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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14393091

NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Why isn't he posting on fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Who says he isn't with a personal/private account and uses the public persona twitter one for the reach. As shitty as twitter is its still the gravitational center for bursting news.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

He likely doesn't want to get too involved with social media. Stuff easily consumes you. Twitter is just good to reach out to people, which is kinda bad that Twitter got that big.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's not a lot of people on here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I just mean relative to other platforms, there just aren't many of us.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

There’s like five people on here. It’s sometimes scary how often I see the same users.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Hey it's me, user number 6

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like to think I lurk enough to not generally be recognized.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

You’re on my radar now 👀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Who the hell are you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Because he wants people to see what he has to say.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Because it isn't secure at all?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No social media is secure. That's kind of the point of social media.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And Twitter is somehow safer?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Obviously not.

If you're saying this because Snowden said wait he said on Twitter, I'm sorry but I wouldn't know. Not because I didn't try to read the article, I did, but because my custom DNS flagged cointelegraph.com as being malignant and blocked it. True story.

Edit: cointelegraph, not "cointelegram."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cointelegraph might not be for someone who is very anti-crypto, but it's a legit website with well researched articles, not a source of malware/scams/autogenerated spam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Their custom DNS is very ant-crypto. Janet Yellen is the personal resolver.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a fearmongering website design to scare people into buying crypto.

Their articles that aren't about crypto get spammed to social media a lot. It's to get traffic on their site and hope they can hook some.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

While I can't recommend this site for general news, the article in question is pretty well written.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

why does security matter?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Can't he post over I2P/Freenet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a good question. Anyone have answers that aren't so obviously wrong?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Someone on twitter could ask him. "Unfortunately" I have no account anymore.