Chinese e-commerce platform bans "Lie Flat Cat" merchandise for violating “public order and morality”

Originally published at: Chinese e-commerce platform bans "Lie Flat Cat" merchandise for violating "public order and morality" | Boing Boing

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First cats are committing extinction-level bird-crime, then they’re trying to undermine China. Cats are jerks!

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Double banned:

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Wait until you see what Great Danes are doing.

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I’m lying flat right now. Fuck those guys!

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will they similarly attack this guy for suggesting that it’s ok to rest on weekends?

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Looking forward to sploot entering the Chinese lexicon.

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I watched a news show about how Hong Kong was having troubles finding workers for the financial business. They were saying companies were cutting back and relocating elsewhere. They had a lot of reasons but never once did they mention Beijing’s authoritarian rules.

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Aren’t those just normal cats?

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If these petty authoritarians are so concerned about laziness as a real workplace problem, they might want to take a look at the members of whichever committee decided that banning cat cartoons would do anything to address it.

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“…unconstrained autocrats make horrendous mistakes.”

true for this too.

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You might think that they would reward the industrious entrepreneurs who worked out how to profit from an anti-materialist movement.

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I’m with them on the second point, the first, however…:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

You know what you are, don’t you!

(A threat to public order and morality.)

Shame onwell done you!

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It’s a mindset I’ve spent years cultivating.

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That stock photo:

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I am reminded of people characterizing people only doing the work that they are contracted and paid for as “quiet quitting.”

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Also known as a work-to-rule.

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