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Twitter terminates DDoSecrets, falsely claims it may infect visitors
Permanent suspension comes for violations of rules against tweeting hacked materials.
Dan Goodin
6/23/2020, 6:28 PM
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/twitter-terminates-ddosecrets-and-falsely-claims-it-may-infect-visitors/
Four days after leak publisher DDoSecrets circulated private documents from more than 200 law enforcement agencies across the United States, Twitter has permanently suspended its account and falsely claimed that the site may infect users with malware.
“Your account, DDoSecrets, has been suspended for violating the Twitter rules,” this email, which Twitter sent to the account holders, said. The message cited rules against “distribution of hacked material” and went on to say:
We don’t permit the use of our services to directly distribute content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in physical harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.
Note that if you attempt to evade a permanent suspension by creating new accounts, we will suspend your new accounts. If you wish to appeal this suspension, please contact our support team.
BlueLeaks asks: Why us and not WikiLeaks?
DDoSecrets describes itself as a “transparency collective, aimed at enabling the free transmission of data in the public interest.” On Friday, it published BlueLeaks, a 269-gigabyte trove of documents that KrebsOnSecurity reported was obtained through the hack of a Web development company that hosted documents on behalf of police departments. Some of the documents exposed police candidly discussing responses to demonstrations protesting what a Minnesota district attorney has charged was the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died while handcuffed as a Minneapolis Police Department officer pressed a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. As of Tuesday, Derek Chauvin, who has since been fired, had not entered a plea.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the company had permanently suspended the DDoSecrets account for violating the social media site’s rules barring hacked materials. The spokesperson said the material (1) contained unredacted information that could put people at risk of real-world harm and (2) ran afoul of a policy that forbids the distribution of material that is obtained through technical breaches and hacks, as publishers of DDoSecrets claimed had been done.
DDoSecrets co-founder Emma Best criticized the suspension and noted that the Twitter account for WikiLeaks remains active despite its publishing vast troves of private information resulting from the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee and members of the Hillary Clinton campaign. WikiLeaks has also tweeted links to its Vault 7 series, which published details about closely guarded CIA hacking programs.
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Drag queen doxxed and threatened with crucifixion by Mumsnet users all because she wanted to read books to children
Josh Milton June 23, 2020
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/23/drag-queen-story-hour-uk-aida-h-dee-sab-samuel-leeds-city-council-sarah-field-mumsnet/
A Drag Queen Story Hour UK event was cancelled Monday (June 22) after a coordinated campaign by Mumsnet users and various north England anti-trans networks that even received the apparent backing from a local councillor.
Following weeks of planning and talks with council administrators, Aida H Dee, the founder of Drag Queen Story Hour UK, was set to host an online reading workshop with Leeds Libraries on June 22.
But the event was dealt a devastating broadside by Mumsnet users who clogged Leeds City Council inboxes with emails demanding the Story Hour be shut down.
They won.
During the saga, Dee has been doxxed and had anti-trans individuals threaten her life, she claimed in an interview with PinkNews, which has left her emotionally rattled and with no choice but to seek safeguarding measures from the police.
All for wanting to read picture books to children.
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Suspected Sex Trafficking House Burned
Crowd surrounds house at 40th and Lloyd believed to be connected to missing children.
23 June 2020
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/23/suspected-sex-trafficking-house-burned/
[SEE ALSO THREAD:
https://twitter.com/ktteaa/status/1275607919434874883
SEE ALSO STORY:
https://newsone.com/3965112/milwaukee-missing-black-girls-found-report/
]
Two teenage girls missing since Sunday afternoon have been found according to their family (one according to the police department, see update) and a house that a crowd believed to be connected to their disappearance has been burned.
The confused situation erupted Tuesday afternoon after community organizers and others were alerted that two teenage girls and other missing children were spotted going between the house and a red van.
Several dozen people gathered outside the house and the Milwaukee Police Department was called. But community organizer Frank Nitty, who arrived on the site after a crowd had begun to gather, expressed frustration with the police response time and perceived lack of action.
