p2pnet - rss feed: 2M Chinese abandon CCP
p2pnet.net News:- Thanks to the influence of the Net, as of this month, more than two million people have renounced the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), says a new Dynamic Internet Technology report.
DIT, creator of DynaWeb, was founded in 2001 to provide cheap, reliable solutions for customized Net service needs under “challenging environments”.
People from 29 provinces or directly governed cities, “submitted renunciation statements online via DynaWeb,” says the report.
“People from Beijing are especially active: while only comprising 4.3% of the total Internet users in China, renunciation requests from Beijing composed 15% of the total. Shanghai has only 1.6%.
“These demographic data conform to the view that Beijing residents are more politically savvy with many having experienced the June 4th massacre, while Shanghai residents are more economically oriented.”
China’s Communist Party leaders are, “ruling the country and can do whatever they want under whatever name,” DIT ceo Bill Xia told p2pnet.
“But through circumvention technologies, we have opened a free land in the virtual world not ruled by the CCP.”
Late last year DIT uncovered the censorship of Google news sources inside China and among sites affected was New York’s Epoch Times. It is, among other things, the online publisher of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and Renouncing the Chinese Communist Party.
“Since the Epoch Times website is blocked in China, many Chinese have used the services of DynaWeb to access the web site to read the ‘Nine Commentaries’,” says the report, continuing:
“Our records show that between November 19, 2004 and the end of April 2005, the first of the ‘Nine Commentaries’ received 71,000 page views. Page views for all nine commentaries combined on the DIT website add up to 307,202 as of May 31, 2005.
“Through our email technology, between December 15, 2004 and February 2005, DIT sent out the ‘Nine Commentaries’ to 2.3 million email users in China. According to previous calibration of email delivery, around 5-10% of recipients actually open such mass mailing emails. Since 3 emails were sent to each account, we estimate that 345,000 people looked at least at one of the ‘Nine Commentaries.’ As reference, the “Sun Zhigang case “1, one of the Top 5 news stories in China in 2004, received about 1 million page views on sina.com, a major Internet news portal in Mainland China.
“On websites such as http://www.xinshijue.org/, the Nine Commentaries are accessible in various media formats specifically designed for making VCDs. Visitors are encouraged to download those files and make VCDs that can then be distributed to others in mass. Among those files, a video file download link (http://xinshijue.org/cd/down/9ping/9p.iso) received around 500,000 hits by April 2005.”
In the meanwhile, Chinese web masters are failing to register their sites by the millions.
A scant 430,000 have reported to the country’s information ministry, says Australia IT, going on to quote Duncan Clark, managing director of Beijing-based media consultancy BDA China, as saying the campaign for registration is “obviously an effort to impose control” on web activities.
He’s moved his website offshore to avoid the regulators.
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See:-
uncovered the censorship - Google on China censorship, p2pnet, October 1, 2004
Dynamic Internet Technology - Report on Chinese People Renouncing the Chinese Communist Party via Internet Circumvention Technologies, June 5, 2005
Epoch Times - Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party
Australia IT - China fights to control the net, June 6, 2005
