Free Porn is a Problem??

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A substitute teacher, a middle-aged woman, got power-owned by some spyware virus, and during a junior-high class, porn sites were popping up everywhere. She was convicted and is facing up to ten years in jail, because exposing kiddies to porn is dangerous - like giving them a loaded gun or something.

If you are like me and are a reasonable person, you might be saying, "So, it's another goofy story from Saudi Arabia," big shrug. But this is CONNECTICUT.

Okay, okay, I know this is not exactly shocking for America, but it never ceases to bum me out.


(Source: Brian Krebs for The Washington Post)

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Free Porn is a Problem??

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A substitute teacher, a middle-aged woman, got power-owned by some spyware virus, and during a junior-high class, porn sites were popping up everywhere. She was convicted and is facing up to ten years in jail, because exposing kiddies to porn is dangerous - like giving them a loaded gun or something.

If you are like me and are a reasonable person, you might be saying, "So, it's another goofy story from Saudi Arabia," big shrug. But this is CONNECTICUT.

Okay, okay, I know this is not exactly shocking for America, but it never ceases to bum me out.


(Source: Brian Krebs for The Washington Post)

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Blackmail Journalism

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First space weapons and now blackmail journalism, China is become ever more innovative and the West can learn from them:

At 9 p.m. in a dark Shenzhen parking lot, Bai Xiuyu handed over a plain brown envelope containing 15,000 Chinese yuan, the equivalent of nearly $2,000, in what was supposed to be a discreet blackmail payment to a local reporter.

... To his consternation, what Gou saw the evening of Sept. 21 was another instance of the blackmail journalism metastasizing through China's news media. Bai's money was supposed to buy silence on alleged wrongdoing at her health clinic in this southern Chinese city. But more generally, journalists and officials say, Chinese reporters are demanding such hush money with increasing regularity from businesses and government agencies in exchange for the withholding of unfavorable news.

Maybe this practice has taken off because journalism has not really gotten off the ground in more repressive China. In the West, journalists are more interested in making a name for themselves by breaking nasty stories, which can be lucrative in its own right. But maybe the practice will grow - all that cultural sharing!


(Source: Edward Cody for The Washington Post)

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Blackmail Journalism

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First space weapons and now blackmail journalism, China is become ever more innovative and the West can learn from them:

At 9 p.m. in a dark Shenzhen parking lot, Bai Xiuyu handed over a plain brown envelope containing 15,000 Chinese yuan, the equivalent of nearly $2,000, in what was supposed to be a discreet blackmail payment to a local reporter.

... To his consternation, what Gou saw the evening of Sept. 21 was another instance of the blackmail journalism metastasizing through China's news media. Bai's money was supposed to buy silence on alleged wrongdoing at her health clinic in this southern Chinese city. But more generally, journalists and officials say, Chinese reporters are demanding such hush money with increasing regularity from businesses and government agencies in exchange for the withholding of unfavorable news.

Maybe this practice has taken off because journalism has not really gotten off the ground in more repressive China. In the West, journalists are more interested in making a name for themselves by breaking nasty stories, which can be lucrative in its own right. But maybe the practice will grow - all that cultural sharing!


(Source: Edward Cody for The Washington Post)

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Pam's Smile

I don't have have much of a sense of fashion and styles, but, god, I certainly love Pammy's sense of fashion. Maybe she just knows how to wear her clothes. She seems to be bursting with personality.

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Pam's Smile

I don't have have much of a sense of fashion and styles, but, god, I certainly love Pammy's sense of fashion. Maybe she just knows how to wear her clothes. She seems to be bursting with personality.

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