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本帖最后由 vivicat 于 2009-8-9 17:18 编辑
Not everyone is Melburnian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/03/china-film-festival-hack
Contrary to western reports, the hacker of a film festival website says he was driven by a patriotism felt by many in China
Jeremy Goldkorn guardian.co.uk, Monday 3 August 2009 11.32 BST
On 15 July, the Guardian reported that a cultural attaché at the Chinese consulate in Melbourne called the organiser of the Melbourne International Film Festival and "demanded a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer be dropped" from the programme.
Rebiya Kadeer is considered an enemy of the state by the Chinese government and is blamed for organising the riots that killed 197 people according to the official death toll.
Shortly after the phonecall from the consulate, Chinese filmmakers including art house cinema darling Jia Zhangke began to withdraw their films for the festival, citing the Rebiya Kadeer documentary as the reason. To date, all seven Chinese films originally slated for screening, including those produced in Hong Kong and Taiwan, have withdrawn.
On 25 July, the film festival's website was hacked, its content replaced with a Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans. Many of the reports about the hack assumed that the action was planned by the Chinese government. A typical example: on The New Yorker's blog, Richard Brody wrote a post called We are all Melbournian in which he says that "the hack attack should be understood as the tacit work of the Chinese government".
This assumption is widespread, despite a story by Mary-Anne Toy in Australia's Sunday Age newspaper in which the hacker in question is quoted denying that he acted on behalf of the Chinese government.
It seems many westerners cannot believe that Chinese people would engage in such pro-government activities unless the government ordered them to do so. This is a fundamental misunderstanding about what I think is the biggest and most emotional difference in thinking between the average westerner and the average Chinese person: attitudes towards Chinese policy in Tibet and Xinjiang.
I first became aware of it in 1997. I had been in China two years and was planning a trip to Tibet. When a normally mild-mannered and apolitical Chinese friend of mine heard of my plans, he got agitated and gave me a lecture about how Tibet is and always was a part of China. More than 10 years after that lecture, China is a much more open and in some ways westernised place than it was, but that has not changed the attitudes of most Chinese people when it comes to their country's right to rule Tibet and Xinjiang.
The hacker who vandalised the Melbourne Film Festival website shows an attitude typical of China's urban youth. I tracked him down (not hard – his net handle "laojun" is the same as the name he left on the hacked website) and asked him why he hacked the site and if the government has anything to do with it.
Laojun said that it's "completely normal for a Chinese person to have a patriotic heart" and that the government had absolutely nothing to do with his actions: "On the contrary, I am worried the government will punish me for this." He also noted that he has received many messages of support from fellow Chinese internet users who have added him to their instant messaging contact list or written supportive messages on various internet forums that have discussed the hack.
This morning a new poll on the Kaixin social networking site, a Facebook clone that is currently the most popular networking site for upwardly mobile Chinese urbanites (among the country's most cosmopolitan citizens) asked users if they supported the hack. Only two answers were possible: "support" and "super support". Around 1,000 people have voted support, and 10 times that number voted "super support". Other Chinese forum websites with posts about the hack have also drawn overwhelmingly positive comments. Supporters also include the users of anti-CNN.com, a website started by a young man in Beijing around the time of the Tibet riots last year with the aim of revealing western media bias in their China reporting.
These people are not government workers and they know that they see a censored internet inside China. I asked Laojun himself what he thought of China's internet censorship programme, usually called the GFW or "great firewall" in China:
"To tell you the truth, I don't really like it, I don't really approve of it … But for me it does not really perform a function. I have a lot of ways to get around it and I sometimes go outside to look at foreigners' opinions about China. But perhaps for the government, the GFW helps to protect China's interests."
You may disagree with Laojun's views on Xinjiang or censorship. You may blame his thinking and the support of his fans on state propaganda or the educational system. But a large – I would daresay majority – of the population of China do not feel that they are Melbournian at all but red-blooded, patriotic Chinese people.
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发表于 2009-8-9 16:10
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发表于 2009-8-9 16:34
写的中肯。
