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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 15:42:26 JST Aral Balkan

   The people who own X are sentencing people to death based on their posts.

   https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/29/saudi-arabia-man-sentenced-death-tweets

   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake

   #x #twitter #musk #saudiArabia

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 16:28:26 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • European Commission

     Dear @EU_Commission,

     If I own a social media network and sentence some of the people who post on it to death, will I be allowed to keep operating in the EU?

     Asking for Twitter/X and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

     https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/29/saudi-arabia-man-sentenced-death-tweets

     https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake

     #twitter #x #saudi #saudiArabia #eu #humanRights

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 17:37:50 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • C.Suthorn :prn:

     @Life_is - That’s not my own social network, that’s my own Mastodon instance of one. It’s non-commercial and thus out of scope even under the current Chat Control draft legislation.

     - Chat Control is not a done deal. Folks are fighting it.

     - We are building the Small Web and Small Web places should also be out of scope even if Chat Control passes and even if they’re somehow deemed not out of scope, we would not be adding any feature that compromises people’s human rights.

   • C.Suthorn :prn: (life_is@no-pony.farm)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 17:37:51 JST C.Suthorn :prn:

     in reply to

     @aral

     You own a social media network (mastodon.ar.al) that operates in the EU and will therefore become subject to #ChatControl (like Apple, making its withdrawal from scanning devices obsolete). Will you close your network once ChatControl becomes law?

     https://chaos.social/@andre_meister/110988615769071342

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 17:41:06 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • C.Suthorn :prn:

     @Life_is We left our homes because of what we believe in, I won’t be compromising our values or the integrity of what we’re building for any unjust laws. Unjust laws are made to be broken. And if we need to break them, we will. Here’s hoping it doesn’t have to come to that.

     https://ar.al/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/

     https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/