Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
China employs two
million microblog monitors state media say.
How is the government
monitoring 600 million internet users 24 hours a day 365 days a year?
According to a state
media’s report, two million people are on the payroll, either of the state agencies
or private enterprises that work for them, to monitor the web traffic and
report any suspicious or threatening messages to the state. And their target
isn’t limited to its domestic traffic or posting.
Just to look at
the sheer scale of the web traffic, there are 100 million messages posted daily
by a half billion users on the most popular micro blog service, Weibo, in
China.
It seems that
people are paying tax to be monitored there.
Enjoy reading and
learning about this rare officially-revealed government web monitoring.
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