internet - China's ugly voices online

"Chatroom warriors" calls one of my friends them, neo-Nazi's is the harsher verdict of another one. The Tsunami disaster triggered off against a relatively small, but vocal voices, cheering the disaster that struck Indonesia as "a punishment from Heaven" for the etnic anti-Chinese riots a few years ago. Mostly they shout without name on the BBS's, but increasingly also using other tools at the internet.
Next to be hit by an eathquake will be Tokyo, the chatroom warriors, capital of one of China's other 'enemies'.
The Guardian wonders in an article today whether this minority is really as small and insignificant as my more reasonable friends think. "While hate-mongering is a feature of extremist internet chatrooms around the world, in China such inflammatory comments appear to represent anything but a small minority. In the past two years, small anti-Japanese protests have mushroomed into nationwide campaigns through the internet and mobile phone text messages", The Guardian writes.
Also their protests have more chance under the new leadership, one of their leaders says.