Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by minerjoe on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:20AM (#23791176)

Um. Yes I can. It's in the same vein as letting a few guilty people go free to ensure that less innocent people get sent to prison.

I'd rather still have Matin Luther King around than to have whatever the FBI claims to have disrupted.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by darawk on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:38PM (#23794108)

The FBI didn't kill MLK, though. If you eliminated the FBI, you woulnd't get MLK back. But you would have a few hundred more serious terror attacks in the US history, probably a decent number of them against minorities.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by dragonwriter on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:43PM (#23794150)

> The FBI didn't kill MLK, though.

We know they tried to do so at least once while maintaining deniability.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by minerjoe on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:59PM (#23794341)

Do you have any evidence of this claim besides press-releases from the US government?

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by monadic2 on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:14AM (#23820989)

I envy your confidence.

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