Authorities across China are cracking down on thousands of college students who took part in mass night-cycling events that commentators said could be seen as a new form of protest against the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

The police department in Henan’s Zhengzhou city issued a warning to students on Nov. 9, following a mass “night ride to Kaifeng” by thousands of young people a day earlier, as a social media video about riding to the city in search of dumplings spawned dozens of copycat outings, eventually expanding to a mass cycle ride that some observers said left the authorities rattled, concerned that it could turn into a political protest like the “white paper” movement two years ago, or Halloween in Shanghai.

Edit: these events are widely reported by diverse news sources:

BBC | CNN | ABC (Australia) | Sky News

  • Nah fuck that. Letting them organize makes a space hostile to the groups they are intolerant of.

    Well ive gone and read some of ur comment history and you have been very intolerant in lots of cases. U have called for acts of violence to be enacted. You have gottten these ideas from lemmy.ml and hexbear. So i guess by logical deduction we can conclude that those instances are actually hate groups u are a member of said hate group and u being here is making this space hostile to those you are intolerant of.

    I am bing tolerant of ur intolerance and the world hasnt spontaneously combusted.

    Weird cults obviously fail this test.

    So does ur ideology get off ur heigh horse.

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      you have been very intolerant in lots of cases. U have called for acts of violence to be enacted.

      Violence to stop the harm of a marginalized group isn’t the same as violence by a hate group against a marginalized group.

      Or do you think fighting a transphobe is the same as a transphobe hatecriming a trans person?

      I thought we’d established, tolerating nazis is intolerance.