Reporters Sans Frontieres reports that “on some estimates” around 30,000 people in China are employed just to monitor Internet usage and censor views. Their report gives a lot of interesting detail on just how and how thoroughly message board censorship is practiced in China.
This week’s edition of On Digital – the radio programme from the BBC World Service – includes a segment on the report.
For more on Internet censorship in dictatorships, check out the recent book “Open Networks, Closed Regimes“.
