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China To Plant Internet Police In Top Online Firms
itwbennett writes: Websites based in China already have to abide by strict provisions for online censorship, and will often delete any content deemed offensive by government censors. But under a new plan announced Tuesday by the Ministry of Public Security security forces will be placed at the offices of the country's major websites, so that they can quickly respond to suspected online crimes. No specific companies were mentioned in the statement put out by the Ministry, but the country's biggest Internet firms include Alibaba Group, Baidu and Tencent.
IIRC, the Chinese government, by their law, has to have board members at every major corporation on the mainland, so having this type of policing isn't surprising.
Honestly, it would be nice if the US did similar. Companies exist only for a profit motive, and having some mitigating factors is important. Of course, there is the specter of regulatory capture...
Doesn't this sound familiar?
http://www.coinbrawl.com/?ref=1694
And we're supposed to think this is different from Western governments demanding crypto backdoors, the ability to intercept at the data center, and secret warrants allowing them to demand all info in secret?
Sorry, but all governments are trending towards fascism, that China is doing this surprises me not even a little.
What we should be outraged at is the fact the governments of "free" countries are half way to doing the same fucking thing.
Sure, it's not outright censorship yet ... but give it time.
The difference is I don't need to give a fuck what the Chinese government does. I have no ability to stop the US government or other western governments doing the same thing, and that does affect me.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I guess the news is that they had not done that yet.
Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
You are at the office, about to hit the enter key.
You look across the room to where the Internet Police officer is sitting.
He has his usual scowl and does the two finger point from his eyes to yours and shakes his head back and forth ever so slightly.
You gulp and hit the backspace key.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
FiftyCent called, he wants his money back!
Google's translation of the Chinese government press release:
https://translate.google.com/t...
Essential Characteristic pointed out that as China entered the Internet era, network security has become a matter of national security and social stability, the major issues related to economic development and people's working life. Strengthen their network of social management, maintaining network security is an important responsibility shouldered by the public security organs. In recent years, public security organs and net letter, the letter closely with other departments, in the community, especially the domestic focus of the website and Internet companies to actively participate in and support, continue to strengthen Internet security management, to crack down on illegal and criminal activities network, effectively protecting the Internet healthy and orderly development. Currently, with the rapid development of new Internet services for new applications, network and social reality highly integrated, maintaining network security task is still arduous. Network attacks, the spread of violent terrorist network information, network fraud, theft of personal information of Internet users, Internet pornography, gambling and other criminal activities and more hair, has become a prominent issue affecting national security and social stability.
Pretty run of the mill stuff for China. Not a lot different from the steps that Britain or Australia government are taking except for the obvious monitoring of political speech, which is nothing new
for China.
This already happens for large US companies, think Google, Microsoft, Verizon, etc. I'm sure they all have on-site government reps from some major departments to make it easier and quicker to process requests back and forth.
Just because I can hook a shark from a boat, I do no offer to wrestle it in the water.
Our future is China today
you can put anyone in the company... even someone trying to fuck you over. You just know who they are and control what they have access to... even whether what they have access to is everything.
Its not that hard.
Here someone will say "but they're on the board of directors!"... the boards of directors are frequently mushrooms... kept in the dark and fed shit. They're often jokes. The CEO knows. The chief officers know. But the board? meh. Depends on who is on the board. Simply being on the board doesn't mean anyone gives a shit. Its why disney put some school teachers on their own board. Sort of like Caligula putting a horse on the roman senate. It means the board is pointless whenever you see that.
As to the internet police getting access to things... mostly what the chinese want to do is flood all social networks with pro chinese messages.
"oh I love the chinese communist party"
"Isn't china wonderful"
"another beautiful day in Beijing!"
Etc. That's what they want. And if that's all they want... go nuts.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Then we can station troops in peoples homes here in the US. That way we can keep an eye on everyone and prevent crime, movie piracy, terrorism or whatever.
I glanced at the headline and read "China To Plant Internet Police In Top Online Farms"
And I was thinking that you don't want to plant the police too deep.
And make sure they get plenty of water and fertilizer.
They can take my LifeAlert pendant when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
The consequences will never be the same!