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China Arrests Anti-Corruption Blogger
quantr tips this news from Bloomberg:
"A Chinese journalist who posted allegations of corrupt dealings during the privatization of state-owned assets has been formally arrested on a defamation charge, his lawyer said. The Beijing People's Procuratorate approved Liu Hu's arrest on Sept. 30, lawyer Zhou Ze said by phone yesterday. Liu, who worked for the Guangzhou-based New Express, had been in detention since Aug. 24, according to Zhou. Liu's arrest adds to evidence that the government is stepping up a crackdown against people who go online with revelations of official malfeasance. At the same time that the Communist Party has vowed to get tough on corruption, authorities have targeted outspoken bloggers and announced that people who post comments deemed defamatory could face as much as three years behind bars."
Why is this here? How the fuck is this relevant to slashdot? No tech angles in play here. It doesn't matter if you don't live in China. Mind your own fucking business.
There are numerous China blogs that cover this stuff better and more extensively.
Don't you think? Yet is really is ironic.
Sounds like they're not so much worried about stopping corruption, as stopping people reporting about corruption.
Just like every other government.
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They've simply defined "corruption" as "Speaking out against the government." As experienced coders, you should all be familiar with this type of "operator overload" :-(
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They didn't hang the blogger on a tree, didn't beat him to death and throw the body somewhere in pit. Instead they arrested this guy officially and they're going to press charge by real laws.
That's so much better than what they had before. People should celebrate!
Um, yeah. It's China.
They are a communist dictatorship. They don't have freedom of the press. If you say things that the government doesn't like, they lock you up. (If they find out and get around to it - for run of the mill stuff, they will have people with the drive and efficiency of your average telephone sanitizer on the job.)
The best way to live outside the law in any country is to live within it.
Didn't pay the necessary bribes to blog about anti-corruption
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
That's one way to fight corruption -- by quieting those who point it out.
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
and america arrests journalists who report on whistleblowers. potato po-tah-to.
Good people go to bed earlier.
A year or so back, the British Secret Services mounted a massive operation against a British man in the UK. His crime? His wife had been unfaithful with one of Tony Blair's VERY powerful cronies, so the unfortunate husband emailed everyone he could that had business relations with the rat, informing them of what kind of man he was.
He was arrested and prosecuted as a result of the combined efforts of MI5, and the London anti-terrorism police division. ONLY the fact that the story broke across the Internet and was making the wrong groups of people feel very uncomfortable indeed (Blair - who by the way rules Britain just as Putin rules Russia- with or without a formal title- had D-noticed the press over the story, but journalists at the bigger papers realised that a refusal to cover this outrage would make them OBVIOUSLY government stooges, even in the eyes of the thicker sheeple, and so exerted maximum pressure to be allowed to write about the police-state atrocity).
The relevant star chamber discussed the issue, and decided that far too much damage was being done in the court of public opinion, and ordered the court to find him not guilty. You see in history, similar cases in Soviet Russia and East Germany, when the target worked to gather so much publicity, they became far too damaging to take out in the usual way.
GOOGLE "Ian Puddick" for the details of this case.
China and despotic Middle East nations actually QUOTE and refer to commonplace abuses of power by the UK government against 'difficult' individuals to justify their own police-state actions. The persecution, arrest and prosecution of protesters in the UK and USA, which has become widespread since Blair first rose to power, is designed to set an example for all those nations that Blair wishes to corrupt. Indeed, when Blair was setting up Gaddafi and Libya for complete destruction, Blair personally oversaw projects to kidnap Libyan dissidents (and their wives and children) abroad using British Intelligence agents, so these people could be transported BACK to Libya for 'torture' (actually, Gaddafi was far too civilised to torture such targets, which is why they are alive and healthy today, helping run the stooge forces that currently control Libya). Blair bought Gaddafi's trust with such acts, persuaded him to disarm, recruited many within his administration (via the multi-faith 'religious' organisation Blair created and heads) to act as fifth columnists, and prepared for the recent invasion that destroyed Libya utterly.
China is corrupt BUT doesn't wish to be corrupt. The UK and USA are infinitely MORE corrupt, with those that rule desiring that even more corruption be possible in the future. You cretinous Yanks, for instance, allow your politicians to LEGALLY indulge in insider trading. THAT is how thick and subservient American sheeple are. And then, while Obama is insider-trading to make him and his family billionaires so his lineage can properly rule over the sheeple for hundreds of years to come, American sheeple worship him as a god.
Why do the owners of Slashdot keep posting ANTI-China and ANTI-Iran stories, and PRO-Israeli ones? A science, engineering, computer and technology portal constantly pushing the agenda of the Neo-cons, and PNAC. They are not exactly subtle, are they?
Documentary Narrator: Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a way to combat government corruption. We simply arrest anybody who talks about government corruption. Of course, because the corruption still takes place, we need to arrest more and more people for speaking out against it, solving the problem once and for all.
Suzie: But...
Documentary Narrator: Once and for all!
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It is not possible to form a government where power flows from the top down without the government becoming corrupt. Can't be done. This blogger's arrest proves the point. When a citizen reports official corruption, the citizen is jailed for leaking state secrets. Yes, corruption in China is considered a state secret. Can corruption get any worse? Yes! Look at North Korea. A communist state with a hereditary emperor for a leader. North Korea went from democratic to communist to feudal fiefdom. All to benefit the emperor, which is really funny because communism is supposed to depose emperors not create them. China keeps the emperor in power while the people starve. When the people finally revolt and kill the emperor, they will not turn to China for help rebuilding. China has made itself the enemy of the North Korean People. A mistake they will deeply regret in the future.
The only difference in the US is that this would be a civil matter instead of criminal. But with a government & laws based in non-capitalist ideals I imagine there are a lot more criminal than civil offenses there when compared to the US.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in the "Communist Party" overseeing "the privatization of state-owned assets"? It's like "we'll go instantaneously from the extreme totalitarian left to the extreme totalitarian right without passing through any democratically controlled space in between. Oh, but we'll hang on that 'Communist' brand name because to admit that didn't work would be losing face."
...but in England, the defence to a defamation claim is the facts in evidence. The trick is to get the facts in evidence. If you're defending a defamation claim and have the supporting facts in evidence, providing you're not in front of a corrupt judge you're home free; if either condition isn't met, you're fucked.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Um, yeah. It's America.
They are a two party dictatorship. They don't have freedom of the press. If you report on mass surveillance happening by a section of the government which is playing by their own rules, they lock you up. Its citizen's aren't free to travel to such places as Cuba, but what's worse is even when you leave the US and decide to live somewhere else they still expect you to pay the government taxes on earnings you made outside their country.
Sounds like Snowden episode to me.
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