<story><title>Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/17/23310126/twitter-saudi-woman-sentenced-34-years-salma-al-shehab</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfax</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m reminded of how under in the UK a person was made to do community service after making a tweet.[1] Obviously not as steep of a sentencing, but a prosecution nonetheless. I only point that out because reading these headlines now doesn&amp;#x27;t make me feel protective of liberal democracy, it only makes me despair of a global trend.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;23004339&amp;#x2F;uk-twitter-user-sentenced-grossly-offensive-tweet-tom-moore-joseph-kelly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;23004339&amp;#x2F;uk-twitter-user-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/17/23310126/twitter-saudi-woman-sentenced-34-years-salma-al-shehab</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Any time you read a headline like this, replace the innocuous-sounding non-crime (“tweeting”) with “upsetting people in power.”&lt;p&gt;Suddenly you’ll realise that the same kind of thing happens everywhere in the world.&lt;p&gt;E.g.: Julian Assange, who’s main crime was &lt;i&gt;upsetting people in power&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Unless you think it’s a crime worthy of being hounded for over a decade by multiple nations’ security agencies for trying to — and failing — to reverse an NT hash.&lt;p&gt;Because that’s the “crime” they’re extraditing him for.</text></comment>