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The Political Epiphany Of Brianna Wu

September 25, 2018Commentary, Uncategorizedblogging, Civil Rights, Feminism, news, Politics, Science, social media, TechnologyWanderin Poet

Brianna had an epiphany after seeing the rush to war in Iraq from an insider’s position and she changed her politics to reflect who she was becoming.

That’s understandable.

It would be the same as working IN a meat packing plant and deciding to be vegan.

4/ But what PERMANENTLY CHANGED me was this: I saw people I respected RUSHING TO WAR in Iraq. And I knew their reasons were bullshit.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 7, 2017

A very human reaction.

I get that Americans are desperate for civility. I get that Americans pine for a president that will uphold the honor of the office.

But George Bush killed 109,032 civilians for weapons of mass destruction that never existed. He got friends of mine killed in Iraq.

Never forget.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) September 1, 2018

George Bush seems to have the same conscience.

George Bush spends his time now painting portraits of soldiers killed or injured in Iraq War following his orders.https://t.co/rfsX3Z79xA

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) March 3, 2017

There is NO sign that Trump has a conscience at all.

Resist Trump.

Pick your best Democrat in primaries that reflect what you believe most closely.

Vote Republican now at your own peril.

Social Advocate Who Silenced #LGBT Wants Jack Dorsey to Suspend Senator Marco Rubio (R -FL) $twtr

September 18, 2018LGBTblogging, bopoli, Brianna Wu, Civil Rights, cybersecurity, Feminism, Infosec, mapoli, massachusetts, national security, Politics, Randi Lee Harper, social media, twitterWanderin Poet

Randi Lee Harper, thinks little of free speech, or @civilrights, or of LGBT and their rights…

@Principia @AnaMardoll @ShaulaEvans their policies lean more towards protecting the user than promoting a false free speech ethos.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 5, 2015

http://archive.is/cjsjW

…thinks Senator Marco Rubio should be suspended by twitter for suggesting his followers call a Miami (his constituency) business to register their displeasure that the restaurant owner who supports the dictator of Venezuela.

Okay. Report this tweet as inciting harassment. Twitter, ball is in your court. You’ve got rules that are clearly against this kind of behaviour. What are you going to do, @jack? Is this the valuable conversation that needs to be protected? https://t.co/Gl532hhtHo

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 18, 2018

http://archive.is/kbeJI

I mean of all the boneheaded things to tweet. What a fucking idiot. He's not even smart enough to hide behind the whole "i had no idea my followers would harass people" facade that others have used because he's literally saying "in case anyone wanted to call" jesus fucking christ

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 18, 2018

http://archive.is/jSvFm

You are a fucking idiot. How is it possible to be a grown ass man and be this much of a baby?

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 18, 2018

http://archive.is/sdNKU

Randi Lee Harper has her own mob of harassers.

@tjslater haha, seems like everyone does! i like where i am for now. careful what you wish for – i come with a mob of harassers. 😛

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 17, 2014

http://archive.is/8MNpx

Randi also has directed that mob to attack people like Mark Kern and tweets intimidating threats of directing that mob at businesses if content is not taken down.

I don't often ask the mob to do things. But please, please, tell @lauthinv to take down this exploitative post: http://t.co/FxFlmCbIer

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) May 1, 2015

http://archive.is/iaDAn

How does/did Randi control her “mob of harassers?”

She tweets to them.

Cc @popehat @adamsteinbaugh @2dAmMuslim pic.twitter.com/EBjoZE45Mi

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) July 24, 2015

http://archive.is/3yhJ9

@2dammuslim explained how he and his mob work(ed) in a series of tweets that were archived prior to his suspension.

Randi funds her “work” through her Patreon account.

Just so we're clear, my Patreon allows me to do this full time. If it drops too much, I go back to tech. But I won't EVER stop this work.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) October 11, 2015

My patreon just dipped below the minimum required for me to pay my bills. whelp. That means it’s time to post it. https://t.co/NGP9HAcuDo

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) April 2, 2018

Uh. My bot has found a way to make money.https://t.co/SAZ9VNE6yx

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) July 31, 2015

http://archive.is/S2EIP

Randi hacked a “Protected” twitter account and tweeted what she found to her mob of harassers.

down the rabbit hole pic.twitter.com/GtVId7luFZ

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 22, 2015

http://archive.is/UxtXP

She also begged Oauth tokens from her followers, which seems to violate the reason for the existence of Oauth in the first place.

I'm looking for more twitter auth tokens to use for research. Please take a second and help me out! Info here: https://t.co/QQtrohmA0Z

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 23, 2016

@mcclure111 np. 😀 once i finish this oauth token swapping code, i'll be refactoring & publishing.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 28, 2016

http://archive.is/vugAC

Randi apparently wrote code that allows “token swapping” so anyone can swap tokens and fool the host of the content(such a a social media website) into thinking they are an authorized individual operated in good faith.

