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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by sushcount on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:43PM (#15272585)
Chinese government is panicking over its crashing economy, and it shows in its actions. As of this year, it

- banned soft cheese

- banned all korean music and entertainment

- (got rid of) Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Laureate, and prevented his wife from leaving China

- banned ICO

- banned a bitcoin exchange

- prevented its companies from investing overseas (Wanda, etc)

- (rumored) prevented the richest person from leaving China

- banned beards and veils in xinjiang

- banned 'muhammad' and 'jihad' as baby names

- banned entertainment news that promotes western lifestyles

etc

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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by bnolsen on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:07PM (#15280482)
The xinjiang things are fully justified. Serious problems with terrorism, random knifings, random needle injections, etc. Very bad stuff. As long as china doesn't allow the han population to carry defensive weapons they have no choice but to suppress the murderous muslims there. You want to go to a restaurant or a store? Metal detector and xray machine for your bags. (My wife is originally from there and she has relatives who live there now).
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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by em3rgent0rdr on Thursday September 21, 2017 @03:43AM (#15301284)
Maybe there are legitimate grudges the "murderous muslims there" have which are not addressed by the state? Like the right to political self-determination.
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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by dis-sys on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:01AM (#15273678)
crashing economy? come on, can't wait for that, I have been hearing this for 25 years, please deliver it.
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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by simonh on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:34AM (#15275274)
You missed a few:

- VPN Apps on the iOS App Store

And my favourite from last year:

- Erotic banana eating videos[0].

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36226141

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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by velodrome on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:29AM (#15273988)
China is an export driven economy. If a crash were to come, it would be because of a sudden lack of trade (e.g. 2008). Chinese companies are already heavily levered.
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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by ihateneckbeards on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:12AM (#15274147)
- banned Winny the pooh from social media
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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by addHocker on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:33AM (#15274232)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8qDKeb0g00

Cheese is a hoax

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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by kodfodrasz on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:27AM (#15273779)
Thanks to Allah the almighty Jihad is still an allowed surname in the EU.

I guess it is a sign of the health of the economy of the EU.

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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by addHocker on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:36AM (#15274246)
They are deep in denial here on cultures whos main job it was to guarantee continous existance and not technological advances. Nice try.
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