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China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites
frogger writes "China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently, however, several reports came in from China indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked. The sites became inaccessible, instead redirecting to the leading Chinese search engine Baidu."
Doesn't word hijack imply something else? More like hacked, took over, infiltrated? But use word like hijack for redirect is pretty ridiculous.
Yeah, that would be really funny, how the Chinese government would come in the middle of the night, take them, their family, and likely anyone else that knew or cared about them, and drop them in a hole somewhere, never to be heard from again. Yeah, that's fucking hilarious.
Some ISPs are hijacking DNS, granted not to torrenting sites. Closest thing I can think
In America, the line between business and government is very fuzzy, especially with Big Content, Big Corn, and Haliburton.
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
Sometimes it is overt, as you have said with 51% direct ownership by the government, while other times it is more covert, in the form of companies or businesses which are owned, wholly or partly, by the Chinese army or by a Chinese citizen who is politically well connected but otherwise doesn't contribute much to the venture, the proverbial son of the boss. This seems to be getting better with time as Chinese businessmen and entrepreneurs with greater business acumen displace less competent political favorites despite being handicapped by government corruption.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you lived in Nazi Germany, you'd never hear of disappearances either.
Yes, you would, you would just pretend not to notice. You cannot make millions of people, mostly from urban areas, disappear without anyone noticing.