Watch your own Twittering in China, because Big Brother certainly is

[MrScorpio]

Chinese woman jailed over Twitter post
By Damian Grammaticas
BBC News, Beijing


A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp after posting a message on the social networking website Twitter.

The fiance of human rights activist Cheng Jianping told the BBC she had been accused of disrupting social order, but her message had been a joke.

She had repeated a Twitter comment urging nationalist protesters to smash Japan's pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, adding the words "Charge, angry youth".

Twitter is banned in China.

However, many people use it by circumventing internet controls.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11784603

[TexasObserver]

1. China has one foot in the 20th century and one foot in the 14th century.

The country still doesn't get freedom of speech and how ridiculous they look when they do this.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. They don't care because the whole world is still buying their shit

[TexasObserver]

3. No, they don't.

They long for the success and stature of other more advanced nations, but can't give up 16th century feudalism in their approach to the subjects of the realm.