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Twitter Suspends Dozens of Accounts of Venezuelan Officials

• thatiscool 7y ago
  No more free speech? or just hypocrisy?
• im3w1l 7y ago
  Foreign policy guys calling the shots now? Would be hilarious if they jumped to the fediverse.
• deogeo 7y ago
  Twitter's executive for the Middle East is a British psyop officer, so it's hard to view Twitter as anything but a state-owned tool of control: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-part-time-officer-uk-army-psychological-warfare-unit https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-pa...
  • kmlx 7y ago
    lol. he's a reservist. so are a lot of other people. they are allowed to have a private life. if every reservist is part of your conspiracy theory of "state-owned" then i guess most corporations are "state-owned". which would be a surprise to the tens of millions of shareholders, the SEC, the FCC and many others.
    • elfexec 7y ago
      There is a difference between a reservist and a psy-ops reservists. But yes, in general, you'd think and hope that reservists of a nation are biased towards their nation at the very least. I'm sure this guy is heavily biased towards britain and against venezuela, etc. Would you respond the same way if a chinese or a russian reservist was a senior member of twitter's team? I highly doubt you be defending him so vigorously. > then i guess most corporations are "state-owned" Not necessarily "state-owned" but without a doubt the important companies are at the very least "state-influenced".
• sasasassy 7y ago
  That is a very biased article. All the individuals mentioned are already under sanctions by most of the world, and anyone outside of Venezuela would say the Maduro government is criminal.