China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers 223
Gwaihir the Windlord writes "Not only is the Great Firewall of China back up and running, but now if you visit an Internet cafe, your photo will be taken and your identity card scanned. And the friendly officers of the Cultural Law Enforcement Taskforce make those details, entered into a city-wide database, available at any other cafe. So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in."
openness and transparency (Score:5, Funny)
> So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in.
Oh you thought "openness and transparency" was for the government? no no, they meant for the citizens
I need to see... (Score:5, Funny)
It's all about protecting sheeples, of course... (Score:5, Funny)
Couldn't they stop to give ideas to the Britons ?
Re:Nothing wrong with that (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot poster with thing for Asians?
Where's the moderator option for "cliche"?
Opening (Score:5, Funny)
Re:With all those pictures (Score:5, Funny)
We need an option for "-1 Didn't get the joke".
Re:openness and transparency (Score:4, Funny)
They are being open and transparent about it ... they are telling you before they take your photograph and scan your ID card ...
Uh oh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Did you really believe the Olympics do anything (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Did you really believe the Olympics do anything (Score:5, Funny)
the Munich olympics didn't stop WWII
That would've sucked. Fortunately, WWII ended way before the 1972 Olympics.
Re:Openess (Score:4, Funny)
"So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in"
Who sold you that lie?
To be fair, we were expecting the real deal and ended up with a cheap chinese knockoff instead.