Jeremy at Danwei rightfully sees a lot of wishful thinking in Nicholas Kristof’s column on Chinese cyber dissent:
But there are a few things to consider before you believe that the Internet is somehow going to unseat the Party:
- People like Li Xinde are far and few between.
- Li Xinde’s website is decorated with a banner featuring a picture of Hu Jintao and animated Party slogans like "Completely support the Three Represents" (reproduced above). Li Xinde is himself a Party member.
- The government is becoming increasingly sophisticated at using different techniques to influence public opinion on the Internet. Aside from blocking websites and monitoring email, the government also employs propagandists to push the Party line on Internet forums and bulletin boards.
Indeed, I suspect the propaganda bureau has even started to pay Australia-based bloggers.
WANTED(Red Notice):Li Hongzhi
He
is the founder of Falundafa evil cult.He believes aliens walk the Earth
and has said he can walk through walls and make himself invisible.He
also says that he is a being from a higher level, who has come to help
all humankind from the destruction it could face as the result of
the "rampant evil".
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Mao: The Unknown Story - by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday:
A controversial and damning biography of the Helmsman.
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May 29th, 2005 at 10:28 am
how could someone pay something that is free? that site is ran by a couple of university students in Australia.
May 29th, 2005 at 8:29 pm
They are students from China and I dont see why it is wrong to love their own country.Your “suspect” was incorrect i’d say.
May 30th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
I was joking. To my knowledge, the CPC doesn’t bother to employ hacks to write for overseas online consumption. Still, given that “the government also employs propagandists to push the Party line on Internet forums and bulletin boards,” I’d say these guys should apply for funding.