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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Oh shit someone tell the ~~fascist scum~~ liberal toads that its actually blue on blue, this guy was working for a honky kong universty!!!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Source: My racism

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

"If everything else fails, pull the racism card"

Source: the ml handbook

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago

Yeah I do assume racists are racist when they pull random claims that non-white countries are ontologicaly evil with no proof, it shows the racists bias.