The riot shows uncontrolled internet can be abused.

antimatter

Banned Idiot
The protest and subsequent riot were organized and done mostly by the uighur university student in xinjiang. They got too much time at their hand and lived in the internet 24/7.. spreading rumor and lies and colluding with external separistist folks oversea. That's one big bad side effect of uncontrolled internet which cause this riot.
In the days of internetless, I doubt this riot would occur.


of the 1500 suspects arrested, many of them who got accused of murdering people were done by uighur unverisity students!!

Chinese authority have said doesn't matter if they are students if they found committing murders then they would be executed.
 

Schumacher

Senior Member
I don't know how big a role internet played in the riot but just to make some general comments about this new 'thing' called Twitter. Never used it but I believe it's something like short text messages over internet.
Even on forums like this one, we have rules against one liners etc simply because it's impossible to have sound discussion on any serious issues with short one liners. All you end up with is flaming, empty claims/rumors etc.
Now this Twitter is even used by journalists. lol I can't help but think the already low intelligence level of many news reports out there will only get worse from this. God help us all. :(
 

kyanges

Junior Member
I don't know how big a role internet played in the riot but just to make some general comments about this new 'thing' called Twitter. Never used it but I believe it's something like short text messages over internet.
Even on forums like this one, we have rules against one liners etc simply because it's impossible to have sound discussion on any serious issues with short one liners. All you end up with is flaming, empty claims/rumors etc.
Now this Twitter is even used by journalists. lol I can't help but think the already low intelligence level of many news reports out there will only get worse from this. God help us all. :(

Twitter has been around for a number of years.

The entire point is to avoid long posts, and just provide as brief an update as possible. It's not for discussion like a forum tends to be used for, but more like a bulletin board, where concise messages are supposed to be posted and read.

It's exactly like writing on a post-it note, "Off to get milk", and putting it up on the fridge. It's not, "low intelligence" at all. :rofl: .
 

Shifty

New Member
Registered Member
Exactly, brevity is the soul of wit. Sometimes the best statement is not a long one. Anyways, it goes to show how the internet is already a very powerful tool in organizing masses; i.e. spreading President Obama's message across the US via Internet during last years campaign. Obviously this was not used to cause harm, at least not to the Republicans :). Anyways, your right, the internet is very powerful tool for spreading propaganda. Gone are the days of a man standing on a box yelling at the crowd, when he can do it from the comfort of his basement.
 

Mr T

Senior Member
They got too much time at their hand and lived in the internet 24/7.. spreading rumor and lies

Sounds like the Chinese student internet gang to me. Like when that random guy was accused of being some other guy who protested the 2008 torch relay just because they had the same names. And what about the rumours and lies about Xinjiang people murdering Han babies in the hospital?

and colluding with external separistist folks oversea

Yeah, all of China's problems are caused by foreigners. No genuine grievances. Move all citizen, nothing to see here... :rolleyes:
 

RedMercury

Junior Member
Sounds like the Chinese student internet gang to me. Like when that random guy was accused of being some other guy who protested the 2008 torch relay just because they had the same names. And what about the rumours and lies about Xinjiang people murdering Han babies in the hospital?
Source?
Yeah, all of China's problems are caused by foreigners. No genuine grievances. Move all citizen, nothing to see here... :rolleyes:
The two are not mutually exclusive, duh.
 

Mr T

Senior Member

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!


In some cases, the online anger has had real-world consequences.

An Internet mob went after Lobsang Gendun, an ethnic Tibetan who lives in Salt Lake City, after anonymous online posters wrongly identified him as one of Jin's attackers. They posted a Google map of his neighborhood, a photo of his house, and his home phone number, employer and e-mail address. He's gotten thousands of angry e-mails, many he cannot read because his computer does not recognize Chinese characters, and unless he disconnects his phone, it rings through the night. On Tuesday, his boss persuaded him to take his family and move into a hotel until things calm down.

"It's scary," Gendun said in a phone interview. "I replied to some e-mails trying to tell them I'm not the person they saw on the news."

EDIT: FriedRice, that's not a good joke.
 
Last edited:

yehe

Junior Member
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!




EDIT: FriedRice, that's not a good joke.

Some people get too emotional and overdo it, as I recall, chinese are far from the only one doing such things either, I know quite a few cases in Europe and US that are similer. And if you count in the population of china, no wonder he/she get 5 times the response than you normally do in the US.
 

Mr T

Senior Member
Some people get too emotional and overdo it, as I recall, chinese are far from the only one doing such things either

No, which was my point to antimatter when he made the comment complaining about the spread of lies and rumours on the internet.
 

cmb=1968

Junior Member
Riots LA/Xinjiang

Riots have been going on through history, they happen in every civilization.

Maybe there would have been fewer deaths In Xinjiang if the government had left the Internet open in the city, they could have used the Internet to contact people to tell them to stay in their homes.
The authority could also use the Internet to solicit information on the mobs where they are going, and what they are up to.

Leaving the Internet open the government might have allowed some of the Malcontents too organize, but the benefits of having lines of communications open would have facilitated the dissemination of information to the general population such as how to barricade a doorway, or basic first aid this would have lowered the death tole.

The police could develop a system like CNN I report, which could allow people to report and even send photos to the police this would allow the police to preempt the Malcontents.

The population could use the Internet to tell the police were Malcontents are located this could also bring the general Uyghur population closer because many of them would have reported the location of mobs. Not every emeber of a population participats in the Riot and many refuse to partake in the violence.

Every type of technological innovation has been used for destructive, or criminal ends but in the end, they help people more than they hurt them.

During the LA riots (1992), There were two people who were severely beaten by Rioters when they drove through an Inter section one was Reginald Denny a white truck driver was pulled out of his truck and beaten severely. This whole thing was caught live on TV for the whole world to see, and it saved his life because an African American man named Bobby Green Jr seeing this man being beaten like an animal; This Black man without regard for his own life drove into a caldron of violence to rescue a perfect stranger.

Minutes after Denny was taken to safety another man drove through the same intersection and was forcibly removed from his vehicle his name was Fidel Lopez a Guatemalan Immigrant. His beating was also caught on a camera for all to see, and he was saved Rev,Benny Newton an African American Minister who ran a nearby neighborhood ministry. Newton came to his rescue and used his own body to shield Lopez from further injury Newton was Quoted saying to the rioters “Kill him and you have to kill me too”.
How many people DIED who didn't have to because no one was there because a selfish Oligarchy refuse allow an independent Media(not state Run media)to report in real time?

How many people in Xinjiang would still be alive to day?


Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
 
Last edited:
Top