter? for a while i thought that one line was "and tell me, did you fall for a shooting star / one without a brother named Scar," like train was just taking random shots at mufasa
cars posted:
I really want the amphetamines these ppl are on
Commander GAZI (in Eshu energy) speaks on Anne Frank and colonizer Jews 1/3 pic.twitter.com/pXmCXU9zA0
— BHT News (@BlkHmmrTimes) January 24, 2021
shouts out to the one post last year that made me physically tremble pic.twitter.com/yJGm7YCeJO
— El 🐍 (jokerfied) (@tokyo_vamp) January 20, 2021
The issue is not Dore's right to interview, but his palming off the #boogaloobois as progressive allies. The claim that opposition to capitalist elites transcends left-right division is the essence of fascist nationalist demagogy. https://t.co/BzQS9zGwo1
— David North (@DavidNorthWSWS) January 25, 2021
men really think it’s okay to live like thispic.twitter.com/17mqWDxHCZ
— Justine Sanders (@JustineAnnSand) January 26, 2021
honestly i'm done