China In the Habit of Copying and Redirecting US Sites?

Want to know why US web companies have trouble making it in China? gaz_hayes passed us a link to the blog commiepod, which suggests that successful US websites are targeted by 'Chinese government backed companies.' "These companies copy the site, deploy it on a .cn domain, and then DNS poison or forcefully lower the bandwidth the US site. Just a few weeks ago google.com and google.cn were DNS poisoned across the entire Chinese internet and were being redirected to their Chinese competitor Baidu. This probably explains Google's 3rd quarter market share in China." This is a fairly serious accusation; anyone else have first-hand experiences that would back this up?

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Re:They do worse things

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They actually do worse things, like torturing Tibetan nuns, and you worry whether you can access your favourite search engine in China?

And the US tortures terror suspects before they are proven guilty in a court of law.