IOL: Beijing to hire thousands more Web police

From the Independent Online:

Public security officials in Beijing are recruiting and training nearly 4 000 Internet police to monitor activities at Internet cafes and related companies, state media said on Thursday.

Eight hundred “Internet security officers” will be sent to the city’s Internet cafes and 3 000 to other Internet-related businesses, the Beijing News said.

See also the Chinese news article on this story here.

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