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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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The Bahraini regime is effectively declaring war on social media platforms by literally criminalizing the following of certain accounts, and threatening residents with prosecution if they do. How will @Twitter react?
Please retweet. Twitter absolutely needs to respond.
Twitter should allow at-risk users to hide their follow/following lists. It's a matter of immediate safety if they're going to be arrested and charged based on who they follow or who's following them.
This is a *very* serious escalation in crushing free speech in the Arab region and the world. @Twitter absolutely needs to act or this model will be replicated across the world.
@Twitter If you allow them to do this without incident, @Twitter, it will be adopted across the Arab region. People who merely *follow* someone like me would be prosecuted. You *need* to act immediately.
.@Twitter needs to implement as soon as possible a feature that allows users to hide their following/follower list. This isn't just a vanity feature - it's literally necessary to keep people from going to jail for using Twitter.
@Twitter Currently you can hide your follower/following list by having a private account. It should be possible to hide it even if you don't have a private account.
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يا كمية خيانة النظام السعودي الحالي للأمة ولكل معاني وقيم الإسلام والإنسانية. يا كمية حقد محمد بن سلمان وأزلامه على الحرية والديمقراطية والحقوق والربيع. لن ننسى ولن نغفر، لا للطغاة ولا لأنعالهم.
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Last week they banned Aljazeera from the country. Then just last night they used brutal force to crush protester sit-in camps across Sudan. The protesters were unarmed, and committed to nonviolence. This happened in full view of the entire world. Nobody raised a finger.
You want to know why your bloody "Western values" are under threat? Because you're so fucking hypocritical about where and who you apply it to. If you weren't such huge fucking hypocrites, your values wouldn't be under threat.
There's half a billion human souls living in the MENA. We will not live under the boots of tyrants forever. We will never forget our friends, and will never forget our enemies. And we'll never forget the faces of those who stood by the sidelines as we were being crushed.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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Every journalist, analyst, politician, and awakened citizen in the world needs to keep their eyes on Sudan. If its military council decides to commit a massacre in order to disperse a nonviolent sit-in, do not pretend you didn't know.
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