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Women in Saudi Arabia only got the right to vote* as of 2015, which is recent enough that there's probably still a significant fraction of the population that isn't enthusiastically on board.

* In local elections; they don't have national elections.



> Women in Saudi Arabia only got the right to vote as of 2015

Saudi Arabia is 0.018% of Facebook audience. Factoring in language differences and content geofencing and it'll be about a handful Saudis likely to see an ad for the game - all of them probably visiting the US.

So bring it home for us. How do 6 Saudis (of unknown opinion on voting)

transform a longstanding reality - that women vote

into an issue so sensitive that banning game ads is a reasonable response?


I'm certainly not expressing the opinion that the policy is reasonable.




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