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Re:Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor ... by Thorrez on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:03AM (#24351054)
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman paid Twitter employees to spy on dissidents. He was also the guy that ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. One of the spied-on dissidents was a friend of Khashoggi.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

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Re:Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor ... by sangnoir on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:29AM (#24354171)
1. MBS was not elected - a qualifier I included intentionally.

2. What Twitter would have needed was a counter-intelligence analyst (reactive), as opposed to Amazon's proactive intelligence post. Now that I've written it out, what twitter needed was better security - not COINTEL.

3. If companies start dabbling with intelligence and counter-intelligence against political actors directly (instead of offloading to state apparatus like the FBI), then we are reaching Deus Ex levels of Dystopia

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