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Chinese TV hacked with anti-Communist messages

Comments such as "Do not cooperate with Communist devils" appeared on television screens.

By Ed Adamczyk

WENGZHOU , China, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Wengzhou, China, television viewers saw their programs interrupted by a string of anti-Communist messages across their screens Friday evening.

Television broadcasts in the coastal Chinese city of nine million were hacked, with messages superimposed over normal programming.

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"Damn the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpieces: China Central Television, Peoples' Daily, the Propaganda Department and the State Radio and Film Administration" -- references to China's state-run broadcaster and newspaper, and the state agencies responsible for censorship, respectively.

Other messages read: "the Communist bandits are the real criminals" and "Friends, do not cooperate with Communist devils," according to Foreign Policy.

Another called for the release of Liu Xiaobo, a jailed dissident. There has been no claim of responsibility for the incident, and no immediate response from the Chinese government.

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