{"id":1991,"date":"2018-11-03T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:19:00","slug":"nsa-blocks-antipolygraph-org-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/03\/nsa-blocks-antipolygraph-org-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Blocks AntiPolygraph.org on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NSA (@NSAgov) has blocked AntiPolygraph.org (@ap_org) from following and viewing the NSA’s tweets:<\/p>\n

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Screen shot of the NSA’s Twitter profile as viewed from AntiPolygraph.org’s Twitter account, 3 November 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Curious about what may have prompted this action, we used Google to search twitter.com for matches including both “ap_org” and “NSAGov.” We found two replies that we posted to tweets the NSA made on 9 July 2018. Here is the first reply<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And here is the second reply<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We have asked the NSA to explain why they blocked us and will share their reply with an update here when received:<\/p>\n

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Update (12 November 2018):<\/strong> The NSA has not responded to our inquiry and continues to block AntiPolygraph.org on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n

Update (17 February 2020):<\/strong> The NSA has recently unblocked AntiPolygraph.org on Twitter, after having blocked us throughout 2019. The NSA never responded to our inquiry regarding the reason for the block.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NSA (@NSAgov) has blocked AntiPolygraph.org (@ap_org) from following and viewing the NSA’s tweets: Curious about what may have prompted this action, we used Google to search twitter.com for matches including both “ap_org” and “NSAGov.” We found two replies that we posted to tweets the NSA made on 9 July 2018. Here is the first …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[87],"class_list":{"0":"post-1991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-nsa","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}