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China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers
Gwaihir the Windlord writes "Not only is the Great Firewall of China back up and running, but now if you visit an Internet cafe, your photo will be taken and your identity card scanned. And the friendly officers of the Cultural Law Enforcement Taskforce make those details, entered into a city-wide database, available at any other cafe. So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in."
> So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in.
Oh you thought "openness and transparency" was for the government? no no, they meant for the citizens
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
...your license and registration please. Your other license and registration.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Couldn't they stop to give ideas to the Britons ?
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Slashdot poster with thing for Asians?
Where's the moderator option for "cliche"?
I sense an opening in the market for false moustaches in China!
We need an option for "-1 Didn't get the joke".
ZFS: because love is never having to say fsck
I better take off my Free Tibet button first.
Works for me, so long as they don't let in any filthy Persians.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
the Munich olympics didn't stop WWII
That would've sucked. Fortunately, WWII ended way before the 1972 Olympics.
"So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in"
Who sold you that lie?
To be fair, we were expecting the real deal and ended up with a cheap chinese knockoff instead.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!