Randi has over 1,000 Oauth tokens.

@harper i've got a store of about 1k oauth tokens, so it's not a problem for me. might be for other people, though.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) June 4, 2015

http://archive.is/YPgHF

She uses these Oauth tokens to monitor Twitter consumers.

I wrote a program that helps monitor stuff going down. Searches name/phrase, displays colorcoded to followers/gaters/non-gaters/age of acct.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) June 4, 2015

http://archive.is/7ayNd

This is like 4x the normal blocklist. Gonna take a minute, hitting API limits that I can't easily skirt by switching user tokens mid-call.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 23, 2015

If you'd like to help out with the work I'm doing, there's an easy way for you to do so: I need your twitter tokens! https://t.co/C3pophz7FL

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 31, 2014

Randi, who found a way for her bot to “make money” was able to silence LGBT advocates on Twitter who were tweeting to a hashtag she didn’t approve of.

Did Randi Lee Harper register an application and comply with Twitter ToS and Twitter Developer ToS when she was making those API calls with borrowed Oauth tokens?

LGBT had to approach her and beg to not be blocked.

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707623113828085760

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707623338999328769

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707624993689964544

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707625395290374144

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707626754249138176

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707625202889306113

https://twitter.com/emily_esque/status/707728619188187136

@emily_esque i'm willing to talk privately, but you've been really angry about me for a while in your timeline. see my recent tweets.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 10, 2016

https://twitter.com/emily_esque/status/707729818394238976

@emily_esque i'm happy to unblock you, but you should know that if you use the HT again, it'll get picked back up.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 10, 2016

@emily_esque you've been unblocked, should propagate out through BT in the next few minutes.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 10, 2016

Why was Randi Lee Harper, who is not a Twitter employee, able to decide what a LGBT advocate & DC based attorney could retweet and still be connected to her social network?

Her response to was to remove the LGBT from her blocklist, but if they tweeted AGAIN to the same hastag they would be blocked.

This had the effect of separating vulnerable LGBT from their social support networks and was an intentional, but avoidable, harmful act against a protected category of Twitter customers.

Ask someone transgender how many friends they’ve lost to suicide. The answer will probably be in the double digits.

We’re going to give transgender people access to life saving health care. Therapy. HRT. GCS. FFS. We will treat this like the health crisis it is. https://t.co/L6lGdsQsFT

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 3, 2018

Randi finds herself in a “privileged” position.

btw, yes. I'm pissing off a lot of people, on purpose. I'm privileged enough to be safe from their BS. their usual targets? not so much.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 23, 2015

Randi gets to decide what hashtag LGBT can tweet to and still be in their own social network on twitter.

He also got into politics with the express mission of destroying LGBT rights. He was angry that gay people were allowed to participate in the St. Patrick’s day parade.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 18, 2018

I really don't care about people that are posting to that HT with counterspeech. Some people don't want to see that HT at all. That's valid.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 9, 2016

http://archive.is/Zg8I4

How does Randi get to work WITH Twitter Safety, have a non disclosure agreement and tweet things like instructions on how to create an ISIS bot network?

@freedominguez I saw. 🙂 I've been working directly with twitter's safety department. I have faith they want to do the right thing.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) February 5, 2015

http://archive.is/Fif7v

I'll talk about what I can, but I don't break NDAs, so we'll see how this goes.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 22, 2015

Here's instructions ISIS propagates for using/creating a botnet. https://t.co/kfima1gJkY – this is >1 yr old. It's also their fav site.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 14, 2016

http://archive.is/CJ164

Only Jack knows.

Being a crowd-funded activist is rough. It's basically like I have hundreds of bosses that I report to.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 22, 2015

I'll talk about what I can, but I don't break NDAs, so we'll see how this goes.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 22, 2015

http://archive.is/nSyTy

Strangely enough Randi Lee Harper worked closely with Brianna Wu prior to the election of Donald Trump.

I really believe that Anita, Zoe, Randi and I are changing history. We're fighting these battles so other women don't have to. @freebsdgirl

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) February 28, 2015

We emailed Brianna Wu for a comment about Randi’s silencing LGBT and she responded in a disdainful manner and then emailed that she had some info about Randi Lee Harper but wanted that information to remain private.

Brianna Wu responded with information that we already knew about Randi that anyone could have surmised from Randi’s own tweets.

lmao i was just suspended for a 3 year old tweet to a friend. pic.twitter.com/8bMVmLW9W2

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) November 6, 2017

I keep quiet about what is said at Twitter. But I can say this: a lot of activists & orgs haven't heard diddly squat from them lately.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 5, 2015

We can’t publish her response however her lack of concern for the LGBT Randi silenced (we showed her the tweets) is telling in and of itself.

Brianna Wu never responded to the question about harm to LGBT advocates.

