FBI Looks Into Chinese Role in Darfur Site Hack

Amy Bennett writes "This past weekend we discussed an increasing level of attacks online, targeting Tibetan-based NGOs. Now the BBC is reporting that the Save Darfur Coalition has called in the FBI on what appears to be a similar matter. Allyn Brooks-LaSure, a spokesman with the group, doesn't know who is behind the attacks, but he said the IP addresses of the computers that had hacked his organization were from China. Save Darfur has been trying to get China, one of Sudan's largest trading partners, to pressure Sudan's government into stopping the mass killings in Darfur's ongoing civil war. 'Someone in Beijing is trying to send us a message,' Brooks-LaSure said. Probably the same message they're sending by continuing to shut down video sites covering the Tibetan unrest."

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Re:Does China's leadership even care

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There's a big misunderstanding here. The "meme" itself is only what the right-wing/fascist/regressive camp chooses to hear- in reality a lot of leftists will point out what exactly is fucked up about an aspect of American policy and the right-wing chooses to disagree with the statement, on the grounds that if the "liberal" (term for "people who disagree with conservatives") thinks there's something wrong with America that the "conservative" does not, well the "liberal" must just hate America. The implied message is that conservatives love America.
And yet the conservative movement hates America! Every new deal program that keeps Americans from starving, every time a woman makes a choice to abort, every time a muslim immigrates to the US- if the conservative is put under the exact same standards as the liberal they must "hate America" as well, since they seem to be unhappy with it.
Personally, I think at least the leftists are making an effort to keep the US secular- I think if conservatives want a theocracy they're more than welcome to move to Iran.

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