DoomsdaysCW
Well rats. Seems there are some network issues? I'm hoping #Elon's #TechBoys aren't messing with the #Fediverse (having problems with another instance I'm on as well). Anyone else experiencing delays and hiccups?
joristeNicht dass es was ändert, wenn ich das poste, aber interessant: meta hat den account von @dielinke_dortmund auf #insta gesperrt. Zwei Wochen vor der Wahl. Ein Schelm, wer sich was denkt. #wahl #techboys
#Musk, #Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of #DOGE Staff
The self-described #FreeSpeech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen
by Miles Klee, February 3, 2025
"As a cabal of Elon Musk flunkies works around the clock to infiltrate and sabotage various federal agencies on behalf of President Donald Trump, the world’s richest man — just named a special government employee — is warning along with Washington allies that the consequences for publicly naming these staffers may be severe.
"On Sunday, with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) seizing control of the United States Agency for International Development (#USAID) and the billionaire vowing to eliminate it altogether, #Wired reported the identities of six software engineers with jobs in his wrecking crew. They span in age from 19 to their mid-twenties and have minimal government experience (if any), though most have connections to either Musk or his onetime PayPal colleague #PeterThiel, another right-wing Silicon Valley billionaire whose data analytics firm Palantir holds valuable U.S. defense contracts. They are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
"These young men have been involved in Musk’s sweeping efforts to gain access to the communication systems, personnel files, and other sensitive information at agencies including USAID, the Treasury Department, the Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration, and the Small Business Administration, in certain cases freezing employees out of their work accounts and putting others on leave. Some DOGE and State Department representatives were at first barred from USAID headquarters in Washington on Friday night and threatened to call U.S. Marshals if they were not given entry; security guards eventually relented. Today, the agency’s staffers were locked out of the building, triggering a protest outside that was attended by Democratic lawmakers.
"Musk, who professes to champion #FreeSpeech but has typically clamped down on content shared via his social media platform X if he doesn’t want it publicly disseminated, has already moved to silence those who share the names of DOGE team members carrying out his orders to wrest control of the levers of federal spending. On Sunday night, after Democrats of the House Foreign Affairs Committee posted on X that 'DOGE’s attempt to bulldoze its way into classified systems is part of a broader agenda to dismantle U.S. foreign aid and soft power,' another user on the site, with a paid verified account, replied, 'Here’s a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasury payment system,' and named the six men identified in the Wired article. Musk shot back, 'You have committed a crime,' though there is no law against reporting the names of individuals with a government-affiliated task force. The post was then removed and replaced with a message saying that it had violated X rules. Then the account itself was suspended."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/pbUHJ
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Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff
The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-prosecutor-identities-doge-staff-1235255556/
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