Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

Re:Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Ar... by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:41AM (#21471509)

The real equivalency is that Saudi Arabia, Israel, the US, Russia, China, and - increasingly - the UK and other satellite states are now essentially extreme nationalist regimes with a far-right political slant and a fondness for various forms of violence.

The differences are more about superficial local colour than political dynamics, which are becoming depressingly consistent across the board.

It's becoming less and less surprising that there are high-level links between all of them which converge through the use of social media and other tools of influence.

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Re:Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Ar... by nostrebored on Thursday November 07, 2019 @04:28AM (#21471711)

Claiming Israel has a far right political stance is disingenuous. In terms of what? Geopolitical strategy? Economically they're definitely not on the right by any US standards.

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Re:Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Ar... by pms on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:45AM (#21473600)

He wrote "extreme nationalist regimes". I really hope that the Palestinian minority, which isn't really small and keeps growing, gets a say in Israeli politics after all these years of being totally sidelined by the majority. I don't see any other path to peace in that region.

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