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However, China's population of Internet users has increased nearly 30 percent last year to 384 million. This is really troublesome to the CCP as the Internet means information that is potentially very damaging to the CCP (not to the people) as information is power.
The other 1 billion Chinese who are living in poverty, with millions of them out of work, are also becoming more difficult to control. Chinese people are becoming increasingly more aware that they are suffering from extreme lack of human dignity and basic civil rights. Arbitrary detention, forced demolitions and relocations, children killed in the earth quake because of substandard school building, the HIV spread through tainted blood, forced abortions, state controlled religion, media censorship, internet control, toxic baby formula, toxic food, toxic environment, muzzling of rights lawyers, oppression of Christians, Uighurs and Tibetans, forced life organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners are a daily reality.
Why does the CCP censor the Internet and support cyber terrorism? This is why. The Chinese regime has done so many bad things that have involved so many hundreds of millions of people, and the information is all out there, on the Internet. But the Chinese people are for the most part ignorant about the extent. If after every disaster or persecution event people knew about the total number of fatalities, they would rise up, and that would be the end of the CCP.
Blocking the Internet, and silencing dissidents and human rights activists is vital to the CCP’s survival. Corruption, injustice, and violence by the government against the people are something the government doesn’t want them to know, think, or talk about.
Bloomberg reported on Jan. 15 that “Chinese authorities shut more than 100,000 Web sites in December in an “escalation” of its Internet censorship efforts…”
AP said in a report of the same day, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi defended the controls during a meeting Friday with his visiting German counterpart, saying, “China's Internet regulations are implemented in order to maintain a stable Internet environment and to prevent harm to people's physical and mental health."
The CCP is shutting down all human rights defenders’ Web sites that threaten its grip on power. The CCP does not care in the least about the spread of pornography. If it did, it would have instructed hackers to break into porn sites in the West, not try to get information on human rights activists. Nor does the CCP care about the people's physical and mental health as is evident from its treatment of people. For example, the Falun Dafa Information Center has confirmed the identities of over 3,000 people that have been brutally tortured to death while in detention. The exposing of the persecution of millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China during the past 10 years, and the vicious slander campaign the CCP has spread about the group, has become one of the most “sensitive” issues and the biggest worry for the CCP.
In fact, on December 17, 2009 Argentinean Judge Octavio Araoz de Lamadrid ordered the arrest of two former Chinese Communist Party leaders, Jiang Zemin (the former President of China) and Luo Gan, for their part in the genocide and torture carried out against practitioners of Falun Gong in China. (Case No. 17.885/2005, Luo Gan Tortures and Genocide, Secretary No. 17, National Criminal Court No. 9, Ruling of Judge Octavio Araoz de Lamadrid, dated Dec. 17, 2009).
Lamadrid’s decision says, “The genocidal strategy … comprised a broad range of actions arranged in total contempt for life and human dignity. The designated purpose--the eradication of Falun Gong--was used to justify any means used. Therefore, torment, torture, disappearances, deaths, brainwashing, psychological torture were everyday occurrences in the persecution of its practitioners.”
The judge concludes the decision by issuing a national and international order to capture the pair to be carried out by the Interpol Department of the Federal Police of Argentina. As such, should the accused former officials travel to other countries that have extradition treaties with Argentina, they will ostensibly face being detained and transferred to Argentina to be brought before a court.
A media release of this landmark case was posted on the Falun Dafa Information Center web site and the news spread around the world by news wire services.
No doubt, the Chinese leaders have been very nervous and concerned about this case and are trying everything to block the Chinese people from learning this news.
