> The Chinese people are not as stupid as other people think they are.
> When corruption exists they know, and they will write on blogs and
> spread the word around by cell phones test, etc. The Chinese
> government is eager to keep a clean image, and the CCP is always on
> the lookout for anything that may tarnish that image....
People who do that are quickly locked up and their blog is shut down.
Here are two news articles discussing this. Given that the news of many
arrests is not reported publicly, we cannot be sure how many others have been
arrested recently.
... observers say the detention of Zeng Hongling, who wrote about official
corruption in school construction and post-quake relief efforts, fits a
pattern in which the Communist Party is tightening the noose around an
increasingly vocal civil society.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-teacher19-
2008jun19,1,345073.story
Note this report is dated June 19, 2008.
Guo Quan, co-founder of China¹s Netizen Party and litigant in a recent
lawsuit against Yahoo!, had his computer confiscated over the weekend and is
now halfway through a ten-day detention period. According to the Guardian
newspaper, Guo¹s arrest, carried out as he was walking his son to school,
comes ³because of false information he posted online.²
.... Former journalist and widely-read Bullog blogger Wen Yuanchao, for
instance, reports that as of May 16, at least seventeen netizens had been
investigated for comments made online: two of which have been arrested, two
made to write declarations of wrongdoing, and with the remaining thirteen
forced to undergo disciplinary lectures.
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/21/china-political-blogger-
arrested-computer-confiscated/
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Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
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