[Marxism] MIA: The Chinese state MUST be held accountable

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haines Brown writes: "Bill, I don't think the issue whether the Chinese
government is the good guys or bad guys (which would be a superficial and
devisive debate), but a possible recourse to conspiracy theory explanation
that is profoundly un-Marxist. If we are serious, we can't wallow in
'shot-in-the-dark' explanations, particularly if voiced so publically as
this was and targeting a regime that is clearly not a principal enemy in
today's world."

Well Haines, it's the old saw that if you look like a duck, walk like a
duck, and quack like a duck, then you're a duck, or, if you prefer, that the
shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

You have this extensive network of servers. They're all under Chinese
control. The DOS attacks are coming with their IP addresses. Have been,
apparently, for months.

It is singularly unimpressive to me to list all the good, rational,
political reasons why the Chinese Politburo OUGHT NOT to want to shut down
MIA. 

That it isn't RATIONAL on the Chinese side -- well, was the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution rational? Was Tien an min rational? Is
restoring capitalism rational? 

Yeah, maybe it's the politburo, or maybe it's a couple of 15 year olds with
a botnet. But call it Marxist or un-, "conspiracy" is just about the only
possible explanation. There are 3.7 billion IP addresses, and that all these
Chinese computers decided to attack the server at this one IP address  --
you think that's just coincidence?

And since the attacks apparently originate with many computers under the
control of the Chinese state and its enterprises, the Chinese state is
responsible for putting a stop to it. We can talk about someone maybe having
spoofed the IP addresses AFTER the Chinese state addresses the issue. 

Whether they initiated it or are just cluelessly permitting it to go on, the
Chinese authorities are responsible. They should be scandalized from one end
of the universe to the other until they put a halt to it or can provide a
fairly good accounting to show the originating IP addresses have been
spoofed.

If I were the MIA, and assuming they have already lodged the appropriate
complaints with the admins of the attacking servers, and not received
satisfactory responses, I would go public with this now, and in a big way.
Talk to the EFF about it, make sure it gets out on politech, and complain to
ICANN and the main backbone providers, which holds the key to the ultimate
sanctions, which is to blackhole all the .cn domains involved or just .cn as
a whole, and cut off the Chinese network from the rest of the Internet.

All history shows that if they can get away with this, these attacks will
spread. And however it is that their servers wound up carrying out the
attacks, the Chinese STATE in the first instance is responsible for putting
a stop to it. They have a RESPONSIBILITY to stop the attacks from their
servers or show that they are not originating there. 

Joaquín


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