A friend asked if I’d join their session at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (“building back better and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs”).

I already had grave reservations about the UN after hearing a talk on the SDGs where they said “we should stand aside and let the tech companies solve big problems” but I thought, “let’s give it the benefit of the doubt.”

Guess who their main sponsor is? Yep, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Nope!

#WSIS #UN #whitewashing #SaudiArabia

@aral The UN is worse than useless because it's taking up the space where an association of democracies could be.

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Not to mention that in UN Security Council only 5 nations have veto power.

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