jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAn Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at the supreme leaderwww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAn Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at the supreme leaderwww.npr.orgjeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squarexantoxis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoSo, the article doesn’t say. What the hell did the dot mean?
minus-squareArbiter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoAbsolutely nothing, that was the point.
minus-squareremotelove@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYeah. Russia did the same to protesters who held blank signs after the invasion of Ukraine.
minus-squareArbiter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYeah, the idea is the words are illegal to say but by saying nothing you know what they are protesting.
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workscakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agothe problem with this is, you can arrest anyone, claiming they protested by doing nothing
minus-squaremagikmw@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYea, well. I don’t think it’s contrary to the politics of the regime.
minus-squareShareMySims@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoEngland on the bandwagon too: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anti-monarchy-protest-russia-police-b2166183.html
So, the article doesn’t say.
What the hell did the dot mean?
Absolutely nothing, that was the point.
No, that was the dot.
Yeah. Russia did the same to protesters who held blank signs after the invasion of Ukraine.
Yeah, the idea is the words are illegal to say but by saying nothing you know what they are protesting.
the problem with this is, you can arrest anyone, claiming they protested by doing nothing
Yea, well. I don’t think it’s contrary to the politics of the regime.
England on the bandwagon too:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anti-monarchy-protest-russia-police-b2166183.html