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China: Internet Police Recruitment

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 @ 16:58 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Governance

Tufeiwan blogs a recruitment ads of 96 internet police in a county level town in Sichuan at a monthly payment of 1,300 yuan per month. Annual expense for internet police for the town would be 1,497,600. In China, there are 2,000 counties, the total expense for annual recruitment of internet police would be around 3 billions yuan. (zh)

DANWEI has a full translation of the post.

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