Just stop using Twitter. I’m so glad I erased myself from the Internet and I would encourage others to do the same. Thought crimes are actually going to be a thing, because America is now fully fascist. Some people will find out what it’s like to live in a fully authoritarian country. Don’t be one of them if you can avoid it.
Twitter and all of the other sites you left still have your data. It’s just not public. The internet is forever unless the company literally nosedives and all of their servers are wiped. And even then, there might be some backup on someone else’s servers.
Well, yes, of course. Are you suggesting people stay on twitter because it’s too late?
I’m saying it’s too late to erase yourself from the internet. The best you could do is not make it worse for yourself, which would involve quitting Twitter.
But if there was any indication on any social media site that you’re queer, even if you think the data has been erased, you could be in big trouble soon.
Well I never really used Twitter much and stopped years ago. And I realize I cannot totally erase myself but I did a pretty exhaustive job a few years ago. Trying to maintain as much privacy as I can. I can’t erase the past but I can abate my concerns moving forward
What are the odds someone still on Twitter today knows or cares about infosec?
This is basically good advice BUT it would have been equally relevant under Dorsey.
Isn’t Dorsey in charge of Blue Sky?
No, he left.
WTF? What a wild resume ride:
In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California.[1] She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, where she soldered together bitcoin mining equipment.[1] In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.[1][3][4] In 2019, she founded the event planning website Happening, Inc.[1][3][4]
In August 2021, Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company.[5][6][7] Bluesky had been conceived as a new initiative by Twitter’s original owners in 2019, but evolved to become Twitter’s main rival following the 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.[3][4][8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber
Edit: I had no idea he left. He thinks X is awesome now, glad he’s gone. https://time.com/6974971/jack-dorsey-leaves-bluesky-board/
Here’s an informative thread about who’s funding and controlling Bluesky now.
So it’s Steve Bannon MAGA, shady af, and libertarian. I love how they call their philosophy post-rationalists. It could be taken many different ways.
As if they didn’t have access to all the data before
If you’re still hanging out with Nazis you deserve whatever happens to you.
Keep in mind that we’re in an echo chamber here. We see and read stuff that most people don’t care to know about, and we communicate amongst ourselves without considering the people who are outside of our echo chamber. In the same way people last week were googling about Biden dropping out of the election, a lot of people don’t know what’s happening with a lot of things around them. It doesn’t make them bad people, just ignorant.
Don’t think this will only affect the us. This can be used against anyone living in a country that’s friendly with the turd.
Leave twitter. For your own safety.
It’s literally a matter of national security for other nations.
Oh no, it’s fine, we’re just being softly threatened with the enabling of a Russian invasion of our eastern borders should we force Twitter to comply with our laws. No real problem here, keep posting.
Sure glad I never had a Xitter account.
I hope I live to see it turn into a soulless pile of bots reposting porn clips for D-grade advertising agencies with no human users.
whatever data anyone has (google, facebook, your employer, your bank, the credit bureaus) basically belongs to trump’s nsa, fbi, cia, etc now
And the stasi! Don’t forget the stasi!
Facebook messenger. Every keystroke is recorded. Go ahead, as for your data from Facebook. Every keystroke is logged.
Facebook Messenger is the worst way to be communicating right now.
Now is the time to migrate yourself and your people to WIRE or Signal. Your messenger people will likely only move once, if ever.
One way to encourage this is by simply refusing to be available by text on anything but WIRE or Signal. They will eventually give in and use it. You can still FaceTime, and for free, via Signal or WIRE.
Worth remembering if you’re a wanted fugitive.
Interesting, I remember years of libs ruthlessly mocking right-wing users (and the lefties who agreed) for thinking Twitter and other social media was dangerous. Now all of a sudden we all agree social media is dangerous because the guy who owns one of the services is openly a shill rather than quietly like Dorsey was?
I’m a lefty with a working memory who knows authoritarians are not to be trusted no matter what side they claim to be on. It seems like the most obvious position a person can hold but people are struggling with even this…
Now all of a sudden we all agree social media is dangerous because the guy who owns one of the services is openly a shill rather than quietly like Dorsey was?
Yes, people are openly concerned about the world’s richest man making active threats that threaten democracy more than your made up perceived bias. Garbage take.
I guess I at least agree that we were naïve with regards to Dorsey and way too slow to realize Twitter was a threat. Looking back now it seems like it was bound to go to hell eventually, and if we look beyond the west it already went to hell a long time ago. And even in the west the tipping point was arguably years before Musk bought Twitter, it was just that people were too addicted to accept how dangerous it was.
So I guess you could criticize people for only realizing now how fucked up Twitter is. Then again, better late than never.
Can twatter app not also track location, and use mic & cam at will?
On modern phones, it will tell you if it’s using them. And you can block permissions.
however, given who is the owner, right now the best course of action is to consider xitter as a compromised app and treat it as malware/spyware
Twitter has been a right wing revenge honeypot since melon head took over.
I made a twitter account that I never used and I deactivated it yesterday. I didn’t have to, but I did anyway.
