from the You-reap-what-you-sow.-Yeah,-sow-what? dept.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Twitter announced today that it removed a new batch of state-backed accounts from its platform. During this latest round of purges, the social network removed accounts operated from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Ecuador, and China.
These new removals come as Twitter also took down state-backed accounts part of extensive information operations back in January (Bangladesh, Iran, Russia, Venezuela), June (Iran, Spain, Venezuela), and August (China).
Just like it did before, Twitter has made the information about these accounts and their tweets public and downloadable for research and academic purposes.
The breakdown by country is:
United Arab Emirates & Egypt - 267 accounts
United Arab Emirates - 4,258 accounts
Saudi Arabia - 6 accounts
Spain - 259 accounts
Ecuador - 1,019 accounts
China - 4,302 accounts
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @10:40PM (13 children)
Only one account, but very very active.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @10:55PM (2 children)
Don't signal boost! That's how it became world's top human!
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Monday September 23 2019, @12:29PM (1 child)
I can't wait until 2021...
and his cellmate turns him from a "top" into a "bottom."
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @02:40PM
Perhaps it is time to stop making these rape "jokes"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @11:52PM (8 children)
Who? Musk420?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @11:59PM (6 children)
Musk 2020! Only Elon can stop The Donald...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @12:09AM (5 children)
Born in South Africa, Musk will need a constitutional amendment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @01:32AM (4 children)
Didn't stop Obama.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @03:42AM (2 children)
You must Think (like Der Donald thinks about Puerto Rica) that Hawaii is not part of the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @04:09AM (1 child)
Technically it's not. It was acquired illegally.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @10:00AM
That's the entire US'es story. Your point?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @02:59PM
And this is the very real level of idiotic users that inhabit this place. Slim chance it was just a bad joke.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @12:06AM
PussyGrabber69
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 23 2019, @04:53PM
'meh, it's not propaganda, it's him spouting off at the mouth. Would be interesting to see what other world leaders would write in tweets. I'd be for all world leaders using twitter to promote their thoughts/ideas/random ramblings/interaction with people, etc.
Sure, Trump may be a blowhard, but at least he says what's on his mind.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @10:45PM
Please stand up, please stand up
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @10:50PM
Only U.S. Government accounts are allowed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @11:15PM (8 children)
You cannot silence all of them. You cannot distract all of them. You cannot confuse all of them.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday September 22 2019, @11:40PM (7 children)
You may not need to, if you manage to silence some, distract others, confuse yet some others. As long as the ones remaining are few enough, they'll be seen as a fringe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @12:05AM (1 child)
So true. As the old saw goes: "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool mom!"
Hi Mom!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @01:27AM
Take out the garbage.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday September 23 2019, @12:34AM (4 children)
What about the confused and distracted*
*99% of the people on S/N, possibly 100% of the shills and bots
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @12:45AM
SoylentNiggers aren't people.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday September 23 2019, @01:50AM (2 children)
Pick whatever category you want, they are incapacitated anyway.
(what about these confused because they are distracted? Ummm... what's the name... is it methylphenidate? Associate it with large doses of super-caffeinated over-sweetened beverages and club music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @01:55AM (1 child)
They're ethanol fueled.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @02:09AM
Nope. One can't be distracted while drunk - their attention is already absent.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 23 2019, @07:05AM (8 children)
https://www.salon.com/2019/09/19/a-strange-twitter-glitch-is-censoring-the-left-and-no-one-knows-if-its-a-bug-or-a-feature/ [salon.com]
Why is this submission still pending while 2 other less pertinent twitter stories are approved?
This is more pertinent than the new 'hide other peoples' scary ideas' feature but still.
If twitter or any of these platforms are doing this, secretly, backhandedly enforcing ideogical advantages and disadvantages, and probably an inner circle of actual propagandists approved by the ownership, it is a massive indirect attack on what we consider government. And I have long believed they were becaue I have seen these patterns, worsening over time as if tightening down, testing what slimy lateral power grabs they can make without being noticed.
And in this case, the slimy lateral power grab that is cheating, surprise, against the anti-trump folk and anti-capitalist folk, is a direct attack against me and people I like, my faction. So it is important to me, and a lot of people here who otherwise ostensibly believe in an open society, where software doesn't override any trace of representative government or true freedom of expression, that this is discussed and becomes public.
Also, because I left twitter, it is actually difficult for me to exist in the economy anymore as a writer, and if other people don't ever notice what they are doing, no other solutions or communities will develop.
So SN admins, WTF? Why is this story not good enough for you? And no I don't want to talk about it in private, I want to talk about it right here.
People who do not or can not answer my questions about the public interest in your private decisions will also lose my respect and trust.
And yes, that we are now in a way locked into the platforms and their reach for at least a few more years, and since it is now clear they are corrupt and only give advantage to totalitarianism, it is a big problem not a small one.
thesesystemsarefailing.net
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @07:23AM
Do you have a source more reputable than salon?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday September 23 2019, @10:10AM (5 children)
You are anti-capitalism and you are using a platform ran by a capitalistic entity, on which the only control you have is the amount of stock you hold?
And you expect it to act against its interest to satisfy your sense of an 'open society'?
Just how many contradictory thoughts/beliefs are you able to hold simultaneously without melting down?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 23 2019, @03:58PM (4 children)
Wait a second, I *do not* use twitter since 2017 and it is a very real political boycott of mine.
@jmichaelhudson might still be up if they haven't erased it, have they? I don't care. But I worry since if they will manipulate these other things, why wouldn't they just change everything I said to something repulsive?
That is where this is headed.
