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...will no longer be able to cross into the United States without any documentation at all. Yes, that's right. Until now, believe it or not, you could come into the country from Canada with no papers - just your word that you were an American or a Canadian citizen...
Zhou Shuguang's brief but spectacular career as China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The assault took place during a short stint in jail, after which plainclothes cops escorted Zhou to the airport and put him on a plane home, with dire warnings about what would happen to him if he returned. The small, bespectacled 26-year-old took heed. "I will keep silent...
...corruption to a web campaign that led to the freeing of hundreds of children and mentally handicapped men who had been kidnapped and forced to work as slaves in brick kilns to the relocation of a chemical plant away from the port city of Xiamen. Still, citizen journalism can be deadly work. Earlier this month, a man who filmed a confrontation between security officials and villagers protesting the siting of a garbage dump was beaten to death by the enraged officials...
...Zhou, it was a moment of revelation. He decided that, as a single, jobless Chinese citizen who "firmly believes in individual freedom," he was perfectly suited to devoting himself to "helping evicted and displaced persons." He also cheerfully declared his aim of "hyping" his way to fame so he would "never go back to selling vegetables." Traveling on a shoestring budget and relying on donations from admirers and the people to whose aid he came, Zhou preached the digital gospel, educating his pupils in the arts of establishing a blog, posting, taking digital photos and videos, using instant-messaging tools...
...Zhou claims he has not been changed by the experience, but his crusading days are over. With money borrowed from his parents, he says he is going back into the vegetable business, as well as opening a small coffee shop and Internet café. As for citizen journalism, "I have already spent more than half a year as a living example of how this works," he wrote on his blog last December. "The task of saving yourselves is in your own hands now." Many millions of Chinese Netizens will be watching to see who - if anyone - among their number rises...