China: "Reveal Yourself, Or Don't Play Online"

Originally Posted by Bradylama

I remember there was a Chinese town that revolted. They even repelled the riot police for a while. I never heard a follow up story about it. Anybody remember what happened to it?

There have been multiple revolts and riots in China within the last couple years, you'll have to be more specific.

Maybe this is it, although it's a pretty typical story of farmer revolts. It happened 2005 in a rural farming town on the Southern part of the country. Farmers were having a peaceful protest against Hong Kong factories coming in and taking over their land to produce clothes or some shit. They actually held off the police for a day or two, but then tanks came and the police started firing back and pretty much ended that. Those who didn't get beaten by the police and taken in were driven off the land and left the starve without any sort of livelihood. The fatalities at the scene weren't that bad, I think it below a hundred but there was a follow up article on the fate of the people who left and it was pretty gut wrenching. Since the village population no longer had "jobs" as farmers, a lot resorted to begging in the bigger cities while the lucky ones got jobs at the new factory and got sick with pollution in the area.

I'm not surprised on this news. The PRC have been regulating the internet ever since it came into existance into the country, hell they even read outgoing and incoming e-mails. You have to use your ID # to even sign on the internet, so I'd imagine it's a natural step up.

Jam it back in, in the dark.