#Elizabeth Lea Vos

[helpsuzi3d-blog]

November, 2017: Suzie becomes the first journalist in the world to analyse Snowden documents live online. Check out this full playlist of #DecipherYou streams, which have gotten even better with time as the episodes now also feature Elizabeth Lea Vos from Disobedient Media, as co-host.

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Video length 12:39.  Link to video: https://youtu.be/dxmy5YYmMR4

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One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely removed from the site. The operators of the account report that they have been given no reason for its removal by Twitter staff, and have received no response to their appeals.

Any Assange supporter active on Twitter will be familiar with the Unity4J account, which originated to help boost the wildly successful Unity4J online vigils in which well-known Assange defenders would appear to speak out against his persecution. As of this writing, the account has been gone for a day and a half.

“About 8:45am CST on Thursday July 11, one of our Unity4J Twitter team members went to retweet on the account and noticed that the account was no longer accessible,” reports pro-Assange activist Christy Dopf, one of the operators of the account. “When each of us also attempted to access the account we all received the same message ‘Account Suspended’. Twitter did not send us a reason or violation for the suspension. So an appeal was submitted. We did receive correspondence that Twitter got our request and the case is currently open. Unfortunately we do not have a timeline on how long this could take.”

https://twitter.com/ChristyMKD84/status/1149407683512033280

Speaking for myself as a vocal Assange supporter on Twitter, I can say that I’ve been following the @Unity4J account closely since its earliest days and I’ve never once seen it post anything other than highly professional-looking advocacy for Julian Assange. I’ve certainly never seen it post anything that could be construed as abusive, misleading, or otherwise in violation of any of Twitter’s posted rules.

This account’s deletion is just the latest in a long string of apparently biased actions against WikiLeaks and Assange by the immensely influential social media platform. That bias was made abundantly clear with Twitter’s ridiculous refusal to verify Assange while he was posting from his own account despite his undeniably being a significant public figure, and despite the fact that Twitter was well aware that the account was authentic. The platform has been receiving consistent complaints among Assange supporters of using shadow bans to marginalize their voices, as well as unfair posting locks and restrictions.

“It seems that Assange supporters have been targeted for suspension over the last few days and weeks, including the suspension of individuals (Yon Solitary, Monique Jolie) as well as accounts like Unity4J,” Unity4J co-founder Elizabeth Lea Vos told me today. “All of these suspensions are unacceptable, but I find the Unity4J suspension especially egregious because it was an amplifier of events across the board, not only actions run by Unity4J. It never broke the twitter rules and it was an activist account supporting a journalist who’s been silenced or ‘disappeared,’ so this suspension is an extension of that suppression. Assange asked us to become his voice, and platforms like Twitter appear to be actively working against the possibility of that effort.”

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/07/12/top-assange-defense-account-deleted-by-twitter/?fbclid=IwAR2BBvYL2VolL2O-d24DD1aIEr4uYeCnEWzPSA7M9YQXu0lX6kZ_YtG5tRs

                 Lee Camp [Redacted]         ✔            @LeeCamp      

The main Twitter account defending Julian Assange, and therefore press freedom & freedom of speech, has been suspended.@Unity4J - suspended for defending a hero.#Unity4J

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6:42 PM - Jul 12, 2019 

Pro-Assange activists have been speaking out on Twitter against @Unity4J’s removal.

“The main Twitter account defending Julian Assange, and therefore press freedom and freedom of speech, has been suspended,” tweeted comedian and Redacted Tonight host Lee Camp. “@Unity4J – suspended for defending a hero.”

“HELP!! Twitter suspended @Unity4J The global #FreeAssange supporters account!” tweeted Assange’s mother Christine Assange. “Its a central point for updates, interviews and actions re my son politically persecuted journalist JULIAN ASSANGE! Please demand @TwitterSupport and @Jack re-instate it. Many thanks #Unity4J”

“I have no doubt that @Unity4J’s twitter account was suspended because it was a hub of useful information on solidarity events and actions in support of Assange, WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning and more. Horrendous censorship to suspend the account, @TwitterSupport,” tweeted Elizabeth Lea Vos.

“If @Unity4J is not restored, it is proof that Twitter would have sided against the Free Mandela movement, and every other mass liberation movement of a ‘terrorist’ turned Nobel nominee,” tweeted Unity4J co-founder Suzie Dawson.

Many other Assange supporters have been flagging the attention of the Twitter Support account and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey objecting to the unjust silencing of a perfectly legitimate activist account, to no avail thus far.

