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>Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter highlights the risks to human rights and personal safety when any single person has complete control over policies affecting al

• paxys 5y ago
  Yes? What control do you think their low single digit percentage ownership gave them over day to day operations of Twitter?
  • tempnow987 5y ago
    Interesting seeing the Saudi defenses here. The reality is their staff looked up people's personal info to dox them. This was concerning because they were willing to kill people who said bad stuff about the Saudi's. Claiming elon is going to snoop through twitter to try and kill people is ridiculous. That was what TWITTER (corporate version) allowed to happen. "Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi citizen — was accused of accessing the personal information of more than 6,000 Twitter accounts in 2015 on behalf of Saudi Arabia. "
• thulle 5y ago
  Saudi investors with 5% share is pretty far from "complete control" though?
  • LegitShady 5y ago
    the saudis had actual employees in twitter looking at people's private info and passing it along to them, and the US dropped charges so people sued instead https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21345794/twitter-employees-saudi-arabia-spies-charges-dropped-case-dismissed https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21345794/twitter-employee...