Just a heads up for any instance admins: In the wake of the announcement of the shutdown of a certain Mastodon instance full of glowposters, I think it's probably a good idea to keep registrations disabled for a while to prevent them from migrating to here an cause trouble.
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@xianc78 what instance?
[[[ To all federal agents reading this ToS; please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
follow Snowden's example
Snowden is like the OG glowie (I think he's a limited hangout / planned opposition)
What information did he not publish?
Most of the slides were heavily rededicated and of poor quality. He literally had less evidence than 9/11 Truthers and was given more credibility by all the international media. The main outlet that covered it, The Intercept, is literally a honeypot as nearly every whistleblower that came to them after Snowden was arrested and prosecuted:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/The_Intercept
His story is a Hollywood narrative. Some nerdy looking guy making six figures in the 2010s, who formerly worked at the CIA, was an NSA contractor, working remotely in Hawaii, suddenly had a moral conscience, somehow got two laptops full of classified slideshows and PDFs, went off to some other country to hand it all over to Der Spiegel, et. al., then takes off for Moscow and his smoking hot girlfriend openly talks about joining him.
The results: nothing really happened. I made changes. I ran my own e-mail again and started making large changes in my personal infrastructure, but the vast majority of people didn't change a thing. Industry changed (Yahoo encrypted their data center links) which may have been another intent: sure-up US industrial opsec. But the real end result was that nothing happened and people became okay with NSA domestic spying.
New Zealand still passed a bill allowing the GCHQ to retroactively legally spy on all citizens (I was there at the protest before Parliament). Kim Dotcom still faced extradition and PM John Key faced zero consequences for illegal spying. The Internet-Mana party went nowhere even though Snowden "spoke" remotely in NZ on Google Fucking Hangouts!
The US went after Manning, they had Assange trapped in an Embassy for a decade and yet they don't even know where Snowden is? It reeks of glow man.
Another thing: Don't ever invite any glowposters on here. That instance only existed because a certain FSE user suggested it to that admin after being banned from Gab.