Re:Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica
by wreath on Thursday December 17, 2020 @02:23PM
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Tunisia seems to be the only country that had at least one thing positive out of the arab spring, which is a better level of democracy (already had 3 democratic elections in the past decade). Perhaps Tunisia isn't as diverse as Egypt, Libya or worse, Syria in terms of tribes or religious sects and I'd attribute that to its success.
The vaunted Arab Spring in this plea had a pretty mixed outcome. Libya is a messs, Egypt ended up with another dictator after overthrowing a democratically elected organization (which the west didnt want, but was the only viable party after the same said west pushed for quick elections), and Syria ended up with a civil war, ISIS and same regime after every western and digital platform insisted for years that the regime was on its last legs.
The only platform that didn’t restrict Trump was twitter. Even (most of) Fox opposed him until it was clear he was going to mop up the primaries. He may be mainstream now, but the states and platforms have closed that loophole for now.