This is literally my parents. They told me to stop criticizing the people in power, even going as far as saying I shouldn’t criticize the government of my former country. I don’t even have citizenship in my former country anymore, not sure how I could even get in trouble for criticizing is effecively a foreign country to me. (I’m talking about PRC btw).

My mom told me to “just focus on improving your own life and stop worrying about things like you can’t control like politics” (as in, both the politics of my former country and the politics of my current country)

Am I in the wrong here? Should I just keep quiet and not say anything so that I don’t “get in trouble”?

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    26 days ago

    Wait, aren’t you in Saudi Arabia right now?

    Yep, lol.

    From what I heard, it’s worse than PRC, do you feel scared when talking about politics at home?

    I almost never talk about my beliefs/criticism of the government, it’s a risky game. Only the internet i’m actually free to say as much shit as i can (that is, if they don’t find me lmao)

    Like in PRC, the expectation would be prison / forced apology depending on severeity. Isn’t dissent like a death sentence in Saudi Arabia? 😬

    Wait, really? I never knew it was that lightweight in china. Yeah, it’s flat out public execution (even torture depending in some cases) it’s pretty fucked. Oil barons are absolute scum 🫠

    (I hope you are using Tor btw)

    Only on mobile i use orbot on almost all social media, but desktop’s still a WIP on privacy. Learning about good opsec right now.