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Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by merridew@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is pre-xitter

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

So, would that be pronounced "Shitter"?

Seems apt.

[–] deft@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 year ago

I think the same but for many political happenings.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But now they have the fediverse which is arguably a lot better than some corporate proprietary crap that censors anything revolutionary

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But now they have the fediverse which is arguably a lot better than some corporate proprietary crap that censors anything revolutionary

but it has a very limited audience, and that probably won't change any time soon

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

True. I imagine in a few years there will at least be a few million spread across the whole fediverse.