Update: AP is still up with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIMnPfFHHw

Reuters bends knee to China dictatorship and removes video of Xi and Putin talking about changing out body parts.

Presumably lots of people have copies, so it's important for them to post them promiscuously -- and if possible anonymously -- to boost Streisand effect.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reuters-withdraws-xi-putin-longevity-video-after-china-state-tv-pulls-legal-2025-09-06/

Xi Jinping and Putin hot mic moment: 'Perhaps even achieve immortality'

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Russia: Asking permission before taking organs is 'inhumane'

At least two lawsuits filed at a top European court allege Russia violated Europe's Human Rights Convention by removing organs from the recently dead without telling relatives. Russia's response: Asking relatives' permission would be "inhumane." Documents provided to the Associated Press detail how Russia is fighting charges over how it harvests organs in two cases submitted to the court last year. Separate decisions are expected in the coming months and could order Russia to rewrite its laws.

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@Npars01 @dangillmor This might be useful context for understanding Putin and Xi's recent hot mic incident, where they talk very optimistically about achieving immortality through organ transplants

Edit: oops, I see the whole thread now, haha

Hot mic catches Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants and immortality

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@Ohsin @dangillmor But maybe this is reverse Streisand effect - distraction, deliberately designed to divert attention to utter nonsense. Including the "censorship".
@Ohsin @dangillmor that really happened? 😱
@lucasth Just imagine what techbro billionaires are discussing and funding..
@Ohsin better not, I wanna stay sane ....
@Ohsin @lucasth some form of the Lawnmower Man I imagine, a new species. The merging of human consciousness and AI with the help of Neuralink. A connected mesh of brain power to lower the cost of compute. Who wants to live forever in the cell of an AGI DB?

@dangillmor they are not really bending knee when they publish a news wire about it.

They just comply loudly so that it makes more noise looking for a Streisand effect.

The original is not surprising... But these dictators are deluding themselves. Medicine is by far not able to prolong life in any meaningful way beyond 80.

@dangillmor Honestly, I think they’re trolling Donald Trump.

Much of what authoritarians do is a carefully orchestrated show.

Here they get double the effect: Show the weakness of the western media, and project strength while maybe making Trump go through some obscene procedure and hurt himself, furthering the chaos US is plunging the West into.

Just my opinion.

@dangillmor this is routinely done by all governments around the world
@dangillmor *takes Reuters off list of trusted sources*
Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com)

Putin and Xi caught on a hot mic

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@dangillmor It's on several news outlets, like BBC, Al Jazeera and France 24.
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Attached: 1 video Here's some of that footage, btw. CCTV, you can address your takedown order to Kevin Rothrock c/o Barbara Streisand.

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@dangillmor China enforcing copyright laws? Who would have thunk it...
@dangillmor Putins words sound as if Russia is doing deep research in this area. 😟