Chinese Human Rights Orgs Hit By DDoS 156
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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While I agree, in general, with your statement, it should be pointed out that the current Chinese government is also responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese. While I personally think the Soviet Union still holds the title for Killing the Largest Number of Your Own People, the Chinese are running a close second.
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Wow, ok, let me pick this apart, since it's modded +5.
In order to prevent widespread unrest, they must keep the peasants peasantlike.
No, they have to keep the peasants busy working and trying to make money to raise their standard of living, instead of out of work and making trouble. That means they need to continue to grow and increase their middle class, or the populace won't be happy at all. Remember, it's all about standard of living, or as another guy said it, having a TV in every household.
Therefore, the government keeps hording money.
This is a non-sequitor. The government hording money does not affect the populace's standard of living. Nor does it make sense for the government to horde money to keep the populace poor if they want to keep the populace happy. If the divide between the wealthy (government) and the poor is great, there is a greater chance of unreset.
Because the government is hording money, they buy our 'worthless' dollars and prop the value up therefore spreading the wealth to the US rather than spreading it through their citizenry.
The first part doesn't make sense. If the chinese government is hording money, they won't be buying up dollars. That's spending their money to buy dollars.
They are propping up the US economy. But they're also spending a lot of it domestically. Their entire bailout package was to throw money around to stimulate the economy. Where've you been for the past 2 years?
Once their citizenry see this, and begin to realize their lack of wealth in relation to the rest of the world, and began to want the things they feel a middle class should deserve, there will have to be widespread social unrest to effect the inevitable change. Further, an economy with widespread social arrest is less desirable to investors.
Non-sequitors. And they don't even make sense. In a healthy economy, everybody is growing wealthier. This is basic econ, 101. And what does investors have to do with anything?
Either the Chinese middle class becomes more affluent through shared prosperity of the Chinese economy - prompting social unrest because of middle class desires such as free speech, the right to own property, the right to ones' investments
A happy middle class is a complacent middle class. Just look to the US. Happy middle class means the government can trample over the people's rights. It's when things are bad that people start to get up in arms. Social unrest doesn't happen when everything's fine and dandy.
or the Chinese government continues to prosper at the expense of the peasant class prompting social unrest.
Which isn't happening. The Chinese government (and China in general) is prospering at the expense of the rest of the developed world. What's left of the peasant class is prospering along with everybody else.
My prediction: Eventual widespread social unrest and burst of the economic bubble that is China. The US has nothing to lose from social unrest in China.
That's a nice prediction, but it's not predicated on anything you said before. You threw around social unrest everywhere like they were some kind of key word, without neither understanding what causes social unrest, nor what social unrest actually entails.
Thanks for playing, troll. I praise your cleverness in getting yourself modded +5 despite being completely wrong about--well, almost everything. I guess it's easy to fake knowing things when you're talking to like-minded ignorant people. But anybody who knows even a morsel about the specific subject at hand will shred you apart and expose you for the troll you are.