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Ah yes, Dubai the bastion of integrity, equality and human rights.
by sbarre 2y ago
Ah yes, Dubai the bastion of integrity, equality and human rights.
- pdimitar 2y agoTrue, they aren't. Whether they're friends with Russia is another thing though.
- sbarre 2y agoThey don't have to be friends to turn a blind eye. If Dubai had to pick between letting some nobody foreign national living on their soil get squeezed by a foreign secret police, or pissing off the Russians, what do you think they would do? (This isn't a knock on Dubai specifically, substitute them for almost any non-NATO country in the world).
- pdimitar 2y agoAnd you think the USA doesn't do such things? If so, that's quite naive.
- sbarre 2y agoDid I say that? Did I mention the USA at any point in this discussion? What a strange thing to add. I am not American btw.
- pdimitar 2y agoI mentioned it because people very easily single out Russia and I think that's quite the outdated sentiment. I'd start with USA, North Korea, China, Russia and Iran -- again, just as a start, and I am sure there are many others that can't be trusted. Where Telegram's devs and business resides hardly matters IMO. If somebody truly wants to put them under their boot they'll find a way, and that goes for probably half the countries on this planet.
- sbarre 2y agoYou didn't "mention" it, you implied that I believed this, when it wasn't even part of the discussion. You can believe whatever you want, but you really shouldn't accuse others of such things. Also: this whole topic is about a Russian company/app and Russian citizens living in Dubai. What other country would we be talking about here, exactly?
- pdimitar 2y agoWell then, your goal was just to point out that Dubai is a bad place for democracy -- and nothing else? If so, OK.