China Rewards Porn Snitches

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Posted by timothy on Sunday October 10, 2004 @05:29PM from the don't-look-just-tell dept.

MinimeMongo writes that the "Associated Press reports that China's police ministry on Sunday handed out rewards of up to $240 to people who reported pornographic Web sites in a campaign to stamp out online smut...The online crackdown is part of a sweeping official morality campaign launched this year on orders from communist leaders."

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RIP Christopher Reeve by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 17:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

From Drudge Report:

Report: Christopher Reeve is dead

Veteran Hollywood reporter Nikki Finke has learned that actor Christopher Reeve is dead, according to sources close to the actor. He died suddenly Sunday. News of his death has not been reported publicly yet. His family will make an announcement Monday at the earliest. Reeve was just mentioned Friday in the second live presidential debate by John Kerry. Noting he was a friend of the paralysed Reeve, Kerry said he was in favor of further stem cell research because Reeve could walk again one day thanks to such science....
1. Re:RIP Christopher Reeve by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 17:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Truly an American Icon.
2. Re:RIP Christopher Reeve by Ziest · 2004-10-10 17:54 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  Yep, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting this.
  
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3. Re:RIP Christopher Reeve by mikeage · 2004-10-10 19:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  It's true.
  Google News
  
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Sad news ... Christopher Reeve, dead at 52 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 17:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just saw some sad news on Drudge Report - Sci Fi star Christopher Reeve was found dead in his home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
apropos by Doc+Ruby · 2004-10-10 17:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

My Slashdot "fortune", at the bottom right of the page with your post, says:

"One size fits all": Doesn't fit anyone.

We're not going to get boringly competent presidents until we remove the campaign bribes^Wfunding and media personality cults^W^Wbubbles from the critical path to elections. Remember that the November ballot is effectively a binary choice, for better or worse. Abstaining, or voting for a certain-to-lose candidate, means tacitly accepting whichever crook the rest of the electorate chooses for you. Personally, I prefer to at least make my own mistakes - it's less humiliating than being done in by millions of strangers. Hold your nose and vote for one of these two crooks; you're going to get one of them, so you might as well at least mitigate the damage a little.

BTW, vote for Kerry. Bush is a lot worse, as is abundantly clear, and will become too painful to bear without the bait of reelection dangling before him.

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1. Re:apropos by Doc+Ruby · 2004-10-10 18:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I wouldn't know, Anonymous loser Coward, I've never tried. It's probably pretty cool to be the Democrat who wins the 2004 election, though. FWIW, it must suck to be a Republican, because all the stupidest responses I get from them are signed "Anonymous Coward". Yella Republicans.
  
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2. Re:apropos by Doc+Ruby · 2004-10-10 19:02 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  Yeah, Kerry keeps repeating the simple outlines of his plan, though somehow the media (and many opponents) keep ignoring it, and claiming he has none. As I (not a part of the Kerry campaign or his policy staff) understand it:
  
  1> Accept that we are still at war
  2> Add enough properly supplied troops to the level necessary for tactical victories, and control the entire country (not just the parts on camera)
  3> Bring our allies back to help, like in 1990, when it cost us only about $5B (instead of the $200B so far this time) and we all bore the casualties. That will also remove lots of recruiting propaganda about "Iraq vs. America". Our allies include, first and foremost, Iraqis.
  4> Rebuild infrastructure to keep Iraqis vested interest in peace, rather than keeping them with nothing to lose
  
  Their plan is detailed more at their website.
  
  You'll hear Bush (and company) say that Kerry has no plan, that his plan is wrong, and that his plan is the same as theirs, depending on which audience Karl Rove thinks is listening. Bush obviously has no plan - the man himself has never had a plan, other than to stay close to his father - and is just hoping to keep the game rigged long enough to keep his job through the election, so he can forget about it for awhile, work on some other ripoffs. Kerry is making his own decisions, and needs to close the book successfully on Iraq, like Clinton did on the Bush Sr deficit and recession, to get reelected in 2008. Let's get someone in there with accountability. Enough of this media hero worship claptrap about "better character": they're both in the "compromise business" (politics); I want the guy who can get caught and stopped when he does wrong. Kerry is much more accountable, while Bush is incapable of even admitting he's ever made even a single mistake. He doesn't know how. Let's give him a few decades to figure out who screwed up his reelection, where he can't hurt anyone any more.
  
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Re:Zombie SPAM by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 17:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Slashdot is a respectable news site? LOL!

You cry for censorship. How unsurprising of you.
And in related news... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 17:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And in related news, Australia's newly-re-elected federal government looks set to enter in to cosy deals with the right wing Family First Party in order to get some of John Howard's pet reforms through the Senate. (Family First could hold the balance of power in the Senate)

This effectively means that the Great Firewall of Australia could almost be a reality. Even scarier is that one of Howard's pet reforms is the full privatisation of the national telco/isp Telstra. Family First acknowledge that most small ISP's will go out of business with the Great Firewall of Australia, and a privatised Telstra would welcome the reduction in competition.
Re:LOL Christopher Reeve. DEAD. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 17:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hey you may be interested in crapflooding the following blog, this guy is hilarious. He still uses words like "nutsack" -
Christopher Reeve dead at 52 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 18:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - actor Christopher Reeve was found dead in his New York home last night. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Dumbass by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 18:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You forgot to replace Rob with Chris several times in this recycled troll.
Re:Morality by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-10 22:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The simularitys between US and Islamic states is amasing.
Both hate sex, both love guns.
Both have relougus fantics as leaders.
Re:control by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-11 02:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It is a slippery slope. First you decide you don't want us looking at child porn. Then it's regular porn. Then it's anime that might contain nudity. Then it's all anime. Then it's cartoons. Then it's DVDs from Asia. Then it's all DVDs. Then it's movies. Then it's TV. Then it's radio. Then it's newspapers. Then it's freedom of speech.

You obviously haven't been paying attention to the Bush Regime... you should have put the last statement first. It would have saved you some typing.