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Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter (dailydot.com)
Police have now one less tool to monitor users on Twitter. The Daily Dot is reporting that Twitter has cut ties with a third-party social network surveillance firm, citing company policies intended to safeguard users against the surreptitious collection of data by law enforcement agencies. From the report: The severed contract follows Twitter nullifying the commercial data agreements of two other leading social-network-surveillance firms, Geofeedia and Snaptrends. Previously unreported, Twitter severed the access of Media Sonar, an Ontario-based company founded in 2012, which has sold surveillance software to police departments across the United States. Nineteen local government services are known to have each spent at least $10,000 on the software between 2014 and 2016, according to documents acquired under state open-records laws. Twitter informed the Daily Dot this week that it had terminated Media Sonar's access to its public API in October. If the company attempts to create other API keys, Twitter said, "we will terminate those as well and take further action as appropriate."
Couldn't be because Jack is personal friends with BLM activists, could it?
Guess they'll have to use Beautiful Soup. Do some web scraping.
How inconvenient, I guess.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
There's so much market for warrantless spying that people are starting for-profit companies to support it.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
That should please all 5 people on twitter
I don't have any sympathy for secret spy schemes or the mass warrantless interception of private data or communications. The people behind those belong in jail.
But Twitter isn't a private communication. It's public. When you stand up on a soapbox on the street corner and start shouting, yes, that's your free speech right. But a cop can stand there and listen to what you say, even record it if they want. It's a public place.
If you want to communicate privately, use a private medium. The police should certainly be disallowed from monitoring that without probable cause and a proper warrant. But you can't on one hand put something out there to the general public, and on the other expect it to stay private. People need to stop having the illusion that what they post publicly on the Internet has any reasonable expectation of privacy.
The actual problem is this:
No, no, and no. If you want to use evidence in court, you must tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, including the specifics of how you gathered it. All of that should be available for the opposing party to challenge; that's part of their due process rights. If you don't want to reveal the method of gathering it, you don't get to use the evidence. If you want to defend it as legitimate when challenged, you must reveal the details to show that it in fact is. You don't just get to say "No, it's fine, we promise."
To fight the war on terror, stop being afraid.
Why is Obama targeting BLM?
Why can't the government read your public Tweets?
If you plot something illegal in public, are they supposed to not look? I mean, we have had a continual stream of cops being ambushed and shot after the fake news of "hands up don't shoot" and such stories.
What other than racism could explain Twitter banning the White-supremacists, while protecting the Black ones?
Fook Twitter...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
So Twitter willingly turns over info on certain undesirables to non-law enforcement organizations who create dossiers on them and track them across other social media, but won't allow so called social media intelligence companies who sell products to the police to do the same? This could backfire badly on Twitter.
Innocent until proven guilty. You were not a suspect or investigated unless there was a suspicion that you committed a crime. How things have changed....
Racism is a one-way street, it isn't racism the other way around.
while protecting the Black ones?
Did you link the right story? I don't see what it had to do with Twitter.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
See subject: Is that Soros funds them (& backed Hillary Clinton along w/ Wahhabi violent muslims in Saudi Arabia) + the FORD foundation (not even Ford Motor anymore) - the man who has stated he wants the USA broken, led his own Jew faithed folks into captivity & stealing from them, & think he is a God (literally, & a God/Christ complex is 1 of the 1st signs of a psychotic break) - he has NO QUALMS about doing what he does, saying "if I don't someone else will" & is completely amoral (morals are for men, NOT gods - right George? Above ALL else, a God NEEDS compassion (quoting Capt. Kirk to Lt. Gary Mitchell on that one from the StarTrek TOS 'pilot' episode "Where no man has gone before")).
Also, IF "black lives matter" then WHY the hell do they shoot one another in droves over drug related gang warfare dollars? Answer me that...
* Their bullshit's TOO EASY to shoot to pieces & see thru (their fav. color HAS to be 'transparent').
Are there great black folks? Absolutely!
E.G. - 2 of my heros in this life were black (Athlete Walter Payton & Musician Sam Cooke https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )
The ONLY ones that are doing this are welfare leaches (whom I pay for in taxes) & those paid by soros.
APK
P.S.=> It pisses me off, & does GOOD HARD WORKING BLACK FOLKS who are good USA citizenry working w/in the system doing well (they get more breaks than a white male does for jobs for Pete's sake & the bogus welfare drug dealing ones say they are 'downtrodden'? Please, give me a break - I guess "slingin' rocks is HARD work", eh??) - I've seen those good black folks say "You fools are being PLAYED!" & they are, by Soros (to stir the USA into a racewar, so he + his IMF pals can break us imo)... apk
while protecting the Black ones?
Did you link the right story? I don't see what it had to do with Twitter.
What I linked to had to do with BLM containing Black Supremacists, bent not merely on subjugating or mocking, but outright killing Whites. That Twitter protects them is covered by TFA itself.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
DONT USE A PUBLIC TOOL! seems obvious but i guess it isnt.
I don't have any sympathy for secret spy schemes or the mass warrantless interception of private data or communications. The people behind those belong in jail.
But Twitter isn't a private communication. It's public. When you stand up on a soapbox on the street corner and start shouting, yes, that's your free speech right. But a cop can stand there and listen to what you say, even record it if they want. It's a public place.
This is where I think we missed the boat on free speech.
In the free speech debate, everyone points out that no one is required to give you a public forum for your speech. But all these forums actually *are* public, and yet we think it's OK if the companies suppress speech in various ways because it's not the government that's doing it. This fails rational logic in two ways.
