As said Richelieu, who knew his police business:
“Avec deux lignes d’écriture d’un homme, on peut faire le procès du plus innocent“.
Unfortunately, this wasn't representative of a time of utmost personal freedom...
US bars friends over Twitter joke
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#33Have no more fear, your country is safe from all terrorists who tweet about their plans. Truthfully, I wouldn't have expected this from America, they're the kind of jokes I could imagine myself making on Twitter, but will be careful not to before future trips there.. This is pretty much what I think of when going to China, and what makes me specially careful not to say anything the Chinese could take as a threat. Heh…
Who provided the list? and can we get a copy of it?
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#34Comments on the article's page are even scarier than the article itself.
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#35I am not really familiar with the Sun, but people here on HN seem to dismiss the story as a hoax because it's featured on the this website/newspaper. Can anyone please clarify what's its reputation and why should it be mistrusted? Thanks.
Sister paper to the News of the World (home of the "phone hacking") and home of Page 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Three (photos of topless glamour models).
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#36I am not really familiar with the Sun, but people here on HN seem to dismiss the story as a hoax because it's featured on the this website/newspaper. Can anyone please clarify what's its reputation and why should it be mistrusted? Thanks.
For one, it published claims (later discredited) that football hooligans were partially responsible for the Hillsborough disaster, where mistakes in crowd control led to almost 100 deaths and 800 injuries among supporters of Liverpool F.C.; sales of The Sun are measurably lower in Liverpool to this day because of that story.
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#37I am not really familiar with the Sun, but people here on HN seem to dismiss the story as a hoax because it's featured on the this website/newspaper. Can anyone please clarify what's its reputation and why should it be mistrusted? Thanks.
The Sun is famous for headlines like "Freddie Starr ate my hamster" and "Werewolf seized in Southend". The American equivalent would be something like the National Enquirer.
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#38Have no more fear, your country is safe from all terrorists who tweet about their plans. Truthfully, I wouldn't have expected this from America, they're the kind of jokes I could imagine myself making on Twitter, but will be careful not to before future trips there.. This is pretty much what I think of when going to China, and what makes me specially careful not to say anything the Chinese could take as a threat. Heh…
Who provided the list? and can we get a copy of it?
I was under the impression that it came from the government to the event organisers (who we were contracted by), but it's possible it was a list compiled by them based on their experiences (they were a South Korean company who had done a couple of Chinese events before).
The list itself was really short, it was more interesting for the fact that our video game streams would be watched closely and that we would get kicked out of the country, than for it's content.
We called it "the Ts", off the top of my head the banned words/topics were Taiwan (call it "Chinese Taipei"), Tiananmen, Tibet.. and there were two others, both (I think) beginning with the letter T.
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#39There's a better version of the story on the Daily Mail web site that has a picture of the documents given to these folks when they were barred: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/British-tour...
Only The Sun could make an article in the Daily Mail appear good by comparison.
Amazing quote from the girl in this piece though:
"We just wanted to have a good time on holiday. That was all Leigh meant in his tweet. He would not hurt anyone. He is gay.'
Wondering if I can use that as evidence that I wouldn't hurt anything if I ever have any problems with the TSA..
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#40I am not really familiar with the Sun, but people here on HN seem to dismiss the story as a hoax because it's featured on the this website/newspaper. Can anyone please clarify what's its reputation and why should it be mistrusted? Thanks.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Sun makes stuff up... but they certainly don't question a "good story" as much as they should and seem to print almost everything at face value. It's the kind of paper that has sensationalist headlines about pederasts on the front page, topless pics of barely legal girls on page 3 and no sense of irony. This particular article falls into the Jingoism style articles that the Sun…
"I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Sun makes stuff up..."
You really think Freddie Starr ate that hamster?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Starr#.22Freddie_Starr_...