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

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.

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...

Fuck Twitter for doing that, but how about we also keep Saudis responsible for the crimes they're committing? just saying

Just for you guys to know, a Saudi teacher got death sentence over tweets, reported form last week.

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.

X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes.

Elon did not get any lesson from the Saudi man's death at all. Its so important for people to remain anonymous in the digital world.

Try this: http://wiremin.org/

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.

I guess their investment in Elon paid off.

Muskrat has to pay back them loans somehow.

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

This is why personal privacy & nyms are important. We need to leave those platforms that collect our identity info, there is no privacy at all!

Twitter is not the right place for free speech, It's so hilarious that Elon says, 'Twitter is for free speech!

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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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 remember during the Arab Spring when everyone was saying how great twitter was and how it was fueling the revolts

Very disgusting of the website.

That took much less time than I expected.

Typical Musk Monday

twitter is still a platform for cunts. End of story.

Why am I not suprised

FUCK MUSK AND FUCK SPEZ

Free speech absolutist, but only when it's straight up harmful.

One more point to the fediverse.