The Rise of the Dragon

What happens when a mid-level salary Communist China official who earns, say $35,000 a year (that is a generous estimate, but let us just pretend for a minute) shows-up to a hearing wearing a 15,000 USD watch chain-smoking 22 USD per-pack ciggarettes?  Sounds like corruption to me.

Here is an excerpt from the article linked to HERE:

The case illustrates how China’s Internet users, operating in groups, can go after people they think have done something wrong by putting information about them online and allowing others to join in the harassment.

The phenomenon, in a country that heavily censors the Internet, has an unusual name – “human flesh search engine”

“The searches can reveal corruption and corporate malfeasance, and issues that should be aired in an open society,” he says. “But it is by nature a sensationalist phenomenon that can invade people’s privacy.”

Sounds like power to the people!

Source: http://www.usatoday.com