Mohammed Bin Orwell: Saudi Arabia criminalizes online satire

[hater]

:lmao Western mainstream media called Mohammed Bin Retard a “reformist” :lmao

Reforming Saudi all the way to 1984 :lmao

https://twitter.com/afp/status/1037048399453937665?s=21

https://twitter.com/mailonline/status/1037211335849897985?s=21

[hater]

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1037511959942508544?s=21

[boutons_deux]

JeBo and Ingraham want "small/deregulated govt" to regulate social media, Google, unless social media, google start limiting anti-Repug, anti-oligarchy info.

[in2deep]

JeBo and Ingraham want "small/deregulated govt" to regulate social media, Google, unless social media, google start limiting anti-Repug, anti-oligarchy info.

Yes but facebook, google already being regulated by Atlantic Council. A NATO thinktank.

its already happening. Today

[Winehole23]

Yes but facebook, google already being regulated by Atlantic Council. A NATO thinktank.

its already happening. TodayGoogle and FB voluntarily taking advice from a thinktank isn't equipollent to government regulation, in fact it's exactly the sort of step a company would take to avoid direct regulation.

[in2deep]

Google and FB voluntarily taking advice from a thinktank isn't equipollent to government regulation, in fact it's exactly the sort of step a company would take to avoid direct regulation.

Exactly why they did it this way:

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc/status/997207109048717313?s=21

[in2deep]

In a new project Facebook insists is a completely objective and nonpartisan effort to root out what it deems “disinformation,” the social media giant announced (https://twitter.com/facebook/status/997107024558264320) on Thursday that it is partnering with the Atlantic Council — a prominent Washington-based think-tank funded by Saudi Arabia, major oil companies, defense contractors, and Charles Koch — to prevent its platform from “being abused during elections.”

[in2deep]

And yet as a new Reuters report confirms (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber/u-s-think-tanks-tiny-lab-helps-facebook-battle-fake-social-media-idUSKBN1KS22N), Facebook is now itself a top donor to the Atlantic Council, alongside Western governments, Gulf autocratic regimes, NATO, various branches of the US military, and a number of major defense contractors and corporations.
What’s more is that the team of four total individuals running the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR Lab) is headed by a former National Security Council advisor for the last four years of the Obama administration, Graham Brookie, who is also its founder.
Apparently the group’s work has already been instrumental in Facebook taking action against over two dozen “suspicious pages” flagged potential foreign actors such as Russia. According to Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber/u-s-think-tanks-tiny-lab-helps-facebook-battle-fake-social-media-idUSKBN1KS22N):

Facebook is using the group to enhance its investigations of foreign interference. Last week, the company said it took down 32 suspicious pages and accounts that purported to be run by leftists and minority activists. While some U.S. officials said they were likely the work of Russian agents, Facebook said it did not know for sure.
This is indeed the shocking key phrase included in the report:“Facebook said it did not know for sure.” And yet the accounts were removed anyway.

https://theantimedia.com/atlantic-council-facebook-nato/