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

[dave.walters@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Joaquín's position is essentially that of the MIA (perhaps not as strident :). 
We have 60 volunteers...and twice that number of opinions! We are still 
debating and discussing this. IN a day or so we expect this to hit the 
bourgeois media in a small way, and one of our members is being interviewed 
tonight by a leading paper of record.

As Joaquín put it, regardless of a 'conspiracy' or just a 15 year old kid 
someplace in the world playing rope-a-dope with 20 Chinese servers on his 
laptop, these are still PRC *state* servers that are being used. Ergo it's 
their responsibility at the end of the day (or month, as the case is). We 
actually have some very good gov't contacts in China and they are working for 
us to resolve the situation. E-mail has been sent to every sys-op of every 
server *in Chinese*. We've even had one major institution in China offer to 
mirror the MIA there as a result of all this!

Downloading of Chinese files (top downloaded file are Engels and Marx, BTW, 
also Mandel and some others) has increased. 2/3 of ALL files downloaded from 
the MIA are Chinese files...in quanity of files, not just the 'size', which are 
large PDFs, generally). The growth is almost exactly proportional to the 
increase in number of files we have uploaded to the Chinese section.

Many people on the MIA believe that this is intentional on behalf of the gov't 
there. Others like myself, do not, but regardless, Chinese Telecom could end 
this in a NY minute if they wanted to. So why haven't they?

We are letting our Chinese volunteers to the grunt work of contacting officials 
there. Others are following the IP track list (there is one UK server and one 
Italian one that is part of this attack, BTW) and working to contact those 
sys-ops. Hopefully this will be resolved when we 'go live' again in early March.

David Walters
MIA

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