Chinese Human Rights Orgs Hit By DDoS

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 25, 2010 @05:05AM from the stuff-that-matters dept.

Oxford_Comma_Lover writes "IDG News Service is reporting that several human rights organizations focusing on China have been hit by DDoS attacks this weekend, including Chinese Human Rights Defenders and Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch. The latter works on issues of mental persecution (dissidents being thrown into mental hospitals where they were forced onto medication or beaten with electric batons) and eminent-domain type problems (seizure of farmland or urban land without compensation when the government is working on a project)."

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Re:Seriously? by ZuluZero · 2010-01-25 05:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe it was the /. community, duped into a DOS attack to RTFA ;-)
Re:Looking for a fight in all the wrong places. by Publikwerks · 2010-01-25 05:15 · Score: 5, Insightful

From the looks of it, I doubt they care. They are far too integrated with the world economic systems to be made a pariah of. Their biggest concern is losing control of the masses. As long as the peasants stay in line, they can sit back and not give a damn about the rest of the world.