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Michael Shellenberger

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CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech @UAustinOrg : Dao Journalism Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : Author, “Apocalypse Never,” "San Fransicko"

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Michael Shellenberger
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The Afghan man suspected of shooting National Guardsmen was “clean on all checks." But DHS's Inspector General in 2022 warned of inadequate vetting. And a senior intel official tells me, “There wasn’t adequate screening done...We don’t have good fidelity on who any of them are."
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Michael Shellenberger
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The 29-year-old Afghan man suspected of shooting two National Guardsmen yesterday in Washington, D.C., was “clean on all checks,” a senior U.S. official told CNN. The official told CNN that “the US government had been doing continuous, annual vetting of individuals since the
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Michael Shellenberger
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Doctors will block the puberty of children with “gender incongruence” as part of a medical experiment to determine the impact on their well-being, says the British government. “Right now, there isn’t enough information about the possible benefits or risks that young people with
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Michael Shellenberger
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We must experiment on children by blocking their puberty, says the UK's @Keir_Starmer government. We must not. Children aged 10 – 15 years old cannot consent to lifelong sterility & loss of sexual function. Any civilization that does this is effectively killing itself.
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David Ágape
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Alexandre de Moraes has just ordered the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro. And he did so on the 22nd, the number that identified Bolsonaro on the ballot. In his decision, Moraes says that the presence of supporters outside the former president’s home in a prayer vigil was actually a
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Michael Shellenberger
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Australian Senator opposes his government's involvement in online censorship. As a US citizen and employee of the Australian government, Julie Inman Grant needs to defend her actions to the world. https://t.co/f8P4yumHA3
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Senator Matt Canavan
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Australia's eSafety Commissioner's attempts to takedown content globally has already been found to breach Australian laws. It also understandably angers other countries where free speech is constitutionally protected.
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Michael Shellenberger
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"Your expansive interpretation and enforcement of Australia’s OSA [Online Safety Act] —including your claim of extraterritorial jurisdiction to censor speech outside of Australia — directly threatens American speech. "Global content takedown orders are concerning because they
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Michael Shellenberger
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The head of the foreign government - Stanford effort to censor social media needs to testify before Congress, says Chairman of Judiciary Committee @Jim_Jordan. Julie Inman Grant, a US citizen, is the head of the Orwellian "Global Online Safety Regulators Network"
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Michael Shellenberger
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In 2022, Obama gave a speech at Stanford Cyber Policy Center advocating sweeping censorship of the Internet. Now, Public has discovered the same Center last month hosted a secret meeting with EU, UK, Brazil, & Australia officials to plot global censorship — including of the US.
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Michael Shellenberger
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@JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews @Oracle @Keir_Starmer "On March 21, 2025, a major security incident was reported by CloudSEK involving Oracle Cloud’s authentication systems. A threat actor, “rose87168,” claimed to have stolen 6 million records, impacting over 140,000 tenants. The stolen data allegedly includes JKS files, encrypted
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Michael Shellenberger
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@JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews @Oracle @Keir_Starmer "Multiple Oracle security incidents have led to government agency guidance and class action suits in recent months. In January 2025, a significant security breach targeted Oracle Cloud, exploiting a Java vulnerability to deploy malware into Oracle’s Identity Manager database. The
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Michael Shellenberger
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@JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews @Oracle Tony Blair Institute did the polling that UK PM @Keir_Starmer apparently relied upon to selll digital IDs as a way to stop mass migration. https://t.co/0SDqa3G1xR
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Michael Shellenberger
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@sundarpichai @Google @Keir_Starmer Tony Blair Institute did a survey supposedly finding high support for digital IDs. How? By priming people to think about how inconvenienced they've felt without a digital ID. This is the first question. Totally manipulative and grosss https://t.co/lV8bT2VKaL
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Michael Shellenberger
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@JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews @Oracle "Since 2021, Ellison’s personal foundation – the Larry Ellison Foundation – has donated or pledged at least £257m to the Tony Blair Institute, making it a think tank like no other in the UK."
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Michael Shellenberger
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@JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews @Oracle " We have to take all of this data we have in our country and move it into a single, if you will, unified data platform. The secret is to get all, get all of that data in one place." — Larry Ellison to Tony Blair
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Michael Shellenberger
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@JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews "CISA issues guidance amid unconfirmed Oracle Cloud breach" -- April 21, 2025 That was back in April. The latest breach was last month. How many other unknown vulnerabilities does @Oracle have? Why would anyone trust it with our data any more? https://t.co/KoYWxsRJ5X
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Michael Shellenberger
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@JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews "Oracle's Lax Security Led To Customer Data Breach, Suit Says"
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Michael Shellenberger
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@JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews "Oracle quietly admits data breach, days after lawsuit accused it of cover-up"
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Michael Shellenberger
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"The Washington Post... didn’t explain why it took almost a month to determine the amount of data stolen and has not responded to multiple requests for comment." @JeffBezos @CyberScoopNews
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