Various countries in Europe are doing the same thing [1,2,3]. Just recently, Britain has been threatening to jail people if they show support for the wrong organizations. Free speech is dead in the vast majority of the world. Casting shade on the "non-west" like Saudi Arabia as though they are alone in this guilt is ignorant at best.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42164853

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/20/austria.thefar...

[3] https://jacobin.com/2022/09/queen-death-monarchy-censorship-...

[4] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/uk-threate...