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Porn downloader's punishment reduced to a stern talking-toPosted by Joel Martinsen, September 28, 2008 1:00 PM
Ren Chaoqi, the Nanyang resident who was fined 1,900 yuan when police discovered an adult film stored on his computer, has been given a reprieve. Following an uproar among netizens and considerable attention from the media, police have reconsidered his punishment and have cancelled his fine:
Although this is welcome news for Ren, who was most concerned with the size of the fine, it neatly sidesteps what observers saw as the critical issue in the case: a conflict between the law, which says nothing about personal viewing of pornography, and an administrative regulation that bars it. The police may have acted magnanimously in this particular instance, but that's no guarantee for the future so long as they maintain that they did nothing wrong. Ren blogged about his moment of awkward celebrity:
As for the reduced punishment of "criticism and education," Ren told the media:
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Comments on Porn downloader's punishment reduced to a stern talking-to... just 1 adult film?... dam I have over 200GB of hentai (don't care much about the real stuff).. well i guess I should encrypt everything.. and shred my disk space occassionally. at least it was a 'happy ending' for him. |
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