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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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[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago
[-] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Alghamdi's brother, Saeed Alghamdi, believes the case against his younger brother is actually meant to target him. Saeed Alghamdi is a well-known Islamic scholar connected to many of the kingdom's most prominent jailed critics. He left Saudi Arabia in 2013 and founded the Saudi rights group, SANAD. He now lives in exile in the United Kingdom.

Not clear its because of the Tweet

[-] Wookie@artemis.camp 29 points 2 years ago

Maybe that’s why the title says Twitter and not Elon…

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yet all of the comments at the time I made my OP were going on about Elon like he did this.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it's almost like the Saudis fucking funded a huge portion of the funds phony stark used to buy twit. How about you stop cherry picking?

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[-] silvercove@lemdro.id 13 points 2 years ago

And this should stop us from talking about this?

[-] FatTony@discuss.online 4 points 2 years ago

Would you all read the fucking article?

Never, it's my greatest fear on the entire internet.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago

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...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

I guess their investment in Elon paid off.

[-] sab@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

See my link elsewhere in the thread. This hasn't stopped.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Alghamdi's brother, Saeed Alghamdi, believes the case against his younger brother is actually meant to target him. Saeed Alghamdi is a well-known Islamic scholar connected to many of the kingdom's most prominent jailed critics. He left Saudi Arabia in 2013 and founded the Saudi rights group, SANAD. He now lives in exile in the United Kingdom.

From your article, its not clear the Tweets causted

[-] herrwoland@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

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

[-] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] Vega@feddit.it 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] heterophobe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

white people love telling people in 3rd world countries living under oppressive governments to "just start a revolution"

[-] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Would you rather go back to white people invading third world countries? That's the alternative. I sure don't want that, you're a shitty person if you do.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

OH so it's totally cool for America to resume playing world police? literally cannot fucking win lmao

how naive can you get?

[-] woshang@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ours@lemmy.film 15 points 2 years ago

And Kashoggi got baited and chopped to bits by the Saudis over financing opposing voices on Twitter.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

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 10 points 2 years ago
[-] Palerider@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

So, would that be pronounced "Shitter"?

Seems apt.

[-] deft@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 years ago

I think the same but for many political happenings.

[-] dilan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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/

[-] pureness@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I've been using Mastodon for over a year with no trouble and digging it. The best part is no ads or algorithm bs

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Muskrat has to pay back them loans somehow.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This is about Twitter during 2014 and 2015, long before Elon

[-] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I stand by what I said.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] dilan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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!

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This is about Twitter during 2014 and 2015, long before Elon

[-] ameliawilliams@leminal.space 11 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I deleted mine the day he took over.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 2 years ago

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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[-] drdabbles@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

That took much less time than I expected.

[-] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, only 9 years to get caught and brought public.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is about Twitter during 2014 and 2015, long before Elon

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[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Why am I not suprised

FUCK MUSK AND FUCK SPEZ

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This is about Twitter during 2014 and 2015, long before Elon

[-] dilan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 2 years ago

how is this news?? everyone knows twitter is now partially owned by the saudis specifically for the purpose of its dismantlement. elon gets to have his fun shitting on liberals, trying all the fever dream-business-nonsense he either knows wont work or people have never let him do before.. because he doesnt care! the goal is its demise, and the saudis financed it.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is from Twitter 2014 and 2015

[-] avater@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

No, Twitter in 2014 and 2015

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

One more point to the fediverse.

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