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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…

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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…

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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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Louis CK defends decision to perform at Riyadh comedy festival as ‘a good opportunity’
BySian Cain October 6, 2025

Comedian admits to mixed feelings but says event is a ‘positive thing’ despite human rights abuses in Saudi ArabiaLouis CK has defended his decision to perform at the Riyadh comedy festival in Saudi Arabia after fellow comedians criticised the big name…

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Louis CK defends decision to perform at Riyadh comedy festival as ‘a good opportunity’
BySian Cain October 6, 2025

Comedian admits to mixed feelings but says event is a ‘positive thing’ despite human rights abuses in Saudi ArabiaLouis CK has defended his decision to perform at the Riyadh comedy festival in Saudi Arabia after fellow comedians criticised the big name…

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US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
BySeth Simons September 30, 2025October 1, 2025

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh comedy festival despite the government’s human rights abusesBilled as “the biggest comedy festival in the world”, the inaugural Riyadh Comedy festival, which is running 26 Septembe…

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US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
BySeth Simons September 30, 2025

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abusesBilled as “the biggest comedy festival in the world”, the inaugural Riyadh Comedy festival, which is running 26 September to 9 …

Read More US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’