And the runner-up is: Edison Chen
Just a couple weeks ago, TIME named president-elect Barack Obama Person of the Year. Second place went to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. In Hong Kong, public broadcaster RTHK held its own POY poll. While the top spot also went to Obama, #2 went to Edison Chen, star of the city's most notorious celebrity sex scandal. It's not surprising. Back in February, Chen's name dominated talk at water coolers and teahouses throughout the city. X-rated photos of Chen and several Hong Kong starlets landed in inboxes, whether you wanted them or not. Since we still can't access most of the China Blog archives, I'll paste what I wrote when the scandal broke:
Feb 5, 2008 Hong Kong's Own Sex Scandal
As much as I've tried, it's been hard to avoid the Edison Chen sex-photo scandal for the past few days. The case has dominated headlines and gossip circles. A friend of mine estimated that three-fourths of the Hong Kong population has seen the photos by now. In the dark? Here's what happened: last week, pornographic photos that appear to show the 27-year-old actor-singer-clothing designer with celebrities Gillian Chung, Cecelia Cheung and Bobo Chan surfaced on the Internet.
Police believe some 1,300 such pictures were copied from a computer when it was taken to a shop for repair last year. They haven't specified whether or not it was Chen's computer, or whether the photos were doctored, but so far, eight people have been arrested for allegedly seizing the images and breaking obscene material laws.
After more than a week of silence, Chen released a video statement (in English) yesterday, apologizing “to anyone who has been affected by this strange, strange ordeal,” and pleading the public to stop circulating the photos and to destroy any copies that have been downloaded. (Police have said that uploading the photos into the public domain is illegal while personal possession/circulation is not.) One blog, Zhonghua Rising, is calling the scandal “Hong Kong's Biggest Story of the Year.” We've got 11 months to pray that that's not true.
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I guess the manufacturer of the deficient hard disk is to blame for the scandal. Besides, for the use of a hard disk, user discretion is advised. For what I can tell, frequent erasing data with tens of Gigabyts can shorten its life span.
Maybe Edison's fine art job overflows the disk capacity. So...... LOL.
But to be serious, this thing actually is necessary evil but under the spotlight. The guy did what a lot of people desired, while the mass hate the guy just because they are not him......
Everyone, man or woman, old or young, straight or gay, involved is innocent. Guilty the PC manufacturers and the US defense department cause they developed the prototype what is internet today.
The mainland Chinese are under wing of the Great Firewall, still none the wiser. So, in this point, Comrade Panda is more responsible than Uncle Sam. Make sense?
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