”listeners & viewers are getting around Russia’s media barricades through the use of virtual private networks & ‘mirror sites’ that duplicate content but use a different URL.”
“Russians during the Cold War would try to tune in @RFERL by fiddling with the radio dial”
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It should be the official foreign policy of the USA to uphold human rights by providing access to info to every person on Earth through satellites, VPNs, & mesh networks.
Congress should vastly increase funding for @OpenTechFund. @POTUS should oppose Internet shutdowns. #KeepItOn
Less than 2 years ago, the Trump administration attempted to shift @OpenTechFund’s funding away from open source projects.
Our coalition called on Congress to @SaveOTF & maintain US support for Internet freedom tools that Russians & others are using now: opentech.fund/results/suppor…
In October 2021, @USGAO recommended Congress act to preserve the independence of @USAGMgov from political interference: gao.gov/products/gao-2…
GAO specifically noted impact on @OpenTechFund: funding ceased for 49 of 60 Internet freedom projects! $ flowing now, but isn’t secure.
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A historical note from AOTUS @dferriero: Before FDR signed a law creating @USNatArchives in 1934, @librarycongress held some public records & others were scattered across our union.
“The sheer scale of the tragedy strains the moral imagination”—@edyong209 theatlantic.com/health/archive…
More Americans died last week than on 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina.
~9 million of us lost a parent, child, sibling, spouse, or grandparent.
~149,000 children lost a parent or caregiver
Why did the CDC issue new guidelines allowing the end of indoor masking after 1000+ people died of COVID daily for 6 months?
If the US faced daily hurricanes that each killed 1,000 Americans for half a year, would we stop building levees, pumping water, & providing aid & shelter?
Yesterday, the @WhiteHouse hosted its first public meeting on open government in the Biden-Harris administration. There still has been no official administration response to the #opengov coalition letter we sent in February: governing.digital/letters/letter…
I bumped it to @PressSec today.
But it has refused to disclosed logs of the virtual meetings it has held since January which replaced in-person meetings in the pandemic: politico.com/news/2021/03/0…
Today's meeting virtual public Meeting for the US Open Government National Action Plan has begun. @philipashlock kicked off. He notes is the first #OpenGov meeting in many years. (True!) Justin Vail says @WhiteHouse is excited to re-engage on @opengovpart & #opengov more broadly
"Open government is a priority of the Biden-Harris administration," says Justin Vail, who says the work to rebuild an opengov community in US government is underway & continuing, & that a "year of action" will follow the #SummitForDemocracy & #OGPSummit, including 5th NAP for OGP
Vail acknowledges that it's been "years" since a @WhiteHouse met with US civil society groups around @opengovpart.
"This @Policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures or individuals when media & accompanying Tweet text are shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse."
Who decides who "media" are, @Twitter?
Or if photos taken of people in public "add value?"
While well-intentioned & responsive to networked abuse, I bet the new @Policy will cause @Twitter brutal headaches, particularly if it does not vastly increase @TwitterSupport human capacity. Narrowly targeting revenge-porn & photos w/high risk of offline harms would be wiser.
Twitter claimed @Policy "will help curb the misuse of media to harass, intimidate, & reveal the identities of private individuals, which disproportionately impacts women, activists, dissidents, & members of minority communities."
Extremists are abusing it: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…