Since it's Sunday, I guess people can have more time reading a relatively long article about SMS and internal politics in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in central China -- my speculation is, maybe it won't take too long for there to be a Howard Dean of the CCP using SMS as his/her barrel of the gun...
JQ http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20070307_1.htm *The Anonymous SMS message from Pingdingshan* *Henan: The District Party Secretary sent mass numbers of SMS to insult the City Party Secretary, and a big government official corruption case was exposed* <http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64093/64387/5435133.html>. March 3, 2007. By Jia Yun (??). News of the Communist Part of China, People's Daily. Since last year, the biggest government official transition in the history of new China began to take place across the country. In order to ensure that the transition within local party organizations occurs smoothly, the Party Central issued a notice to pay serious attention to personnel discipline and provide an environment of clean government. Yet, the officials in Pingdingshan city in Henan never imagined that the violation of discipline was not about "selling government positions" or "buying votes". Instead, this was about an abusive SMS message! ... ... http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20070307_1.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
