They finally dropped all pretense at WikiLeaks. Look at this new creepy-as-hell tweet:

[Turn CO Blue]

WikiLeaks Task Force Verified account
?@WLTaskForce

We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.

10:03 AM - 6 Jan 2017
544 replies 193 retweets 229 likes
Reply 544 Retweet 193
Like 229


They're proposing building an AI database for the purpose of what? Doxxing people. Exposing their family, jobs, addresses, financial information... Creepy as fuck.

How very Big Brother meets McCarthyism.

How very authoritarian.

How very FASCIST.

[femmocrat]

1. Should we delete our accounts?

I swear, I don't understand anything anymore.

[Leith]

15. It's for Public Service Accounts

Take a look at what it takes for an account to be verified:

https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174631#

This is for prominent people and organizations and Twitter requires a lot of not easily obtained information from them. This could be doxxing from hell on steroids for anyone who tweets an opinion that the thugs want to silence.

[bdamomma]

2. is this their way of tracking people?

oh boy, they are gun-ho to go into full blown fascism.

[Crunchy Frog]

3. It's their way of intimidating people, I'm pretty sure.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. They've basically just said they have all the info already.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. This way, Assange can do the work of Trump's minions so they can claim plausible deniability.

[herding cats]

6. They're going full on Trump.

They're having a tantrum over people calling them out for this earlier.

"You guys are a f*ckin joke": The internet rips WikiLeaks for whining about leaked report on Russia

‘You guys are a f*ckin’ joke’: The internet rips WikiLeaks for whining about leaked report on Russia

TRAVIS GETTYS
06 JAN 2017 AT 12:35 ET

WikiLeaks battled with online critics after attacking U.S. officials for issuing portions of a report on Russian hacking before Donald Trump’s intelligence briefing.

The hacktivist group, which posted the emails and other data that U.S. officials believe were obtained at the direction of senior Russian officials, objected to the release of information contained in a U.S. intelligence report about the stolen documents.

WikiLeaks ✔
@wikileaks

The Obama admin/CIA is illegally funneling TOP SECRET//COMINT information to NBC for political reasons before PEOTUS even gets to read it.

5:48 AM - 6 Jan 2017
6,479 Retweets 7,321 likes


The intelligence assessment, which was presented Thursday to President Barack Obama, found that Russian officials fed the material hacked from the Democratic National Committee through third parties to WikiLeaks at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The same assessment will be presented Friday to Trump, who is scheduled to be inaugurated in two weeks.

more
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/you-guys-are-a-fckin-joke-the-internet-rips-wikileaks-for-whining-about-leaked-report-on-russian-hacks/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028438316

[TubbersUK]

30. Trump's Tweet re NBC

posted after WikiLeaks Tweeted.

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
?@realDonaldTrump
I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.
RETWEETS
14,677
LIKES
47,565

4:51 PM - 6 Jan 2017

[OldRedneck]

33. Something Trump doesn't understand . . .

. . . but he will soon learn: The national sport of Washington, DC, is NOT pro football or pro basketball or pro hockey or pro baseball.

No.

The national sport of DC is LEAKING!!!!!!! And damn near everyone in town -- from bigwigs to the janitorial staff -- is very good at it.

[Tanuki]

37. Hey Donald, how about investigating the FBI'S leak of fake info

to your toady Ghouliani prior to Comey's letter? You remember, the lies that both Ghouliani and your daughter in law Lara smirkingly referred to as something up your sleeve? The lies that, coupled with the voter suppression and Putin's disinformation campaign, resulted in a bloodless coup? Now that would be an interesting investigation.

[Alekzander]

7. So; where is Twitter in all this? How can they do this w/o the cooperation of Twitter?

[Turn CO Blue]

9. They'd do it with a combo of social media trawling and hacking. They're "hactivists" after all.

For example: if someone with some savvy connected all of my social media accounts and Google, they could likely piece together a lot of information about me, just from what is public, or what I left in comments here and there. They could also trawl Google. They'd build an smart electronic robot.

What's worrisome is that they'd put it all out there in a database on their site. And how many stalkers, exes, home-invaders, politicians would use that data?

[KittyWampus]

8. I sincerely hope some DU'er have rethought their support of Wikileaks, Assange at this point.

As well as Snowden and Greenwald.

[eggplant]

25. Snowden and Assange are VERY different people.

[kimbutgar]

10. I have tried multiple times to delete my twitter account and it's impossible

Anyone having success. I followed the direction but there is no deactivate Cxount feature they say there is. I plan to deactivate my Facebook account on January 19th. I know the chump pals are going to go on a liberal hunt.

DU I hope you can guard our accounts.

[radical noodle]

31. I'm not deleting anything

If they want to come after a 69-year-old great grandmother who posts bad things about them, let them. They want to scare us into backing off.

[klook]

35. FYI - "Protecting Yourself on Social Networks"

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/protecting-yourself-social-networks

Also -- have you tried the steps described on Twitter's "Deactivating your account" page? I know next to nothing about Twitter, but this looks like it should work. I hope that's helpful.

