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China pays 2 million to monitor Internet
- twiceaday 13y agoTwo million is a tiny amount until you read the first line of the article and realize its talking about people.
- dingaling 13y agoThe BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24396957 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24396957 notes that these two million people are on State and commercial payrolls. I suppose the latter may include state-owned enterprises. But on the flip-side there are numerous Western companies that employ thousands of people to monitor and categorize Web content; we just call it 'corporate content filtering'. Their customers include some of the big ISPs in the UK which block specific content per court order ( or voluntarily, under the auspices of the IWF ). Scale that up to China Scale and I wouldn't expect much of a disparity.
- DrinkWater 13y ago[ihadnoidea] seems like the internet is kind of a threat to China... [/ihadnoidea]