Chinese censor prosecuted for taking bribes to censor remarks companies and government officials disliked

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ITā€™S JUST ONE BAD APPLE! Honestly, every time thereā€™s a story about corruption, itā€™s like thisā€¦

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Once youā€™ve got a censorship apparatus, people will find all sorts of creative uses for it.

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They are hoping that people donā€™t remember the saying is ā€˜one bad apple spoils the lotā€™.

Iā€™m surprised people even mention it as it explains a lot about business, government and the police.

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I guess they didnā€™t bring on a new censor to censor this story to avoid national embarrassment.

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Odd. Boingboing certainly has no problem censoring comments that donā€™t agree with its leftist socialist progressive agenda, even when they amount to simple disagreement. Much hypocrisy here.

Which comment did you have censored in the 7 minutes between joining and this comment?

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That is entirely untrue. There are plenty of folks on here who are far from ā€˜leftist socialist progressivesā€™. Know what theyā€™re not? Assholes. Which is why you can read every comment theyā€™ve ever left on here, as you can those who have (respectfully) disagreed with them.

TL;DR: Haddaway and shite, man.

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You sound like you must have acted like an asshole. Iā€™ve left plenty of comments here disagreeing with basic premises of some of the editors that havenā€™t gotten deleted, and a few that have. The ones that have gotten deleted, by and large, when Iā€™ve looked at them again, Iā€™ve been glad they took it upon themselves to prevent me from making a fool out of myself by acting like an asshole in public. Maybe you should take a closer look at your deleted comments.

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As the joke in China goes: He was actually arrested for not taking in enough in bribes to pay off the people above him.

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So this person is being prosecuted for simply doing his job?

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Such inefficiency should not go unpunished.

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Awwwww butthurt idiot is butthurt.

Iā€™m mean and rude and I disagree with the original post frequently. Iā€™ve been commenting on here for years and years and the only time I got banned was when I (jokingly) made a dupe account of antinous to troll him about sock puppets and dupe accounts. I emailed him and was unbanned instantly.

The only comments that get censored are: off-topic, abusive, sexist, racist, discriminatory, etc. Thereā€™s rules here and if you donā€™t like them you can simply take your pathetic hang-ups and fuck right off. The internet is not a democracy and we donā€™t have to listen to your stupid opinion here. Just keep complaining, shit-for-brainsā€¦ itā€™s going great so far.

bahahahahahaā€¦ was this you @Falcor ? I commend the duration of the ban

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If Antinous were still at the helm I wouldā€™ve agreed with him. He deleted quite a few posts of mine because I disagreed with him or had an unpopular argument.

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Thatā€™s pretty much the way it is with any authoritarian tool. Regardless of original intentions, if it can be abused then it will be abused.

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Nobodyā€™s commenting on the fact that they are actually prosecuting him. Here heā€™d be promoted to ā€œnew anchorā€.

I think he did a damn good job herding the trolls and firestorms that happened here during his time. Itā€™s not like he and I always agreed either.

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