In Egypt, one of the biggest official newspaper Al-Ahram positively reported Abbas's ban. “His country’s government—with the cooperation of two of the world’s biggest social media platforms—finally got its way,” writes Jillian C York in her new book, Silicon Values: The future of free speech under surveillance capitalism. Silicon Values traces the haphazard and chaotic creation of the speech principles that now govern the platforms billions of us use to communicate every day – demonstrating the patchwork influences of governments, campaigners, and the public on the complex and often arbitrary-seeming content rules that fluctuate wildly by jurisdiction.