India is currently struggling under Firstpost.com with an anti-corruption campaign against the rampant bribery. With the homepage ipaidabribe.com online pillory and whistleblower site has been created. There, visitors can anonymously report accepted or rejected bribes. Now, inspired by the trend, China: In the last few months have caused at least eight websites, where visitors can report corrupt machinations. so popular that the server crash
As the BBC reported
Chinese belong to about the homepages “Where Xinghui le” and “Where huilu le”. They are all guided by individuals, such as anti-corruption activists and lawyers. The operators warn visitors, however, to maintain any libel or personal revenge, and not disclose personal information to the persons concerned to protect their identity.
From the people coming whistleblower sides meet on such a large crowd that all the operators and the server crashed homepages are currently unavailable. But that is about to change: They expanded their current capacities, were announced as the administrators of ibribery.com. Whether behind the inaccessibility of a targeted attack by pro-government side stands, in which one server is overwhelmed with requests to the crash, has not ruled out.
survival uncertain
The operators declare one side, they hope their platform with the support of the government, which for several years repeatedly conducting anti-corruption campaigns. The Chinese China Daily, which also reported the popularity of these home pages, asked the Ministry for monitoring to make a statement. This avoided the question: You understand the situation of those websites, refused any further comment but
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persist whether these platforms is uncertain. First post notices that it looks bleak for the Chinese versions. Unlike China, the Indian anti-corruption site is operated by an NGO that can flourish in an environment of free expression and civil society structures. In China, however, such websites are operated by private individuals only too easy to censorship by the Internet Authority for victims.
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