The 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 a

The 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.