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“Lawsuit says network discloses user data at request of Saudi authorities at much higher rate than for US, UK and Canada”
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Not surprising to anyone who remembers that the saudis gave Elon the money needed to buy Twitter. Naturally they have an anti democratic interest in it
The article isn’t about Musk
Correct. This is largely for a time pre Musk.
Lol I’m being downvoted. That’s hilarious
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…
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.
Would you all read the fucking article? Yes, Elon sucks and is tanking Twitter, but all this is from stuff that happened in 2015, long before he bought Twitter.
They’re still putting people to death because of tweets.
Maybe that’s why the title says Twitter and not Elon…
Yet all of the comments at the time I made my OP were going on about Elon like he did this.
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And this should stop us from talking about this?
No. Look at all the comments though. Everyone is blaming Musk for it when the lawsuit is actually about the company before he bought it.
EM used Saudi money to buy the shithole and you think they won’t want something in return?
They certainly don’t expect to be paid in profits…
The lawsuit is against Jack Dorsey.
You’re ruining the circlejerk >:(
I guess their investment in Elon paid off.
Retroactively, in 2015?
See my link elsewhere in the thread. This hasn’t stopped.
Elon buying Twitter in the first place (with plans to openly destroy it) was helping them commit rights abuses in the first place - Twitter was a critical communications/organization tool during the Arab Spring, musk’s job was in part to make sure that it wasn’t sustainable for that purpose in the future, and it now isn’t.
This has been the main thing all along.
This is pre-xitter
So, would that be pronounced “Shitter”?
Seems apt.
But now they have the fediverse which is arguably a lot better than some corporate proprietary crap that censors anything revolutionary
I think the same but for many political happenings.
At this point, it wouldn’t be anywhere near surprising if any of the major social media giants from any country were aiding human rights abuses in any country.
Fuck Twitter for doing that, but how about we also keep Saudis responsible for the crimes they’re committing? just saying
They’re a sovereign nation. What are we gonna do, launch a military invasion? And it’s not like sanctions are a realistic solution, either; the west is far more dependent on Saudi oil than the Saudis are on western money. The world is chock full of other customers that will be more than happy to step up.
Yes, pretty much everything the Saudis do is abhorrent, but unless you’re suggesting that the answer to their crimes is to commit even worse crimes against them, you’re just flailing around spouting off impotent virtue signals.
Just like in any other country, the only legitimate way to solve the problem of govenment corruption and oppression is for the people of that country to force a regime change.
I don’t understand the downvotes. I do not concur with the end for a lot of reasons, but this is a legitimate answer to the comment before
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The new legal filing comes days after Human Rights Watch condemned a Saudi court for sentencing a man to death based solely on his Twitter and YouTube activity, which it called an “escalation” of the government’s crackdown on freedom of expression.
After Abouammo resigned in May 2015, he continued to contact Twitter to field requests he was receiving from Bader al-Asaker, a senior aide of Mohammed bin Salman, for the identity of confidential users.
The lawsuit also alleges that Twitter had “ample notice” of security risks to internal personal data, and that there was a threat of insiders illegally accessing it, based on public reporting at the time.
Between July and December 2015, Twitter granted the kingdom information requests “significantly more often” than most other countries at that time, including Canada, the UK, Australia, and Spain, the lawsuit alleges.
Twitter would later notify users who had been exposed, telling them their data “may” have been targeted, but did not provide more specific information about the scale or certainty that the breach had, in fact, occurred.
Dorsey met with bin Salman about six months after the company was made aware of the issue by the FBI, and the two discussed how to “train and qualify Saudi cadres”.
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Very disgusting of the website.
twitter is still a platform for cunts. End of story.
It centers on the events surrounding the infiltration of the California company by three Saudi agents, two of whom were posing as Twitter employees in 2014 and 2015, which ultimately led to the arrest of al-Sadhan’s brother, Abdulrahman, and the exposure of the identity of thousands of anonymous Twitter users, some of whom were later reportedly detained and tortured as part of the government’s crackdown on dissent.
The cost of non-private social media
Free speech absolutist, but only when it’s straight up harmful.
One more point to the fediverse.
Muskrat has to pay back them loans somehow.
I stopped using Twitter when Musk took over. I kept my account for a while but recently I logged in, saw a bunch of alt-right transphobia and racism, and then deleted my account.
I deleted mine the day he took over.
