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There is a tremendous amount of technical integration needing to be done for this project and others in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, etc.
Many of the people who do, or might, take part in that work are here on this forum And I think a frank discussion of these issues is on topic.
Hacker News is not the forum for that.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This topic by far does not gratify one’s intellectual curiosity, which is what I opened my thread with. It is dog-piling and that can be done elsewhere. The discussions don’t provide anything interesting nor anything new that a curious mind can grab and hold onto.
You have the World Wide Web to discuss whatever geopolitical pet peeves you have. Hacker News isn’t your fighting ground and flagging is the right thing to do.
Read the guidelines. This topic is intellectually lazy and not in the spirit of hacking whatsoever.
As to the current post: I find it interesting, because (if its findings are valid) it is somewhat surprising (we knew that abuses were happening over there, but not to this extent); which raises questions of why we haven't heard about this yet; also interesting. Also simply because it relates to how that country is trying to develop itself, and the fact that is paradoxically quite archaic and quite modern; also interesting, and not even necessarily political.
We're also getting to hear from people who are from or who have lived in the region (or the countries supplying its labor pool); also interesting, and not intrinsically political.
If you don't like the political tangents, that's what the [-] element is for.