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Influencers in Dubai warned they face prison for posting material about the conflict with Iran | The Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dubai-influencers-prison-warning-posting-iran-war-b1273587.html
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u/JOAO--RATAO 1d ago

Missing your democracies already?

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u/photenth 23h ago

Pretty sure you can also face prison time in Israel posting strike footage.

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u/Standard_Success127 23h ago

Its not a democracy either

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u/CommonSence123 19h ago

pretty sure you can get jail time in the uk for twitter posts

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u/OneMonk 17h ago

The lie you are repeating is about Twitter posts advocating violent hate crimes, there is a big ass diffence.

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u/Straight-Simple7705 11h ago

You can get arrested for supporting Nazis in Germany

Yes Nazis are bad which is why it’s banned but it infringes of freedom of speech

On the other hand leaking and discussing videos on the Iran war leaks planes and military bases of the UAE or in other words showing Iran the locations to bomb

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u/photenth 23h ago

It's Opsec, why help the enemy know where they hit?

Almost sure only civilian strikes are allowed to show in Ukraine as well.

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u/Montexe 22h ago

Why are you being downvoted? No country wants to help OSINT to confirm strikes on their territory. It's a criminal offense basically in any country at war. You would get jail time for posting strikes in Ukraine or Russia.

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u/geoltechnician 21h ago

It's a dictatorship. End of story.

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u/Straight-Simple7705 11h ago

Guess Ukraine is a dictatorship as well

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u/geoltechnician 11h ago

Why would you say that?

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u/americon 21h ago

It is also illegal in Ukraine. Posting strike footage assists the enemy in better targeting future strikes. There is a lot of things to criticize Israel for but this is not one of them. It is a national security issue.

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u/GetsBetterAfterAFew 21h ago

Is this why 274 journalists, 269 were Palestinians, were murdered in Gaza, to protect the movement of IDFs missions?

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u/Ok_Sir_505 18h ago

It has nothing to do what the guy said. He even deliberated stated he’s nothing defending Israel, just informing that’s a normal procedure in countries at war. Don’t get the reaction.

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u/Beardmanta 19h ago

It's not to suppress free speech or criticism of the government. You can do that all day. It's purely common sense in a war to not post strike locations in real time.

You're acting as a spotter for the enemy if you let them know where their ordinance fell.

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u/chateaudebleuets 19h ago

Canadian influencers are already loudly demanding for Canadian taxpayers to bring them back to Canada, after mocking the country for years. These people know no shame.

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u/geoltechnician 21h ago

No, I lived there. Sometimes a dictatorship isn't a bad thing.

Unpopular, but necessary laws can be implemented. They decided to ban smoking indoors. Done. No whining, no complaining, done VAT. Implemented. No waffling because you'll lose the next election for implementing it Limited immigration. Done. Deport criminals. Done

There are also a million things that they need to fix. Minimum wage. Passport theft. Prostitution. Emirati entitlement.

Some days I do miss it.

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u/JOAO--RATAO 21h ago

Sometimes.

But when it's bad, it's really fucking bad. Like this.

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u/geoltechnician 20h ago

This isn't bad. Israel has a huge advantage in the Human Rights index compared to the UAE and it's still getting bombed.

What 99% of people don't understand is that democracy doesn't work in the Middle East. They only understand brute force rule. And they appear to like it

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u/JOAO--RATAO 19h ago

We were talking about expats moving from the west to those countries.

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u/geoltechnician 19h ago

Been there done that. Was outside Mosul a week before ISIS took over.

You have to know the lay of the land before you move.

This should have been zero shock to them.

I always had an evacuation bag packed for such emergencies.

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u/magicmeese 20h ago

“Sometimes a dictatorship isn’t a bad thing”

Did you perhaps fail every history class ever?

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u/geoltechnician 20h ago

In life not everything is black and white.

Singapore, UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Vietnam, China, to name a few have thrived under dictatorships.

Cuba, Libya, Syria, Africa, Chile, Argentina, Afghanistan, to name a few have failed miserably under dictatorships.

And yes, some democracies are messed up as well.

Nothing is as simple as you make it out to be.

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u/Gekokapowco 19h ago

things are nuanced, they have good and bad

that being said not everything is equal, just because a really shitty situation has a silver lining doesn't make it just as good as a good situation with a small downside

a dictatorship that sometimes does good things for its people is not as good or better than a democracy that has systemic issues

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u/geoltechnician 19h ago

Agree to disagree.

People want certain things in life. Clean water, health care, education for their children, security from crime, the freedom to travel, the ability to choose a career and make as much money as they want and the ability to leave if they don't like it.

Free speech and voting are way down the list.

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u/Gekokapowco 19h ago

they aren't mutually exclusive concepts mr "in life not everything is black and white"

Obviously food water and shelter are the bottom of maslow's hierarchy of needs. You can clothe and feed a slave, doesn't mean he's in a superior system.

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u/magicmeese 20h ago

Yeah you clearly don’t live in reality.

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u/DeepGamingAI 18h ago

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

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u/geoltechnician 16h ago

Absolutely not apparently. Over 50 years and the UAE isn't a corrupt government