One click brings China to its knees....

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Li Datong, one of the top editors of the China Youth Daily stood up against a Chinese government plan to dock pay to reporters' pay if their stories upset party officials.

BEIJING -- The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.

Colleagues were informing them that a senior editor in the room, Li Datong, had done something astonishing. Just before the meeting, Li had posted a blistering letter on the newspaper's computer system attacking the Communist Party's propaganda czars and a plan by the editor in chief to dock reporters' pay if their stories upset party officials.

This dissident has done what others have failed to do.

The government censors went on the prowl but failed to shut down all instances of the message.

Copies were posted on China's most popular Web forums, and within hours people across the country were sending Li messages of support.
But in a rather embarrassing show of defeat, the communist party bowed to public sentiments and scrapped the editor in chief's plans to censure his reporters.

The government's Internet censors scrambled, ordering one Web site after another to delete the letter. But two days later, in an embarrassing retreat, the party bowed to public outrage and scrapped the editor in chief's plan to muzzle his reporters.

The episode illustrated the profound impact of the Internet on political discourse in China, and the challenge that the Web poses to the Communist Party's ability to control news and shape public opinion, key elements to its hold on power. The incident also set the stage for last month's decision to suspend publication of Freezing Point, the pioneering weekly supplement that Li edited for the state-run China Youth Daily

This proves one thing.
Even in China, the little guy wins one every now and then.