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    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Maybe actually read the article before just believing what a notorious China watching liar has to say about it. The headline buries the lede. They were arrested for publishing books they didn't obtain publishing rights for, not for criticism. They just claim that "ACTUALLY IT WAS ABOUT US HATING THE GOVERNMENT, NOT ABOUT THE VERY CLEARLY ILLEGAL BUSINESS STUFF WE DID"

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Damn, Jack Ma should have just posted a Winnie the Pooh meme and Chapo would have loved him.

      • ColonelKernel [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Good try. Everyone does illegal shit, they just make examples out of dissidents.

        Your rationale is the same that justifies the targeting of minorities for drug laws and traffic infractions. Maybe next time they just shouldn't be doing anything illegal.

            • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              You seem to be missing the very clear trend that all of these people crying wolf are "entrepreneurs". So go ahead and equate punishing the bourgeoisie with oppression of minorities and the working class. It just makes you look like a fool.

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          4 years ago

          This literally just sounds like a less explicitly racist version of when Liberals say some shit like "chinese culture is breaking the law", she sold 200.000 illegally produced copies of books but because she once said a critic was good thats the only reason she was punished.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah. Its past time for Chapo to unironically support the jailing of liberals.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        He said Geng had been indicted over illegal business activities involving 200,000 copies of mostly cookery books for which the full publishing rights had not been obtained.

        “‘Illegal business activities’ is just an alternative charge to ‘inciting state subversion’ when it comes to entrepreneurs who are critical of China’s political ecology,” Ji said. “The purpose is to intimidate, silence and cut off all social networks they have with political dissidents in a bid to isolate them.”

        This is literally just a case of some petite bourgeois fucks cutting corners to make a buck and running crying to the western media trying to become an international incident.

        This is like the psycho conservatives in America crying about oppression of the MAGAS when they get busted for wage theft or whatever.

        Bonus:

        Mimi Lau covers human rights, religion and civil society in China. She spent seven years in southern China as the Post's Guangzhou Correspondent before returning to Hong Kong in 2017. Today, Mimi continues to pursue stories across the country, monitoring and reporting on key political and civil issues. She has won numerous awards for her work.

        (Author bio)

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I just crossed off "didn't read the article" and "believed the first white person at face value" off my Western Liberal bingo card.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            For real people, it's not hard. You can also either try and read between the lines with western papers, or look for official records published by China on this shit. Follow sources and see who's saying what.

            Maybe the people who just got busted for doing illegal shit aren't the most reliable narrators. Seems like "entrepreneurs" getting caught doing illegal stuff tend to fall back on the "actually, it's because I did this Tweet about Xi looking like Winnie the Pooh" because it gets them play.

            • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Maybe the people who just got busted for doing illegal shit aren’t the most reliable narrators. Seems like “entrepreneurs” getting caught doing illegal stuff tend to fall back on the “actually, it’s because I did this Tweet about Xi looking like Winnie the Pooh” because it gets them play.

              Yeah. Its really strange because recent news is full of Chud business owners doing illegal shit and then crying about how libs are targeting them for their beliefs or some shit.

              I really want to be charitable and say that most people just haven't made the connection yet.

              • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                This stuff is basically identical to the stories in America about chuds doing mask free bullshit and getting shut down.