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Chinese Ban Internet Rumors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept.

dptalia writes "Chongqing province in southwest China has just passed a law fining people who post malicious rumors online. An individual can face fines of 1,000 to 5,000 yuan ($630) and an organization can be fined between 3,000 and 15,000 yuan."

21 of 161 comments (clear)

  1. Just a Rumour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing for you to see here. Move along.

    1. Re:Just a Rumour by diersing · · Score: 5, Funny

      Little do you know.... the black bicycles have been dispatched and are closing in on your location. I for one welcome our rumor-policing web-filtering overlords.

    2. Re:Just a Rumour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      What would Chuck Norris do?

  2. This news just from Bejing.... by DiscWolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duke Nukem Forever is going gold next week.

    Oops, that one is going to cost me a lot of yuan.

  3. Rumor? by bky1701 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are we sure this isn't just a rumor???

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  4. What about by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 4, Funny

    FUD, Trolling, Flames, Flame-Wars, dupe-posts, Bad Wiki repotage, and general spamming?

    I think we're going to need a rate card for all this...

    Oh the other hand, if more governments took up the cause, think of the revenue! The US could pay off it's national debt in 48 hours.

    Coooool.

    1. Re:What about by KDR_11k · · Score: 1, Funny

      The best part would be that /. couldn't afford to keep Zonk.

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  5. getting the ball rolling by cyberon22 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok gents, so what rumour are we starting this week?

    * China Buys, Loots Taiwan in Second Life

    * Wen Jiabao is also my father

    * Tangshan is bigger than Tianjin... at heart

    * Norman Bethune was gay

    * Shijiazhuang: the next Hong Kong

  6. That's what you get for playing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Chinese whispers

  7. Dear Slashdot, this is China: by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 2, Funny

    this article is a malicious rumour and you have been fined accordingly. Please pay 15,000 yuan.

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    1. Re:Dear Slashdot, this is China: by clickety6 · · Score: 3, Funny

      But if the article is a malicious rumor then it can't be true, then I can't be fined, but if I cna be fined, then it must be true and not a malicious rumouir, which menas I cna be fined, which means.... arrghh!!!!

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  8. Here's our chance by Centurix · · Score: 2, Funny

    We could out-source their rumor making, off shore it for them. I could make online rumors for the average mainland chinese for a fraction of the cost. They would be good rumors too, the kind you'd never get it you off-shored to India or Malaysia, quality rumors like "Low Ping has small nuts", or "Mai Ass is huge".

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  9. So what you're saying is..... by Slovenian6474 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Chinese bans the internet

  10. Even Scarier by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Chinese government is disappearing the homeless and polical dissidents, and in a rather mysterious coincidence, is now providing more citizens than ever with government subsidized meat.

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  11. Re:"Chinese Bans Internet Rumors" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. the chinese have better english than taco

  12. Finally by Plutonite · · Score: 2, Funny

    An internets free of women.

  13. Fools and Their Folly! by faqmaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chinese ban internet rumors. Americans ban internet gambling. What's next? Some fool nation will ban internet pornography? Oh, wait....

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  14. In Soviet Russia by TheCybernator · · Score: 2, Funny

    ....rumours spreads you

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  15. This just in... by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard that Wang Yang, Communist Party of China Committee Secretary of Chongqing province, can't have an orgasm unless he kills a dog.

    That's just what I heard.

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  16. Re:Not Really New by mr_mischief · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have posted an Internet rumor. Please provide substantiation that actual Americans have been actually hauled off to actual prisons that are actually secret, or remit to the Chinese government 1000 yuan.

  17. I'm in Beijing right now... by chord.wav · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and I can tell you there's no such thing as Bar-tender rum hours around here...