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Similar to the many Saudis imprisoned for speaking out on Twitter: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-given-34-year-prison-sentence-for-

Similar to the many Saudis imprisoned for speaking out on Twitter: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-given-34-year-prison-sentence-for-using-twitter https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-gi... https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-arabia-american-jailed-tweets-1.6620760 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-arabia-american-jailed-t... To list a few.... And Elon Musk is using Saudi money to fund his Twitter: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prince-alwaleed-becomes-twitters-second-largest-shareholder/?sh=61b2329c523a https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prin... It is unlikely that Elon will mention anything of this to the Saudi's of course. They are too rich even for him to criticize. Saudi Arabia even got away with killing Jamal Khashoggi on foreign terrirotiry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog... And then the US government protected Saudi Arabia from any lawsuits in the US: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/7/immunity-cited-as-khashoggi-lawsuit-against-prince-dropped-in-us https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/7/immunity-cited-as-k...

foverzar 4y ago
> And then the US government protected Saudi Arabia from any lawsuits in the US I've just randomly clicked this link and... How in the world did you even manage to phrase it like that? Why do people lie in their summaries that often these days? Do you seriously expect that people are actually that ignorant that they won't call you out? Just 5 seconds into the article and knowing what a "diplomatic immunity" is all you need to see that the summary has nothing to do with an actual subject of the article. Is anyone else disturbed by how easily people twist and erase information in their sum-ups? What's up with that?

foverzar 4y ago

> And then the US government protected Saudi Arabia from any lawsuits in the US I've just randomly clicked this link and... How in the world did you even manage to phrase it like that? Why do people lie in their summaries that often these days? Do you seriously expect that people are actually that ignorant that they won't call you out? Just 5 seconds into the article and knowing what a "diplomatic immunity" is all you need to see that the summary has nothing to do with an actual subject of the article. Is anyone else disturbed by how easily people twist and erase information in their sum-ups? What's up with that?