Alternatively, we can try to build a culture that rejects surveillance journalism and uses pseudonymity, encryption, and incentives to defend privacy. These media corporations are just Stasi with stock symbols. They will wiretap people for profit & revenge. Need a better way.https://twitter.com/msuster/status/1279451483155529730 …
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Balaji Srinivasan Retweeted Mark Suster
To be clear, I am deeply sympathetic to
@msuster’s worries here. I don’t believe we should live in fear of either the mobs enabled by social media corporations or the for-profit wiretapping of legacy media corporations. Need a better way. https://twitter.com/msuster/status/1279451483155529730?s=21 …https://twitter.com/msuster/status/1279451483155529730 …Balaji Srinivasan added,
Mark SusterVerified account @msusterNever write an email you wouldn’t want public. Never text & assume it won’t be screenshotted. Never speak at a conference & assume somebody isn’t recording you. Never Clubhouse & assume it’s private. Comms 101. I had this talk with my teenagers recently about social media usage https://twitter.com/tiffani/status/1279448307996266503 …10 replies 10 retweets 105 likesShow this thread -
We can start developing cultural inoculants against surveillance journalism. It is simply not ok for some random corporation to be able to secretly record you without your consent. It’s even worse than the Stasi, they’re making money from this stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree …pic.twitter.com/tkLGI89ERx
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People talk about truth in media, but an even deeper point is that these employees of media corporations see themselves as vigilantes with extralegal powers. No, inheriting a newspaper does not give you the right to invade someone’s privacy. Divine right of kings ended long ago.
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We essentially have government by Russell Conjugation. The same action is deemed legitimate if this gang of unelected bloggers does it and illegitimate if you do it. You “doxx” She “leaks” But the NYT “investigates” This double standard is the core of their power. End it.pic.twitter.com/qvJySVO65y
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Balaji Srinivasan Retweeted Balaji Srinivasan
An important point is that there is no formal license to be a corporate journalist. No MD or JD equivalent. Instead there is *informal* license. If you are a member of this clique, you can print dangerous misinformation and never run a correction.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1242006583535489024 …
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Balaji SrinivasanVerified account @balajisCompiling a list of the official misinformation from press & state. - Flu is more serious - Travel bans are overreacting - Only Wuhan visitors at risk - Avoiding handshakes is paranoid - Virus is contained - Tests are available - Masks don't help What else?Show this thread9 replies 35 retweets 281 likesShow this thread -
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Your Twitter bio says “Not big on credentialism,” but you want a credential for journalists? Let me guess, you and your “Clubhouse” want to issue the credentials, right?
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No, I believe every citizen has a duty to be a journalist. Imagine 100 people at $1000/year on Substack vs one at $100k. We can’t outsource our information supply chain to incompetent media corporations anymore. Corona showed us this was a life or death matter.
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Media had credibility banked but they've fully burned through it but still have credibility left in the sense that they don't fabricate facts. The result is that informed people have to do their own information synthesis - this was an outsourced task 1/2
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Even the most brain-dead vox / NYT corona reporting in February contained the information needed - "respiratory virus, Chinese terrified, person to person contagious, unknown level of deadliness". From there they reached insane conclusions which smart people rejected. 2/2
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