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Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship
Koreantoast writes "As part of a broader, chilling Chinese crackdown on Internet dissent, Chinese blogger Charles Xue appeared on Chinese state television in handcuffs on Sunday, denouncing his blog and praising government censorship. He 'confessed' to becoming drunk on the accumulated power of his Weibo blog, which peaked at 12 million followers, and confessed to recklessly spreading unverified rumors and slander, disrupting social harmony and becoming a vent of negative emotion on mainstream society. He also praised new government legislation cracking down on Internet freedom, stating how dangerous the Internet would be if left uncontrolled by the government. Xue was arrested on prostitution solicitation charges though his television confession did not discuss that. His arrest was also suspiciously around the same time as a broader government sweep that picked up other Chinese Internet activists."
This is exactly the outcome that Diane Feinstein and others of her ilk would visit upon the U.S., given her way.
The leaders of the so called free world promptly laid their coats over their laps after reading that little tidbit. I'm sure they were also wondering "How long till we can do that here?"
Just to be fair, I'm sure Merkel and Hillary had to cover their laps as well for similar "problems".
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I wanna see the video! Come on guys, include the link. We want to know where we are going...
I will never understand why they coerce these false confessions. There can't be more than a handful of people, especially in China where trust in their government is even lower than over here, who believes he changed his mind on his own.
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
It has been written that in a commie society everything is free. How can this be then? Is China pulling a fast one? I recommend waterboarding, which is known to be both safe and effective, for all involved so that we, the peoples of these greats worlds, may come to meet the truth.
And yet when Bradley Manning makes an eerily similar statement plenty of people are willing to take it as proof positive that he was a bad guy.
They'd love to do it here, but for our exceptional Constitution, weakened as it has become.
This image is a wet dream of the NSA, CIA, and rest of the US government.
He loved Big Brother.
"...I wrote and diseminated subversive literature, I lay with prostitutes in order to spread disease, I blew up bridges and commited anarchistic acts, spread terror upon innocents, I now only ask that you accept my love of Big Brother."
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
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Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
i gotta think people in china are intelligent enough to know this is a forced confession. and china's govt has to know their population is intelligent enough to know this. they're just basically making example of this guy as a message to its population to say "we can make you do whatever we want". i bet they threated to lobotomize the guy or something like that.
This is so totally different than Bradley Manning's statement of regret at harming his country at his sentencing.
I mean, one was a statement from an obviously-tortured prisoner of conscience, having their life ruined by a violently repressive totalitarian regime seeking to send a message to its citizens to shut up and get in line, who is now willing to say or do anything the regime wants so he can try to salvage some pathetic remnant of his life. While the other was... uh, wait a minute.
He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
They threatened me and my family, and the only way I can escape prison or a firing squad is to publicly denounce this.
I do not believe this is anything other than agreeing to repeat the party line under duress.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Its affirmation that if you *will* conform, or else.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
If you tune in to MSNBC, there's a whole newsroom full of people praising the government's spying and censorship. And we didn't even have to arrest them first!
Or since this is China, he'll be the most famous member of the "Bodies" exhibit in a year.
That's the only reason why he'd be pushed to renounce his beliefs and practices, because the guvmint wanted others like him to curl up and give up so they're making an example of him. And for the record, the Internet that he says is best controlled by the government is controlled by the government, it's behind the Great Firewall and required him to find a way around it to be heard.
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
Nota bene, Sinophiles.
O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”
On the one hand, the suppression of free speech by the Chinese government is, of course, completely deplorable. On the other, the Chinese government is apparently not afraid of the one percenters living in China. Xue, who is a naturalized US citizen and venture capitalist, is also a billionaire.
Has he been seen drinking at the Chestnut Tree Cafe?
Meanwhile people in the US seem to be getting dumber and more misinformed by the second. Maybe censorship is the way to go...
No one seems to care
"Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
..he was black-bag arrested, subjected to torture, beaten, starved, thrown in an oubliette for a time, threatened with death, had his friends and family threatened with all the above, and likely drugged, until he finally broke and was willing to say anything they wanted him to say, no matter the cost to him or his reputation, and no matter how humiliating. Next he'll probably "commit suicide", leaving behind a note explaining how he couldn't live with the guilt and shame for having spoken such lies about the glorious and just Communist government of China.
Yeah, sure. Sounds like just another normal day in mainland China.
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Please please can we make Trolls have to make public apologies any time they spread untruths
This is what fascist governments (and their lapdogs) do, be they Chinese, American or Swedish. They doctor up charges of a very stigmatized crime when you publish information that you don't like, turning the public against them because, "ew, he's a perv, who cares what he thinks?"
When it comes to posts about China, most of the comments are utter nonsense/untrue.
Propaganda at its finest written by people who most likely dont even own a passport, never mind have any first hand experience to back what they say.
Wasn't it just recently Google, Yahoo et all were told to shut the fuck up by your black budget NSA?
How do Americans have such unruly debt and black budgets anyway?
FOX news will make that list unless the GOP get's in power and then the other news channels may go down.
just because nobody will go an record saying mass shootings are a good thing doesn't mean they're not thinking it. The mass shootings are death to the Democrats. Gun control is a losing issue because, as Clinton pointed out, gun owners entire identity is tied up in their guns. They're not fighting for their rights so much as their basic self image (or 'Way of Life' if you want to be charitable). They instantly become single issue voters that show up at the polls in droves.
