“Lawsuit says network discloses user data at request of Saudi authorities at much higher rate than for US, UK and Canada”

      • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        The major connection of SA to twitter before Musk was Prince Alwaleed but it doesn’t add up because he was one of those being purged by MbS…

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      1 year ago

      No, but it establishes how useful a tool a Twitter you control is to crushing dissent. Which explains why they helped Musk buy it - as bad as Twitter’s previous management may have been, they at least tried to appear honorable. Musk is really leaning into the authoritarian bootlicker thing, so I’m sure he’s eager to get Tesla programmers in there to find new ways to hunt down dissidents.