Reuters Withdraws Xi, Putin Longevity Video After China State TV Pulls Legal Permission To Use It (reuters.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/1811238/reuters-withdraws-xi-putin-longevity-video-after-china-state-tv-pulls-legal-permission-to-use-it
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reuters-withdraws-xi-putin-longevity-video-after-china-state-tv-pulls-legal-2025-09-06/
> Reuters News on Friday [1]withdrew a four-minute video containing an exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping [2]discussing the possibility that humans can live to 150 years old , after China state TV demanded its removal and withdrew the legal permission to use it.
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> The footage, which included the open mic exchange from the military parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, was licensed by the China state television network, China Central Television (CCTV). The clips were edited by Reuters into a four-minute video and distributed to more than 1,000 global media clients including major international news broadcasters and TV stations around the world. Other news agency licensees of CCTV also distributed edits of the footage.
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> Reuters removed the video from its website and issued a "kill" order to its clients on Friday after receiving a written request from CCTV's lawyer. The letter said the news agency exceeded usage terms of its agreement. The letter further criticized Reuters "editorial treatment applied to this material," but did not specify details.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reuters-withdraws-xi-putin-longevity-video-after-china-state-tv-pulls-legal-2025-09-06/
[2] https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2131226/putin-and-xi-caught-discussing-organ-transplants-and-immortality
Info op (Score:2)
I'm still half-convinced this is a psyop targeting President Stumpy. They know he's dying as well as anyone else.
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Did you mean "as well as everyone else"?
Don't forget, you're doing it too.
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When Stumpy went silent for close to a week there was widespread speculation that he was dead. This was after the Couchfucker was quoted talking about being ready to step up.
There is still wide discussion about the IV's he's obviously getting in the bruised hand.
Add in the recent photos of him looking like a corpse, and yeah, anyone who is paying attention knows he's in bad shape.
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Cripes, anyone who listens to him speak for more than a minute or two should be able to figure that out.
Off-Topic (Score:4)
The fact that this is a story about (a) Xi Ping and Putin and (b) international News Media bowing down to them, and yet: Every single comment on the site here is a general screed against Trump/Republicans tells you everything you need to know about Slashdot.
Nobody even blinking at the liberal media bowing down to the Commies.
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90% of this is responses to the first post which was "communism is evil". And very few of those responses seem to be about Trump. You seem to have an inability to see reality.
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Honestly I see little difference between Putin, Xi, and Trump. They are all sides of the same coin (yes a three-sided coin. haha). Now that the GOP no longer cares about the constitution at all, have relinquished all congressional power to the president, and kicked out anyone that had the gall to stand up for what was right, they are no different than the CCP or Putin's party, even if their preferred economic system varies. Putin and Trump are happy to let the oligarchs own things provided they pay tribut
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> Every single comment on the site here is a general screed against Trump/Republicans
Lets look at the list of topics before this one:
"Rich folks want to be vampires" - about the rich seeking immortality
"Anything that openly discusses..." - about elites desiring to keep their plans for immortality secret
"Pooh and Eeyore" - a slight toward Xi and Putin
"Info op" - actually about Trump in relation to the story
So, that makes one topic that that is related to Trump and zero screeds against Trump/Republicans.
> Nobody even blinking at the liberal media bowing down to the Commies.
1. Reuters is a non-partisan media outlet. Why you believe they are liberal in nature is a
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> Nobody even blinking at the liberal media bowing down to the Commies.
This isn't bowing down to commies, this is respecting rights to materials as they were published. They are a core media company, not respecting IP rights can get them blacklisted or worse.
They are merely taking down a video that was legally withdrawn, that is typically within the rights of the IP holders when they provide content to media outlets.
> Every single comment on the site here is a general screed against Trump/Republicans
Funny how people are more against people doing blatantly illegal things rather than simply following rules as written. Look I hate Xi and Putin as much as the next
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By "bowing down" you mean complying with international and local copyright law?
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It should be about Reuters maliciously editing bits and pieces of their conversations to throw it in the worst light conceivable as well, but of course it won't be.
In dictatorships, that word is literal (Score:1)
> TFA: ...removed the video from its website and issued a "kill" order to its clients
Is the video archived somewhere ... (Score:2)
... out of reach of copyright-takedown notices?
Rich folks want to be vampires (Score:1)
They want to get powerful, stay powerful, and live forever. The image of a boot stepping on your face: forever. That's why Communist and other Evil Guys do so much research in the area of longevity.
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do you think marx said to have communism you need to murder people?
He said exactly that. If "the people" (and communists like talking about "the people") wouldn't accept communism, it was the state's duty to bring it at the barrel of a gun.
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> do you think marx said to have communism you need to murder people?
What happens when the people you're seizing the means of production from don't want to let you seize it? Asking for a friend.