Firstly, there was a time when companies would hand over user details on request of law enforcement without a warrant. The government thought this was OK because the companies were free to deny the request, and they also thought it wasn't a violation of the user's rights (4th amendment) because it wasn't the government doing it.
The companies were sued, and the government passed "telecom immunity" laws which effectively shut those lawsuits down.
Allowing companies to censor speech will follow that same arc - eventually the government will be able to "request" that a site suppress some news article or opinion or whatever, with a wink and a nudge, and it'll be the companies doing it and not the government.
Secondly, we don't allow a company to only hire whites (14th amendment) or only men (19th amendment), because that would be a violation of their rights. We don't allow a company to deny services to gays (such as wedding cakes) either.
Why do we allow companies to deny 1st amendment rights?
I think the distinction has to be made between public and private forums. Breitbart can post right-leaning articles, and the NYT can post left-leaning ones, because those are private to the company. Not everyone can get an article published on the NYT website, it's the company product built by employees.
But the article comments sections are public - anyone can log in and post a reply, an opinion, or even a rant. To have those sections monitored and curated is a violation of free speech by the public. Companies shouldn't be in the business of curating free speech, and their response to illegal speech should be to alert the police.
We're rapidly approaching the point where *no* opposing speech or controversial ideas will be available, simply because the big players will go in and remove the ones they don't like. Look at the election coverage for proof of this - constantly insulting Donald Trump in the media wasn't enough to get Hillary elected, because the opposing views were available. There's a move on to remove those opposing views from the public eye.
I think we're losing freedoms here. Free speech means literally *all* speech, including speech you disagree with, or that disagree with you.
We shouldn't let companies run public forums without enforcing free speech.
It could be the downfall of our republic.
'Police Work' used to be defined as getting involved with your community and understanding your population.
How does that not exactly describe monitoring Twitter? Where ELSE would you go right now to understand and interact with the community? (Other than Facebook of course).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Forgot your [/sarcasm] tag
What do the founders of Black Lives Matter: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi have in common?
They are members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, avowed Marxists.
That's why Twitter cut the API access. They don't want law enforcement to track the activities of subversives trying to destroy our Republic, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution on which it is based.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
So don't use Twitter and your "problem" is solved.
Heaven forbid we stop violent, racist thugs before they rip up a city!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
feel free to lay out your case with supporting documentation. Connections, how they are destroying the things you mentioned.
See subject: "... of the united states of america & to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, 1 nation, under God, INDIVISIBLE - with liberty & justice for ALL" - We're a Constitutional Republic specifically http://www.conservapedia.com/Constitutional_Republic/ that's being subverted by FALSE NARRATIVES like yours is due to the above!
(Jill Stein tried saying that too falsely, just like you, that we're democracy-> "If you believe in democracy, if you believe in the credibility of your victory" from https://www.yahoo.com/news/fed... )
The PROBLEM with democracy, pure democracy?
Is that 51% of folks can TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS of 49% - & yes, that's WHY we use the Electoral College!
All per "rule of law" that constitutional republics elect officials with - it's all in the link above!
For keeping largely populated urban centers in heavily populated states from doing it. This IS what Shillary SOROS was after (soros funds BLM & wants to break the USA & has said so, he also thinks he's God, + led his own jew people into captivity & stole from them - he'd do you that way too!)
I do see our right to bear arms being assaulted, our freedom of speech too ('hate crime' bs - don't LIKE it? Don't listen... what ARE you afraid of!) in 'Free Speech Zones' (WTF? I was taught the WHOLE USA IS THAT) & so is the electoral college lately too!
WTF!
* Get RIGHT man - read the 1st link, be enlightened...
APK
P.S.=> Most folks, including BLM ones, are being PLAYED badly & yes, it's part your own faults... why? You're ignorant of FACTS - yes truth & facts - your post proves it! apk
That's [fake] news to me.
We're all going to be spied on soon enough.
What, you think a government now controlled by big fans of authoritarianism isn't going to rapidly pass exactly that the Tories have just done in the UK? Then you're as big a fool as rust-belt voters believing the lies of a reality TV star.
violence, anarchy, and murder
One of these things is not like the other.
More like Twitter wants to get paid directly. No discount for the cops.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
should be monitored and have an eye kept on them. regardless of whether its declared in their official platform, the anti police and kill police rhetoric is everywhere in the rank and file, as well as violence against non blacks. its gross, its racist (i sound like ben affleck) and it needs to be watched, or we will have even more police ambushed and attacked. and one BLM chapter recommends dismantling the police as a solution. fuck that. blacks wanting safety in their own communities need police
Passive monitoring isn't 'getting involved'.
That is the "understanding your community part", second section.
The first part is using Twitter to reach out to people, which IS getting involved. That is true of my own local police department.
Where do you guys even come from with this logic?
It's called "reading comprehension", you should try it sometime. Maybe if someone diagrammed out the single sentence for you?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
the autism-hating, custom EpiPen-hating, Musk-hating Slashdot troll!
Given Twitter's support of protecting criminals of similar leanings, this isn't surprising. I wonder how long this will go until they have to actually defend someone significant they hate (or purge someone significant they favor), if only to be consistent with policy.
There's always Lockheed Wisdom.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
You can also block people you don't want to see your tweets, and make them only available to logged in users, or users you whitelist.
If there was sanity at Twitter, they'd purge those features after purging the "Trust and Safety" team.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.