Subject: txt intl china - iran -
Beijing - China's Communist Party mouthpiece has accused the United States of mounting a cyber army and a ''hacker brigade'', and of exploiting social media such as Twitter or YouTube to foment unrest in Iran. The People's Daily yesterday accused the US of controlling the internet in the name of freedom after secretary of state Hillary Clinton called for more internet freedoms in China and elsewhere in a speech on Thursday.
China on Friday warned that Washington's push against internet censorship could harm ties.
"Behind what America calls free speech is naked political scheming. How did the unrest after the Iranian elections come about?" said the editorial, signed by Wang Xiaoyang.
"It was because online warfare launched by America, via YouTube video and Twitter microblogging, spread rumours, created splits, stirred up, and sowed discord between the followers of conservative and reformist factions."
China has blocked YouTube since March, the anniversary of uprisings in Tibet, and Twitter since June, just before the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tienanmen Square crackdown. Facebook has been down since early July.[Never forget this is a communist totalitarian government with undisguised adversarial ambitions (Taiwan, anyone). They are actively preparing for war against us while we pretend they're our friends.]
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