How Saudi Crackdowns Fail to Silence Online Dissent
How Saudi Crackdowns Fail to Silence Online Dissent
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沙特的镇压为何未能平息网上异议
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
A. Siegel
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作者：
Jennifer Pan;A. Siegel
沙特阿拉伯监禁和折磨在网上表达异议的活动人士、宗教领袖和记者。这反映了世界范围内越来越多的使用身体压制来审查在线言论的趋势。在本文中，我们通过分析超过3亿条推文以及2010年至2017年的详细谷歌搜索数据，使用自动文本分析和众包内容评估，系统地研究了知名沙特人对在线异议的影响。我们发现，镇压阻止了被监禁的沙特人继续在网上发表异议。然而，它并没有全面压制异议。被监禁的沙特人的Twitter追随者参与了更多的在线异议，包括批评统治家族和呼吁政权更迭。镇压引起了公众对被捕沙特人及其原因的关注，沙特阿拉伯的其他知名人士并没有被同龄人的镇压所吓倒，继续在网上发表异议。
Saudi Arabia has imprisoned and tortured activists, religious leaders, and journalists for voicing dissent online. This reflects a growing worldwide trend in the use of physical repression to censor online speech. In this paper, we systematically examine the consequences of imprisoning well-known Saudis for online dissent by analyzing over 300 million tweets as well as detailed Google search data from 2010 to 2017 using automated text analysis and crowd-sourced human evaluation of content. We find that repression deterred imprisoned Saudis from continuing to dissent online. However, it did not suppress dissent overall. Twitter followers of the imprisoned Saudis engaged in more online dissent, including criticizing the ruling family and calling for regime change. Repression drew public attention to arrested Saudis and their causes, and other prominent figures in Saudi Arabia were not deterred by the repression of their peers and continued to dissent online.