The Man Who Nailed Jello to the Wall [Censorship in China]
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/29/the-man-who-nailed-jello-to-the-wall-lu-wei-china-internet-czar-learns-how-to-tame-the-web/
"The effect was felt immediately," a former employee of Sina
Weibo's censorship department said in a March interview with
the Committee to Protect Journalists. "The amount of original
posting dropped rapidly. Users not only withdrew from serious
commentary, but became reluctant to post about what they heard
or saw in their daily lives." The strategy proved effective
long-term. "Now," concluded the former censor, the government
"rules Weibo with ease." The attack on user impunity has only
deepened. In 2015, Beijing announced that it would embed
cybersecurity police directly into the country's largest tech
firms, streamlining the process and the time between the
flagging of questionable content to the moment when men in
uniform arrived at the web user's home address. By August
2015, Chinese police had arrested 15,000 people for internet
crimes.
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You can't really control it all, but given shackles, beatings, and
secret prisons, vast armies of monitors and "off the books" bullets to
the back of the head, you can cower most people into submission to
your will.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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