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China Jails Porn Site Leader For Life
eldavojohn writes "The AP has picked up the story of a man convicted of serving internet porn in China. They report that he has been jailed for life. Eight accomplices were given sentences ranging from a few months to almost a decade. Some might view internet pornography as morally wrong but I wouldn't think it to warrant a lifetime sentence." From the article: "Xinhua reported that police said it was difficult to know the exact amount of profits the Web site earned. Police found about 200,000 yuan ($25,000) in the bank accounts of the nine. When the site was closed in October last year, it contained more than 9 million pornographic images and articles, the police said."
I'm not trying to troll. If I were, I would be an Anonymous Coward. These crass web sites not only typically have no value as information, they are crass in the way that they mock God's evolution. They go against my ethics. I know I'm not alone in this.
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In my country, I am stolen from on a daily basis. This has gone on my entire life. The worst part is, the theft is done by the government and if I refuse, I'll get thrown in jail for probably a decade or two. Money is taken from every day's wages I earn, and given to others. Others who are deemed "more needy" by some great power in Washington. As I've worked harder and became more productive, they've taken more and more, at greater and greater percentages. It is now up to 30%.
The worst part is, the government has suckered almost everyone into agreeing with them, by paying for a very small quanity of things that I DO use out of the money they steal from me. For example, I am forced to drive on government funded roads to get to work. Because the government built the roads, they essentially squashed any chance that a private road would ever be built. So, I trade 30% of my salary for a road.
They also force a ransom from me every year for the property I own. They use this money to fund horrible schools which are dangerous for children and have questionable curriculum. They are so bad that in my area private schools are the norm, so most parents are paying for school twice.
I have never experienced this, but I heard someone won a reality show here in the US, and went away to jail because he didn't pay a ransom to the government on the winnings.
Let us not forget about death taxes, sales tax, elevated taxes on products like tobacco and alcohol, state income taxes, etc.
As Ayn Rand was so fond of saying, the only moral functions of government are national defense, police protection, and a judicial system. The politicians in ths country over the last 100 years might as well have torn up and shit on the Constitution, because that is what they were doing to the concepts behind the document.
My friends, China is a preview of the U.S. This was predicted by folks like Thomas Jefferson. It is the nature of government.
I had no idea the Chinese government had so many official representatives trolling through Slashdot.
I hope we sever all trade relations with you assholes until you institute freedom of the press, freedom of speech (yes, that includes pr0n), decent living conditions for all your people, and democratic elections. Until then, you're still as evil as ever, as far as I'm concerned.
Also, before you start bitching about America, note that I didn't list what country I'm from.