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BizReport : Blogs & Content : September 07, 2006
Hoax or Not Internet Vigilantes in China Hunt a Sex Blogger
In China, Internet Vigilantes continue the hunt for the author of a blog headlined “Sex in Shanghai: Western Scoundrel in Shanghai Tells All.”
The posting which revealed a foreign English teacher boasting of his sexual conquests of Chinese women enraged a Shanghai psychologist.
Zhang Jiehai, a member of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences responded in his Web diary with a call for “this piece of garbage” to be found and kicked out of China.
McClatchy Newspapers special correspondent Fan Linjun writing in the San Jose Mercury Newspaper, said the case of a foreign writer who goes by the Internet name ‘Chinabounder’ is only the latest example of internet vigilantes who stir up mobs, to ferret out those they perceive to be acting improperly.
As the internet frenzy mounts, The Associated Press is reporting that the blog was a hoax by a group of artists including a British man, two Chinese men, an Australian Woman and a Japanese woman.
However, Chinese Internet users who doubt that the blog is a hoax continue the manhunt.
In an unrelated report on the use (or abuse) of the Internet the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau has reported that the Beijing police have closed down an Internet website that sold guns. It said 44 suspects had been arrested and 117 guns were confiscated.
This is the first gun-trading case via the Internet cracked by Chinese police this year. Xu Jingfeng, a police officer of the bureau said the buyers and sellers contacted each other through the internet and made payments through internet banks.
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