<story><title>“Whistleblower welcome in China”</title><url>http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-06/14/c_132455893.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glurgh</author><text>&lt;i&gt;a program which marks the bleakest moment yet in the history of the Internet &lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Writes someone from the other side of the Great Firewall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Breakthrough</author><text>While I agree it was a bit odd to read this coming from someone in &lt;i&gt;China&lt;/i&gt; (given the state of their own internet), I&amp;#x27;m as surprised as you are to have read this.&lt;p&gt;However, you have to read between the lines:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;How do we make sense of the fact that the market and the state colluded in the abuse of private information via what represents the backbone of many modern day infrastructures? [...] How do we understand the one-sided cyber attack accusations the U.S. has poured upon China in the past few months?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;After I read those two questions, I realized, there was a difference.  People in China know about the firewall.  Sure, they have no choice, but the government isn&amp;#x27;t going behind their backs or allowing them unrestricted internet access and penalizing those who access &amp;quot;disallowed&amp;quot; content.&lt;p&gt;And I do, for one, agree with that last question; I hardly could believe that the US was just taking cyberattacks from China for &lt;i&gt;years&lt;/i&gt; without at least attempting to get some revenge (and indeed, I know the US has the resources to fight back).&lt;p&gt;That being said, I admit I did laugh a bit to myself at this part:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;this force is acting in an unconstitutional manner and entirely contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s when I started reading in-between the lines, because half of it&amp;#x27;s the truth, and half of it&amp;#x27;s probably state-ordered propaganda.  The only difference this time is that this propaganda has some truth to it.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Whistleblower welcome in China”</title><url>http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-06/14/c_132455893.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glurgh</author><text>&lt;i&gt;a program which marks the bleakest moment yet in the history of the Internet &lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Writes someone from the other side of the Great Firewall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teawithcarl</author><text>The writer is an official (propaganda) editorial writer.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s important to understand Xinhua and CCTV are official mouthpieces of the CCP.</text></comment>