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by 737min 36 days ago
Yes but this is different - a Muslim country enforcing its own rules against an Islamist activist, and Meta complying.
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Then Meta can write "account disabled due to legal order by the Kuwait judiciary", or wherever the order came from, instead of hiding behind "Community Standards".

I see this all the time in such cases - deflections about the legality of censorship, to avoid the issue that they want to keep the censorship itself, or the source of it, secret. "They" in this case being Meta, unless they produce a legal order compelling them to deceive us.

Yes more clarity better. Here is summary of Kuwait laws

https://www.lawgratis.com/blog-detail/media-laws-at-kuwait