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Gotta love how this number bounces all over the place depending on the political outlook of the writer, one poster here claimed that Mao killed over 300 million (so over a third of the population) in the Great Leap Forward. The CIA's estimate for the death toll in the Cultural Revolution has varied from under 10 million in the 1970s to something over 30 million during Raygun's reign of error and then back down again. Any estimate from any western source should be taken with a whole shaker of salt (pretty
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Because they always become dictatorships. Always.
And because helping others always takes a backseat to human greed. Don't believe me? I'll pay you to mow my lawn, or you can do it to be nice.
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The conservatives were right about one thing: any system that punishes productivity and rewards neediness is not long-term sustainable. I'd add that violence and fear only keep people in line in the short term.
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> The conservatives were right about one thing: any system that punishes productivity and rewards neediness is not long-term sustainable.
Funny how they only want to not reward neediness and DGAF about how their systems create it. Republicans have been attacking education since the Reagan administration, which makes low-information voters so they can get elected, but also creates low-skill workers who cannot find employment. Then they cry about the rising cost of social programs and tell lies about Democrats trying to keep people on those programs forever (while Democrats are constantly trying to get funding for programs proven to help people
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Couldn't have said it better, it's like a perpetual misery machine of enrichment.
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One might interpret the current administration's hostility to decentralized power generation (wind and solar) and reversal of net neutrality to be part of this desire to foster dependence.
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Careful with that there. You've used up so much straw in that one post that ranchers might face a shortage this winter.
Are you defending the education system that many liberals lovingly refer to as the "school to prison pipeline" or that has left many adults buried under collective debt that is now in the trillions of dollars.
I'm personally all in favor of any program that is so good it eliminates itself out of existence through its own success, but I don't see many of those. I can name a few (Califor
Re:Rich folks want to be vampires (Score:4, Interesting)
I have a more cynical view.
The medical and pharmaceutical industries are the most heavily invested at making money on from the day you are born, to the day you draw your last tortured, well-past-best-by-date, please-kill-me-10-years-ago breath.
I saw it with my grandma, my aunt, and others. People are kept alive just so the docs and pharmas can milk them for 20 years more than they normally would've. For 100% selfish reasons. Not for the patient -- it's "for the family." "Oh how wonderful that you had your grandma 'til so late". Yea buddy, at the end she was trippin' balls, talking about the farm she hadn't seen since the 50's. Her last 10 years were horrible, but of course her daughters were thrilled even tho they were the ones caring for her.
Disgusting. We're like cattle to them.
Yeah, those in power want power forever, but the medical and pharma bros are far worse in how they seek to extend life solely to cash in on that extension.
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And it's so cynical as to be kind of wrong? I'll do the job nobody wants to and stand up for "big pharma"
Pharmaceuticals gave us and still provide inoculation which are actual *cures* to diseases, despite what some folks today say about those. Measles and polio has tons of long term side effects they could profit off of. What about Big Iron Lung?
Cancer survival rates have been going up decade after decade and we are really starting to gain traction with much better treatments for many of them many even wi
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I've worked with pharma. It's complicated.
Pharma companies do make vaccines. Some of them are made and sold at a loss, and quite often given away. Some drugs too. Lots of those vaccines and drugs are the result of public research, but lots of the people who originally discovered them end up getting jobs in pharma, because our academic system is designed to train lots of cheap labour without much thought as to what those people are supposed to do after.
Other drugs are mercilessly marketed, including with tac
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Do you honestly think that doctors keep people alive to make money and not because patients want to keep living? No, I'm sure your grandma was just sick of your family and wanted to die as fast as possible, if only it weren't for those darn doctors.
I don't know if you're just venting about some dispute you think you have with your mother and her sisters, but your emotions have clearly run well past your reason here.
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If a person wants to live long, by all means give them the means to do so. This is what is great about modern medicine and evolving medications and treatments.
However, stretching a person's life against their wish just because it is possible even if they are truly suffering is where the problem lies.
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I think you have to also place blame on the politicians who refuse to find common ground on assisted suicide.
We're allowed to euthanize our pets when they suffer but it's murder if we make that choice about grandma.
Elizabeth Bathory (Score:3)
... was there in spirit.
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> They want to get powerful, stay powerful, and live forever.
Who doesn't want to live forever? It's such a base desire/emotion/instinct that it's been a common trope in story telling for a very long time. The stories often end badly for those that get what they want, because of some other base feelings on how the world works, or should work.
> The image of a boot stepping on your face: forever. That's why Communist and other Evil Guys do so much research in the area of longevity.
I'm pretty sure that this isn't why they do this research but by being people that have little respect for the lives of others they give themselves permission to perform these experiments for "the greater good" or some other BS
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Many empires fell because their dictator/king/queen died and the heirs were incompetent. History would be very different if not for such natural "term limits".
Ukraine may have better odds with Putin's follow-on. The new guy won't have his ego tied to the battle such that he may be willing to settle so as to get the economy back to normal by having sanctions removed as part of the settlement.