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From the It Could Be Worse Dept.... hyperventilating about the NSA ? Try China's approach... - cbelt3 - 10-07-2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/world/asia/china-internet-monitors/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

"CNN) -- China has around two million people policing public opinion online, according to a state media report that sheds light on the country's secretive internet surveillance operations.
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Wow.


Re: From the It Could Be Worse Dept.... hyperventilating about the NSA ? Try China's approach... - Speedy - 10-07-2013

China is a bigger country.


Re: From the It Could Be Worse Dept.... hyperventilating about the NSA ? Try China's approach... - C(-)ris - 10-07-2013

cbelt3 wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/world/asia/china-internet-monitors/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

"CNN) -- China has around two million people policing public opinion online, according to a state media report that sheds light on the country's secretive internet surveillance operations.
"

Wow.

I guarantee you could find 2 million people in the US that would just love to volunteer to report and suppress information that didn't agree with their views.


Re: From the It Could Be Worse Dept.... hyperventilating about the NSA ? Try China's approach... - bazookaman - 10-07-2013

But who polices the people policing public opinion?


Re: From the It Could Be Worse Dept.... hyperventilating about the NSA ? Try China's approach... - DP - 10-07-2013

bazookaman wrote:
But who polices the people policing public opinion?

:agree:


Re: From the It Could Be Worse Dept.... hyperventilating about the NSA ? Try China's approach... - freeradical - 10-07-2013

The policy of the NSA is simply to give people more rope.


Re: From the It Could Be Worse Dept.... hyperventilating about the NSA ? Try China's approach... - testcase - 10-07-2013

"I guarantee you could find 2 million people in the US that would just love to volunteer to report and suppress information that didn't agree with their views."



They're called Democrats, right?