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Britain calls it safety. It is censorship (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 5 days ago by daydrinkingchickadee@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What an absolute load of nonsense. I have spent a decent amount of time in Qatar. I watched what were effectively slaves working away to build stadiums and hotels. It is a fair statement to point out the irony of a place with very strong censorship criticise censorship.

If the BBC lauded a foreign country for the equivalent of bloody Sunday I would point that out too so honestly just jog on.

Edit: just to reiterate, I agreed with the premise up front. It's not a bad article. That doesn't take away from a censorship heavy regime criticising censorship through their mouthpiece and I fully acknowledge that AJ is generally decent so no, it's not racism.