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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 almost 400 million users

Elon is more dangerous to human rights than the Saudi government (partially) owning Twitter?

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Saudi investors with 5% share is pretty far from "complete control" though?

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-employee...

Yes? What control do you think their low single digit percentage ownership gave them over day to day operations of Twitter?

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. "

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