Contrast that with a pro-gun control person. With the exception of a few people that know someone personally (and well) that was gunned down, it's not a very emotional issue. You might get some people to say, 'yeah, we shouldn't have guns' but you'll never get the kind of base, emotional driving force that gets people to the polls and gets them to ignore any other possible issue. The nearest equivalent would be old people and their Medicare/SS, where their literally voting for their lives.
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When a young anti-war protester burnt a poppy and placed the video online, the British government ordered him arrested, threatened him with a long prison sentence, and made him tour the country appearing at pro-war events, praising the British army and the atrocities they have been responsible for in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In one of Britain's major cities, children in a predominantly Muslim primary school were forced to 'adopt' serving members of the British army on active service in Muslim nations they had invaded. The same city engaged in placing a massive program of secret surveillance cameras in the streets where their parents lived, claiming the system was for traffic control. When the truth came out, it was one of the vanishing few scandals that actually rolled back Tony Blair's police state a tiny bit (the cameras were actually deactivated, then removed- a first for the UK).
The owners of Slashdot LOVE to point to the splinters in the eyes of others, while ignoring the whole tree trunks found in the eyes of the UK and USA.
The crime rate is 0.001% of what it was pre-ban? So if their crime rate was, say 10 in 100,000 citizens it would now be 1 in 10,000,000 citizens.
Ok well in the first two months of 2013 2500 people were killed. This is just murder here, we aren't looking at lesser crimes right now (http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/venezuelan-government-recognizes-record-murder-rate). That means we can expect around 15,000 murders this year. By your logic, that means there was 15,000,000 murders last year, or over half their population.
However if we do a little more looking, in the same article, we discover that no, there was about 16,000 murders last year, meaning this one looks about the same as the last.
In other words, you are just completely making shit up. If you have to resort to logic that faulty, that far out, that totally made up to support your position, it leads one to ask how valid your position is.
The man is not telling the truth. He was broken by torturers.
Wikipedia has an article about one Charles Xue, described as a Chinese-born American entrepreneur and Angel investor, better known by his screen name Xue Manzi. Is this the same guy? If he is, why hasn't the US filed a protest even as an empty gesture of concern? The info box is a bit confusing. His nationality is Chinese, while his citizenship is United States. Another interesting fact: he's 60 years old. So he doesn't belong to the Arab Spring and Occupy Wallstreet generation, and there might be other reasons he was arrested.
66 Propaganda at its finest written by people who most likely dont even own a passport, never mind have any first hand experience to back what they say. 99
Typical hyperskeptical empiricist. He who lacks rat bites to show has absolutely no right to talk about sewers, right? Once human nature is understood, man becomes deterministically predictable.
You really think that your freedoms were taken away? Wait until you see the damage 10-20 years from now. China is a fine example on what the rest of the world may become if citizens let their government bodies do whatever the hell they want. I'm not saying to do something because that could get me arrested or killed, but what I am saying is that by not acting on preserving what's left of freedom and liberty for all will be the end of it entirely. But if you like living as sheep, then I guess it's no problem to you but I'm pretty sure that most people don't like to live like that so think about them before yourself you selfish one-topic voters.
This guy has American citizenship. Besides, his offense is just prostitution solicitation, so the government cannot detain him forever.
I imagine that once this guy gets out and leaves Chinese soils, he will immediately recant all his confession and condemn the government's abusive practices.
Apple Walmart and every company and its subsidiary is in support of communism so I will vote for communist like they want so I can have a job to.
It cant be any worse than trickle down politics.
Hey, I think I've seen this story on /. before:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/08/15/1312227/bradley-manning-says-hes-sorry
If you post as an AC, don't expect me to spend a mod point on you.
In 1984, Winston talks about public confessions exactly like this one...
Now all the pages in his site respond 404, meaning the he was sent 4 times to room 101.
Does anyone know?
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS
Manning wasn't busted for whistle blowing.
Manning was busted for giving away every secret document he could get his hands on; consequences to others be damned.
If Manning had only given away documents indicating a government cover up, he might have gotten away with it. Someone might have even taken notice and taken action on the incident. But no, Manning's dump of hundreds of thousands of documents undermined his everything he tried to expose and lost support from both the media and made military or political support impossible.
So Manning actually helped people get away with war crimes.
In a civilized country having very strict gun laws actually work.
It works for some because guns become a rarity and therefore very expensive and very difficult to acquire even if you have money or connections.
In a truly civilized country, everyone has a gun and nothing happens - like switzerland.
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
According to our lap dog media, Capitalism would mean greater freedom for China, not the bad old Stalinism....oh but wait...
* I have seduced party members of both sexes
* I have been to the proletariat areas
* I deliberately contracted syphilis in order to spread the disease to my wife and other party members
Together with other agents I have:
* Counterfieted bank notes
* Wrecked industrial machinery
* Polluted the water supply
* Guided Eurasian rocket bombs to targets on Airstrip One by means of coded radio signals
I stand here a victim of Emmanuel Goldstein, guilty on all counts.
I'm glad I was caught. I was mentally deranged, now I am cured.
I ask only for you to accept my love of our leader.
I ask only to be shot while my mind is still clean.