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[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 93 points 1 day ago

Is nobody concerned that illegal experiments on babies only gets you 3 years?

Maybe they were Uyghurs so it was classified as "property damage" in Chinese law.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

Be careful, you might get banned from lemmy dot ml for hatespeech against dictatorships.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago

It's literal misinformation, so it probably should be removed, yes.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

I've blocked that instance, but if they need more material to ban me I have it.

[-] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 day ago

Everyone who opposes dictatorships is a Nazi or a liberal, who are also Nazis.

[-] SuperNovaStar 22 points 1 day ago

Nazis, by definition, do not oppose dictatorships. Not sure where you got that idea, but it certainly wasn't a level-headed assessment of history.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 23 hours ago

The guy you're responding to is a liberal doing a piss poor parody of a ML.

You can't do a good parody if you get angry before the punchline, or don't understand the thing you're parodying in the first place.

[-] SuperNovaStar 6 points 21 hours ago

I assume you guys get that a lot?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 7 points 21 hours ago

Yup. It's actually crazy how anticommunist propaganda creates so many people who are so confidently wrong about things that are so easy to investigate.

[-] supernight52@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Lol it's so anti-communist to be anti-tankie. /s

[-] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 day ago

I read it in Das Kapital, by Joseph Stalin. Don't you liberal anarkiddies read theory?

[-] Aux@feddit.uk 2 points 17 hours ago

Who cares about a tankie instance?

[-] Probius@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Why did you self censor by saying "dot"?

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I wrote that on my phone's touch keyboard, and I didn't want to use \. to escape the dot character to avoid autohotlinking.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

The devil is in the details....

You are likely thinking (as I am) that he implanted robotic arms on babies but he may have just rubbed sage oil on them for all we know

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago

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

Laws were changed after this incident:

In 2020, the National People's Congress of China passed Civil Code and an amendment to Criminal Law that prohibit human gene editing and cloning with no exceptions

So, in case you actually meant that weird ignorant remark you made about Uyghurs, the answer is no and no.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 14 points 23 hours ago

Lemmitors downvoting you because actually learning about the case conflicts with their "cHiNa BaD" circlejerk.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

It was a joke... You don't get to jail for experimenting with slaves in China.

[-] drislands@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

Thanks for the information -- good to know. I assume that like American law, he couldn't be punished for something that wasn't illegal when he did it?

Regarding the Uyghur comment the other guy made, definitely a bit tasteless but I don't think it's that ignorant given the genocide China perpetrated against them.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

What he did was illegal. Even without specific laws about genetic modification or cloning, he did perform experiments with babies without the necessity approvals from ethics and safety, without informed consent from the parents and likely misusing funds allocated to other research.

3 years is still to short.

he couldn’t be punished for something that wasn’t illegal when he did it?

I don't think CCP cares about the principle of no ex post facto punishments.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago

Depends how successful the experiment is (and probably on what the goal is as well).

If he'd been testing the effects of grass vs grain feed on human fat marbling, I'd imagine the sentence would have been a little more severe

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago

Dang, you can really just pull shit straight out of your ass and people will believe it.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago
[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yes, .ml users do indeed tend to be more concerned with fact-checking and saying things that are actually true as compared to flat.world, thank you for pointing that out.

[-] Tope@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Asking out of curiosity what does that "ml" mean?

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Supposed to mean ~~"machine-learning"~~ Mali, but the developers of Lemmy (whose instance it is) are using it to mean "Marxism-Leninism", which is a misnomer invented by Stalin. While ml has some non-tankie leftists, that instance is infamous because of them.

[-] 3x7x37@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 23 hours ago

Supposed to mean “machine-learning”

No, it officially stands for Mali. Why do you think it stands for machine leaning?

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

Great question! The truth is that the CCP and Russian Federation are basically spiritual successors of Marx himself. Here's a list of bullet points explaining...

[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

It's actually the TLD for Mali, not explicitly related to machine learning, or leftism. That's mainly what it's used for though, outside of Mali.

[-] NIB@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Marxism leninism, it's a political ideology, subset of communism. Basically the communists that love USSR, China, Cuba, etc. They love running propaganda about how these authoritarian governments did nothing wrong and how all criticism of them is just negative propaganda by the West.

[-] Tope@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you kind stranger. Now I get the .ml hate

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago

And China executed a shitload of people for political dissent...

[-] nope@jlai.lu 1 points 21 hours ago

And in what context medical experiments should be allowed on babies ?

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

A lot of contexts? Like the development depending on formula vs mother's milk? Experimenting doesn't need to mean vivisection or injecting unregulated drugs, but if you need to do the experiments illegally, I'm not sure it was something "safe"

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 20 hours ago

Not babies, embyros

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