@HelenDuffy_HRP @NiAolainF @UN_SPExperts Military-grade cyberweaponry and the ubiquity of algorithmically-supercharged repression? "Impacts have been particularly keenly felt by those advocating on behalf of minority communities or disseminating information perceived as critical of government." ?s=20
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: 5/ Some three decades ago, I concluded that battling the forces of digital surveillance would condemn me to a life of lost, endless war against the irresistible dynamics and direction of evolutionary ontology itself. What instead, then? What nature a coherent, personal response? Quote Tweet 2/ What about a more generous evolutionary perspective? I co-hosted a Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics in DC, back in the early 90's. Where my co-chair, Dr. Peter Tippett, then of Symantec, went on to consult to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on cyberwarfare, I arrived here.
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Copy of tweet thread: “Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence— our violence—which is now used on the innocent of the Middle East ever more outrageously and promiscuously... /1 Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. It has become a full stop, a punctuation mark, a phrase, a speech, a sermon, the be-all and end-all of everything that we must hate in order to ignore injustice and occupation and murder on a mass scale. Terror, terror, terror, terror... /2 It is a sonata, a symphony, an orchestra tuned to every television and radio station and news agency report, the soap-opera of the Devil...Strike against Terror. Victory over Terror. War on Terror. Everlasting War on Terror.../3 Rarely in history have soldiers and journalists and presidents and kings aligned themselves in such thoughtless, unquestioning ranks.” Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation /4
@Jake_Hanrahan @ShakiraSecurity @amnesty @amnestytech declares State and private sector digital surveillance a planetary human rights crisis: "Well, there's actually something you can do about targeted surveillance: turn the cameras & microphones back on governments & surveillance companies."
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1/ Use the breath of the mouth, accordingly. Use the Listening Device as megaphone, barrier and guillotine. Sever falsehood from truth; oppressors from peacemakers, gulag from sanctuary; and the world as we knew it from the new reality.