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It's a country where authorities have engaged in a sustained assault on freedom of expression online.
Dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech.
And it's hosting a major UN conference on internet governance. 
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/13/saudi-arabia-hosting-un-internet-conference-amid-crackdown
@andrewstroehlein Turkey hosted it ten years ago. I was there, taking part in a panel. A minister from Erdoğan’s party gave the keynote where he argued in favour of more state surveillance and curbing of individual freedoms on the Internet to applause from the UN crowd. Another Turkish guy and I were tweeting critically about his talk. The other guy had several court cases opened against him that day (I’d renounced my citizenship before attending it).
@andrewstroehlein IGF, COP, etc., none of these instruments have any value apart from laundering the reputations of those involved and delaying any actual meaningful action. Multistakeholderism sounds great until you realise some people have massive stakes and others tiny ones. The best we can do is not lend our own legitimacy to these honeypots and endeavour to stop them from sucking all the oxygen out of the room.