“It took them so long to come to our community,” said Nitty, narrating his live stream video on Facebook.
He said that an individual believed to have knowledge of the incident ran from a home at 2120 N. 40th St. to another nearby home and later fled the scene. After police left people broke windows at the second home and officers in riot gear returned to the scene. “The guy in the van, he got away,” said Nitty, describing after the fact what he was told had happened.
A crowd formed, many attempting to defuse the situation including State Representative Jonathan Brostoff, and Nitty walked around the scene attempting to explain what had happened to a Facebook audience that eventually swelled to over 40,000 viewers.
“The community thought there was missing kids at this house,” said Nitty of the home just north of Washington Park. He said one child was placed into a car, but then ran away.
Not long after this, at the back of the house, a fire was spotted in the alley. Shortly thereafter police moved to address that situation and a crowd gathered around the gold van parked behind the house and at least one individual set it on fire. Then the house was started on fire.
“This is stupid because all of the evidence is in the house,” said Nitty. He and others said a pair of “bloody” shorts were found in the van earlier.
The fire in the van and home soon grew into a roaring blaze and police returned to the scene in force to create a perimeter. Gas canisters were used to clear the street, and during the commotion, while Nitty was trying to get someone medical attention, an individual was spotted firing a gun at a moving vehicle.
The Milwaukee Fire Department arrived on the scene and firefighters worked to fight the blaze from multiple angles.
After Nitty stepped between the crowd and officers around 6:20 p.m., officers started using batons and pepper spray on the crowd.
The incident, captured on the live stream video, happened shortly after Nitty stepped between the two groups to say “I’m trying to deescalate things.” Smoke and what Nitty identified as “tear gas” was thrown and the crowd threw the canisters back at the officers.
“You have the police here chilling with no problem and you have the police 10 feet away shooting people,” said Nitty.
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Devin Nunes Loses Legal Battle With Twitter Cow
By Jonathan Chait
24 June 2020
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/devin-nunes-loses-legal-battle-with-twitter-cow.html
Devin Nunes is a Republican member of Congress from California and former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, from which platform he built an identity as the mastermind of President Trump’s legal and political defense in the Russia scandal. Nunes, like Trump, has a penchant for spreading conspiracy theories, working with shady characters in Eastern Europe and abusing the legal system.
Nunes’s funniest suit was filed last year against Twitter, demanding $250 million in damages over tweets by an account called “Devin Nunes’ Cow.” Nunes has very predictably lost his case against Twitter.
The suit cites a series of anti-Nunes tweets from thedevincow account. “Devin Nunes’ Cow has made, published and republished hundreds of false and defamatory statements of and concerning Nunes, including the following: Nunes is a ‘treasonous cowpoke’ and ‘Devin’s boots are full of manure’; He’s ‘udder-ly worthless and its pasture time to move him to prison’; ‘Devin is whey over his head in crime,’” among other messages.
Nunes’s suit advanced the idiosyncratic theory that the tweets were “part of [Twitter’s] agenda to squelch Nunes’ voice, cause him extreme pain and suffering, influence the 2018 Congressional election, and distract, intimidate and interfere with Nunes’ investigation into corruption and Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential Election,” and somehow not protected by the First Amendment. Judge John Marshall did not agree.
Nunes has not yet lost his ongoing lawsuits against CNN, the Washington Post, Hearst, McClatchy, and Fusion GPS.
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Kentucky: The Day After
By Robert Farley
On June 24, 2020
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/06/kentucky-the-day-after
As some of you may have noticed, Kentucky had an election yesterday. The election attracted an inordinate amount of interest from out of state, in part because the Booker-McGrath Senate primary contest is a proxy for various cleavages, and in part because of a largely unwarranted belief that the state was engaging in mass voting suppression.
What happened?
Assuming Jefferson and Fayette Counties follow through on their policy of not announcing results until next week, we probably won’t know who the winner of the Democratic Senate primary is until then. We can glean some clues from returns from other counties, but Fayette and Jefferson really are the crux of the modern Kentucky Democratic Party.
