On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:
> In the Chinese papers over the last few days they've been reporting an
> incident that happened to a Chinese UC Berkeley college student, who was
> using her cell phone to discuss playing some sort of videogame. The
> videogame involves placing "explosives" in various places in the game.
>
> Apparently, whithin minutes after completing the call, police (or other)
> officers showed up at her room and brought her in for questioning. She
> apparently brought the officers over to the friend's house to show them the
> videogame, "proving" that she was indeed talking about a videogame.
>
> Has anyone heard of this in the "regular" (ie, non-Chinese) press? The
> Chinese folks are of course up in arms about the apparent "profiling" this
> would imply, apparently ignoring the deeper implications. (For instance, did
> they actually get a wire tap for this monitoring? If so, why? If not,
> well...)
Almost as interesting as the two people they've apparently executed for
posting web pages.
Do you know which Chinese papers or even which city? Doesn't seem like
something they'd put in the internal press at all.
I'll see what I can find out...
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