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Chinese Bloggers Stage Hoax
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "It seemed like the latest instance of a recurring story: Two Chinese blogs had shut down, apparently the victim of government censorship. 'Within hours, English-language bloggers and Western news media spread the word that the Chinese government had closed the sites,' the Wall Street Journal reports. The BBC spread the word, and its report was picked up by the French free-press group Reporters Without Borders. 'But in this case, it appears the Chinese government wasn't involved, the WSJ reports. 'By Thursday, a day after the shut-downs, the blogs were back up and running. In an interview, Beijing-based journalist Wang Xiaofeng of Massage Milk says he shut his blog down to make a point about freedom of speech -- just one directed at the West instead of at Beijing. He calls the Western press "irresponsible" and says that the hoax was designed "to give foreign media a lesson that Chinese affairs are not always the way you think." ' The BBC later corrected its story."
As long as they don't shut down the plastic flower pot manufacturer's sites...2 005_03_29_001.jsp
But who knew that the 7th most popular non adult web search in China is Plastic flowerpot manufacturer...
http://www.accoona.com/about/press/press_release_
Yes, it ranks above emmigration!!!!
And All I Ask is a Tall Ship And a Star to Steer Her By
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You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
wag the dog.. good movie
> *adjusts tinfoil hat*
And on the third hand, how do we know they weren't working for the Chinese government all along, as part of a psyops plan to discredit Chinese bloggers who oppose the government?
*adjusts tinfoil hat with fourth hand and requests immediate beamout; the humans are onto me for some reason!*
They're just ticked off because The Onion keeps fooling them.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
[Sarcasm] Wow they fooled the Media. I never thought i'd see the day where the media would report some sensationlist news without checking the facts out. This is a sad day indeed. [/sarcasm]
~Should i be worried when the real world starts lagging?
Maybe "they" are just making you say you live in Europe!
;-) Great post!
Kidding
"reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Steven Colbert
But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
You must be new here.
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
who's left? I don't consider democrats any more reliable or honest or motivated [in agood direction] than the republicans.
Besides, stations like CNN and Fox are clearly republican slanted. Like lou fucking dobbs. he's just a complete asshat who thinks that nobody outside of the USA is entitled to work. Then he bitches that people come to the USA for work.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
My dad - yes yes he does NOT live in China - has an even stronger opinion than I have. He firmly believes that people are getting paid by the US government to bash the Chinese government. When the Chinese government does something, everybody yells 'OMG those communist bastards are 3v1l!!!'. But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
If he ever finds the agency paying these people to bash China (or any country) tell him to let me know.. Not that I have anything against China I just could use the money.
Thanks
Eric
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
We have a fable about a little boy who cried wolf as a prak one too many times. When there really was a wolf and he was in need, no one believed him. When your site is really taken down by the Chinese Government, don't be surprised when we don't believe you.
"Knee Jerk" is exactly the expression I would use in describing much of western media's reporting on China. I feel funny even having to say this, but China is a huge country with a complex society. The naive precept of a bipolar China with an evil communist government vs. the people is just that: naive. Speculating government suppresion in any social incidents is as "knee jerky" as pointing to the Bush administration whenever a car accident happens in America. By reporting based on speculative instincts rather than facts and objective analysis, the western media has been DETRIMENTAL, rather than helpful, to the free speech movement in China. Reporting like this one and others have dis-credited the western media and alienated even disgusted much of the Chinese people (not the government). It's no wonder there has been a serious backlash in China's cyber free speech movement in recent few years. I'm sure at this very moment the Chinese Minister of Central Propaganda is laughing his rear end off reading this column.