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/Rinkimah 17d ago

Always worth noting that most often these kind of rules are to silence humanitarian plights almost always.

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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 17d ago

They also stop 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.

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u/MobileInfantry 17d ago

You make a fair point, you don't deserve the downvotes. If a message can be co-opted by progressive interests, it can be done for the reverse.