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dhimes on Feb 12, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down

A new draft media law would make it a crime to damage the country’s reputation or economy, punishable by fines of up to 1 million dirhams (about $272,000).

That'll inspire confidence.

justindz on Feb 12, 2009 [–]

By my reckoning, if the law passes it would immediately apply to the people who wrote the law. Now that's leading by example.

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