Its more than likely an individual(s) who hasn’t had much exposure to the pluralism that Western democracies foster.

Criticising China is poorly thought out thinking. The last thing anyone would want to see is the Balkanisation of the country because it suddenly gave the freedoms that we often take for granted. That would lead to a lot of death and misery (and massive economic migration) and frankly if that doesn’t bother people, then that may well be those peoples motive in criticizing China.

Not the freedoms you espouse.

This run-on sentence doesn’t scan. What company got very demanding? The demanding company has an Indian office?

Are you trying to say that “the messages got more demanding, almost threatning”?

The Chinese government was completely “defaced” (massive face outage) and is no longer able to face its programmers.

Chinese gov accused Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Arrington masterminded this attack but they denied their connections with the attacker Mark Hendrickson.

We don’t know who is truly behind these attackers but it suggests that the attackers are supported by Bush administration and U.S. congress. They are funded by U.S. government money directly such as student loans and tax cuts.

Oooh… LOL

Anyway, yes, the Chinese Nationalist Fascists are showing their true colors yet again. Bastards!

Hey, you really need to use your brain before you write something here. Don’t write it as you were still working for cnn.

Who bothers attacking such a stupid useless little site from a government? Slideshare? Come on! The little site has zero political values whatsoever, not menitoning those small amount of content.

What you are doing right now is to make up an excuse to promote slideshare by making their failures into a positive story, and use the chinese gov as the popular escape goat.

I have a hardtime to understand how you can have such a stupid linkage, without any evidence to support… had been brain-washed by your ex-boss cnn?

There are fairly inexpensive firewalls that can detect DOS attacks and automatically block IP ranges. An experienced admin could have also manually blocked the range to prevent the servers from going down.

On the other hand, some controversy like this can shine few photons on a startup company that would otherwise be lost in obscurity via natural selection. This story could be interpreted as a cry for attention rather than help.

No offense, but this, and your other articles on “China” are the worst writing you do, period.

1.8 billion or so people (counting non-hukou issued residents, you know China’s internal slave class that no one talks about) don’t only launch DDoS attacks at the behest of the government, amazingly enough, just like in the U.S., the actions of individuals are not always the actions of the government.

Or, if they are, crap, the U.S. government just raped and murdered a woman in the park last night. The U.S. really needs to figure those problems out.

“possibly linked” seriously? Hi Fox news.

Who will attack such an unfamous site( at least in china) for such a stupid reason?

The goverment? OMG.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q.....&gl=us

But “described ways to fight corruption in China”? As if the corruption in China is a well-kept secret and the Chinese Government don’t want anybody know about it. FYI, they just sent the “Ex-Shanghai Party boss” to jail just days ago because of corruption:
http://in.reuters.com/article/.....9120080422

Corruption has become part of people’s everyday life in China and they talk about it all the time, online or offline. The Chinese Government goes after a website in the US due to some random slides about corruption? I don’t buy it.

Combine that pride with the sense of collectivism (that shouldn’t be confused with communism), sense of belonging and representing one’s family, village/town, city, area, country… and it’s easy to see why such broad generalisations and accusations are often more insulting than in the “individualistic” west. Here, it’s easier to mentally resign from any criticism and pass on the blame to the govt or some “other people” in the country, as we feel no connection with them.

I’m not suggesting the Chinese government shouldn’t be criticised for what they’re doing in Tibet, or the infringements of free speech, net censorship or huge amounts of executions they carry out, or for instance the violations of human rights they’ve committed during the “clean-up” of Beijing in preparation for the Olympics. I’m just saying that not directing the message to where it should go will only lead to angering those in China who might otherwise agree and even want to pursue changes to stop those things from happening.

My sweeping generalisation: You can’t force China to change.