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Also, the average Chinese worker has more holiday time than the average American worker, in fact they might have more holiday than the average EU worker.
Why should being an asshole be punished by prison time, if no one got hurt. Why not just ignore the assholes? Considering that writing on your Facebook or Twitter account isn't really too different from saying it in a crowded room, maybe everyone should walk around recording what everyone else says. 90% of the country would end up in jail.
Thanks for the link to the video. While I agree he appears to be a vile person, I don't agree anyone should go to jail for calling people names on the internet, so I won't celebrate the judgement.
In that case it was claimed they were joking, I'm not sure how true that is but no one turned up to their planned riot, they didn't even bother turning up so I'm inclined to believe no one took it seriously. Hence prison time seems inappropriate, to me anyway.
The media actually hardly ever publish what was written in cases like these. It's easier for the public to accept the judgement if they don't know the details.
Peter Van Roy writes: "Our university, Université catholique de Louvain, currently manages all its email (domain uclouvain.be) through a couple of big servers. They want to replace that by cloud-based email. What are the pros and cons? There are strong opinions both ways: some doubt cloud security and reliability, others see great simplification. Do any Slashdotters have experience with that? The university has around 30000 email addresses, including all staff and students."
fishmike writes: "Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways of arranging those cells, which are typically placed flat on a rooftop or other surface, or sometimes attached to motorized structures that keep the cells pointed toward the sun as it crosses the sky."
plasm4 writes: 21 year old Liam Stacey has been charged with inciting racial hatred after making comments on twitter about football player Fabrice Muamba who collapsed on the pitch during a game. He will be sentenced Monday and potentially faces a year in prison.
Last week another young man was charged with a racially aggravated public order offence after emotionally commenting on Facebook about 6 British soldiers who died in Afghanistan. The comments suggested that we should also mourn the thousands dying in Afghanistan, and suggested that the soldiers would burn in hell. It's also interesting that most of the websites I've read haven't actually published the comments which don't seem racist at all. The Guardian has a screenshot of his Facebook page.
These aren't the first cases of people arrested over Facebook and Twitter postings. Where do you think the current trends will lead to? If today you can be arrested for trolling in Britain, and given the total lack of public concern over it, what do you think the situation will be like in ten years?