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Re:Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' by bausson on Thursday August 08, 2013 @09:49AM (#6178866)
He is I suppose referring to this: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/opinion/homophobia-in-russ...

State homophobia in Russia is becoming a thing really fast these days.

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Re:Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' by hedgie13 on Thursday August 08, 2013 @10:31AM (#6179123)
I will refer to my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6173274

It is probably a bad law, but it certainly not criminalizing people for what they are doing with their genitalia in private. He was probably thinking about Saudi Arabia or Iran, but there is strangely little outrage against them.

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Re:Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' by bausson on Thursday August 08, 2013 @01:36PM (#6180466)
What happen in Saudi Arabia and Iran sure is bad, but it's not new (which excuse nothing).

In Russia, there is a big crackdown on everything LGBT-related, by the government and the church, and its getting worse every day.

A bit more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia

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Re:Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' by gadders on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:30AM (#6179511)
Oh, they're worse. They hang gay people in Iran.
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