Brianna Wu is a former GOP Staffer for Trent Lott (R -MS).

Randi Lee Harper alleges Wu had a somewhat close assocaition with Nazi Andrew “Weev” Aurenheim so is highly critical of Wu as a person.

3/ In the 90s, Trent Lott commissioned a poll asking white Southerners if they agreed with this statement. “The Democrats are trying to take away your culture.”

The results were through the roof. And so, the Republican Party started running on that message.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) May 8, 2018

oh jesus christ. https://t.co/hFUFNPj5AJ

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 21, 2016

every single fucking time she talked to a company, she'd throw a fit, only talk about HER problems, and we'd have to come in and clean up.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 21, 2016

if you vote for wu, you're just voting for another narcissistic idiot. seriously.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 21, 2016

Wu knew that the book she was contributing to last year was being put together by a weev sympathizer. We talked about it.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) May 17, 2017

I'll name and shame, I don't even care. Tarah Wheeler has publicly defended weev multiple times while trying to suck up to him on Twitter. Brianna Wu was told about Tarah's ties to weev and decided to participate in projects with her anyways because money/exposure was involved.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 3, 2018

wu is the shanley of politics, just waiting for a moon rant 😂

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) August 4, 2017

don't be friends with nazis.
don't defend nazis.
don't get involved with people that have ties to nazis.

this seems pretty cut and dry in my book. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 3, 2018

Wu doesn’t follow her own tweeted rhetoric, having blocked the DNC’s @radiokeri.

There are issues you can compromise over. Civil rights isn’t one of them.

All too often, Democrats throw communities they aren’t part of under the bus. People of color. Transgender Americans. People with disabilities.

Not when I am serving. No compromises on civil rights.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) January 6, 2018

MA-8 is 30 percent people of color, and is 11 percent Asian.

It’s not enough to speak to those communities. We want to listen and truly represent those needs. We’re adding a dedicated staffer – if you want to help, please reach out at administrator@briannawu2018.com.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) January 24, 2018

Wow. Blocked by @Spacekatgal. That's cool, I guess. #yikes #mapoli

— Keri Rodrigues (@radiokeri) January 26, 2017

Will Jack suspend a sitting US Senator?

Lord only knows because Twitter has proven to be absolutely unpredicatable on their moderation decisions.

How else to explain Randi Lee Harper’s own, extremely abusive, history on Twitter?

At least 200. https://t.co/5Tt2aTBpZA

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 24, 2015

http://archive.is/a0szk

Jack, and Twitter Safety tolerate(d) some abuse, and not other abuse, is the only rational explanation.

Can people who work with Twitter Safety simply hack, silence and abuse LGBT and Twitter Support will not act to suspend/moderate them?

What is going on at Twitter?

They say they monitor behaviors and are trying to be proactive but Randi Lee Harper has been on twitter, openly conducting herself in the manner for years. Continue reading Social Advocate Who Silenced #LGBT Wants Jack Dorsey to Suspend Senator Marco Rubio (R -FL) $twtr →

The Misogynysts Guide To Hate On @Twitter. #feminism #cybersecurity

February 6, 2016social mediaconsumer advocacy, Consumer Affairs, cybersecurity, digitalkeith, Empire Avenue, empirekred, Feminism, keith gill, nance larson, social media, twitterWanderin Poet

Depersonalization is the core of hate.

There can be little doubt that depersonalizing others is key to rationalizing the abuse of individuals.

And yet an easy way to attack women on twitter is to simply deny their very personhood.

https://twitter.com/UnemployedGenY/statuses/695835293593767936

This has been happening to Lili, aka @laughrodite4u for over a year and Twitter never stops it. Never considers it’s impact.

And so one can simply lie to harass women, and Twitter won’t stop it despite rules against targeted harassment of women and spam.

Archive of hateful tweet.

@DigitalKeith @NanceLarson @USAFA_93 I'm an old internet vet… goes back to the message board of the 90s… w/ 300m – there's some nuts

— UnemployedMillennial (@UnemployedGenY) February 6, 2016

Internet Marketer Steven Krohn’s Problems Catching Up To Him? #EaV #SocialMedia

November 23, 2015Poetrybloggers, blogging, Civil Rights, cybersecurity, Empire Avenue, empirekred, Facebook, Feminism, Influencer Networking, Poetry, social media, twitter, WordpressWanderin Poet

Steven Krohn, internet marketer and leader of EmpireKred had some problems with the government and an abuse charge he had to clear up.

Steven Krohn, according to Rebecca Godson,

“He uses people women exploiter.”

@cindycapo Yes, it was government issue and apparently an abuse charge I knew nothing about. I had to fix them both. @greensboro_nc

— Steve Krohn (@stevekrohn) November 23, 2015

One woman who claims to have been abused has written a poem, dedicated to Steven Krohn.