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The maquis is forming. There is a growing list of rogue Twitter accounts to do what the official ones can’t. The AltUSNatParkService one for instance:
The Unofficial “Resistance” team of U.S. National Park Service. Not taxpayer subsidised! Come for rugged scenery, fossil beds, 89 million acres of landscape
Obama enacted rules that federal agencies should have scientific integrity policies guaranteeing right of free speech for employees #climate
— NOT ALT WORLD (@NotAltWorld) January 25, 2017
It followed the gagging of some researchers and the altering of reports under the Bush administration. #climate
— NOT ALT WORLD (@NotAltWorld) January 25, 2017
An American government that ignores science to pursue ideological & corporate agendas endangers the world, now, and for future generations.
— NOT ALT WORLD (@NotAltWorld) January 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer/status/824310606555709443
The Palmer Report explains why Trump can’t do anything about this:
In his first days in office, Donald Trump has made a point of censoring and restricting what the National Park Service can and cannot say on its various official Twitter accounts. After the NPS tweeted photos of Trump’s small inauguration crowd, he temporarily suspended its Twitter privileges. And when the Badlands tweeted about climate change today, those tweets were then deleted. But now some unnamed individuals within the National Park Service have created an unofficial Twitter account that Trump can’t touch.
Trump doesn’t have the ability to shut down a Twitter account, or to suspend it from being usable; only Twitter the company would be able to do that. Instead he’s been sabotaging the National Park Service Twitter accounts by presumably threatening to fire people if they dare to tweet things he doesn’t like, or if they tweet during times when he’s put them in the penalty box. But he can only do that if he knows who’s tweeting.
When it comes to official Park Service accounts like @NatlParkService or @BadlandsNPS, specific employees have access to those accounts, so it’s easy for Trump to know who’s posting any tweets he doesn’t like — and whom to punish. So instead, Park Service employees whose identities are unknown have created an unofficial Twitter account at @AltNatParkSer.
Twitter can be poisonous, and it can be…this kind of thing.
The unofficial National Park Service account started six hours ago by reposting the Badlands tweets that had been deleted. It’s since continued posting all the climate change data it can find, and it’s been documenting Trump’s strange attempts at cracking down on the official accounts. This unofficial Twitter account has quickly gained ninety thousand followers (likely a lot more by the time you’re reading this), as Americans are flocking to the account to keep up with the real National Park Service news.
The @USGS has a full list of US agencies running climate change programmes. Could they ALL be wrong, Mr President? https://t.co/0oBI3dbyOj
— NOT ALT WORLD (@NotAltWorld) January 25, 2017
I stand with the @AltNatParkSer #resist pic.twitter.com/VxZK7MGHJc
— D.WITT (@DWITT75) January 25, 2017
Shit. Now I’m going to have to go on Twitter, aren’t I? I have avoided that totally. Another reason to hate Trump -he forced me to take that desperate step.
This is a much smarter idea for government employees. Don’t get yourself fired. Resign if you’re being forced to do something unethical, but otherwise stay in place and leak/dissent anonymously.
I recall Mr Trump being very much in favour of Wikileaks and even the hacking of top-level government email accounts. I will be very disappointed if he doesn’t remain true to his principles.
Myrhinne, no one is true to their principles once it hits their administration. Obama was really bad about prosecuting whistleblowers, in spite of his commitment to transparency. People hate to have other people know what they are doing when they try to hide it. And having power gives them the ability to make life miserable for people that tell their ‘secrets’.