Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ian J. Ball Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Have you ever been critical of the Chinese government? Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:10:09 -1000 Organization: Ballassarian Consortium Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20240327111921.0000506a@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:10:10 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5217bd7dc128d41a39333ee4cc78a878"; logging-data="3928151"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+3wcTX4cgIj38bzr2RHN5C" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:KswR970sBIOcYCM50/2SukYgXUU= Bytes: 1753 On 2024-03-28 07:09:04 +0000, The Horny Goat said: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:44:58 -1000, Ian J. Ball > wrote: > >> And, actually, I was referring to the laws Russia has passed against >> *foreign citizens in other countries*!! Yes, I know it's crazy, but >> they have done it. > > My suspicion is that most of those laws are aimed at former Soviet > citizens who are naturalized Brits (other countries too but mostly > Brits) who have renounced Soviet citizenship which Putin doesn't > recognize if they are of Russian ethnicity. No, I think they've charged, like, the Prime Minister of Estonia and s**t with it. It's completely nuts.