this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
80 points (88.5% liked)

World News

52854 readers
2392 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

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 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

"But today I changed my mind, completely," Ai said. "The West (is) not even (in a) position to accuse China. (They must) just check on their record (of) what they did on international human rights, (their) freedom of speech record."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank you. That's something I did not know about. I read the timeline of events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Action

It seems like an abuse of power by the government, parliament and cops, suggesting that several branches of power structures are capable of using violence against speech they don't like.

However, in my eyes, this does not sum up to "China has better freedom of speech". In the UK, the ban was publicly debated and opposed by several people and media channels, and is being reviewed by a court, with outcomes still unknown. In China, treatment would be more severe.

But it definitely pushes the UK towards the low end of the freedom of speech scale.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 25 minutes ago

There's probably a little hyperbole on my part but it's not looking good for basic speech in the UK