As most of you now know, Kentucky undertook a serious “lessons learned” project following the final primaries of March and April, hoping to avoid long lines at in-person voting centers that would spread COVID-19. The primary was delayed for about a month, and the total number of polling places was reduced from 3700 to just under 200, with most counties (including Jefferson and Fayette) only having one in-person voting site. The availability of volunteer polling workers was one of the biggest constraints. The state compensated for this with an aggressive mail-in voting public relations campaign, shifting to “no excuse” (as in you don’t need an excuse) mail-in ballots. Most counties in the state opened up early in-person voting a week ahead of election day.
We know that in person voting in Louisville went well, at least up until the last five minutes. Polls in Kentucky close at 6pm (this is long-standing policy, related to now defunct policy of not allowing bars to open on election day until the polls close), and a group of people waiting to enter the Kentucky Expo Center were locked out at 6pm. Much of the problem stemmed from existing Kentucky law stating that anyone standing in a line as polls closed could vote. Because the Expo Center had no identifiable lines, this was hard to interpret. Moreover, the Booker campaign argued that anyone in a car in line (accounts differ of how large this group was) should be allowed to enter and vote. At 6:30 a judge on the spot submitted a hand-written order that everyone standing on the pavement outside the Expo Center could enter and vote. You can watch the Courier Journal’s livestream of the 6pm closing here; it’s seriously gripping television, and Phillip Bailey deserves a network job.
Voting in Lexington went less well, reputedly because of a few decisions by the Fayette County Clerk, including restrictions on early voting and an odd set-up in the Kroger Field polling place. Fayette decided (unlike most other counties) to limit early voting to in-person appointments, under the idea that focusing on the elderly and disabled would ease the strain on election day. Lines at Kroger Field (where the UK Wildcats play football) were long all day, sometime exceeding two hours wait. There were very few reports of lines anywhere else in the state.
- Twitter terminates DDoSecrets, falsely claims it may infect visitors
- Drag queen doxxed and threatened with crucifixion by Mumsnet users all because she wanted to read books to children
- Suspected Sex Trafficking House Burned
- Kentucky: The Day After
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Twitter terminates DDoSecrets, falsely claims it may infect visitors
Permanent suspension comes for violations of rules against tweeting hacked materials.
Dan Goodin
6/23/2020, 6:28 PM
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/twitter-terminates-ddosecrets-and-falsely-claims-it-may-infect-visitors/
Four days after leak publisher DDoSecrets circulated private documents from more than 200 law enforcement agencies across the United States, Twitter has permanently suspended its account and falsely claimed that the site may infect users with malware.
“Your account, DDoSecrets, has been suspended for violating the Twitter rules,” this email, which Twitter sent to the account holders, said. The message cited rules against “distribution of hacked material” and went on to say:
We don’t permit the use of our services to directly distribute content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in physical harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.
Note that if you attempt to evade a permanent suspension by creating new accounts, we will suspend your new accounts. If you wish to appeal this suspension, please contact our support team.
BlueLeaks asks: Why us and not WikiLeaks?
DDoSecrets describes itself as a “transparency collective, aimed at enabling the free transmission of data in the public interest.” On Friday, it published BlueLeaks, a 269-gigabyte trove of documents that KrebsOnSecurity reported was obtained through the hack of a Web development company that hosted documents on behalf of police departments. Some of the documents exposed police candidly discussing responses to demonstrations protesting what a Minnesota district attorney has charged was the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died while handcuffed as a Minneapolis Police Department officer pressed a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. As of Tuesday, Derek Chauvin, who has since been fired, had not entered a plea.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the company had permanently suspended the DDoSecrets account for violating the social media site’s rules barring hacked materials. The spokesperson said the material (1) contained unredacted information that could put people at risk of real-world harm and (2) ran afoul of a policy that forbids the distribution of material that is obtained through technical breaches and hacks, as publishers of DDoSecrets claimed had been done.
DDoSecrets co-founder Emma Best criticized the suspension and noted that the Twitter account for WikiLeaks remains active despite its publishing vast troves of private information resulting from the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee and members of the Hillary Clinton campaign. WikiLeaks has also tweeted links to its Vault 7 series, which published details about closely guarded CIA hacking programs.
