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Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE

https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190
88•giuliomagnifico•47m ago

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skeledrew•16m ago
Well, it's that or the accounts get removed completely. Sometimes you have to pick your fight, and this doesn't look like one that's worth it.
p-e-w•11m ago
Not true, there’s a third option: Stop operating in those countries. Which used to be a common choice for tech companies, until it somehow became unthinkable for some reason.
strictnein•9m ago
Is it better for human rights for a channel of communication to exist only if every single person can use it? Or is it a net positive for these communication channels to exist, albeit in an imperfect form?
microtonal•6m ago
Meta has also been regularly nuking/blocking rights-related accounts in countries that do support human rights.

E.g. in The Netherlands. First they did a mass block last December, then again in April:

https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/237924/meta-verwijdert-instagra...

Some were reinstated again, but not all and not after they have been offline for to long.

ZetsuBouKyo•5m ago
Operating in these countries helps gather information in them.
dfxm12•7m ago
This is a false dichotomy, especially in light of the article mentioning that Twitter hasn't blocked accounts that KSA asked them to block.
graemep•16m ago
The title should read "Saudi Arabia". Cutting a country name in half (unless its an accepted way of abbreviating it) is not a good say of modifying a headline. What is next? Zealand ?
b40d-48b2-979e•13m ago
Arabia existed before the Saudis. It will exist after.
esquivalience•10m ago
Yes, but it means something different to the name of the country. It means a region.
BeetleB•10m ago
Geographically Arabia is more than just Saudi Arabia, so the title is inaccurate.
ImJamal•7m ago
While true, they mentioned another country on the Arabian peninsula so you could assume it is the country.
some_furry•14m ago
Disappointing but not surprising. This is what happens when you're a billion dollar company and your ethical bone is tied to "we fully comply with the law". You get compliance by default, even if doing so would exacerbate human rights abuses.
anonym29•14m ago
I look forward to the day that society finally decides to hold Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Apple etc accountable for their transgressions against humanity.

Some say it will never happen, but they said that about the now-dying tobacco industry, too.

b3lvedere•12m ago
M.A.M.A knows what's best.
osullish•12m ago
Man f*k Meta, such a scummy company - they're letting go up to 350 staff here in Ireland and advertising it as bottom 10% performers - now not only are people made redundant, but in a small market like here in Ireland they're outed as a poor performers. Screw this scummy company - I wish I could get my friends to stop using WhatsApp
jmye•6m ago
> now not only are people made redundant, but in a small market like here in Ireland they're outed as a poor performers.

I don't know - I've said before, but the bigger red flag to me would be either that they worked for Meta at all, or that they didn't leave of their own accord. Any big tech company pretending someone was let go, as part of a mass lay-off, for performance reasons is generally going to rate as about as truthful as saying it's "because of AI", if I'm looking at hiring.

Not to erase that Meta is an absolutely shitty company run by a literal ghoul enabled by tens of thousands of "people" who are happy to make giving teenage girls depression in return for ad clicks their entire life's work.

ktm5j•10m ago
Do folks have a suggestion for a Facebook alternative? I'm about fed up with the state of things, but still want to feel connected to social circles (even if they're online only) and politics (ideally without the hate spam bots).
outside1234•6m ago
Bluesky
rvz•8m ago
"principles", "Big Tech", "morals", "money", "ethics" and "I work at a big tech company" are all oxymorons.
nalekberov•7m ago
That or they will be blocked completely.

Who's naive enough to think that big corporations like Meta would care about human rights?

0x5FC3•7m ago
Social media companies post record earnings year after year from their ads business while increasingly proving to be harmful to society. They do the bare minimum in terms of content moderation and bots while priming the algorithms to maximize revenue. The good ol' privatized profits, socialized harm model.

In a just world, would social media platforms be taxed higher on corporate revenue and how would that pan out? Maybe we'll be left with small federated platforms without algorithms and ads.

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