These uncurated dumps destroy personal privacy & kick up a cloud of confusion, not illumination. Should alarm people who care about dissent.
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By the way: my argument on why Podesta-like hack & mass dumps are harmful to a healthy democracy isn't about who did the hack—Russia or not.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Washington Post
I mean, it's one week to a major election and this is the stuff going viral, while mass media obsesses with gossip.https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/794647737434304513 …
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Surprising that US privacy-advocates are not alarmed at the harm the mass hack method does to ability to dissent. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html …pic.twitter.com/5g6A71hdIS
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted digging around in the HTML
I hear this a lot.1-The powerful will manage; dissent will go back to pre-internet: unable to communicate globally.https://twitter.com/jeremyzimmer/status/794699961153662976 …
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2-"Don't write an email you don't want to see on CNN" is the new "don't wear a miniskirt, then". Powerful will adapt, dissent will suffer.
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Before the election I argued, in vain, that uncurated dumps including personal data would structurally threaten dissent, not really power.pic.twitter.com/bnk1Afheiw
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Wrote this before the election—journos ignored me. Clearer after Wikileaks threat to expose their family/housing? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html …pic.twitter.com/6pH9LU6qOj
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maybe that's what is worst thing about
@ggreenwald here is that he used to be against "if you have nothing to hide..." privacy argmt1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
whole Ted talk about it! https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters/transcript?language=en …
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I love that talk. I was in the room, and I show it to students. We need to adapt to threats on top of own govt.
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I agree. And if we live in wikileaks world w/everything public, we can't pretend to be shocked by contents of privt com
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