Shanghai Daily.com reports that the woman who crushed a kitten in a video and was subsequently tracked down by outraged Chinese netizens (see earlier VC post) has made a public apology that has been posted on a government website. After the identities of the woman, the video photographer, and the video seller were revealed online, two were suspended from their jobs.
(via A Glimpse of the World)
isn’t this going to be exposed as a hoax? how many snuff films went around on the western Internet that ended up being just that?
i think it’s a scam by the chinese government to legitimize “by all means necessary” regulation of internet content. it was probably staged, and they probably did kill the kitten.
It would be even more interesting if it were a hoax. I can’t quite see the Chinese government working that way, however. The Chinese have their own disinformation tricks and manipulations — but I don’t think they see the need to justify regulation, as the US government has to.
Some stuff (like online gaming) people *want* the state to regulate. Other stuff (like what we would consider crossing the border between mainstream and porn) the government has no interest in regulating.