If I were in Saudi Arabia I'd be using a VPN anyways.
Also, if I were in Saudi Arabia, I'd be trying to leave Saudi Arabia
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If I were in Saudi Arabia I'd be using a VPN anyways.
Also, if I were in Saudi Arabia, I'd be trying to leave Saudi Arabia
Easier said than done. At least, for the second one.
Hey at least Lemmy is becoming popular enough for the authorities to block us.
Can't have shit in Saudi, not even Lemmy π€
KSA and China are like low hanging fruit, it doesn't take much to get blocked there....
Wake me up when OECD countries start blocking us
Change the title from "they" to "Saudi Arabia".
Done
Lol I'd tread a bit carefully.
KSA likes to chase people and have them "disappeared" for their opinions.
I know a guy they picked up for 3 months and when he finally showed up, his poor mouth was zippered shut.
And he was an international too.
I'd look around for a solid VPN solution anyway. Useful to have in any country.
That's what i'm afraid of, too. Doing such risky things in the middle of the den of snakes. There isn't much they can do to a visitor, but they can do what they please to "threats" and dissidents.
Why would you ever visit that shithole of a country?
bro i was born here, you're right why would i? i didn't, fuck this shithole
Edit: Sorry, I didn't mean to sound so rude.
Just click there and tell them it shouldn't be blocked.
I am sure they'll listen!
That shit'll get me on a watchlist, trying to access a website for trans people π
But if i ask nicely...
I was joking but, maybe go find the worst bigot you know, and do it from their computer?
You underestimate how bigoted the average Gulf Arab is, I'd need to do it to everyone π
If old white US southerners are casually racist, than the average gulf Arab is a competitive racist. Especially with Jews π
Well its Saudi Arabia after all. It isn't exactly known for being all that high on the freedom index. I'm sure you realize that though.
From a technical level there are ways to bypass censorship. The thing to keep in mind is that Saudi Arabia doesn't have any rights for citizens. The law can be enforced arbitrarily and you could just disappear one day. If you are looking for technical information on avoiding censorship I can try to help.
Yeah, but it's a little weird how they'd go out of their way to ban such a small and obscure website. I didn't even know the feds knew about lemmy. Besides, it's been fine for a long time for me.
But this was bound to happen eventually, i guess :/
The thing to keep in mind is that Saudi Arabia doesn't have any rights for citizens. The law can be enforced arbitrarily and you could just disappear one day
I am well aware of that :( Hopefully i can disappear out of here before they make me.
Stay safe friend.
Without giving away potentially anything dangerous to yourself, in case they are watching. Any idea what place you intend on disappearing too?
I plan on trying to apply for asylum somewhere. There's a lot of useful information for saudi dissidents on a forum that i won't mention the name of, but from it my choices are: Canada, Australia, UK, America, France, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland.
All of these, i'd give a kidney to be in anyway. But if i'll make this once in a lifetime choice, i might as well choose what's best for me. A big problem is finance and racism. The western world isn't friendly to Arabs from what i've seen, so i'd probably need to lay low.
I used to want to go to Germany, but this ominous message on the forum made me think twice. They leave it at that, but it's unsettling to me.
Do you have any technical skills? If you can sell yourself as an asset you are going to do considerably better.
Do I misunderstand how federation works, or should a block like that not do anything unless your home instance is hosted in that particular country? The instances communicate with each other, not directly with the users. It's similar to viewing blocked content through a VPN.
You understand it correctly. The problem is i can't see anything other than the text of their posts/comments. Posts with images, i wouldn't be able to see the image.
Instances have a choice to enable a new Lemmy feature that will proxy all images through the local instance. Whilst your instance may not do that today it may do in the future. Or you could move to an instance that has this enabled. I don't know how to list instances with it enabled but it should be obvious by the URL used by images when viewed from an instance.
Yeah, i've heard of it. But the only instance i know with it is lemmy.ml and, well. It's lemmy.ml. Besides, i like lemm.ee, if i have to use a VPN for it, i guess i have to.
But thank you for the advice!
Use Tor if you can, and people outside of these restrictive countries can help by running Snowflake in their regular browser.
Love tor, it's a lifesaver (literally :) ) and thank you for the tip!
geoblocked
"Geoblocking" would mean that it's blahaj who don't want saudis on their instance
texas will probably block us next.
I wish this was a joke but these days I wouldn't put it past them. I don't think it would hold up terribly well since the US doesn't have any form of advanced censorship.
With the current laws on the books, Texas could probably sue Lemmy instances because they contain pornographic content and they don't verify users' identity.
Aren't most Lemmy instances ran in Europe, anyway? At most they'll just block them, right?
Dunno, they'd probably have a hard time suing European instances, but they can't outright block, as that would be unconstitutional. U.S. states have recently been using lawsuits to get around constitutionality. I.e. Texas also has a "bounty" law, where if you know a woman went out of state to get an abortion, you can report it, and the state will sue them and give you $10,000. I think another state has a similar law for if you see a trans person using a restroom that doesn't match the genitalia they were born with.
you see a trans person using a restroom that doesn't match the genitalia
lmao what??? how would you even know about that?
Hmm. Looks like that was in Texas too. https://truthout.org/articles/a-city-in-texas-just-put-10000-bounties-on-trans-people-using-the-bathroom/, and they're going to pass quite a few more bounty laws yhis year: https://prismreports.org/2025/01/08/bounty-laws-texas-trans-rights-abortion/