Originally Posted by dazzling

When it comes to search engines and microblogging, dictates from the central Propaganda Department filter out topics and words that the Communist Party deems a threat to national stability or its reputation. At public cybercafes, where much of China’s working class gains access to the Internet, customers must hand over state-issued identification before getting on a computer....http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/wo...hina.html?_r=3


http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/2...toring/....the regulatory body of China has ordered businesses like cyber cafes, hotels, restaurants, shops, and showrooms in Central Beijing to install an expensive web monitoring technology and keep a check on the people using their wireless connection....
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/2...#ixzz1TZToz4dm

The size of the Internet police is rumored at more than 30,000....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...lic_of_ China



China's secret internet police....http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ticle_continue

From Amnesty International.....
China's 'Golden Shield Project'. The Government is watching you.
Behind what has been dubbed the 'Great Firewall of China' citizens can be imprisoned for sending emails....http://www.amnesty.org.au/china/comments/10926/