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They don't care if you watch it, they care if people in Saudi Arabia watch it.


I’m sure they care more than that. Global opinion matters, especially if it can influence policy makers, particularly citizens in the western developed countries.


>Global opinion matters...

Not so sure about this?

Reality is, MBS can do whatever he wants, global opinion or no global opinion. That's been made pretty clear recently.

I mean really, who's gonna stop him?


Popular uprisings aren’t exactly uncommon in the Middle East.


That's only partially true, in a world so communicated a lot of people are going to contact their friends living in Saudi Arabia and tell them what they think about the film, a lot will see this news on reddit or elsewhere and realize its being censored.


I'm pretty sure a lot more than that one show is censored in Saudi Arabia..


They only care that MBS shouldn't watch it or learns about it and get upset. Everything is low cost enough to make happen for that risk!


Mozilla's death will be one of the saddest dead-horse-beatings to be ever seen. Personally I've switched to Chrome after so many years of using Firefox and I'm not looking back. I'll be stabbed in the back, but I won't say I didn't expect it! Also the knife in my back will be placed by competent people, keeping my bleeding to a minimum ^_^


I've switched because chrome manages my accounts seamlessly across my Android phone and Desktop. It's an unfair advantage Google has. I don't know how Mozilla can compete in the long run.


From your answer, I assume you own an Android phone. Mozilla could compete because Firefox has Sync, but Firefox on Android is some seriously laggy shit with built-in ads, so it's going to be hard for them to win.


While I agree ff on Android has big lag problems, where are the built in ads?


Funny you call them prejudiced when, after reading this comment, it's clear you're the one who's prejudiced.


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First, you're generalising, which is exactly what you complain they do. Second, they should be free to take any political stance that they want.


Oh they're welcome to it. But they aren't going to get the fancy jobs because no one wants to live with their insanity.

Civil rights ain't just "political stance" homie.

It's all right, though. Nobody is going to move tech jobs there so long as they stay evil.

And it's not generalizing any more than saying that a cup of ice-cream that is 47% vanilla and 53% shit is shit ice-cream.


For Apple to abuse their monopoly they should have one to begin with.


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