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I posted this elsewhere but you are just incorrect. Yeah because those countries often allow someone to be turn themselves in and then offer the accused freedo
by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I posted this elsewhere but you are just incorrect.
Yeah because those countries often allow someone to be turn themselves in and then offer the accused freedom of movement for 250 dollars (10% bail).
Oh wait they just poison (Russia), disappear (China) or hang (Iran).
Are there problems in the US? Oh certainly. But don't belittle the activists in authoritarian countries by saying someone who was arrested for downloading PII is somehow equivalent to poisoning members of an opposition party.
- mempko 6y agoExcept Li Wenliang in China was never jailed and completely exonerated by the state and never lost his job.
- salmon30salmon 6y agoCool you found one! I guess that makes up for all of the other examples of human rights and judicial abuses by China. Someone tell the Uyghurs, China is all good on human rights now! He's also dead. Was it Covid? Did they allow an independent autopsy?
- the-dude 6y agoAren't some death penalties in the US performed by injection of a lethal dose of ... poison ?
- dang 6y agoPlease stop feeding flamewars on HN. You've been doing way too much of this, unfortunately. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html