Worried About Prince Al Waleed’s Stake in Twitter?

Jillian York says you shouldn’t be:

Twitter genuinely does have an excellent track record when it comes to free speech: They’ve stood up to the US government, the UK government, and individual users who abuse the site’s report functions. Sure, they make mistakes–they’re hardly perfect–but compare Twitter’s track record on expression to that of Facebook, Yahoo, Google, or Microsoft and they’ll come out on top every time

There are other very good reasons that she mentions as well. It’s all convincing on an intellectual level and she’s most probably right. But on a visceral level it just feels wrong that so much Saudi money is being poured into Twitter..