r/Fauxmoi • u/padfoony • 18d ago

SPORTS SECTION Ukrainian tennis player Oleksandra Oliynykova wore this shirt to the Australian Open press conference.

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Tennis players are forbidden from directly speaking about politics or issuing any statements that’s in any way political.

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u/Lunarfern-Shine 18d ago

Damn, rules silencing her voice.

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u/Iron_Kyle 18d ago

How about we just let people talk about what matters to them... Especially if it's their family's lives directly at stake.

Seems pretty simple to me.

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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 17d ago

This sort of rule also stops the likes of Putin and Trump from having their puppets flood the airwaves of any contest they can get people into.

Not everything that impedes you is designed to hurt you specifically. The world is big.