Accustomed to censorship and propaganda abound on Chinese television, viewers of a cable channel populous city of Wenzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang, could not believe last Friday night to messages appearing on their screens. In a black overlapping labels in the regular programming prayed challenging proclamations like “Damn the Communist Party” and “The Communist bandits are the real criminals.” Accompanying signs photos Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize which is now twelve years in prison for calling for democracy, and Wang Binzhang , another dissident detained since 2003.
In addition, China banned in some images, such as the famous photo of standing before the tank column after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen protests were issued A man known icon in the world, but many Chinese have never seen the censorship imposed by the authoritarian regime in Beijing. Apparently, all these images were being circulated by a group of “hackers” (hackers) that s e had taken control of the issue of cable television Wenzhou , which reaches four million households in several provinces of China
immediately, so unusual messages started running like wildfire through Weibo, the Chinese copy of the censored Twitter, while television Wenzhou cut issue to eliminate subversive proclamations . But even then he could do and continued to appear on the black background of the screens, even causing more confusion among the surprised audience.
“It’s happening very rare,” a user of Weibo marveled whose message no has been deleted by censorship, yes eliminated all others. Among them was even one of a journalist of the state news agency Xinhua, which referred to the incident as a “vicious attack.”
Two hours after they started Posts , Wenzhou television discovered how to delete order. “Take out the card from your cable box and reinsert it; the label then disappear, “announced on his Weibo account the chain, on Saturday apologized to the audience for the” inconvenience suffered “but did not explain its reasons.
avoid Proclamations against the Communist Party continue to spread throughout the network, the sensors worked piecework and Weibo search of the term “hack Wenzhou television” remains blocked due to “relevant standards”. But Twitter, which is not accessible in China without a connection to a foreign server through a VPN, yes they have circulated the “screenshots” with protest messages.
About They featured the logo of a group called ‘Anti-Communist Hackers’ , already has taken several “cyber attacks” against internet pages of the Chinese regime . But, this time, these hackers have refused to ‘Foreign Policy’ responsibility for the attack, which have been attributed to “friendly forces” against the Communist Party.
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