It's hard to keep your bearings when you don't understand the work you're plagiarizing

These stories are just put up to try to fool you into thinking your privacy isn't raped every which way already.
Is slashdot really forgetting about the Snowden files?

EVERYthing EVERYbody does is monitored and recorded and analyzed. All of the big companies are in on it along with the federal government/military. If you know about the content of the Snowden files and still think they aren't mining this data to create propaganda through their media cronies you are MENTALLY RETARDED.

WELL THANK GOD you do that, I bet the millions of kids being brainwashed by hand-picked stimulus will follow your example, taking into account how FUCKING COOL you are

PROBLEM SOLVED EVERYBODY, it's just a matter of exercising our discretion on an individual/familial scale, it will all sort itself out from here.

You're looking at this from the point of an adult trying to rationalize something aberrant and horrible.
"Oh it's just those popular kids excluding the losers (like me), as usual"
Stop being such a pusillanimous coward.

Twitter is for kids. It's a tool to influence the most easily influenceable.
This 'blue checkmark' signals MORALITY to kids. They are being BRAINWASHED, trained on a narrow set of stimulus that directly factors into their judgement of society.

DO SOMETHING YOU FAT LAZY BASTARD

"We're just going to ban everyone well-known we don't like so the Official Seal of Certified Politically Correct Drone-hood essentially maintains the same meaning"