Shi Tao busted with help from...Yahoo?!

Well, I had to hold back on writing about this for a few days as I'm currently the living, breathing definition of "angry young man". Suffice to say, Shi-Tao has become a regular entity on this site - along with all his other repressed pals. I previously covered how he had been jailed for 10 years by the Chinese Government for something incredibly stupid - well, people going to jail as a result of Western companies getting involved is the next logical step.

I won't wax lyrical (or indeed, swear loudly) on this, because Alex over at the Sunbelt Blog already covered the story in fine style. What I will do, is post (for your viewing "pleasure") every writeup on why the current Chinese rule sucks.

Golden Shield: Because brutalising peasants is fun
Beijing Olympics: The Flame of Freedom is Dimming
Poetry in Motion: Internet arrests with an artistic touch
It's Chinese media whitewash time - again!
Chinese Takeaway
China's take on "early release"
China arrests cyber-lawyer
Shi-Tao awaits sentence
China in sacked lecturer "shocker"
Blog censorship
Shi-Tao gets ten years

I have written many times about my connection to China. Believe me - I am deadly serious when I keep saying security is not something you buy and take home for £29.99. It's now something much, much more important than that.

People are imprisoned, children exploited, lives are ruined and the repressed are watching their anonymous networks shattered because of invasions of privacy, Adware bundles and Malware variants flooding in from every angle.

Can things get any worse? Or do we already know the answer to that one?