Businesses, at least for the last few years, have to worry about types of information they collect later being called state secrets. The Chinese do that after the fact, so it is good to be psychic. Now we have the added incentive to be both psychic and quiet about it - Pu Zhiqiang - a lawyer, and one of China's best known rights activists. This kind of legal work is not very well received in China, where crimes are more or less defined "as needed". He was charged with a crime that is difficult to recognize as criminal behavior, "inciting ethnic hatred" and "picking quarrels". He was in custody for 18 months before this sentence, a three-year suspended sentence with conditions of behavior, was announced. His real crime was posting seven messages on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, criticizing China's ethic policies and blaming specific government officials for their incompetence.
This lowly crime is certainly worth punishment, usually carried out by the social media equivalent of a jury, not by the State Criminal Court system. The Chinese seem bent on criminalizing behavior they can't control and the two examples are far from extensive research on the subject. It is a corrupt system where incompetence is rewarded by political support for attacks against anyone who points out how stupid you are in the way you go about your business.
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