Twitter sued for allegedly conspiring with Saudi Arabia government to shut down dissenting voices
Reclaim the Net
Didi Rankovic
July 1, 2020
Twitter is being sued for allegedly conspiring with Saudi authorities by blocking accounts of its critics, a law firm handling the case on behalf of the plaintiff has announced.
Ali al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, is the one behind the lawsuit that contains allegations of unauthorized access to his content on the platform. Al-Ahmed, a Saudi scholar, lost his citizenship and had to seek asylum in the US after supposedly exposing “major news stories such as the Pentagon’s botched translation of the 9-11 Bin Laden tape and the video of Daniel Pearl’s murder.”
And in addition to reportedly facing kidnapping and assassination attempts, Al-Ahmed and a number of his followers also faced censorship and deplatforming on Twitter.
The Institute for Gulf Affairs is a rights group based in Washington DC, while the law cited in the suit against Twitter is the Stored Communications Act. This legislation is meant to shore up US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment rights when it comes to wire and electronic communications and transactional records.
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