China hires agents to control Internet content

The Chinese authorities announced the hiring ten new supervisors to China control Internet content and review vulgar or pornographic content are published on the internet, local newspaper Beijing Morning Post. "
The newspaper quoted the Association of Online Communication in Beijing (B'Omer), which indicated that eight of the major internet portals based in Beijing shall employ supervisors "responsible and disciplined."
The new inspectors will seek out and prepare reports on those web sites containing pornographic sites, for this reason China control Internet content and the gambling or violent content as well as those that boast about wealth, money, and that could harm social stability and national security.
Among the addresses affected pages are very popular in China, such as 163.com and hexun.com portals, with active user forums.

China control Internet content

Currently it is estimated that thousands of employees from the various branches of the Chinese government dedicated to filter the content to be published on the Internet, although the opacity in this area is complete.
In addition, periodically, Beijing starts  to control Internet content and also one campaign to recruit civilian volunteers to "patrol" the network and report information "inappropriate."

Chen Tong, vice president of Sina.com, one of the nation's leading portals and sites was included in the filter requiring supervisor and China control Internet content, said he has no clear criteria under which new supervisors to do their jobs.
For its part, Lie Li, professor in the School of Sociology, Peking University People, found that many Internet sites may have some pornographic or vulgar.

China security and control in internet

"The question is how these ten people are going to decide whether content is vulgar and another not," Lie found.According to the report, the new supervisors will work regardless of the editing table, Internet portals, and follow guidelines established by the B'Omer, which in turn is guided by the propaganda department of the municipal committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC ) in Beijing.
The press freedom groups such as Amnesty International (AI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), for China control Internet content and also have complained that in so-called anti-pornography campaigns government also canceled the contents dissidents or critics of the regime.The number of Internet users is growing in China and now number 420 million, the largest market in the world, but it in turn one of the poorest countries in the network censors.