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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the in-Soviet-Russia-products-threaten-you dept.

The Chinese Ministry of Justice has threatened legal action against "organisations and individuals" making "false claims" about the security of Chinese-made devices.

It follows a product recall from the Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou after its web cameras were used in a massive web attack last week.

The attack knocked out sites such as Reddit, Twitter, Paypal and Spotify.

The Chinese government blamed customers for not changing their passwords.

Its legal warning was added to an online statement from the company Xiongmai, in which the firm said that it would recall products, mainly webcams, following the attack but denied that its devices made up the majority of the botnet used to launch it.

You will like Chinese products, or else.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Thursday October 27 2016, @08:19PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday October 27 2016, @08:19PM (#419550) Homepage Journal

    So there's jokes in the article summary about totalitarian regimes like the Soviet Union and communist China punishing people for the free speech of maligning products ... but here in America most people I know think it's perfectly fine for a company to sue for things like "slander", so I'm not sure we're exactly on the moral high ground.

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  • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday October 27 2016, @08:55PM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Thursday October 27 2016, @08:55PM (#419561) Journal

    Slander implies you are speaking something other than the truth.

    http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/slander [thefreedictionary.com]

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    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday October 27 2016, @11:46PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 27 2016, @11:46PM (#419629) Journal

      In the US, yes. In Britain, I don't think so. Laws change from country to country, so If you're in Canada or Mexico, you'd better check the local definition before you mention unkind truths.

      P.S.: In the US it's not unknown for companies to file suits against people that are saying unkind truths, and may them pay to defend themselves. Sometimes repeatedly in different states. That they'll lose isn't the point. The point is to cost critics so much they'll shut up.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @01:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @01:26AM (#419682)

        We have anti-SLAPP [anti-slapp.org] laws for that.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by archfeld on Friday October 28 2016, @05:23AM

        by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Friday October 28 2016, @05:23AM (#419738) Journal

        In GB you cannot just say someone is a lousy Doctor without some proof other than your opinion. You can say however that you did not like someone as a Doctor, but you cannot impugn their ability/skill without some supporting facts. Not sure myself where Canada fits in on this scale myself though.

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