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Tech Giants Accused Of Aiding Foreign Leaders To Spy On Citizens & The Push To Regulate Social Media
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Via America’s Lawyer: Several tech companies have been accused of aiding foreign governments who are attempting to stifle dissents in their countries. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins to discuss more. Plus, several attorneys general push to regulate social media platforms, alleging they are manipulating free speech. Legal journalist Mollye Barrows joins Mike Papantonio to discuss.
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Several tech, tech companies have been accused of aiding foreign governments who are attempting to stifle dissent in the countries. This, this is awful. This is the worst. I mean, this is the worst I think I could say. Twitter, you take the story. Twitter.
Yeah, a Twitter employee who left back in 2015, but for several years had been working, being bribed essentially by the Saudi Arabian government, because they had come and done a tour of Twitter headquarters. They met this guy and they worked out an agreement with him through emails and secret phone calls for him to provide information on political dissidents, anyone criticizing Saudi Arabia, this guy who worked at Twitter, he has dual US and Lebanese citizenship.
He was given.
I'm searching for his name because it's very difficult to pronounce.
Yeah, $300,000. Well, the point is he was given $300,000.
Right. And he would send a here, here's their location. Here was their last IP address. So that the government could do, I don't know, maybe whatever it is the Saudi Arabian government has been known to do.
Well.
To dissidents.
Yeah.
And that is terrifying and this employee of Twitter, aided and abetted it. He's now facing 23 criminal counts.
Emails, addresses, phone numbers, data over everything that's being transmitted by, by these dissidents. And you don't think the Royal family is going to deal with that? You know that, Twitter cannot, Twitter cannot sit back and say, it's okay.
Right.
This is one hell of a lawsuit and somebody needs to pull that trigger because this, matter of fact, the Yahoo, the Yahoo case is a, is another example. Yahoo is the same thing. Yahoo, a friend of mine is actually handled that case, a guy named Mark Lanier, a very good trial lawyer and he's going to bust them up. Tell, talk about this story.
Yeah, this one it's very similar. You had survivors of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, who had been criticizing the Chinese government outside of the country. Yahoo comes in and says, hey, China, we want to be allowed in your country. You don't allow us right now. So what if we give you the names of dissidents? What if we tell you where these people are in exchange for being allowed to operate in China? China says, okay, that's a great idea. Yahoo starts feeding them all of this information about these dissidents. This one in particular, he was rounded up, driven 50 hours.
Black site.
Deprived of sleep, torture, all kinds of horrendous actions because Yahoo made it happen.
Yeah, well there's no question Yahoo actually had a deal. What they were trying to do is expand, it was all about money, Farron.
Yeah.
It's all about money. We'll help you, China, if you will help us expand. We'll help you, China, if you will do A, B and C. There's an arms length transaction and the folks, the leadership, the very top, the owners, the CEOs of Yahoo said this, we're going to allow to happen. This guy spends two years in prison. He gets out of prison. They arrest him again. They burn his house down. They threaten his family. They take a couple of them off and threaten them. This guy's brought a lawsuit, I just can't wait to see the result. Bodily, you know, he has a loss of bodily functions. He has disfigurement. The damages are huge in this case and I don't, you know what, I know the players involved here. I know Mark very well. He tries cases with me. He's gonna, he's gonna rock their world and maybe, maybe somebody will get it. Huh?
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