PSA: Snowden is on Twitter now!

[dixiegrrrrl]

His profile says:

I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public.

and his first Tweet, 23 minutes ago, is:

Can you hear me now?

https://twitter.com/Snowden

[Octafish]

1. Ah. It seems like only yesterday when DUers got knocked for writing about what Snowden exposed.

One example, from 2006:

Is the Congressional Leadership AFRAID of the BFEE?

[Octafish]

2. FTR: The ONLY Telco CEO NOT to go-along with illegal NSA ops got railroaded and imprisoned.

Only One Big Telecom CEO Refused To Cave To The NSA ... And He's Been In Jail For 4 Years

MICHAEL KELLEY JUN. 12, 2013, 2:44 PM
BusinessInsider.com

Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio is currently serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of insider trading in April 2007 for selling $52 million of stock in the spring of 2001 as the telecommunications carrier appeared to be deteriorating.

During the trial his defense team argued that Nacchio, 63, believed Qwest was about to win secret government contracts that would keep it in the black.

Nacchio alleged that the government stopped offering the company lucrative contracts after Qwest refused to cooperate with a National Security Agency surveillance program in February 2001.

That claim gains new relevance these days, amid leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden that allege widespread domestic surveillance by the NSA.

Back in 2006 Leslie Cauley of USA Today, citing multiple people with direct knowledge of the arrangement, reported that shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks America's three largest telecoms signed contracts to provide the NSA with detailed call records from hundreds of millions of people across the country.

CONTINUED at a buggy POS website...

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6

[questionseverything]

7. another political prisoner

thanks for the reminder oct

[msanthrope]

3. Let's hope Vlady allows him to keep it. nt

[randome]

8. He only has access to a PC when Vlady is away from home!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Octafish]

12. Land of the Free and Home of the Brave -- NOT ...

...when Traitors, war criminals, and Banksters walk free and Whistleblowers are on the run.

[msanthrope]

27. He's not a whistle-blower. But you pose an interesting question....

Under the statute....he could have gone to Senator Bernie Sanders without repercussion. Why didn't he?

[Octafish]

28. Because the Senate offered zero protection to Snowden and whistleblowers.

Others had told their story about State Crimes Against Democracy and still were destroyed by the government.

Since March 2015 the Senate has a new caucus to protect whistleblowers. All Buy Partisan, like.

[Catherina]

4. Hah! Up to 342K followers already. My fav so far

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/648899559507271680

[riderinthestorm]

6. 20,000 more followers in the past 15 minutes alone!!

Loving it!

[Catherina]

10. Now over half a million followers

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Hi riderinthestorm!

w3I'm loving it too. I wonder how many followers his moronic detractors have lol.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. MSM starting to catch on and report his growing number of followers.

536 K as I type this.

[Catherina]

16. That's 18,000 between the time I took that screenshot & you posted!

I guess the people have spoken lol

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Dunno if you caught the conversation about mobile media

that was going on yesterday, but Robert Reich pointed out the candidates who were dumping most of their money into tv/radio/print ads were completely missing the power of the internet/Twitter, etc which is where MOST millennials ( and us smarter boomers) get info.
And here is Snowden's page, proving the point.

[Catherina]

25. Talk about out of touch lol

Someone said millennials and one camp came up with

The fun thing is they barely know how it works.

Snowden now up to 713K and it couldn't happen at a better time

[riderinthestorm]

15. He's picking up followers at same pace as Obama - more than 500k in 2 hours

Wow!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankbi/2015/05/19/how-fast-did-barack-obama-pick-up-twitter-followers-at-a-rate-of-3314-per-minute-fast/

I'm sure he won't sustain Obama's pace but it's sure indicative of the fact that there's a hell of a lot of people interested in what Snowden has to say.

[Catherina]

17. 573K now! & we were assured that outside of the "fringe left", no one cared n/t

[darkangel218]

26. Add 200k more to that

[snooper2]

5. Snowy must be getting lonely I guess his lawyer lady dumped him

[randome]

9. Wonder when he and his 'fish-out-of-water' fiance are getting married.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Now, you can ask him.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. Excellent point.

Galen is my Twitter nom de plume, and he asks lots of smart questions !

[Octafish]

13. Snowden exposed State Criminality and Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance and that's what you get?

Wow.

[snooper2]

19. Yep, and I'm on a call with a call recording vendor right now LOL

don't worry, your shit is secure they support encryption, I asked

[Octafish]

20. History won't be kind.

Guess how.

[Skittles]

18. oh dear, the swooners are gonna be upset

YEE HAW!

[Blue_Tires]

21. Sweet...Now I can ask him my questions directly

Not that he'll answer them, but at least they will be out there (Greenwald turtled and blocked me long ago, which while cowardly is at least understandable)

I am curious to know when he became the so-called "director" of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and how he executes his office from lockdown in Moscow...

This is the part where I mention (wait for it......) Russia ranks 148th globally in press freedoms, but that's not something I'm allowed to mention anymore....(I know somebody is just burning to alert on me anyway, so go crazy, folks)

[AppalachianAmerican]

24. His tweets will certainly be more interesting than the empty rhetoric of our elected officials.

They run those Twitter accounts like marketing departments. Kind of disturbing.

[darkangel218]

29. Over 1 million followers in less than a day

[dixiegrrrrl]

30. SMILE.

The power of the internet is staggering.

[RiverLover]

31. R&K! /nt

[bobthedrummer]

32. K&R n/t