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Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York

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61 points ilamont | 1 comments | 08 Nov 25 15:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ronsor ◴[08 Nov 25 17:14 UTC] No.45858240[source]▶
Only using the word "Authorities" in the title understates the significance of this.

This is not the US government shutting down a film festival; this is the Chinese government engaging in an illegal overseas harrassment campaign in order to suppress negative depictions of itself.

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1. gradientsrneat ◴[08 Nov 25 18:55 UTC] No.45858981[source]▶
Yea and the use of the phrase "severe repression" in the article is arguably a bad faith euphemism given that millions of Muslims have been detained by China while women were forcibly sterilized, which is genocide by the United Nations definition. Meanwhile their culture has been repressed as well, in a manner consistent with cultual genocide, which the United Nations does not recognize as a concept.