@rms
If this is about laws against #cats then they are likely repressive. To the human and the animal.

We need to focus on limiting #humanExpansion, #urbanSprawl, both vertically and horizontally, over our environment and #habitats, not limiting lifetime companion choices with oft #repressive and #authoritarian laws, that are likely to hit even the most thoughtful and caring in our communities.

I too have #fled a #repressive #regime. My #mom.

@designative

☝️ Calling the pro-democracy #HongKongprotests "often-violent" without basic qualifiers (i.e. that is was the increasingly militarized regime forces forcing the citizens to take ever greater defensive measures) is essentially echoing the #CCP-imposed #Hongkong regime's #propaganda.

Should the #Chinese #dictatorship be even considered in terms of #tourism?

I suppose #business people must keep businessing. But must others normalize the #repressive regime?

Call of hands: Who here enjoys holidaying in a #PrisonOfNations?

#timemagazine #HandelOhneWandel #indifference #whitewashing

RT @freetibetorg@twitter.com

In our #report, @TibetWatch@twitter.com researchers uncovered a network of #repressive security facilities surrounding #Drago ‼️

🧵1/8

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/freetibetorg/status/1619368966740402178

@jxself

The #streamingServices (forced) trend is widely documented as wasteful for #environment and favours entities with large capital to serve such easily from many #datacenter locations. See our recent toot. Also, because they reject #internetAnonymisers the household is trivially #surveilled and thus easily inflenced/led by #advertisers and/or #repressive forces. Includes being targetted for not streaming enough, or switching off the stream at the "wrong" time, etc.

"You're being dramatic"
"You're not respecting Chinese impere& how it helped."
"Your language isn't that important."
"You should just accept that Mandarin & Cantonese are superior."
"Why are you trying to divide Chinese?"
"You're a boat rocker!"
"You should be more ladylike."

All these #repressive & #oppressive statements given to me in #Chinatown areas. Most times I ignore & walk away. Other times, I rip into them in #Teochew & they're shocked. I shouldn't have to face hate from my own ppls.

Business with #repressive #dictatorships looks sacrosanct. Another news story just detailed how #France made that point...

I think it's time to drop all pretense if #EU and #UN *values* are literally meaningless. Surely cutting out the lip-service and #hypocrisy about #ruleOfLaw and #humanrights would leave more money to spend on "more important" stuff..

"Anonymous threats sent by text message and email. GPS tracking devices placed under a car, and #Chinese “funeral money” sent to an office. Ambushes by reporters working for state-controlled media. Accusations of disloyalty in the press.

These are some of the methods deployed in a campaign of intimidation being waged against lawyers in #Hongkong who take on human rights cases, have criticized a #China-imposed national security law or raised alarms about threats to the rule of law."

#CCP #NSL #UK #EuropeanUnion

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-lawyers-crackdown-exodus/

Please provide one example of a reproducible #miraculous event from any #religion? All religions are all #violent #repressive #fascist #cults created to soothe our #existential #angst. An Angry Atheist

@lemondefr
“Hi! I tried to access your site lemonde.fr while using #Tor #Browser and discovered that you don't allow Tor users to access your site. I urge you to reconsider this decision; Tor is used by people all over the world to protect their #privacy and fight #censorship. By blocking Tor users, you are likely blocking people in #repressive countries who want to use a #free #internet, #journalists and #researchers who want to [...]
Thank you”

Source: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/#censorship_censorship-2

#LeMonde

@woz
“Hi! I tried to access your site woz.ch while using #Tor Browser and discovered that you don't allow Tor users to access your site. I urge you to reconsider this decision; Tor is used by people all over the world to protect their #privacy and fight #censorship. By blocking Tor users, you are likely blocking people in #repressive countries who want to use a #free #internet, #journalists and #researchers who want to #protect themselves [...]
Thank you”

Source: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/#censorship_censorship-2

#woz

RT @GiuliaRastajuly@twitter.com

📣 The new EU #migration plan:

❌recycles myopic and #ineffective policies,
❌facilitates #abuses,systematic in #Libya,
❌strengthens #repressive regimes.

#NGOs are already regulated by maritime law & respect it - high time EU states do the same‼️ @hrw@twitter.com
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/01/new-eu-migration-plan-same-rights-violations

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GiuliaRastajuly/status/1598613338673582081

https://twitter.com/giuliarastajuly/status/1598613338673582081?s=12&t=GHir8BbUN9nHAkeq_HUhxw

📣 The new EU #migration plan:

❌recycles myopic and #ineffective policies,
❌facilitates #abuses,systematic in #Libya,
❌strengthens #repressive regimes.

#NGOs are already regulated by maritime law & respect it - high time EU states do the same‼️ @hrw
hrw.org/news/2022/12/0…

— Musk has drawn recent controversy in the U.S—and applause from the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) —
It is one thing to buy a social media company in the U.S., — It’s another to buy #Twitter when Musk’s other companies are entangled with China’s #repressive #regime, which has a history of forcing private companies to serve its interests. #birdsite #FarRight
https://www.thedailybeast.com/congress-should-investigate-elon-musks-business-ties-with-china

Shocking (albeit not surprising) reports of #sexualviolence against women, men and underage teenagers in detention in #Iran. Multiple accounts of security forces using sexual assault as a #repressive tool to incite fear, punish people for joining #protests and intimidate them into silence, including by filming assaults and blackmailing the victims with the recordings

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/11/middleeast/iran-protests-sexual-assault/

Related article:
Qatar’s World Cup is the culmination of decades of #football #capitalusn – a victory for big #corporations and #repressive #regimes , and a #tragedy for the fans and workers who make the game.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/11/qatar-world-cup-football-2022-fifa-money

This tweet is an example of "Nail on the head"!
Not only should the #WorldCup never have been awarded to #Qatar!
No country should attend and partake in the #SportWashing of a #repressive #regime

RT @alandavies1@twitter.com

All football stopped as a mark of respect when Her Majesty the Queen died but we carry on with the Qatar World Cup when over six thousand migrant workers are dead. No one should go there.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alandavies1/status/1592434781039759361

Repressive regime #Bahrain releases leading activist Nabeel Rajab after court passes ‘alt sentence’ ~lawyer
https://www.rt.com/newsline/491305-bahrain-releases-activist-rajab/
In 2012, human rights activist #Nabeel Rajab was in RT's 'The World Tomorrow' by Julian #Assange, himself now illegally held & #tortured by one of the worlds' worst violators of human rights, the #fascist, #repressive, #UK #AngloScum, who plan to extradite Assange to the worlds' worst violator of human rights — USA — for exposing their crimes
https://youtu.be/HdVoBlABSpc