Nine luxury worldwide hotels owned by Brunei have either shut down their social media accounts or made them inaccessible, following global backlash against the country's recently-introduced laws making gay sex punishable by stoning to death or flogging. Others have been critical of this activity on social media, with one person pleading others not to "go after their staff", and another saying they "feel for the homosexual staff working in these hotels". Ellen DeGeneres joined George Clooney and Elton John in calling for a boycott of the establishments. Eight of the hotels' Twitter accounts have since been deactivated, all Facebook accounts rendered inaccessible, and all but three Instagram accounts deleted or deactivated. The move comes after the United Nations General Assembly passed an anti-LGBT resolution that called on countries around the world "to take concrete measures to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) persons from violence, discrimination,
Nine luxury worldwide hotels owned by Brunei have either shut down their social media accounts or made them inaccessible, following global backlash against the country's recently-introduced laws making gay sex punishable by stoning to death or flogging. Ellen DeGeneres joined George Clooney and Elton John in calling for a boycott of the establishments. Eight of the hotels' Twitter accounts have since been deactivated, all Facebook accounts rendered inaccessible, and all but three Instagram accounts deleted or deactivated. The move comes after the United Nations General Assembly passed an anti-LGBT resolution that called on countries around the world "to take concrete measures to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) persons from violence, discrimination,