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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data (www.404media.co)
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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

there are cases where this is more or less true. I think the less democratic/representative and more oppressive a government, the less fair it is to group a people with their regime. the saudis have an absolute monarchy that bone-saws journalists in foreign countries.

which probably fucks up their culture something awful, but not in the same ways their government is monstrous.

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 3 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 children)

I guess I’m pretty suspicious of all states and the control they exert over the average person to use that metric. It’s my opinion that if democracy worked, it’d be illegal (or subverted by a CIA-backed coup).

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

well, yes. I don't think a government can completely align with the values of the people it dominates, they are inherently shitty, but shittiness is a spectrum.

and yes, that is what the CIA is for. that, and cocaine trafficking.