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Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly by omegaworks on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @02:48PM (#18546012)
The Trump administration has stumbled backwards very publicly with regard to the people that the framers intended for free speech rights to protect: journalists. From overt anti-journalist rhetoric[1], to possible collusion in the murder of US national Jamal Khashoggi[2], a journalist critical of the Saudi regime. "Free speech" has been co-opted so effectively by the far-right movement that the same people who wave it around to defend debate of genocide simultaneously advocate for the prosecution of journalists.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35EWlJMmO4s

2. https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1064718127903268864

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Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:01PM (#18546125)
> possible collusion in the murder of US national Jamal Khashoggi

Not central to the point, but Kashoggi was not a US national. He was a US-resident Saudi citizen. It's possible to be a US national but not a citizen, but Kashoggi wasn't one: https://www.immihelp.com/immigration/us-national.html

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Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly by omegaworks on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:14PM (#18546236)
Quibbling over status is an interesting fallout of the same right-wing nationalist rhetoric. You're right though. He was a Saudi citizen, US resident on an O Visa with US citizen children on his way to a green card[1].

Should we not care about his murder as much then?

1. https://qz.com/1428499/jamal-khashoggi-what-trump-owes-khash...

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Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:18PM (#18546268)
> Should we not care about his murder as much then?

Actually, the correction was so that people wouldn't continue making the mistake, not because his citizenship status is a critical point. The error is a distraction from the main point that is avoidable in the future.

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Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly by omegaworks on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:06PM (#18547286)
>The error is a distraction from the main point that is avoidable in the future.

Point taken. The intricacies of status continue to wonder and delight. :)

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