I don't use my real identity online, although I am not a celebrity or even slightly well known -- so I have a luxury that government officials and public figures don't have.

Despite taking precautions, though, it would be all too easy for anyone to be -- for example -- tagged in a Facebook photo and then for their face to be linked to, say, a photo from a protest march, or a pic from a work-related or charity event, etc. And once a malefactor can determine your identity, they can find out all kinds of stuff about you via easily accessed public records. For example, if you're a home owner, your home address is a matter of public record in most places, and it's not hard to determine or at least deduce a lot about your financial status from property tax records, etc.

Even though it's not possible to achieve 100% privacy, I'm as careful about it as I can be, despite the low risk that I could piss off anybody who'd want to come after me (YET!).

The modern world can be a dangerous place, and in this neofascist moment we all have to be a lot more careful than we're accustomed to. At the same time, this moment demands that we take a stand and oppose the new regime where feasible, so it's a balancing act. We all have to think hard about juggling what's best for society and for the personal safety of ourselves and our families.

[Lint Head]

11. We need hackers on our side!!!!

[elmac]

12. Putin has a new mandate thanks to the dumbass ameriKan voter

he can do whatever he wants. Get used to it.

[world wide wally]

13. Looks like we are officially at war with Wikileaks to me

This threat is not even veiled.

Thanks Trump "patriots"

[War Horse]

14. It says "verified" accounts

so they're apparently not going after your everyday user. But yes, still creepy.

[Tanuki]

26. They are making it easy to stalk the children of verified account holders

or ambush them at their homes or places of employment. Far worse than creepy.

[War Horse]

27. good point n/t

[HipChick]

16. Fuck'em...they are doing that, so folks can't troll Trump

I'll be trolling him as long as I have breath

[SaschaHM]

17. So basically any journalist that decides to report on Trump...

has to live in fear for their family's safety even more now.

[Blue_Tires]

18. Hate to tell folks "I told you so...", but...

[nini]

32. Same here

I don't know how many times I had crap thrown at me because I voiced my suspicions of them.

People are so desperate (on both sides) to hear anything that supports their views they believe just about anything. At the very least - be careful who you trust.

[Blue_Tires]

19. and as expected, WL just keeps digging:

https://twitter.com/BethElderkin/status/817461392462807040

[OregonBlue]

20. For the purpose of blackmail or just getting people killed?

[Blue_Tires]

21. They also have a creepy discomfort (lots of deleted tweets) about "the Jews"

https://twitter.com/FutureBoy/status/817452444342841344

[Skidmore]

22. When I think of all the verbal abuse heaped on

those who didn't become fawning fans of this group or Assange or Greewald et al., I am furious. We demand vociferous vetting for individuals except for this group which tosses a few tidbits to the left and then screw the nation and the world over. There was nothing to recommend this amorphous group from the beginning.

[JHan]

34. A lot of those fawning fans forgot their so called "principles"..

last year exposed the hypocrisy of many.

[Cha]

40. Well said, Skidmore.. I was one of those who thought they were Hogwash

from the very beginning. You could smell it.

[Angry Dragon]

23. No wonder Donnie likes him

[Pachamama]

24. Creepy and further confirmation that my decision to never have a Twitter account is a good one

[Eugene]

28. Now they're sounding like Trump. The "Dishonest Press" supposedly misrepresented

their threat to dox people who disagree with them.

I was checking whether their account was still active.
They issued a thinly veiled threat against the entire
Twitter community.

[alfredo]

29. Remember, Assange is in Ecuador to escape rape charges.

[Cha]

41. Isn't he in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to escape rape charges?

[alfredo]

42. Once you are inside an embassy, you are on their land.

[blogslut]

36. Report the tweet as abuse to Twitter

Because it is.

Here is the direct link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817431533183238144

If any of you have a Twitter account, click the 3 little dots located underneath the tweet, then click the link: "Report Tweet" from the dropdown box and then follow the steps.

[ecstatic]

38. and yet some will still defend them.

SMH. Gullible as fuck!

[muriel_volestrangler]

39. When Billy Bragg, Tim Berners-Lee and Anonymous all condemn your plan

you know you've given up any chance of ever seeming on the side of open information or personal rights again.

Billy Bragg ✔ @billybragg
The Wikileaks Punishment Battalion are going round taking down names. If you've got a blacklist..... https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817431533183238144 …
7:21 PM - 6 Jan 2017##

Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, compared the WikiLeaks proposal to a piece of British legislation that has been criticized as a massive boon to the surveillance industry.

“Don’t.even.think.about.it,” he tweeted.

Even the “hacktivist” organization Anonymous lined up against WikiLeaks.

“This is a sickening display of intimidation tactics,” it said, tagging the official Twitter accounts for the social network, its support team and chief executive Jack Dorsey.

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/01/07/early-morning-open-thread-wikileaks-proposes-weaponizing-doxxing/

[ck4829]

43. Kick

[Scurrilous]

44. K & R