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I know of a few stories like this, even a few from here on TF, Could deportation happen in Thailand? Whats your view? Got any stories to share? Foreigner deported from China for stalking on the internet A New Zealand national, alleged to have stalked and threatened Internet forum users, and written a book that he claims to be fictional, about experiences living in Harbin, has been deported from China, police at the Exit and Entry Administration Department of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau confirmed last week. XXXXXXXXX, 44, was deported at the beginning of May, police said. He will be unable to re-enter the country for several years. Police stated that they were not at liberty to reveal exact details with regards to the case. Posting online after his deportation, XXXXXX said that he believed he had been expelled because of "connections between people I had caused trouble to on the Internet and someone in the Public Security Bureau." "I am quite used to dealing with cops and in the car I tried to get what I could from him. He said that all his information came from watching the Beijinger website [a local online forum] over the last 10 days," XXXXXX wrote. “Actually, it felt good to leave the mainland. I had come full circle in China anyway and was ready to leave,” added XXXXXX in his online post. On theBeijinger forum, used almost exclusively by expats in Beijing, users claimed XXXXXX had conducted a "human flesh search," stalking forum members by using the Internet to find information about them. “He was posting my photo, and the photos of other users, together with their names and places of work, every night. He threatened violence against both me and my wife, by name,” claimed one forum user who asked to remain anonymous. The anonymous user told the reporter that XXXXXX had been using the forum for at least two years, and at times had been friendly, but had only become aggressive and threatening since January. “In the end, I wanted to report him to the online police, the ones who deal with such crimes. But on their website there is only a Chinese form, and no phone number, so in the end, I just gave up,” the user added. Another user told the reporter that she had been so upset by the posting of her details online, and the constant threats made to her, that she had been psychologically hurt and had stopped using the website. A spokesman for cyberpolice.cn, the website that handles internet related crime in China, told the reporter that there were no special laws aimed at protecting personal information on the Internet, but that if the concerned persons sue, those who released the information would be called to account. “If someone threatens others, he breaks criminal law,” the official who asked not to be named said. “And the person will be publicly prosecuted no matter the concerned victims sue or not, even if they are foreigners.” When asked about the events that are alleged to have taken place on TheBeijinger website, Michael Wester, the General Manager of True Run Media, the company that administers the website, told the reporter that the forum was designed to be an information source for English speakers in Beijing, and aimed to always follow the rules set by Chinese regulators. "It’s unfortunate that some people who use our forum become abusive to others and fail to recognize that just because you are online, it doesn’t give you license to be disrespectful and uncivil," said Wester. “I have no particular "strings" to pull to get anyone who uses our site in trouble, but I do not hesitate to ban those users who, in violation of the user agreement they must agree to, become abusive.” According to information provided by TheBeijinger, when XXXXXX started acting aggressively, they began by simply deleting his posts. When his writings became worse, his account was banned. Soon after, XXXXXX then started creating new accounts every night, so was IP banned, which led him to use a proxy server, in an attempt to avoid the bans. Under constant new usernames, XXXXXX would claim to know everything about those he had stalked, constantly promising users “Your downfall begins now,” and warning people to “look behind yourself whenever you go out.” In response, according the TheBeijinger staff, moderators would stay up late most nights, deleting his posts, and banning each new account in an attempt to contain his actions. It was only when one unidentified poster, going by the name ‘Dr, Sloppy’, uncovered XXXXXX’s true identity that things began to change. Providing XXXXXX’s real name, ‘Dr. Sloppy’ allowed other users to turn the tables, and conduct searches themselves for his details, the same way XXXXXX had done to them for many months. But not everyone believed XXXXXX’s alleged actions were wrong. One of his friends, who gave her name only as Wang, explained to the reporter that using the forum had put a lot of pressure on him, and believed to whole affair to be “a miscarriage of justice.” “Imagine that if you know on the Internet there are some communities are specially for attacking you, how should you feel about this? That is why he fights back. Because he is fighting lonely, he must feel helpless and want to scream,” Wang told the reporter by email. “Maybe he did some excessive things, but it is because he got very unfair treatment. So I understand him. But maybe some posters feel threatened, and they went to the police station. I think to deport one person just because of virtual things is ridiculous,” added Wang, who has also stated online that she believes XXXXXXX’s actions to be jokes, that have simply been misunderstood by others. In her email, Wang also mentioned a book, written and self-published by XXXXXX, under the pen name XXXXXXX, which received heavy criticism on thebeijinger forum and several websites where the book was available for purchase. Wang, and other forum users, have questioned whether the criticism XXXXXX received for his work contributed to his actions against users, a claim vehemently denied. “How can “online insults” explain what XXXXXXX did?”, one user wrote on thebeijinger. “He called me endless times every night, contacted my place of work, wrote vile things on my work forum and generally interfered with my real life.” “Nothing can excuse that,” the poster added. Complete article here... http://www.chinahush.com/2010/07/01/foreigner-deported-from-china-for-stalking-on-the-internet-unabridged-updated-version/ ADMIN NOTE: WE'VE BEEN CONTACTED BY THE PERSON NAMED IN THIS ARTICLE AND HAVE BEEN MADE AWARE THAT THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HAS BEEN RETRACTED BY THE SOURCE. 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