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Chinese Ban Internet Rumors
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."
I hear there's rumours on the Internets...
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Why is this flamebait? I don't want to hijack this story, but I think that we should first look to our own government before starting to criticize others'. We have an election coming up where 80% of all votes will be cast on electronic voting machines operated by a private company. I shouldn't need to mention what kind of affiliation the owner has with the Bush Administration. We're being spied on, can be held indefinitely without a reason why or any contact with the outside world...I hope the people with their heads in the sand realize what is happening around them once they come up for air...
"You're everywhere. You're omnivorous."
You shouldn't be flamebait. I find it shocking and appalling that this hasn't been on fark or /. before.
I describe it to my friends like this:
"Did you hear that the US officially disbanded?"
If you cannot ask "Hey, why am I in jail?", you have no freedoms. Every single right in your Bill of Rights was removed by removing HC. Anyone suspected of being a terrorist can be put in jail, indefinitely, with no legal councel. How is that part of a free country?
(HC has been on the books since the 1200s, and is part of the legal system of every country with a Common Law - basically every civilized nation in the world. Even IRAN has it (on paper). )
Oh, and if you haven't done anything wrong, remember that violations of the DMCA can be considered terrorist activities. Nice job hacking your Tivo, Gitmo Boy.
Without Habaeus Corpus, your country is fascist. End Of Story.
You might argue that it's a valuable tool to help eliminate terrorists. Yes, it is. So is just summary execution without trial. You could also murder their children and spouses. You could gun them down and seize their computers. These aren't tools that civilized countries use. That's the downside to our systems - sometimes you KNOW that an asshole has done something, but you can't prove it. You have to let him go. If you have to use torture, secret prisons, and indefinite incarceration, then give up - you've lost The War.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Here's Princeton's Analysis of those voting machines.
Sleep tight.
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.