If you’ve been trying to get to this site in the last week, you may have found it down. This is because I’ve been subjected to a direct attack on the site, somebody infiltrating it with computer generated rubbish to send up the bandwidth usage until it shuts down. The material is inserted every minute or so, at all times. The attack, I’ve been able to determine, originates in China. This is certain — I’ve been working with several people to determine its origin.
This does not surprise me. At one time, I had a significant number of readers in China. I often review Chinese music and books. I have warm feelings for the people of China, and a great interest in their culture and history. But I have quite the opposite feelings about the parasitic Communist aristocracy that rules over and exploits them. That aristocracy systematically censors the Internet, cutting off the Chinese people from critically important knowledge of the outside world. It also maintains a vast infrastructure of monitors, key-word tracers, and computer hackers to follow global web activity. The day after I posted an image of the Tibetan flag, almost all traffic from China ceased. The day after I posted “A Gift of Earth and Water”, there was a flurry of hits from the PRC, then the attack disabling my site.
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