I used fb, twt, goog, craigslist, okc, craigslist for a long time and had many extremely bad experiences that I believe were connected to state surveillance cointelpro type stuff. The us govt treats people who don't believe the 911 story worse than actual terrorists, but secretly and they use these platforms to seemlessly integrate with society and target the people they don't like, as well as make sure those platforms never advance their goals.
-okc go on dates with cops
-craigslist get cop roommates, buy computers from cops
-fb get randos putting actual extremist bs into your threads to associate you with it
-reddit outright posts erased, no pm's get through to anyone, 12 downvotes for every post within 10 minutes, mods work on military bases
-google manipulates search results, tracks android users even if they opt out
Now we know what twitters game is, and it fits this pattern from all angles.
I am not the hypacrite you are looking for. I advocate a full boycott for all of these platforms and have since I saw through their game, which took some effort, let me tell you.
Cop roommates are real jerks, let me tell you. This stuff is scary and it should scare you. I am not an important person in any movement or ideology, but it is clear they would like me to quiet down and be homeless or in jail.
But what they really tried to do over and over again was bait me into truly heinous things where it would ruin my reputation for life. It's some really demonic shit, what cointelpro has become on social media steroids.
I left the country, that's the level I'm at, what about you?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 23 2019, @05:01PM (2 children)
You left the country? Which country and for what reason? Are you saying, you're a US Citizen, who left the country, because you felt things were too bad to fix? What country did you immigrate to? What did you state as your reason for entering said country? Do you have a job there? How is the place that you are, any better than the USA? Is it actually better? Or are you just ignorant of the history of said country? Yes, the USA has it's failings, but I'd be hard pressed to find a country that doesn't.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 23 2019, @06:39PM (1 child)
As stated on my static homepage, I now live in saarbrucken germany. And yes it is better, it was the right decisions, for a lot of reasons.
I was having daily encounters with undercover law enforcement for months, it was/is scary as fuck.
Here, I just have semi-regular encounters with what I believe are the 'Jewish Defense League' which is basically the Irgun, which is what Epstein is. Because I am a BDS supporter, I am essentially a military target for them as they see no difference between civiilan and soldier, words and weapons, etc. It is manageable and I have reported it to the authorities and i have quite a few pictures of it, which I can't post online without breaking the law however.
Yes, in the IT field I found a job and quickly. I was also able to teach english part time. It was not easy, I started with 2 backpacks and now I have an apartment for the same amount as my Kansas City apartment but which is in every way nicer and in a nicer neigborhood and I don't have to drive a car.
I already spoke german though because I went on a mormon mission when I was younger and came here on a mission, which was otherwise kindof a waste of time because I gave up on the LDS thing after 3 years because it got wierd.
If I did not however have this advantage there is no way I could have done this.
I do not have to drive or own a car and it is actually quite awesome. There are more holidays, the water doesn't taste bad, there is a central culture to the city that no american city has and I can travel to 20 different countries with ease, my neighborhood is nice and there are 500/month apartment next to really expensive real estate. Heck, I feel like reverse Toqueville. I kindof get anxiety to think I'd have to go back to an american city with the packed interstates and blank culture. I spent 3 years in kansas city trying to make friends, start projects, there's some kind of sickness there and many places I call 'donothingism' where people are just dedicated to being specators, the idea of starting a band or company or anything, is not even considered.
Either that or all of my social media was silo'd, I can't really tell, probably a mixture. I met far, far too many mean, empty people over my years in the united states, and yeah, the political repression is invisible to most people because they at the moment are essentially cows especially in the midwest, but for me it is very real and insane, I don't know what they are planning to accomplish. Did you watch the soprano's? The way the fbi got close to adriana(which eventually got her brutally killed btw) is what they have done to me, over and over again, and I can promise you I am not a mob boss, or boss of anything.
Getting mugged in kansas city sucked, my jobs sucked, first they made me bend over backwards and when I wouldn't bend over the other way, I was just fired without explanation. Over and over. 60 hours for 40k, treated like a machine, no benefits, no culture, no vacation. Original independent thought is treated as a disease in the united states, I can not describe it any other way. There are some bright spots, but the mind of the place is closed. It's sad and scary, whoever is pulling the strings is into some monstrous/demonic shit.
Epstein really does explain it though, if you're not helping israel or are perceived as not pro-zion enough, you are ipso facto an enemy of the state. Anti-war people are treated as bad as terrorists, which is sickening. If you are helping israel, you can rape til your lizardbrain's content.
So yeah, I left. And it is better. I started with nothing and now I have some nice things. I don't know any americans who could do what I did though, personally, but they are out there.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 23 2019, @07:25PM
We'll not look at and compare history of the country then, since Germany's tumultuous past is quite well documented. I can't say I have a lot of personal experience with Germany, other than the quick layover on the way to another country.
If you're looking for demilitarized police, you'd do better than to look at Germany's police force, though. The officers at the airport carried what looked to be fully automatic sub-machine guns. They also, definitely have their own problems with white supremacy. How many people of color do you typically see in an average day? Strictly out of curiosity.
From the demographics that I've been able to dig up, it's somewhere between 80% to 90% white, german. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-ethnic-groups-in-germany.html [worldatlas.com] With 1% African German, which I'm assuming would correlate with African American in the USA.
So, you're pasty white, male, can speak German, and decided to move to Germany. I'm quite glad you were able to find a place that offers you a good salary, etc. Condemning the USA over Germany, yeah, I'm not convinced that you didn't just change devils.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday September 23 2019, @09:05PM
Sincere apologies.
Me too mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @03:01PM
You really ruffle their feathers, quite entertaining to see the personal attacks aimed your way. I will say you do paint a nice target on yourself so there may be some self-fulfillment to your prophecy of persecution.