[garudabluffs]

Kevin Zeese, the now-deceased co-director of Popular Resistance, was a supporter of Julian Assange. He served as an adviser to the board of the Courage Foundation, which runs Defend Wikileaks. In this 2018 interview with Elizabeth Lea Vos, Kevin explains why Assange's case is critical:

"Julian Assange's case is the John Peter Zenger case of the twenty-first century. John Peter Zenger was a publisher who was prosecuted before the American Revolution because he published articles that were critical of the British-appointed governor of New York. They weren't false, they were just critical. In those days, there was no defense to slander as far as telling the truth goes. You say something bad about the government or the king, you get punished for it. Zenger's lawyers decided to use a defense that had not been used before, which was to go right to the jury, avoid the judge and show that Zenger was publishing the truth. Zenger was found not guilty by the jury very quickly after having been held in jail for eight months and undergoing abuse. People see that case as where a lot of our freedom of the press rights come from and the concept that truth is a defense. Julian Assange is revisiting that issue now in the twenty-first century when we have a lot of different technology that allows for truth to be told. Wikileaks is a major breakthrough in how journalism works and what information we are allowed to see. It is unacceptable that the most important publisher in this century is silenced. Whether or not you like Assange personally, the work he has done is critical to our future."

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The document dump site calls out Craig Wright for forging documents. But maybe that's just more "fake news."

On February 8, Craig Wright, who purports to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, published an extensive (and thoroughly popcorn worthy) Medium post about what Bitcoin was – and wasn't – designed to do. In it, he says, "Bitcoin was never designed to help an anonymous money-transfer system, and I was always opposed to those seeking to operate outside the law." He continues:

"I do not like Wikileaks, and I have never been a fan of Assange's methods. More importantly, I am strongly opposed to criminal markets and bucket shops. Ross Ulbricht and others like him are criminals. They are not freedom fighters, they are not libertarians. They simply are predators, and they are all that Bitcoin was designed to make far more difficult."

Such actors, Wright says, are why he (i.e., Satoshi) left: "I needed to fix what I allowed." In a follow-up post titled "The Story of Bitcoin, Continued," Wright paints a vivid picture of his thought process during the years directly following the invention of Bitcoin, though one in which the timeline isn't always clear. He claims that he was working in 2011 to stop human trafficking and sexual slavery, and that Bitcoin was created to be "an immutable evidence trail" that could stop such evils.

At first glance, the posts constitute, if not a complete rewriting of cryptocurrency history, a creative reimagining of the genesis of Bitcoin.

The real Satoshi Nakamoto actually referenced WikiLeaks several times on the Bitcoin Forum. After WikiLeaks floated the idea of accepting bitcoin donations in 2010, early Bitcoin users discussed the possibility on a thread titled "Wikileaks contact info?"

At the time, WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, were public enemy number 1 for their role in publishing classified documents about US involvement in the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan. Considering this, on December 5, 2010, Satoshi wrote: "I make this appeal to WikiLeaks not to try to use Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a small beta community in its infancy. You would not stand to get more than pocket change, and the heat you would bring would likely destroy us at this stage."

On December 11, 2010, he added: "WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us."

So, Wright's version of events can't necessarily be taken to contradict Satoshi's opinion of WikiLeaks or criminal activity, especially given the dearth of publicly available writings from Satoshi, who simply stopped posting anything past December 2010 (save a lone March 2014 post stating that he was not Dorian Nakamoto, the ).

But a corresponding tweet demonstrates that Wright is, in fact, attempting to rewrite history. As part of his bid to convince the world anew that he is (or "was" as he puts it at the end of his February 9 post) Satoshi Nakamoto, he tweeted screenshots of an apparent proposal called "Project BlackNet" that he says he filed with the Australian government in 2001.

The abstract uses some of the same language as the Bitcoin white paper. Proof? Not quite. As a reddit poster pointed out:

"[I]n this scam attempt he was not aware that Satoshi shared a draft of the Bitcoin whitepaper in august 2008. As we can see, there are plenty of corrections made in the final Bitcoin whitepaper compared to the draft. The fake 'Black Net' paper, which should've preceded the draft by a whopping 7 years, strangely also contains these same corrections."

Ironically, much of the legwork on collecting and analyzing those drafts was done by Gwern Branwen, who co-authored the now-infamous 2015 Wired article about Wright, "Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius."

Wright's tweet gave WikiLeaks ample opportunity to hit back against Wright. It did so today, February 12, by reminding people that this isn't the first time Wright's been caught up in a forgery dispute, posting:

It followed up with documentation from a GitHub repository called CultOfCraig dedicated, in part, to documenting his history of alleged forgery, which WikiLeaks claims to have independently verified. The document actually surfaced in February of last year. In it, Wright appears to have edited an August 2008 blog post to say he would "have a cryptocurrency paper out soon."

The Bitcoin white paper was released in October of that year, but even it did not use the term "cryptocurrency." Nor had Wei Dai, David Chaum, or Nick Szabo in their presentations of b-money, ecash, or bit gold, respectively. If it was a forgery, then, it was an anachronistic forgery.

