• vane@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Wait until you find out that Saudi Arabia have a big stake in Disney, Facebook and OpenAI.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    9 months ago

    Oh no, not only the very ethical American companies get my data?
    What a disaster.

  • recentSloth43@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Saudi Arabia isn’t a person. I hate it when news titles aren’t specific enough. Is it the government that bought them? A private company? Just a dude that happens to be Saudi? The implications can change drastically based on who bought it.

    Also the article link isn’t working for me so all i got is the title. And as most people that’d see it, they’d also only read the title, this type of simplification can lead to a lot of misinformation. Or worse, racism, as you combine a whole country and its people to one entity which is dehumanizing. I’m speaking from experience as a Saudi person who’s always grouped with the “saudi” or "Arabic " or “brown” groups instead of another human being.

    In short, news should stop generalizing and be more specific, especially in the titles, the part that most people will interact with.

    • fxomt [abandoned account]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      9 months ago

      unpaywalled: https://archive.is/7yc9S

      A Saudi Arabian company that was created by the Saudi Arabian government just purchased Pokémon Go

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund

      If you can’t see the article i will paste it for you.

      I’m speaking from experience as a Saudi person who’s always grouped with the “saudi” or "Arabic " or “brown” groups instead of another human being.

      So am i, and i’m also sick of it and the people who use this to fuel discrimination. I see this article as more of a reason to hate the sauds, not saudi people.

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        9 months ago

        Anyone that groups individuals with their government is a bigot advertising their bigotry.

        Edit: looks like I upset some bigots.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Can you prove this is worse than an insideous, shitty company like Niantic? No. No you cannot.

    FUCK Niantic, and fuck this xenophobic noise.