![]() It’s part of other research I hope to publish one day.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts. And many of them are running programs that monitor twitter and other social media for certain patterns and keywords. *21 twitter sessions? Yes, I have a lot of computers. But I’m having a hard time coming up with an explanation here. On this third issue, I’m not placing the blame on Public Knowledge. But I have never seen anything like it before. I have no idea if this tweetbot had anything to do with these mysterious logins. There have since been no unusual logins on my twitter account. I have since disabled the permissions I gave to Public Knowledge/Phone2Action. ![]() I was hundreds of miles from that location. WTF? One reported its location as Scaggsville MD, which is just outside the beltway in Maryland. I checked my account and I saw that there were two new Ipads logged into my twitter account. I logged this iPhone out of my twitter account as well as every other device using omy twitter account.* In the confusion, I forgot to disable the PublicKnowlege/Phone2Action permissions.Ībout an hour later I remembered I hadn’t revoked permissions. Was not on airport Wifi and my phone IP address indicated my true location. Twitter was identifying this phone as being in Cedar Rapids IA. Under twitter’s “apps and permissions” I saw an iPhone I did not recognize using my twitter account. After observing the tweetbot in action for a while, I went to revoke the Twitter permissions I had granted to Public Knowledge (Phone2Action). It’s an unauthorized appropriation of my pubic persona to involuntarily endorse something I don’t want to endorse. It’s forcing me to make speech that I would never make. But it also will tweet their canned message back to your followers (Below) WTF? This has got to be illegal. Public Knowledge Tweetbot allows you to customize your message to Senators (above). The permissions literally let the Public Knowledge and Phone2Action do anything with your account. In order to use Public Knowledges tweetbot, you have give total control of your twitter account to Public Knowledge’s contracted agent a company called Phone2Action. I came to three extraordinary conclusions:įirst. Perhaps horrifying is a better description. The Public Knowledge tools were the most interesting. So I spent the last few days playing around with the “tools” provided by Public Knowledge (and EFF tools). This is not far-fetched as something similar seems to have played out last summer in the EU parliament. It is my strong suspicion this is the point of these “patch through” phone bots. Whereas, for instance, if you have a boiler room full of paid activists, a third party could easily direct a firehose of phone calls at a wavering Senator, and the calls would be untraceable, the Senatorial staff would not realize it was the same group of paid activists calling over and over. Any activist can look up their Senator’s office on iPhone and click on the telephone number. It doesn’t really provide any extra convenience to an individual activist. The patch through calling requires a little digging to understand how it could be (is intended to be?) abused. In particular, Public Knowledge is distributing a tool that combines a “tweetbot” and “patch through calling.” The tweetbot is easy to understand. Hostile foreign governments need not mount disinformation campaigns against our democratic institutions as we’ve already got Google astroturfs on the job! This tweet bot distributes canned messages that are factually incorrect. So they have attempted to mount a “cyberturf” campaign directed at Senators using some sketchy social media and phone bots. Of course, Public Knowledge (Google-funded) doesn’t want the CASE Act to pass. The bill now goes to the Senate for consideration. The Case Act recently passed in the house 410-6. And an overwhelming bipartisan consensus agrees in congress agrees. By all measures, this is a simple commonsense solution. It’s good for the claimant and the party accused of infringement. The court is voluntary, both parties have to agree to use the small claims copyright court. Most independent artists do not have the $100,000+ it takes to pursue a case in federal court. In particular, they are currently opposing the CASE Act which would finally give artists a small claims alternative to federal court. Many of you are familiar with Public Knowledge for their general hostility towards copyright and the rights of authors. Public Knowledge’s canned message Tweetbot completely takes over your twitter account.
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