221
submitted 8 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Hegar@kbin.social 158 points 8 months ago

People are taking this as a dig on China, but it's a tale of how fragile nationalists are the world over. This is a level of dumb on par with freedom fries.

[-] tehcooles@programming.dev 57 points 8 months ago

As far as I understand from the article, by Chinese law what they're accusing him of is a crime, so technically this is much, much stupider.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 64 points 8 months ago

Yes it’s a very stupid law. “No cooking fried rice on anniversary of death of son of great leader who cooked fried rice in Korean War during bombing run, literally exposing his own position”

[-] Alivrah@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago
[-] sweetnumb@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

If you're seriously questioning this, then the actual terrible laws and acts going on in China would BLOW your mind in... five.

[-] Alivrah@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

I'm a bit informed about the current situation actually. It's just that the reason behind this law in particular is just... Comical...

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 11 points 8 months ago

Yeah, authoritarianism and nationalism are very fragile when looking behind their mask.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.one 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, they imprisoned a Chinese UFC fighter who said he could beat any traditional Chinese martial artist because their kung fu doesn't work in the real world.

They agreed to set up the match and when he, predictably, beat the living shit out of the spiritual mumbo jumbo guy, over and over again, they claimed he intentionally dishonored China and tried to lock him up.

[-] ammonium@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

No, it's a law criminalizing the act of insulting “heroes and martyrs”

[-] tehcooles@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

Same regime that outlawed posting pictures of Winnie the Pooh because he was being compared to their figurehead. With that context, the surprise should be...lessened.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
221 points (92.7% liked)

World News

38126 readers
2762 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS