A draft law sparks debate with locals calling it absurd and questioning how they would be policed.

A draft law banning speech and dressing “detrimental to the spirit of Chinese people” has sparked debate in China.

If the law comes into force, people found guilty could be fined or jailed but the proposal does not yet spell out what constitutes a violation.

Social media users and legal experts have called for more clarity to avoid excessive enforcement.

China recently released a swathe of proposed changes to its public security laws - the first reforms in decades.

The clothing law has drawn immediate reaction from the public - with many online criticising it as excessive and absurd.

The contentious clauses suggest that people who wear or force others to wear clothing and symbols that “undermine the spirit or hurt the feelings of the Chinese nation” could be detained for up to 15 days and fined up to 5,000 yuan ($680; £550).

  • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I find this kind of interesting after Naomi Wu (also known as SexyCyborg) recently had a run-in with the CCP and has largely gone silent online.

    For anyone not familiar with her/her situation, she’s a tech/maker YouTuber. She has a pretty radical look with enormous fake boobs and skimpy outfits, but she does have some genuinely interesting content. She had been calling out some security vulnerabilities that recently got some attention so that’s likely why the Chinese government, in her words, clipped her wings, but she had a bit of a target painted on her back regardless because of her appearance, being a lesbian, and because her girlfriend is a Uyghur.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      bit of a target painted on her back regardless because of her appearance, being a lesbian, and because her girlfriend is a Uyghur.

      “Bit of a target” indeed. She’s like a walking Bingo card of everything China suppresses.

      Hope she’s okay.

      • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 years ago

        The wild part to me is that overall I never got the impression from anything I saw from her that she was particularly anti-ccp, some of the annoyed grumbling I’d expect from literally anybody living under any government in the world, but that’s about it. Overall she seemed to be a pretty proud Chinese citizen, and probably a good spokesperson for the Chinese tech sector, from watching her videos I know that I’m slightly less quick to dismiss any Chinese gadgets as chinesium garbage. I’d think she’d be more useful to keep around for PR purposes, but after her previous incidents didn’t make significant waves with her western audience, it seems that they figured they’re free to bully her however they want to now.

    • vlad@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Jesus Christ, I know moving your life is not that simple, but she and her gf need to run from that hell hole.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I’m unable to find the original Chinese, but couldn’t “hurt national feelings” just as well be translated as “do emotional damage”? Like walking around London 1997 with a shirt that said “Princess Di deserved to die”? Now while that aint illegal in the UK (as far as I know) it’s at least a little less ridiculous to talk about trauma from events that affect a nation rather than this dismissive right-wing language of “hurt national feelings”.

    (this is not a pro-CCP comment please give me the benefit of the doubt)

    • Lols [they/them]@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 years ago

      wearing a t-shirt saying an actual valued member of the royal family deserved to die likely would get you arrested in the UK, regardless of the legality of it