In the Chinese forums go propaganda agents
China has established state-owned Internet teams for special purposes. Agents visit web forums and chat rooms, posing as ordinary citizens. Their task is to influence public opinion by publishing a reasoned pro-government position on some controversial issues that are being discussed in society.
On the formation of special units of the Internet police wrote the weekly Itai Southern Weekend. Since April 2006, a detachment of such “commentators” has been working in the city of Suqian, a coastal city in the east of Jiangsu Province.
The Chinese authorities are making great efforts not to lose control over the Internet, as more and more Chinese citizens get free access to the resources of the World Wide Web. Consequently, they have the opportunity to get acquainted with alternative sources of information. The number of users in China has already exceeded 100 million people and continues to grow rapidly.
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The job of the “commentators” is to protect the state and the government in the event that a negative comment appears in the forum or in the chat. Suqian City Propaganda Department recruited civil servants. When selecting candidates, it was taken into account that they should "understand the state policy, be theoretically savvy and politically reliable." When publishing texts in a forum or in a chat, these people are supposedly speaking on behalf of “ordinary Internet users”, which is very important for the effectiveness of their work.
As reported in the Chinese press, similar propaganda teams of brigades were formed under the city governments of at least three provinces. “We are neither the first nor the last,” Ma Zhichun, who works for one of these brigades, told Southern Weekend in an interview. “All the people are playing the same game.”
Similar units are created not only at the level of city authorities, but also at a higher level. Last year, a unit of 127 "misdirected Cossacks" was created at the ministerial level.
It is known that in China there is a huge staff of “Internet police”, the number of which is 30 thousand people . These people are attributed to spying on blogs and forums, censoring foreign information sources, and even reading the private email of citizens. With their help, state authorities find "politically incorrect" bloggers and imprison them. In March of this year, the Internet forum closed one of the largest Chinese universities as part of a state campaign to improve students' ideological literacy.
On the formation of special units of the Internet police wrote the weekly Itai Southern Weekend. Since April 2006, a detachment of such “commentators” has been working in the city of Suqian, a coastal city in the east of Jiangsu Province.
The Chinese authorities are making great efforts not to lose control over the Internet, as more and more Chinese citizens get free access to the resources of the World Wide Web. Consequently, they have the opportunity to get acquainted with alternative sources of information. The number of users in China has already exceeded 100 million people and continues to grow rapidly.
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The job of the “commentators” is to protect the state and the government in the event that a negative comment appears in the forum or in the chat. Suqian City Propaganda Department recruited civil servants. When selecting candidates, it was taken into account that they should "understand the state policy, be theoretically savvy and politically reliable." When publishing texts in a forum or in a chat, these people are supposedly speaking on behalf of “ordinary Internet users”, which is very important for the effectiveness of their work.
As reported in the Chinese press, similar propaganda teams of brigades were formed under the city governments of at least three provinces. “We are neither the first nor the last,” Ma Zhichun, who works for one of these brigades, told Southern Weekend in an interview. “All the people are playing the same game.”
Similar units are created not only at the level of city authorities, but also at a higher level. Last year, a unit of 127 "misdirected Cossacks" was created at the ministerial level.
It is known that in China there is a huge staff of “Internet police”, the number of which is 30 thousand people . These people are attributed to spying on blogs and forums, censoring foreign information sources, and even reading the private email of citizens. With their help, state authorities find "politically incorrect" bloggers and imprison them. In March of this year, the Internet forum closed one of the largest Chinese universities as part of a state campaign to improve students' ideological literacy.
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