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We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew
ByJonathan Liew October 9, 2025

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance Continue reading…

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We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew
ByJonathan Liew October 9, 2025

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance Continue reading…

Read More We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew
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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
ByHannah Jane Parkinson October 9, 2025

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy Carr. How have they responded?To paraph…

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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
ByHannah Jane Parkinson October 9, 2025

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy Carr. How have they responded?To paraph…

Read More ‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
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Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival
ByJason Zinoman October 9, 2025

Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia.

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Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival
ByJason Zinoman October 9, 2025October 9, 2025

Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia.

Read More Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival
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Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
ByJacob Silverman October 9, 2025

Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regimeAli al-Ahmed didn’t think that Elon Musk was responsible for the decline and fall of Twitter. Musk was another fac…

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Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
ByJacob Silverman October 9, 2025

Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regimeAli al-Ahmed didn’t think that Elon Musk was responsible for the decline and fall of Twitter. Musk was another fac…

Read More Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
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‘We want justice’: workers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia still waiting on financial redress
ByPramod Acharya October 6, 2025

Asian migrant laborers who paid predatory recruiting fees say global mega-corporation has not kept its promise to pay them restitutionWarehouse laborers from Asia say the world’s second largest employer, Amazon, has failed to live up to its promises to…

Read More ‘We want justice’: workers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia still waiting on financial redress
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‘We want justice’: workers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia still waiting on financial redress
ByPramod Acharya October 6, 2025

Asian migrant laborers who paid predatory recruiting fees say global mega-corporation has not kept its promise to pay them restitutionWarehouse laborers from Asia say the world’s second largest employer, Amazon, has failed to live up to its promises to…

Read More ‘We want justice’: workers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia still waiting on financial redress