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TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago

As a past victim of GBoard I will not pile on to OP for their glaring typo. Instead, here's the quote from the Wikipedia article linked above

Osama Khalid (أسامة خالد), a Saudi Arabian former administrator of the Arabic Wikipedia, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in September 2020 for "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals" by making edits "critical about the persecution of political activists in the country." Khalid's sentence was increased to 32 years in September 2022 as part of a campaign to lengthen the sentences of political detainees, according to Democracy for the Arab World Now and SMEX, a Lebanese non-governmental organization.

Ziyad al-Sofiani (زياد السفياني), also a former administrator of the Arabic Wikipedia, was likewise charged with "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals" by making edits "critical about the persecution of political activists in the country." He was sentenced in September 2020 to eight years in prison and was released in March 2025.

[-] msprout@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Countries thinking they can control the influence of the internet is just so fucking frustrating. Hopefully the US doesn't get the same idea.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 33 points 2 months ago
[-] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

Just the other day i was on a Canadian gov website looking for information and they linked to american research and the links where dead because the US took down the webpages

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

There's a lesson for us Canadians in here somewhere, I can't quite put my finger on it...

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

Make archives of any important links you intend to reference, because you can't assume the link will be valid tomorrow?

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

That's a good start.

[-] msprout@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

:(

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, I'm sure the Supreme Court will strike it down once it starts getting abused.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

~/s~ here....think you dropped this

[-] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

Shit.

[-] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago

Fixed it. I am using GBoard, though I don't know if it was me or the keyboard. Thanks for the quote and being nice.

[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Lol, been there

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

What keyboard would you recommend on android?

I've been using Gboard for a while but I've been slowly switching away from Google services (now on Organic Maps, switching away from Google Drive after backing everything up)

[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately I don't have a recommendation.

I tried Heliboard but it just didn't do it for me

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ah fair enough, I tried other boards that were kinda the same for me so I know the feeling

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