Re:Twitter Suspends Dozens of Accounts of Venezuelan Officials
by deogeo on Thursday January 09, 2020 @01:20AM
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Twitter's executive for the Middle East is a British psyop officer, so it's hard to view Twitter as anything but a state-owned tool of control: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-pa...
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Re:Twitter Suspends Dozens of Accounts of Venezuelan Officials
by kmlx on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:47AM
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lol. he's a reservist. so are a lot of other people. they are allowed to have a private life.
if every reservist is part of your conspiracy theory of "state-owned" then i guess most corporations are "state-owned". which would be a surprise to the tens of millions of shareholders, the SEC, the FCC and many others.
Re:Twitter Suspends Dozens of Accounts of Venezuelan Officials
by elfexec on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:42AM
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There is a difference between a reservist and a psy-ops reservists. But yes, in general, you'd think and hope that reservists of a nation are biased towards their nation at the very least. I'm sure this guy is heavily biased towards britain and against venezuela, etc.
Would you respond the same way if a chinese or a russian reservist was a senior member of twitter's team? I highly doubt you be defending him so vigorously.
> then i guess most corporations are "state-owned"
Not necessarily "state-owned" but without a doubt the important companies are at the very least "state-influenced".