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Re:Silicon Valley is awash with Saudi Arabian money by danso on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:50AM (#18268228)
> The Washington Post suggests that it’s because it humanized the action.

Putting a human face on a controversy tends to cement the controversy in people's minds. Rosa Parks was not the only nor the first person to be arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat [0], but she was the one whose case was made famous. But Khashoggi was not merely just someone known who was killed, he was someone known for speaking out against the Saudi prince. People who are killed because of their (legal) work, by the powers most threatened by their work, generally get more sympathy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#Her_refusal_to_move

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Re:Silicon Valley is awash with Saudi Arabian money by diminish on Sunday October 21, 2018 @11:43AM (#18268564)
Why Khashoggi's murder shocked?

A power network in the West was pushing Muhammad bin Salman a the reformer and the good guy in an imminent attack on Iran.

Khashoggi's Apple Watch helped solve the case as he recorded his own murder. And suddenly MbS has turned out to be a "butcher" killing a journalist in a Saudi Arabian consulate. So the power network has a dilemma.

Now the irony is that Apple is one of targets for Saudi money in Silicon Valley money.

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Re:Silicon Valley is awash with Saudi Arabian money by cocacola1 on Sunday October 21, 2018 @11:59AM (#18268630)
It's pretty clean cut. People's opinions change in tandem with the actions of others.
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