April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
Morally, you are pygmies.
—Congressman Tom Lantos to Yahoo! executives
In addition to China’s techno-fixes for Internet surveillance, there is an extensive army of “Internet Orwells” to keep an eye out for dissident Net traffic. Astonishingly, these Comrade Orwells number some 30,000 Chinese workers who help monitor Internet blogs and chat rooms. They also collaborate with the police to track down the most egregious offenders. In fact, China leads the world in jailed Internet users.
One highly publicized case further illustrates the complicity of American corporations in Chinese repression. In this case, the Chinese journalist Shi Tao was sentenced to ten years for one click of his subversive mouse. ...
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