http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/n...ese-tweet.html
Ah, yes. Socialism the Chinese Way.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/n...ese-tweet.html
Ah, yes. Socialism the Chinese Way.
Saw that article. I hate twitter, but a year of 'reform through labor' for THAT is the stupidest f'ing thing ever.
Read the latest chapters of Coiling Dragon at Wuxia World!
the government must employ some top text miners.
忽见柳荫下两个小孩子在哀哀痛哭,瞧模样正是武敦儒、武修文兄弟。郭芙大声叫道:「喂,你们在干甚麽?」武 修文回头见是郭芙,哭道:「我们在哭,你不见麽?」
I can't believe they're still doing this sh*t in China. How long has it been since Mao died?
O-M-G I must share this one on my Facebook lol
I like me.
This is way too silly. Sent to labor camp for one year over 5 words in Twitter? She's not even tweeting anti-government messages.
The problem to me is not about impeding free speech. It's the OTT reaction. Her punishment far outweigh her 'crime'.
Didn't PRC themselves encourage anti-Japanese sentiments lately? They allowed anti-Japanese rally to be held earlier on (albeit in a controlled environment). They got their people's sentiment all high and now they are punishing their people for it.
The woman must have gotten the shock of her life. She might even be thinking she's being patriotic. But, suddenly got arrested and sent to one year labor for it.
PRC should be more consistent with their ruling. Not change tune according to whim. Reminds me of the Tang Wei incident.
什麼是朋友?朋友永遠是在你犯下不可原諒錯誤的時候,仍舊站在你那邊的笨蛋。~ 王亞瑟
和諧唔係一百個人講同一番話,係一百個人有一百句唔同嘅說話,而又互相尊重 ~ - 葉梓恩
Hm... I wonder what would happen if I encouraged violence against, say, the President or a forign embassy would turn out. Anyone can claim to be satirical or joking after getting caught.
As for the 1 year labor camp, yea, that's harsh, and not exactly consistent. But then again rule of law and being consistent is not exactly China's strong point.
Now, if someone actually followed that and went smashing Japanese pallavion, I imagine the head line would be something like:
"PRC encourages local angry youth to smash Japanese pallavion as political message."
PRC doesn't need to encourage anything. All they need to do is give free pass to anti-Japanese organizers and it will blow up by itself, especially after things like the boat captain incident or the history book whitewash incident. A lot of times the local authorities/media have to step in to keep the nationalist sentiment in check.Didn't PRC themselves encourage anti-Japanese sentiments lately? They allowed anti-Japanese rally to be held earlier on (albeit in a controlled environment). They got their people's sentiment all high and now they are punishing their people for it.
Although I'm not surprised that western media would get this little "fact" wrong.
She broke the law though didn't she?
If I tell you I'd hit you with a stick if you do something I told you not to. You best believe I'd hit you hard.
It's still breaking the law. If I grafitied patriotic messages, patriotic though it may be, it's still breaking the law.
Encouraging people to perform destructive and violent actions is just stupid, so the women made the mistake of being stupid. But to send her to a camp for that is also stupid. Two wrongs in this case. One slightly more wrong.
Because I'm somewhere in between,
My love and my agony.
Twitter is banned in China I believe.
Can we get that same punishment here? I'm really sick of the fvcking Twits.
"Anything you can't say NO to is your MASTER, and you are its SLAVE."
"I disapprove of what I say, but I will defend to the death my right to say it."