This is because Saudi prince Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud is the second largest shareholder in Twitter. This little tid bit is never mentioned.
https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/
MBS arrested him and forced Prince Alwaleed to give him $6Billion dollars. As of January 27, 2018, he was removed from the billionaire’s list in Saudi.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-waleed-bin-talal.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-14/prince-alwaleed-moved-highest-security-saudi-prison-after-refusing-pay-6-billion
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-alwaleed-bin-talal.html
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/03/investing/prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-deezer/index.html
The CNN report says that the Prince’s company, Kingdom Holdings, still holds some shares in Twitter. No one says how much anymore!
Let us bow to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Obama was trashed for not bowing down fast enough when the King died there the other year.
Donald Trump visited them and I hope that “sword dance” he did with them is just to play games with them and not to bow down.
https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/
Wow! You mean government censorship is behind this? Interesting. I've been told that was unpossible, because twitter is a private company.