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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><font face="Calibri" size="3">Listers, I found this article quite interesting. I must warn you though that it is long:). Read on.</font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="3">Human-flesh search engines have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. <br><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="3">The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.<br><br>...Human-flesh searches highlight what people are willing to fight for: the political issues, polarizing events and contested moral standards that are the fault lines of contemporary China.<br><br></font></div><div><pre style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">...The focus on censorship also obscures the fact that the Web
is not just about free speech. As some human-flesh searches show, an
uncontrolled Internet can be menacing as well as liberating.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&</a></span></p></pre></div> </div></body>
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