Ahmed Alaa was imprisoned for flying the rainbow flag in Egypt
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Ahmed Alaa dreams of becoming a captain, navigating ships on the open seas.
“It’s something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid,” the 25-year-old tells SBS News. “It’s a way of escaping, just being in the ocean.
It’s a sense of freedom that Ahmed longs for, something he last felt in September 2017 when he raised the rainbow flag - a symbol of LGBTIQ+ pride - at a rock concert in his home city of Cairo, Egypt s capital.
He was watching the Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead singer is openly gay and performs songs in support of sexual and gender diversity.
Facebook under fire over moves in Australia to ‘bully democracy’
Politicians and news providers in the UK and US have condemned the site after it blocked access to Australian media content
By Archie Bland,
Amanda Meade
and Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian
Politicians, news providers and civil society groups in the UK and US have rounded on Facebook and said the company’s decision to block all media content on its platform in Australia should hasten moves to bring its powers under control.
In a step condemned as “an attempt to bully a democracy” and “threatening to bring an entire country to its knees,” Facebook stopped its 18 million Australian users from viewing or sharing news stories overnight in an escalating row over whether it should have to pay media companies for its content. It said the new rules “ignore the realities” of its relationship with news publishers.
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Facebook is under fire in Australia after it blocked news content due to their ongoing tiff with the government over a new media code that would result in the social media giant paying local media outlets for news content. Facebook has said such a move is not acceptable as the proposed code “fundamentally fails to understand” how its services work. But there is growing anger among officials at the social media giant’s response, with Western.
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