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Tech-Future Complicity in Saudi Brutality
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Tech-Future Complicity in Saudi Brutality

The second of two pieces on how we normalize authoritarian violence globally

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Nov 22, 2024
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Screen grab from Kingdom Uncovered, showing promotional material of The Line, a ridiculous city concept meant to cut through the Saudi Arabian desert.

In my last piece, “Canadian Complicity in Saudi Brutality”, I mentioned that what I’d originally planned as commentary on a recent British documentary, ITV’s Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia, spiralled into a larger set of thoughts. Just talking about Canada’s complicity in the actions of an authoritarian regime took up the whole essay.

And we didn…

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