418
The AI Termination Ban: Why Chinese Courts Just Made It Illegal to Replace Workers with Robots
(finance.yahoo.com)
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
418 points (98.4% liked)
World News
56008 readers
2244 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I really doubt they'll actually stick to this in practice. Keep in mind, China is not a place with binding rule of law.
When it gets in the way of whatever industrial expansion, workers rights to not have toxic rocket fuel falling on them or to get paid for their house being demolished aren't even respected.
The rule of law isn't an exclusively Western concept. But since you're speaking so confidently you must be an expert in the Chinese legal system.
I have family in adjacent, politically similar countries. Most likely, you're a white person with no connections to Asia who likes to project fantasies on it, which is why you're on .ml.
It's a Liberal concept, not a Western one. Tudor England or whatever worked the same way before the age of revolutions. As did everything else all the way back to prehistory, more or less.
I got my answer, thank you very much.
No, you got called out on basically being a left-themed orientalist, and now want to run away.
I guess I'm an orientalist now
Ah yes, the old "I own a book" defense. Or maybe the "I'm also vaguely non-Western" defence (maybe you have Tatar heritage?). Either way, you are what you pretend to hate.
Robin DiAngelo in the chat, trying to make labor issues about race again
I mean, you can argue with .ml about political philosophy or economics, but it's a waste of time because that's not their real motive. You might as well argue rocketry with a moon landing denier.
"These places you have funny ideas about are real places to me, and they're not like that" is more productive. They can either actually engage, or run away to protect themselves.
I also have a girlfriend in another school, what a coincidence!
No u.
found the idiot who still believes that America is the pinnacle of following the laws and believes American propaganda about China. unlike America where pedophiles get rewarded with money and positions of power. China executes them publicly.
Hell China is much harsher on criminals regardless of race... unlike America where blacks get jailed for doing drugs while white serial rapists get a pat on the head because "one mistake shouldn't ruin a a young kid's life". (with those kids being fucking adults).
If you're actually interested in Chinese justice vs. American justice, and how that's related to rule of law vs. party leadership, there's interesting things to say.
However, a month old account coming in and fixating on race, which wasn't even mentioned in OP but rather later in response to someone else, seems more like trolling.
ah yes the old "you are a new account so anything you say is fake" defense. how fucking pathetic are you? wait don't answer that. I don't care about your delusional narrative. come back with an actual argument rather than a "your account is new so you must be fake" statement.
China isn't perfect but it's at least not run by a bunch of pedophiles like America or a bunch of war crime creators like Canada.
but what can I expect from someone who values account age over truth.
Lolwhut?
China has about the same laws on property rights as elsewhere. It was introduced in 2007 which is why we see so many stories on funny "strong nail" houses from China.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china-nail-houses-in-pictures-property-development
Yup, you can write anything. The USSR also guaranteed freedom of speech in it's constitution, IIRC.
People who are purely Western often forget it, but laws that actually apply to everyone all the time are a very recent phenomenon. Historically, and in other places, they're more like guidelines for what to do when there's no other major considerations.
Its insane to say that while they cut down the national forests of America for profit.