China ’s internet is not exactly famous for its freedom , but it takes a muckle of attempt to keep it tied down . Folks have done mathto suggest there are M of governance employees censoring China ’s Twitter - clone Weibo alone . Now the Beijing News is pegging that totalat more like two million .
fit in to the Beijing News , not all of these the great unwashed — rather divertingly called “ net persuasion analysts”—are actively censoring internet content . Instead they are trawling societal media for distressing entries that are indexed and collated and then passed on to a presumably smaller group of real decision - makers . All of these folks are ostensibly on the government ’s payroll .
According tothe BBC ’s translationof the Beijing News clause :
[ analyst ] strictly to gather and analyse public belief on microblog sites and compile reports for decision - makers . … [ An psychoanalyst ] sits in front of a PC every day , and opening up an coating , he types in primal word which are define by client . He then monitors negative impression relate to the clients , and assemble ( them ) and compile reports and send them to the node .
And it makes sense you ’d need a veritable army of watchful eyes to keep that internet squeaky clean . Weibo alone has some 500 million user and 100 million messages day by day .
It ’s not sluttish to censor that much internet , andloosening it upjust mean there ’s more to watch over . [ Beijing News viaBBC ]
China Is ( Kinda ) Loosening Its entanglement Censorship
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