Webmaster finds gaps in China's Net

By Philip P. Pan
Updated: 7:27 a.m. ET May 24, 2004

GUANGZHOU, China - When Wu Wei's Web site was shut down for the 23rd time, police in the western Chinese city of Chengdu replaced it with one of their own. For a few days last summer, people trying to reach his Democracy and Freedom discussion forum instead found an odd message in large red characters on their computer screens.

"Because this site contains illegal information," the message said, "the webmaster is asked to quickly contact Officer Hu of the Chengdu Public Security Bureau Internet Supervision Department." Helpfully, the officer left a phone number.

Wu, 34, a part-time college lecturer living hundreds of miles away in Guangzhou on China's southeast coast, ignored the request. But users across the country called and berated Officer Hu for closing the site.

Wu said the officer eventually called his cell phone and offered to reopen the site if he turned over data that could help police identify people who had posted essays there.

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Philip P. Pan is a liar and a Whore. He is a complete dirty scum liar on Taiwan issues. I'm sure he's a Mainland Chinese.

I wonder what Jackie 'Whore' Chan has to say about this report?

We are openly trading with enemies of freedom and democracy. We are stengthening their hand.

Trading for cotton with Southern Slave Masters never helped the slaves. China is a country of 1.5 Billion slaves. We shouldn't be enriching the slave masters.

End Free Trade. Start FAIR trade. Free laborers should NOT trade with slave drivers.