re: "Netflix pulls comedy show that irked Saudi crown prince" (BP, January 3)
Dear editor,
It is understandable why Saudi authorities so strongly believe the adage "ignorance is bliss" that they have made up cybercrime laws to achieve that desired state of unknowing for their kingdom. Unhappily, international information sources, NetFlix among them, are legally obliged to serve the self-serving Saudi rulers in keeping Saudi captive domestic citizens more ignorant of Saudi affairs than foreigners and expatriate Saudis not subject to the same ignorance enforcing censorship, which is the only kind of censorship there ever is.
Whenever and wherever there is censorship, the telling question is always: Who wants whom to be kept in ignorance of what facts, possibilities, ideas, or other information?
But working to counter censorship in the Internet age, the international response it energized has been as honestly scathing as the Saudi kingdom's rule of law so richly deserves.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on January 4, 2019, under the title "Scathing response" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1605094/enforce-laws-daily
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