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May 23, 2005
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China's communications censorship system is often criticised. But I've discovered it is in fact a means to an end rather than an end in itself. The system is, in fact, an economic one. It employs more than 30,000 people. It involves advanced and developing computer technology. And now it has become a valuable foreign policy tool and export item. From the SCMP: China is to supply Zimbabwe with new-generation spy equipment to help Robert Mugabe's regime crack down on illicit internet traffic and block dissident radio signals. According to South African website journalism.co.za, members of the feared Central Intelligence Organisation have said they are replacing "Soviet-era" equipment with hardware from China.posted by Simon on 05.23.05 at 09:56 AM in the
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TrackBack URL for this entry: http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/trackback.cgi/82279 Send a manual trackback ping to this post. China's net squad Excerpt: Apparently the Chinese government has a bunch of hired guns whom it sends out to various web forums and chat sites to spread pro-government propaganda:Their job was to defend the government when negative comments appeared on Internet bulletin boards and Weblog: Macam-Macam Tracked: May 23, 2005 06:22 PM
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Fascinating. I wonder where they're going to get the money for this, since the economy is collapsing. Also interesting to see that China has no qualms about doing business with dirty regimes. posted by: RP on 05.24.05 at 12:21 AM [permalink] |
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