Yeah, the paper originates from NYC, called Shi Chie Re Bau (in Pin Yin, I believe). This translates (roughly) "World Journal". The article got thrown out, otherwise I'd attempt a translation.

From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> To: <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com> Subject: Anyone heard about the Berkeley college student? Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:39:17 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:

...

In the Chinese papers over the last few days they've been reporting an incident that happened to a Chinese UC Berkeley college student, who was using her cell phone to discuss playing some sort of videogame. The videogame involves placing "explosives" in various places in the game.

Apparently, whithin minutes after completing the call, police (or other) officers showed up at her room and brought her in for questioning. She apparently brought the officers over to the friend's house to show them the videogame, "proving" that she was indeed talking about a videogame.

Has anyone heard of this in the "regular" (ie, non-Chinese) press? The Chinese folks are of course up in arms about the apparent "profiling" this would imply, apparently ignoring the deeper implications. (For instance, did they actually get a wire tap for this monitoring? If so, why? If not, well...)

Almost as interesting as the two people they've apparently executed for posting web pages.

Do you know which Chinese papers or even which city? Doesn't seem like something they'd put in the internal press at all.

I'll see what I can find out...

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