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Drag queen doxxed and threatened with crucifixion by Mumsnet users all because she wanted to read books to children
Josh Milton June 23, 2020
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/23/drag-queen-story-hour-uk-aida-h-dee-sab-samuel-leeds-city-council-sarah-field-mumsnet/
A Drag Queen Story Hour UK event was cancelled Monday (June 22) after a coordinated campaign by Mumsnet users and various north England anti-trans networks that even received the apparent backing from a local councillor.
Following weeks of planning and talks with council administrators, Aida H Dee, the founder of Drag Queen Story Hour UK, was set to host an online reading workshop with Leeds Libraries on June 22.
But the event was dealt a devastating broadside by Mumsnet users who clogged Leeds City Council inboxes with emails demanding the Story Hour be shut down.
They won.
During the saga, Dee has been doxxed and had anti-trans individuals threaten her life, she claimed in an interview with PinkNews, which has left her emotionally rattled and with no choice but to seek safeguarding measures from the police.
All for wanting to read picture books to children.
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Suspected Sex Trafficking House Burned
Crowd surrounds house at 40th and Lloyd believed to be connected to missing children.
23 June 2020
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/23/suspected-sex-trafficking-house-burned/
[SEE ALSO THREAD:
https://twitter.com/ktteaa/status/1275607919434874883
SEE ALSO STORY:
https://newsone.com/3965112/milwaukee-missing-black-girls-found-report/
]
Two teenage girls missing since Sunday afternoon have been found according to their family (one according to the police department, see update) and a house that a crowd believed to be connected to their disappearance has been burned.
The confused situation erupted Tuesday afternoon after community organizers and others were alerted that two teenage girls and other missing children were spotted going between the house and a red van.
Several dozen people gathered outside the house and the Milwaukee Police Department was called. But community organizer Frank Nitty, who arrived on the site after a crowd had begun to gather, expressed frustration with the police response time and perceived lack of action.
“It took them so long to come to our community,” said Nitty, narrating his live stream video on Facebook.
He said that an individual believed to have knowledge of the incident ran from a home at 2120 N. 40th St. to another nearby home and later fled the scene. After police left people broke windows at the second home and officers in riot gear returned to the scene. “The guy in the van, he got away,” said Nitty, describing after the fact what he was told had happened.
A crowd formed, many attempting to defuse the situation including State Representative Jonathan Brostoff, and Nitty walked around the scene attempting to explain what had happened to a Facebook audience that eventually swelled to over 40,000 viewers.
“The community thought there was missing kids at this house,” said Nitty of the home just north of Washington Park. He said one child was placed into a car, but then ran away.
Not long after this, at the back of the house, a fire was spotted in the alley. Shortly thereafter police moved to address that situation and a crowd gathered around the gold van parked behind the house and at least one individual set it on fire. Then the house was started on fire.
“This is stupid because all of the evidence is in the house,” said Nitty. He and others said a pair of “bloody” shorts were found in the van earlier.
The fire in the van and home soon grew into a roaring blaze and police returned to the scene in force to create a perimeter. Gas canisters were used to clear the street, and during the commotion, while Nitty was trying to get someone medical attention, an individual was spotted firing a gun at a moving vehicle.
The Milwaukee Fire Department arrived on the scene and firefighters worked to fight the blaze from multiple angles.
After Nitty stepped between the crowd and officers around 6:20 p.m., officers started using batons and pepper spray on the crowd.
The incident, captured on the live stream video, happened shortly after Nitty stepped between the two groups to say “I’m trying to deescalate things.” Smoke and what Nitty identified as “tear gas” was thrown and the crowd threw the canisters back at the officers.
“You have the police here chilling with no problem and you have the police 10 feet away shooting people,” said Nitty.
