Trump Wants To Regulate Google

[GG]

2 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

I took it to mean he wasn't going to change anything no matter how much his revenues plummet.

 

1-2% drop, who cares?

 

20-30% drop, that's a problem.

 

it's a delicate balance, and I applaud that he's holding his ground. 

 

The equation he's looking at is what is the potential loss of subscribers if he sides with one side of the political divide.  What's a worse outcome for him - losing 20% in revenues because advertisers drop OR losing 20% in revenues because subscribers drop?

[BillsFanNC]

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

2 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

The bots have descended on parler this past week. I follow one of the hashtags and it has been 10 minutes each morning of blocking before I get to the real content.  The same thing happened to GAB, so they will have to figure that out PDQ so it doesn't turn into the same sewer.

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

This is a first:
 

read this thread as to why:
 

 

 

The list is long on who was hacked.

 

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

Boy, this guy gets twitter...
 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

So, the images are interesting. "Trends blacklist" and "search blacklist" certainly are signs of an open, un-manipulated twitter!

 

Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts
 

After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.
 

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Twitter has been deleting some screenshots of the panel and has suspended users who have tweeted them, claiming that the tweets violate its rules.
 

The panel is a stark example of the issue of insider data access at tech companies. Whereas in other cases hackers have bribed workers to leverage tools over individual users, in this case the access has led to takeovers of some of the biggest accounts on the social media platform and tweeted bitcoin related scams in an effort to generate income.
 

The screenshots show details about the target user's account, such as whether it has been suspended, is permanently suspended, or has protected status.
 

Data breach monitoring and prevention service Under The Breach obtained a similar screenshot and tweeted it as the hackers hijacked several accounts. The person in control of the Under The Breach account told Motherboard Twitter then removed the tweet with the screenshot and suspended them for 12 hours. A message replacing the tweet now says it violated the Twitter rules.
 

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I expect the original tweet to get deleted as it shows those screen shots (and twitter is deleting the people posting them), so including a screen shot of the responses I am quoting:
 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

Because all the original images will go away, I am posting them as screenshots.

And then there is this point:
 

 

 

 

[Big Blitz]

5 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

Because all the original images will go away, I am posting them as screenshots.

And then there is this point:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now let's all imagine what Google is doing. 

 

Everything you see "trending" is fake. 

 

Everything in the news is fake.  

 

And they wonder why no one trusts anything anymore.  They (the Left) needs to start by looking in the mirror.  But they won't.  They'll triple down.  They legit don't care anymore.

 

It's what happens when you legit nearly every policy argument so you drift into Totalitarianism.  

[Buffalo_Gal]

Here is the thread unrolled (no twitter bias at all, no sirree... )
 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

And now cloudflare being down (dos is the word) is breaking half the internet. Good times!

[Rob's House]

I posted Nick Cannon's comments on Twitter, but made it about blacks, and now all my Tweets are de-boosted.

[Buffalo_Gal]

Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside
 

The interviews indicate that the attack was not the work of a single country like Russia or a sophisticated group of hackers. Instead, it was done by a group of young people — one of whom says he lives at home with his mother — who got to know one another because of their obsession with owning early or unusual screen names, particularly one letter or number, like @y or @6.
 

The Times verified that the four people were connected to the hack by matching their social media and cryptocurrency accounts to accounts that were involved with the events on Wednesday. They also presented corroborating evidence of their involvement, like the logs from their conversations on Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers and hackers, and Twitter.
 

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But the identity of Kirk, his motivation and whether he shared his access to Twitter with anyone else remain a mystery even to the people who worked with him. It is still unclear how much Kirk used his access to the accounts of people like Mr. Biden and Mr. Musk to gain more privileged information, like their private conversations on Twitter.
 

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Mr. O'Connor said other hackers had informed him that Kirk got access to the Twitter credentials when he found a way into Twitter’s internal Slack messaging channel and saw them posted there, along with a service that gave him access to the company’s servers. People investigating the case said that was consistent with what they had learned so far. A Twitter spokesman declined to comment, citing the active investigation.
 

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[Buffalo_Gal]

This is what twitter is reporting about the hack on their blog. Those 8 accounts? DMs too? And which 8 accounts?
 

An update on our security incident
 

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The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections. As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts. For 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account, and send Tweets. We are continuing our forensic review of all of the accounts to confirm all actions that may have been taken. In addition, we believe they may have attempted to sell some of the usernames.
 

For up to eight of the Twitter accounts involved, the attackers took the additional step of downloading the account’s information through our “Your Twitter Data” tool. This is a tool that is meant to provide an account owner with a summary of their Twitter account details and activity. We are reaching out directly to any account owner where we know this to be true. None of the eight were verified accounts.
 

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[Hedge]

 

 

[Taro T]

8 hours ago, Hedge said:

 

 

 

Wonder if anybody on the right will be smart enough to come after these platforms for violating campaign finance laws via these "in kind" removals of speech that would be/ were opposing leftists?  There has to be a great value to the left leaning groups otherwise Twitter & others wouldn't be doing this.

 

Realize that they're trying to get them considered to be "publishers" as they are now editing the content rather than just hosting it.  And that seems like it should be a successful tactic, but it seems there's room to target their actions from a different angle as well.

Edited July 22, 2020 by Taro T

[Hedge]

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

Twitter exploring subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply
 

Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp decline in its core advertising business.
 

"You will likely see some tests this year" of various approaches, Dorsey told analysts on an investor call held to discuss the company's second-quarter earnings results. Dorsey said he has "a really high bar for when we would ask consumers to pay for aspects of Twitter," but confirmed that the company is seeking to diversify its sources of revenue in what are "very, very early phases of exploring."
 

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