FT.com: Chinas Virtual Cops Pinpoint Web Dissent

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

A rather interersing article in the Financial Times.

[snip]

With their big blue blinking eyes and their quirky personal websites, there is no denying the cuteness of the cartoon 
cops at the front line of China’s battle for control of the internet.

But the role played by Jingjing and Chacha, the animated online icons recently introduced by police in the southern 
Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen, is entirely serious.

The cartoon couple patrol the city’s news and discussion websites to scare off anyone who might be tempted to use 
online anonymity to break China’s laws, says Chen Minli, director of the Shenzhen City Public Security Bureau’s 
Internet Surveillance Centre.

“Now internet users know the police are watching them,” Ms Chen says in an interview at the Bureau’s gleaming new 
28-storey building in central Shenzhen.

[snip]

More here:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/63d181a0-9fe6-11da-a703-0000779e2340.html

- ferg


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