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That depends on your perspective. I support the intentions of the Arab Spring, but I still think it's inherently nefarious for a private technology company to p
by Mizza 7y ago
That depends on your perspective. I support the intentions of the Arab Spring, but I still think it's inherently nefarious for a private technology company to partner with the US government in order to overthrow governments. I also seriously doubt that they were simply sitting idly by and hoping that the revolution went their way, as we now see that most all world governments have their own online propaganda divisions.
- lonelappde 7y agoWould it be nefarious if the State Department asked Twitter to stay open during a hurricane? Or on Election Day?
- Mizza 7y agoI think a better question would be: Would it be nefarious if the State Department asked Twitter to stay open during Pinochet's coup of Salvador Allende?
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- pvg 7y agoIt's a long way from postponing scheduled downtime to 'partnering with the US government in order to overthrow governments'. I don't have any difficult seeing how someone could view the former as nefarious but they aren't the same thing.
- jolmg 7y agoYou mean the latter not the former.
- pvg 7y agoNo, I mean what I wrote. I don’t have to agree with it but there are plenty of people who think cooperation, however indirect, with a US foreign policy goal is bad. It’s a viewpoint. Calling a thing something that it isn’t is not a viewpoint, it’s just wrong.
- jolmg 7y agoI think perhaps you misunderstood me? You're saying: > I don't have any [difficulty] seeing how someone could view [postponing scheduled downtime] as nefarious but they aren't the same thing. Didn't you instead mean the following? > I don't have any [difficulty] seeing how someone could view [partnering with the US government in order to overthrow governments] as nefarious but they aren't the same thing. Or maybe you did mean that postponing scheduled downtime looks nefarious to some. It just seemed like a weird thing to say compared to the other option.
- pvg 7y agomaybe you did mean that postponing scheduled downtime looks nefarious to some You got it.
- Gibbon1 7y ago> I support the intentions of the Arab Spring Difficulty those intentions aren't the same as Saudi Arabia's or the gulf states. Nor the State Department's.