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Devin Nunes Loses Legal Battle With Twitter Cow
By Jonathan Chait
24 June 2020
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/devin-nunes-loses-legal-battle-with-twitter-cow.html
Devin Nunes is a Republican member of Congress from California and former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, from which platform he built an identity as the mastermind of President Trump’s legal and political defense in the Russia scandal. Nunes, like Trump, has a penchant for spreading conspiracy theories, working with shady characters in Eastern Europe and abusing the legal system.
Nunes’s funniest suit was filed last year against Twitter, demanding $250 million in damages over tweets by an account called “Devin Nunes’ Cow.” Nunes has very predictably lost his case against Twitter.
The suit cites a series of anti-Nunes tweets from the
devincow account. “Devin Nunes’ Cow has made, published and republished hundreds of false and defamatory statements of and concerning Nunes, including the following: Nunes is a ‘treasonous cowpoke’ and ‘Devin’s boots are full of manure’; He’s ‘udder-ly worthless and its pasture time to move him to prison’; ‘Devin is whey over his head in crime,’” among other messages.Nunes’s suit advanced the idiosyncratic theory that the tweets were “part of [Twitter’s] agenda to squelch Nunes’ voice, cause him extreme pain and suffering, influence the 2018 Congressional election, and distract, intimidate and interfere with Nunes’ investigation into corruption and Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential Election,” and somehow not protected by the First Amendment. Judge John Marshall did not agree.
Nunes has not yet lost his ongoing lawsuits against CNN, the Washington Post, Hearst, McClatchy, and Fusion GPS.
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Kentucky: The Day After
By Robert Farley
On June 24, 2020
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/06/kentucky-the-day-after
As some of you may have noticed, Kentucky had an election yesterday. The election attracted an inordinate amount of interest from out of state, in part because the Booker-McGrath Senate primary contest is a proxy for various cleavages, and in part because of a largely unwarranted belief that the state was engaging in mass voting suppression.
What happened?
Assuming Jefferson and Fayette Counties follow through on their policy of not announcing results until next week, we probably won’t know who the winner of the Democratic Senate primary is until then. We can glean some clues from returns from other counties, but Fayette and Jefferson really are the crux of the modern Kentucky Democratic Party.
As most of you now know, Kentucky undertook a serious “lessons learned” project following the final primaries of March and April, hoping to avoid long lines at in-person voting centers that would spread COVID-19. The primary was delayed for about a month, and the total number of polling places was reduced from 3700 to just under 200, with most counties (including Jefferson and Fayette) only having one in-person voting site. The availability of volunteer polling workers was one of the biggest constraints. The state compensated for this with an aggressive mail-in voting public relations campaign, shifting to “no excuse” (as in you don’t need an excuse) mail-in ballots. Most counties in the state opened up early in-person voting a week ahead of election day.
We know that in person voting in Louisville went well, at least up until the last five minutes. Polls in Kentucky close at 6pm (this is long-standing policy, related to now defunct policy of not allowing bars to open on election day until the polls close), and a group of people waiting to enter the Kentucky Expo Center were locked out at 6pm. Much of the problem stemmed from existing Kentucky law stating that anyone standing in a line as polls closed could vote. Because the Expo Center had no identifiable lines, this was hard to interpret. Moreover, the Booker campaign argued that anyone in a car in line (accounts differ of how large this group was) should be allowed to enter and vote. At 6:30 a judge on the spot submitted a hand-written order that everyone standing on the pavement outside the Expo Center could enter and vote. You can watch the Courier Journal’s livestream of the 6pm closing here; it’s seriously gripping television, and Phillip Bailey deserves a network job.
Voting in Lexington went less well, reputedly because of a few decisions by the Fayette County Clerk, including restrictions on early voting and an odd set-up in the Kroger Field polling place. Fayette decided (unlike most other counties) to limit early voting to in-person appointments, under the idea that focusing on the elderly and disabled would ease the strain on election day. Lines at Kroger Field (where the UK Wildcats play football) were long all day, sometime exceeding two hours wait. There were very few reports of lines anywhere else in the state.
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Date: 2020-06-25 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-25 03:57 pm (UTC)Early tallies show more votes cast in this KY election than the last few.
I voted early by mail and had no problem with lines. :-^)