For context see the report on the recent bans of Arabic Wikipedia admins by the Wikimedia Foundation in Wikipedia's community newspaper, the Signpost:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-01-01/News_and_notes" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...</a><p>Note that the people jailed since 2020 are unpaid volunteers – not paid staff, as the headline implies.
Add this to the long list of actions by the Saudis demonstrating that they are probably the most unambiguously evil government in the world. But they seldom get any criticism from mainstream US media and politicians because of the Saudis' vast oil resources. Imagine how much better off the world would be today had the US government chosen to topple the Saudis after 9/11 (for which everyone knows they were actually responsible) instead of pursuing irrelevant boondoggles in Iraq and Afghanistan. Funding for Sunni terrorists would have been disrupted which probably would have had a far greater impact to reduce global terrorism than anything else the US did. Hell, even the neocons just in it for oil would have been happy with that.