Quinta Jurecic
you get rid of the people at Twitter working to counter CSAM, fail to show up for a NCMEC roundtable, float partnering with Operation Underground Rescue of all people, and claim you care about child safety? FFS
I'm still furious about this. I assure you that the FBI still has agents investigating crimes against children. You know what institution has, according to all reports, significantly undermined its ability to counter sexual violence against kids in the last few months? It's Twitter!!!
Sean Zadig@qjurecic ummm, yeah that's not how this works.
Joan Schoening
Sheeptramp@qjurecic Matt Taibbi is very pervy.
Katrags@qjurecic
Makes you wonder why they are trying to distract from the real problem........
Makes you wonder why they are trying to distract from the real problem........
toxtethogrady@qjurecic Taibbi is butthurt becaue his current meal ticket looks like he's bought himself a lot of trouble. Like $44 billion worth...
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-price-elon-musk-eco-51671206566
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-price-elon-musk-eco-51671206566
Russ Copeland@qjurecic I've come to believe all these people do is projection.
IF Fritzsche@qjurecic Yes and not only in the past months: https://www.theverge.com/23327809/twitter-onlyfans-child-sexual-content-problem-elon-musk
Erik@qjurecic did Matt just find out about the existence of federal law enforcement and the surveillance state?
JenL@sigmafactor @qjurecic No, he’s just angry that the government considers domestic (white) terror groups/violent conspiracy cults like QAnon to be a legitimate threat worth tracking.
Hansel Dunlop@qjurecic also the people planning mass shootings. The terrorists who are taking guns to churches, gay bars, mosques etc DO use social media and do talk about it before hand.
The Big Fox@qjurecic we need stop treating taibbi like he’s some scamp of a writer: he’s an active disinformation activist in the pay of the right wing….and he’s fully aware of this arraignment.
@Trumptheloser @qjurecic He spent about a decade in Russia sexually assaulting women he had power over—of course he’s a right wing disinformation activist—imagine the kind of kompromat the FSB must have.
Respected Commander@qjurecic Matt Taibbi bit deep into the dumbass conspiracy/qultist onion
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Aaron Martin-Colby@qjurecic Yeah. I'm disappointed with how far Taibbi has fallen. It is as mysterious to me as Glenn Greenwald. It's as though the fact that one side of the political spectrum is indeed worse than the other just broke their minds and all they can do is contort themselves into ever-bigger pretzels to justify yelling "both sides are bad!"
Noura@qjurecic Matt thinks the FBI is like one group. He’s an idiot. Also a pervert.
@qjurecic They're justifiying their no-doubt healthy paychecks
Jimbo@qjurecic Didn’t Taibbi used to brag about having sex with teenage girls in Russia?
@qjurecic the fact that they are surprised by this shows how artful Taibbi et al have become with their self deception. Of course the FBI monitors tweets, facebook posts, the whole shebang, it’s part of the mission statement of the FBI to protect civil rights, as there are forms of speech which the Supreme Court has ruled are not protected by the Constitution - see Imminent lawlessness test established by Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) decision. Tweets weren’t overtly marked satire!
@qjurecic Eight years ago ISIS did most of their recruitment online, and today right-wing terrorists do the same. It’s incredible how high Taibbi is on his own supply - he still thinks he is some badass truth-telling rebel, a modern Hunter S. Thompson. I suppose he is somewhat, just with all of the misogyny and none of the talent.
Justin Stanley@qjurecic standing up NCMEC is ridiculous. I’ve worked with them in the past and it’s people that deeply care and move the needle protecting children.
Ashton@qjurecic at what point do we have to admit that he’s going full qanon?
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William Palin
Dave Willner@qjurecic well this is all appalling.
@dwillner some of the chaos is funny in a bleak sort of way, but this part of it is sickening
@qjurecic Indeed. There’s of course plenty to criticize about how T&S teams work, but literally everyone I’ve ever met who deals with CSAM takes it deathly seriously and no one sees it as a place to score points. It’s a sacrosanct obligation. I’m pretty hard to disturb but this level of instrumentalization of the issue is new and really grim.
@dwillner Thank goodness the head of T&S is focused on the important things! https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/
JenX@qjurecic QANON- linked. So of course this is who Musk allies with: “But a series of Motherboard investigations has found that OUR and its head, Tim Ballard, have serially exaggerated their capabilities and effectiveness while fending off prosecutorial inquiries into whether OUR has misused donor funds and itself participated in human trafficking.”
John Panzer@qjurecic I just want to say that Ella is making highly sus decisions here and some reporters should be looking into her background. She’s been a director various places and was hired at Twitter only in June.
@jpanzer curious if you can say more!
@qjurecic this is insanity. Twitter is so red pilled
Willy Guthrie@qjurecic he suspended Rupar and the Mastodon account
Mmechevrolet@qjurecic I don't know why but I thought of this .... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
