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China Releases Cyber Dissident

Posted by timothy on from the no-hard-feelings-eh dept.

Ridgelift writes "Reuters UK has the story on the release of three 'cyber dissidents' just one week before a trip by visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to the United States. One of the dissidents, 23-year-old Liu Di, aka the 'Stainless Steel Mouse,' had been detained since November 2002. She wrote political satire about the ruling Communist Party and posted messages in Internet chatrooms calling for the release of online dissidents. She was never formally charged, but kept at Qincheng Prison for over a year."

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  1. Unfair! by npistentis · · Score: 5, Funny

    How is it that some people get cool nicknames, like "the Stainless Steel Mouse" and "Iceman" and "Dozer." The best I could ever manage was Lunchbox...

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    1. Re:Unfair! by TomHoward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm sure the "Stainless Steel Mouse" isn't looking too stainless after a year in prison.

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    2. Re:Unfair! by Inda · · Score: 3, Funny

      In Counterstrike you are illiterate?

      In Counterstrike you lose the ability to type properly?

      In Counterstrike you are a sad fuck who gets upset when people can't or won't understand the points you are trying to make?

      Please don't Rox0r my Box0r - wtf I was j/k mofo so u stfu kthxbye

      Arse.

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  2. Outrageous! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    She was never formally charged, but kept at Qincheng Prison for over a year.


    Never formally charged! That's outrageous! When will those Chicoms desist from such tyrannical and autocratic practices and embrace democracy, a proper Bill of Rights and the rule of law like we have here in the good ol' US of A.

  3. Translation by richie2000 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "She was never formally charged, but kept at Qincheng Prison for over a year."

    So Qincheng is the Chinese word for Guantanamo, then? Good to know.

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  4. Chinese government officials have sex with mules! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine going to jail for such a comment! ROTFLMAO!!!

  5. consider yourself lucky by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 3, Funny

    the only two I ever got were billygoat and pencildick.

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    1. Re:consider yourself lucky by roystgnr · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wait, so you're telling us your mom named you "Jafafa Hots"?

  6. Re:Simpleton by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know about that last guy, but if I had 1 billion people, I'd have a big elimination tournament. The last million people standing would form the most bad-ass nation on the planet.

  7. Re:Howard Dean for President by fenix+down · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not really, but considering our other options are Satan, a Republican, a nerd, three idealogical voids, Generic Southern Presidential Candidate #4572, and some minorities who'd just get shot on the way home from the innauguration, I'd go with the mutant with the neck that creates it's own weather patterns. And it's Dr. Mutant to you, Mister.

    Although, of course, if this was still the heady 90s when you got to vote for who you wanted to win, I'd go with Carol, the only potential candidate from any party with any oratory skill whatsoever, but if I were willing to elect politicians irregardless of the near-certain inevitability of their assasination, I'd be asking Hillary or Teddy to run.