Saturday, February 12, 2011

Initiative power: China's Twitter helps find missing children

In China human trafficking and kidnappings are part of everyday life in some regions. Parents who are looking for her missing child helps, now a network initiative. Six missing people were found with the help already, tens of thousands to help - because the state failed too often. Beijing - has been known since that a young father with the help of the private network organized his campaign again abducted son was three years ago, the page is flooded with queries desperate parents: Until Thursday, the campaign had on Sina.


com, where also a Twitter-like service that is offered, 180,000 followers. was initiated in the search service in late January by the researcher Yu Jianrong, who has already made a name with other actions as the voice of the oppressed. The user can set photos of child beggars and orphans and street children - in the hope that parents recognize they may have their missing offspring.

According to reports in this way were only six cases are resolved. Nationally, the site was known, since this week turned up video footage of the happy reunion of Peng Gaofeng with his now six year old son Peng Wenle the web. Abductions and trafficking are a major problem in China. After a series of scandals have become public, the government has tightened its controls all right, but still has the confidence of the people in the low commitment of the authorities.

Time and again parents report in the media, as their search fails after their children at the disinterest of the officials. In a commentary on the search page it is because even slightly bitter, people would take their destiny in hand, because they could not count on help from the authorities.

Given the strict control of media and Internet population in China is increasingly relying on short messages, to disseminate information and criticism. Since Twitter and other international portals are blocked in the People's Republic, More and more national services.

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