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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJulian Assange can't get Twitter-Verified
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@JulianAssange 4h4 hours ago
Twitter has binary class system with proximity to power represented by 'blue tick' insignia. I am enjoying being one of its deplorables.
Twitter has binary class system with proximity to power represented by 'blue tick' insignia. I am enjoying being one of its deplorables.
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@jilliancyork
Twitter is incredibly inconsistent about verification, preferring "YouTube stars" to actual important people but also, LOL.
Twitter is incredibly inconsistent about verification, preferring "YouTube stars" to actual important people but also, LOL.
Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with this?
WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users homes, families and finances
WikiLeaks wants to start building a list of verified Twitter users that would include highly sensitive and personal information about their families, their finances and their housing situations.
We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships, WikiLeaks tweeted Friday.
The disclosure organization, run by Julian Assange, says the information would be used for an artificial-intelligence program. But Twitter users immediately fired back, saying WikiLeaks would use the list to take political vengeance against those who criticize it.
Twitter verifies certain users, such as world leaders, nonprofit organizations and news outlets, with a blue check mark beside their names so that other users of the service can be confident about the posters' identities. WikiLeaks, which has a verified Twitter account, did not say whether it would subject itself to the scrutiny it was proposing. (It was also unclear whether, under its plan, WikiLeaks would seek to uncover information about the financial lives of Russian President Vladimir Putin or President-elect Some rich asshole, both of whom are verified on Twitter.)
WikiLeaks wants to start building a list of verified Twitter users that would include highly sensitive and personal information about their families, their finances and their housing situations.
We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships, WikiLeaks tweeted Friday.
The disclosure organization, run by Julian Assange, says the information would be used for an artificial-intelligence program. But Twitter users immediately fired back, saying WikiLeaks would use the list to take political vengeance against those who criticize it.
Twitter verifies certain users, such as world leaders, nonprofit organizations and news outlets, with a blue check mark beside their names so that other users of the service can be confident about the posters' identities. WikiLeaks, which has a verified Twitter account, did not say whether it would subject itself to the scrutiny it was proposing. (It was also unclear whether, under its plan, WikiLeaks would seek to uncover information about the financial lives of Russian President Vladimir Putin or President-elect Some rich asshole, both of whom are verified on Twitter.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/06/wikileaks-proposes-tracking-verified-twitter-users-homes-families-and-finances/?utm_term=.bf91ab977d84
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Julian Assange can't get Twitter-Verified (Original Post)
blogslut
Mar 2017
OP
he's openly calling himself a deplorable now. that's the bigger story IMO
La Lioness Priyanka
Mar 2017
#5
Maybe they suspect the account is run from Russia. Or Trump Tower. (nt)
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2017
#7
marybourg
(12,642 posts)1. I wish I cared that this is all gibberish to me.
But I guess I'm too old to care.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)2. :rofl:
I'm with you.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,219 posts)3. Julian Assange. An aptronym of the first degree.
When one considers the first three letters of his last name.
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)4. Bwahahaha LMAO on this tweet:
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evin CollierVerified account
@kevincollier
You may get mad online, but have you ever been Julian-Assange-can't-get-verified mad?
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)5. he's openly calling himself a deplorable now. that's the bigger story IMO
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)6. Maybe a company based in CA is sick of this shithead
Since we have a lot to lose from an outcome we all tried desperately hard to resist.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)7. Maybe they suspect the account is run from Russia. Or Trump Tower. (nt)