{"id":1066165,"date":"2023-06-04T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T16:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/04\/snapchat-social-media-saudi-arabia-authorities"},"modified":"2023-06-05T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:48:31","slug":"saudi-arabia-warns-snapchat-users-that-insulting-regime-is-a-criminal-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/04\/saudi-arabia-warns-snapchat-users-that-insulting-regime-is-a-criminal-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia warns Snapchat users that \u2018insulting\u2019 regime is a criminal offense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Users of the social media app have faced legal consequences for posts \u2013 some private \u2013 that are critical of Saudi authorities<\/p>

Saudi state media issued an explicit warning that it is a criminal offense to \u201cinsult\u201d authorities using social media apps like Snapchat, the California-based messaging app whose chief executive officer recently forged a new \u201ccooperation\u201d deal with the kingdom\u2019s culture ministry.<\/p>

The threat \u2013 which was originally televised in April and then deleted \u2013 has gained new resonance as more cases emerge in which Snapchat users and influencers in the kingdom have been arrested by authorities and, in some cases, sentenced to decades-long prison sentences.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Users of the social media app have faced legal consequences for posts \u2013 some private \u2013 that are critical of Saudi authoritiesSaudi state media issued an explicit warning that it is a criminal offense to \u201cinsult\u201d authorities using social media apps like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1258,1147,84,31705,16,1315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066466,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066165\/revisions\/1066466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}