Bret Baier’s Fox News crew was busted by Beijing’s cameras for illegal parking during Donald Trump’s state visit—and locals filmed the team blocking traffic too.
Bret Baier’s Fox News crew was busted by Beijing’s cameras for illegal parking during Donald Trump’s state visit—and locals filmed the team blocking traffic too.
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unmagical@lemmy.ml · 134 pts · 92d
So you got in trouble for breaking the law then turned that into a statement about the bad evil surveillance state while you hold water for a party trying to erect a surveillance state in the US?
Seems stupid, but I guess that's what you get when you are primarily an "entertainment" channel.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 50 pts · 92d
Also hilarious that they're complaining about the jaywalking laws in China when they're only just catching up to the level of stupidity that the US has had for ages.
Like shit, American companies coined the term jaywalking ffs
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 92d
Before cars took over our streets it was just called "walking".
TransNeko@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
Jaywalking is only illegal in the USA if you aren't a white man.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 92d
They're upset because the "backwards commies" are better than them at a game they thought they were the champions of.
Rothe@piefed.social · 9 pts · 92d
It already exists in the US. They just want to add to it.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 91d
Have you already forgotten the Snowden Revelations???
stumu415@lemmy.zip · 104 pts · 92d
One Fox News viewer offered a more measured perspective, "Cool, that's how parking enforcement works in NYC, DC, Chicago, LA, London, and basically every major city with cameras," adding, "You park illegally, the system catches it, you get a ticket."
The same commenter elaborated, "The only difference is the speed of the notification. Most US cities mail you the ticket a few days later. Beijing sends a text the same day. The technology is faster. The system is the same.
If "automated parking enforcement that texts you when you violate the rules" is communism, then NYC's $238 million in annual camera-issued parking tickets is the largest communist enterprise in North America."
hungprocess@piefed.world · 53 pts · 92d
I'm getting a kick out of this comment because I just got a ticket from NYC because their 30x20 pixel camera decided someone else's plate looked like mine. I live in a different state and haven't been to NYC since middle school. The car is completely different from mine. /rant
Fuck Fox and its viewers though.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 91d
I one time got a ticket from one of the Carolinas. The farthest east I've ever been is Arkansas and the farthest east any of my cars have been is Utah.
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 92d
Parking illegally is a sport in NYC
Asafum@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 92d
Some schmucks will even play the game of "maybe this loser will pay my ticket."
I was legally parked with a work van and came back to a ticket on my windshield tucked under the wiper blade. I knew I was parked legally so I opened it kinda pissed off only to see the ticket was written for a red truck and I was in a white van lol what a prick...
pwalshj@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 92d
Those scumbags will ticket work vans if they are below quota b/c they assume you're too busy to fight it.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 92d
I wouldn't mind China arresting fox news for being political agitators. Those "Press" badges are fake.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 91d
They themselves argued successfully in court that they're entertainment, not news. So yes.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 91d
Anyone working at Fox news lacks the emotional capacity to feel humiliation or embarrassment.
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 92d
Humiliated for USians: Has to deal with the consequences of a legal system 🤣🤣🤣🤣
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 91d
Good. Fuck Fox News.
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 92d
Hahahahaha suck it Faux.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 92d
There's jaywalking laws here??? That's news to me.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 92d
I'm just glad Faux "News" was humiliated
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 92d
The world would be a better place if everyone in the US treated these bigots and freaks as heavy handedly as Chinese citizens do