‘Pillar of Shame’ Tiananmen memorial erected outside European Parliament | CNN
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A model of the “Pillar of Shame,” which was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021, has gone on display in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.

Depicting a heap of contorted bodies and screaming faces, the statue was unveiled Tuesday as part of an exhibition of “forbidden art” that organizers said had been censored or “deemed subversive” by Hong Kong and mainland China.

The exhibition was hosted by Jens Galschiøt, the Danish artist behind the famous sculpture, and Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, a member of the European Parliament (MEP). A further six MEPs, including representatives from each of the parliament’s five largest political coalitions, were listed as co-hosts.

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
    English
    12·
    9 个月前

    LoL… I have a relatively limited Blocklist of tankies and therefore do not see any of their drivel anymore. Seriously, just block the names you recognize… at 20 your Lemmy experience will be much more sane.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      91·
      9 个月前

      I tend to block anyone with an @hexbear on sight even if they’re making an innocuous comment. It’s takes a certain type of person to choose that instance. I’m at like 30 blocks including their instance and yea my feed is solid.

      • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        9 个月前

        it takes a certain kind of person

        I don’t think many of them are people, they’re LLMs. Those that are actually people didn’t choose Hexbear, their bosses who pay them to be shills chose it.

        Similar problems at lemmy.ml but not as bad.

    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
      31·
      9 个月前

      I’ve got 53 users blocked, plus 2 instances and a dozen or so communities on otherwise sane instances. Lemmy is nice now.

      • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
        English
        4·
        9 个月前

        Right? It is wonderfull. I also ended up blocking lemmy.ml and switching all .ml communities to alternatives. That is also a step I can recommend.

        • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          9 个月前

          Yeah I’ve blocked most communities there except for a handful that don’t have real alternatives, else I would.

    • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      9 个月前

      The instance I’m on is (was?) federated with hexbear. As soon as instance blocking was added as a feature I blocked hexbear and lemmygrad. It was a drastic improvement.