Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica

Re:Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica by colejohnson66 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:59PM (#25458197)

I think the idea is that if Facebook cut off all access, more people would be aware of what was happening and push the government to reinstate it. It could be construed as “bullying but through the populous” depending on who you ask.

The big problem with the “cutting them off” strategy is: if it’s a dictatorship, the people may not push back for fear of death

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Re:Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica by stickfigure on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:34PM (#25458643)

Why should Facebook cut off access, instead of simply ignoring the local laws? As a US citizen I honestly couldn't care less if the content of my website is criminal in Iran or Saudi Arabia.

As long as Facebook doesn't have employees or servers in that jurisdiction, it should ignore the laws of that jurisdiction. Let that country put up its own firewall.

What's probably happening here is that Twitter/FB/etc are afraid of that firewall threat. That's just spineless.

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Re:Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica by bostik on Thursday December 17, 2020 @02:28PM (#25459329)

> As a US citizen I honestly couldn't care less if the content of my website is criminal in Iran or Saudi Arabia.

Doesn't need to be criminal, inconvenient is enough. Jamal Khashoggi's family should know.

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Re:Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica by _carbyau_ on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:15PM (#25462663)

Or pretty much anyone who puts up pictures of a certain Prophet.

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