Chinese police arrest 15,000 for Internet crimes

[bryant.coleman]

The vast majority of the people were arrested for various blackhat scams such as stealing of credit card information, blackmail.etc. I agree that the internet censorship and surveillance is severe in China. But in "Free" countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, the situation is not much better than that in China.

[Wilikon]

China makes our computer/Internet electronics for us. Do you think Microsoft is the one pushing China into controlling the Internet over there for some reason?

The people of Russia back at the fall into communism were in favor of the people of the United States. It is only after the American people started to turn against the Russian people that the people over there stopped liking Americans. Do you think it is similar with China?

Assange and Snowden have shown us that we in the lands of the free are a lot less free than we think we are. How much slavery is built right into our electronics by the people of China who are doing the work of building the electronics for us?

Ubuntu Kylin for China

Ubuntu Kylin is an official flavour of Ubuntu. It is a free PC operating system created for China and complies with the Chinese Government procurement regulations. It includes all the features you’ve come to expect from Ubuntu, alongside essential Chinese software and apps. The interface has been designed specifically to put Chinese users first — and with new support for touch screens and HiDPI monitors, it runs beautifully on all kinds of hardware.

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntu-kylin


http://www.businessinsider.com/china-wants-to-replace-microsoft-apple-and-android-software-by-october-2014-8

[Karpeles]

The vast majority of the people were arrested for various blackhat scams such as stealing of credit card information, blackmail.etc. I agree that the internet censorship and surveillance is severe in China. But in "Free" countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, the situation is not much better than that in China.

or not, see the article:

"But China is also deleting content that the government deems offensive and "harmful," including pornography and gambling, but also posts by citizens about current events that are considered "rumor-mongering" because they offer an alternative view of events"

no independent source can verify if the majority were indeed black hats or not

[bryant.coleman]

but also posts by citizens about current events that are considered "rumor-mongering" because they offer an alternative view of events"

After the Tianjin explosions caused the deaths of hundreds of people in North-eastern China, there was a flood of posts about it in the social media. Some of these posts claimed that more than a thousand civilians were killed in the explosions. This content was removed within a few minutes after they were posted.

[wxa7115]

In such closed societies with a one-party political dictatorship, the greatest danger is the truth and information, and the Internet is the ideal means for free communication and spreading the truth.
China has major economic freedom and the free market but will never allow political freedom and democratic elections.
The question is how much the young people in China are aware of the reality in which they live and how much they are prepared to fight for change and true freedom.
The state can control the media and the Internet but can't control the minds and consciousness of its citizens.

The problem is that a transition  to democracy will not happen in a peaceful way, a civil war will be needed, So the question is, Are they willing to go trough? I think that they won't. As long as there is economic prosperity people will not risk it. Which is one of the reasons China cares mostly about jobs.

   

[n2004al]

No problem. Will be trained and will be used after to hacker the data of various countries in interest of the Government of China. Especially about data regarding United States of America. It is not the first time that do such things....

[zenitzz]

15,000 this is the same society that was just awarded the Winter Olympics?  I would think that there are many in the 15,000 that have nothing to do with cyber crime.

[notbatman]

What a joke, 15,000 arrested and the company that ripped me and hundreds if not thousands of customers off via "online fraud" is still in business? What are these Chinamen smoking? Black Arrow LTD is run by criminals convicted of internet fraud in Romania and they and their network of criminal buddies are continued to be allowed to operate their company within the PRC? They make credit card skimmers for god's sake!

We have a word for this in the west, it's called a farce.


真是笑话15000逮捕并扯下我和数百如果公司没有成千上万的客户通过“网上诈骗”关仍处于公司吗？什么是这些中国佬吸烟？黑箭有限公司是由罪犯在罗马尼亚被定罪的互联网欺诈运行，他们和刑事哥们其网络继续被允许在中国境内经营的公司？他们使信用卡撇油器在上帝的份上！

我们有这个词在西方，它被称为是一场闹剧。