China Blocks News Websites In Protest of Nobel 213
DaveNJ1987 writes "The Chinese Government has blocked the websites of the BBC, CNN and Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK, less than 24 hours before dissident Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo is due to be awarded the Nobel peace prize. China has been vocally critical of the plans to award the jailed writer the prize and has even gone as far as setting up its own 'Confucius peace prize' to rival the awards being held in Oslo tomorrow."
No appreciation for subtlety in China (Score:5, Insightful)
Stop being so heavy-handed and obvious. Take a page from the CIA playbook. If you *really* want to discredit Liu Xiaobo, just recruit a couple of women to say he raped them (or some kids to say he molested them, or an old lady to say he beat her, something along those lines). Easy, subtle, and no need to censor CNN. And what's really great is that it works even if he's in another country (if you can recruit locals there, even better!). Pretty soon the Nobel people are backing away from him, Visa won't process donations for his cause, everybody is calling him a rapist/child-molester/wife-beater. And you get to say "Hey, wasn't us, that's his own personal problems" if anyone asks. Now no one will touch him and you didn't have to *directly* come down on anyone.
Just make sure your recruits look credible and pay them/threaten them enough to make sure they never talk.
Re:No appreciation for subtlety in China (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course, make sure they weren't bragging online about having sex with him days after the alleged "rape".
Re:No appreciation for subtlety in China (Score:4, Insightful)
He is arguably a scumbag. But going from scumbag to rapist is a pretty big step. And considering the actual allegations? It is disrespectful to actual rape victims.
Lieberman is jealous (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:No appreciation for subtlety in China (Score:5, Insightful)
And how did they compile that statistic?
With all of the ridiculousness of how they decide that someone’s been raped, it’s not at all hard to believe. If you’re a woman and you get drunk and have sex with a drunk dude, you’ve been raped! If you’re a man and you get drunk and have sex with a drunk chick, you’re a rapist! The fact that neither of them feels like they were raped or a rapist (not to mention the double standard) is irrelevant... and they need to be re-educated to “properly” perceive what happened so that they can “deal with it”. Or something like that.
It never occurs to these people that maybe having drunk sex doesn’t scar you emotionally like actual rape does and that people don’t need to “deal with it”.
They make mountains out of molehills ... just because they think people need to climb a mountain to get over it. Oh, and it might also be partly because they make money by helping people climb mountains.
And don’t for a minute think that I’m trivializing real rape. They are doing that.