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20 million sock puppets against separatismPosted by Joel Martinsen, April 25, 2008 11:49 AM
![]() 混球vCNN from the USA votes often Sina, a major Chinese web portal that's been running with the anger that many Internet users feel toward CNN and the western media, is hosting a signature campaign that asks Chinese round the globe to sign on against CNN and separatism. As with other online polls, this petition is open for abuse, particularly given its explicit goal of racking up 20 million signatures. Blogger Wen Yunchao took a look through the results and found some interesting names on the list. At right is a screenful of signatures from individuals named "混球vCNN" who posted from the US. Another screenshot shows the same name posting multiple times from Iraq. Other fake signatures are less obvious:
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Comments on 20 million sock puppets against separatism
What do you expect from a people whose ideas of democracy and the vote process come from the Robert Mugabe/Hu Jintao School of Political Science??
Does anyone think 20 million REAL online signatures would ever be a problem ??
Is this anything like the CIA/Saddam/Bin Laden or Israeli School of Political Science ??
"What do you expect from a people whose ideas of democracy and the vote process come from the Robert Mugabe/Hu Jintao School of Political Science??"
have you ever visited the sigh page?
have you ever scanned the list indifferently?
well, i have! --though i didn't sign.
of each page containing 20 names newly signed, one can hardly find two or three signatures ajacent from the same province! even those that does, they could be from a family or whatever.
given that somebody is using malicious methord, it could count less than 0.1%, put it 1%, then 19.5 million signatures are unneglectable!
show me another list of signatures, by any proposal, any means, fake or not, that is 19.5 million-names-long!
somebody would chooose only to see what they want to see, when they are faced with something undeniable, they distort it.
Well tom, those people/organizations you list, in many cases, are diametrically opposed whereas Hu/Mugabe are working towards the same goal: Totalitarianism in Africa.
the US/CIA certainly were NOT opposed to Saddam, the Taliban and Bin Laden when it was seen as beneficial to them.
And they are not opposed to human rights violations in Saudi Arabia or military oppression in Israel or any number of their allies.
"Well tom, those people/organizations you list, in many cases, are diametrically opposed whereas Hu/Mugabe are working towards the same goal: Totalitarianism in Africa."
It's funny hearing people say that the reason this happened is because the Chinese people don't know democracy, like they can't comprehend it lol And what's with this Mugabe link, lol give me a break.
Does anybody even believe that ANY online petitions are valid? Maybe we should ask Amanda Hugginkiss and Hugh Jazz about their roles in online petitions.
Thanks Tom.
Regarding the Hu/Mugabe working towards totalitarianism in Africa, I cannot speak for the people of Zimbabwa, yet I do know that though it might sound lame to talk about "democracy inside the CCP", the de facto balance of power from competing interest groups and the different factions of the elite CCP members is more similar to that in the western liberal democracy than you think. The wide dispersion of power among regional authorities actually makes the CCP capable of allowing pluralist voices exist and to stand up to new demands.
And at the present, the popular support CCP enjoys does amount to the "mandate" Ronald Reagan and George W. ever claimed. Thanks to the inapt western media, more or less. "Mandate My Ass!" to all of them.
I just added Mugabe, Cafferty, and Genghis Khan's signatures to Sina's Anti-CNN petition.
All Sina and its fenqing supporters can do is wave their fist in the air like Snoopy after being shot down by the Red Baron.
And thanks to the rabid nationalism oozing from the CCP colonies in Chinatowns around the world, we all get a better look at the REAL China and can prepare for the coming confrontation.