The title should read "Saudi Arabia". Cutting a country name in half (unless its an accepted way of abbreviating it) is not a good say of modifying a headline. What is next? Zealand ?
The title should read "Saudi Arabia". Cutting a country name in half (unless its an accepted way of abbreviating it) is not a good say of modifying a headline. What is next? Zealand ?
The submitter was just trying to fit HN's 80 char limit for titles. We've adjusted it now.
Some people I know from Saudi Arabia refer to it as Saudi, so maybe thats the better word? I've never heard anyone call it Arabia.
"Arabia" is the name of the entire peninsula. There's half a dozen countries there.
KSA works too and matches UAE pattern.
KSA is never used in US media. No one here would know what it meant.
I'm sure almost no one watching US media knows what "human rights" or "asm.js" is, yet we allowed them in HN titles still.
I know what it means and I'm in the US.
No one here would know what it meant.
Unless they collect stamps.
I have heard lots of people who refer to it as Saudi and that would be a reasonable way to do it IMO.
Yes. Say Saudi.
The title as it is right now is 79 characters long, the limit is 80.
What about "Meta blocks human rights accounts for audiences in Saudi Arabia and UAE"? I don't think "reaching" adds much to the headline
> "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"
79 chars.
Saudi Arabia is a city in UAE?
We can't solve the general problem of English syntax ambiguity in a HN headline, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to be precise about the literal names of things
Might as well go for the limit and replace the comma with " &" (space ampersand)
Even better!
Especially when arabia by itself kind of means the arabian peninsula, not saudi arabia.
People say "States" or even US all the time, usually forgetting the other country that has "United States" in their name.
> usually forgetting the other country that has "United States" in their name
Mexico?
the term "Americans" always bothered me, though it's commonly used to refer to US
And yet the title kept the equivalent of "United". Except that there isn't a region of the world called "United", but there is one called "Arabia", and it isn't the country.
Looks like the original title is too long for Hackernews
It could have used "Saudi" for more clarity while saving one character
Or KSA
Its the Saud's Arabia. That is a family name. Signifying its the Suad part of Arabia.
Arabia existed before the Saudis. It will exist after.
Yes, but it means something different to the name of the country. It means a region.
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Geographically Arabia is more than just Saudi Arabia, so the title is inaccurate.
While true, they mentioned another country on the Arabian peninsula so you could assume it is the country.
I don't find it too objectionable, Saudi Arabia refers to the country and part of Arabia (the peninsula) that is under control of the House of Saud. It may be an expat affectation though. My... American family lived there when I was a child and we called it "Saudi." Flying back to Saudi, where we'd see and interact with the native Saudis. To your point about New Zealand, of course NZ would be used.
The title says Arabia because this practice of evil trillion dollar megacorps capitulating to repressive regimes happens across multiple countries recently (UAE & KSA) - just as they did w.r.t Russian accounts in the Epsteinist-occupied EU/UK.