Wright, however, remains undeterred, calling WikiLeaks "fake news." The website Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) disagrees. Instead, it finds, "[W]hile the material dumps are unaltered and not biased they have demonstrated a political agenda though the information they choose to dump, which some believe tends to favor Russia."

Elizabeth Lea Vos of Disobedient Media objects to the bent of that assessment, citing former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, who claims to have tried to leak official documents to WikiLeaks only to be refused "because they could not 100% verify them." (However, MBFC never questioned the veracity of the documents published by WikiLeaks.) Of Vos' site, MBFC says, "Overall, we rate Disobedient Media a strongly right biased conspiracy source, based on numerous examples of publishing information that is not conclusive or supported by evidence."

If that sounds like a digression, apologies. But distrust of media sources – and even the fact checkers that rate media sources – is part of what allows malevolent actors like Craig Wright to persist; get far enough down the rabbit hole and the truth becomes harder to make out. Now, Wright has gone so far as to suggest that WikiLeaks, which stands apart from traditional media structures by publishing directly, is fraudulent.

The finger-pointing and forgeries and cries of fake news, as fun as it all is, obscures Bitcoin's true beginnings and allows observers to reframe the narrative to fit their own leanings, just as Wright has done. There is an evidence trail of what actually happened, alright, but it's far from immutable.

Jeff Benson is Managing Editor of ETHNews. He's worked as a writer and editor everywhere from Sudan to Reno. He holds a bachelor's in politics from Willamette University and a master's in nationalism studies from University of Edinburgh. When he's not in the newsroom, he trots the globe and writes about it. He holds a bit of value in ETH.

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[mickeypamo]

#FreeAssangeVigil 51.1 w/ Elizabeth Lea Vos

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William H Binney Interviewed by Elizabeth Lea Vos

[commanderxanon]

Tweeted

A simultaneous computer crash for #Unity4J tech support means that we had to start a new livestream link, and the live audience was halved. Thank you all nonetheless for joining us this week. https://t.co/56N8VbRiyV

— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) May 24, 2019

[legionsecurity]

Tweeted

Amazing show of support at an ungodly hour in London, by intrepid vigil-goers on the ground at the Ecuadorian embassy: #NoExpulsion #ProtectJulian #Unity4J #FreeAssange #WikiLeaks #inapapersescorrupcion #INAPapers #LeninMoreno #FreePress #Journalism pic.twitter.com/a17vOlTGnX

— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) April 5, 2019

[localleaks]

Tweeted

Amazing show of support at an ungodly hour in London, by intrepid vigil-goers on the ground at the Ecuadorian embassy: #NoExpulsion #ProtectJulian #Unity4J #FreeAssange #WikiLeaks #inapapersescorrupcion #INAPapers #LeninMoreno #FreePress #Journalism pic.twitter.com/a17vOlTGnX

— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) April 5, 2019

[silas216]

http://twitter.com/silas216/status/1094787182630498304

"Have no heroes. Trust nobody but your own inner sense-maker... Don’t make a religion out of it, don’t get attached to it, just use it as a weapon to attack the narrative matrix." https://t.co/ivlNnjrmUY

— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) February 11, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/silas216 February 10, 2019 at 08:36PM via IFTTT

[anonymousglobalradio]

RT @ElizabethleaVos: I really appreciated that @CommanderXanon spoke directly to the victories #Unity4J has helped achieve, as well as the real danger of burnout if supporters don't practice kindness and compassion towards each other. Encouraged people to take ownership of history through ACTION. https://t.co/auWcoQh6zg

I really appreciated that @CommanderXanon spoke directly to the victories #Unity4J has helped achieve, as well as the real danger of burnout if supporters don't practice kindness and compassion towards each other. Encouraged people to take ownership of history through ACTION. https://t.co/auWcoQh6zg

— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) October 6, 2018

from Twitter https://twitter.com/AnonGlobalRadio

[helpsuzi3d-blog]

June 2nd, 2018: Suzie helps bring together over two dozen high profile Assange supporters for a groundbreaking online vigil in support of the WikiLeaks Editor In Chief

Full video of the first event available here! Don’t miss this fantastic coverage of the event by Suzie’s co-host Elizabeth Lea Vos, Editor in Chief of Disobedient Media 

[nitestar]

RT @ElizabethleaVos: Opinion: Is The Zeitgeist Finally Shifting In Favor Of Julian Assange? #ReconnectJulian #Unity4J #DefendWL #FreeAssange http://bit.ly/2JmRgn4

Opinion: Is The Zeitgeist Finally Shifting In Favor Of Julian Assange?#ReconnectJulian #Unity4J #DefendWL #FreeAssange https://t.co/8JjbZgjzX5

— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) June 9, 2018

via Twitter https://twitter.com/NiteStar June 10, 2018 at 04:36AM