{"id":5897,"date":"2009-06-17T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2009-06-17T18:46:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:46:59","slug":"beijing-to-use-10000-internet-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/beijing-to-use-10000-internet-spies\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing To Use 10,000 Internet Spies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RINF NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Beijing authorities are\u00a0set to ramp up monitoring of Internet usage as the city plans to hire at least 10,000\u00a0censors to\u00a0keep an\u00a0eye out for\u00a0\u201charmful\u201d websites and content.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Government\u00a0are also attempting to ensure that every new PC sold contains web filtering software that can block political websites and blogs. From 1st July 2009 all computer manufacturiers will have to\u00a0include\u00a0a programme called Green Dam\/Youth Escort,\u00a0that was developed\u00a0under commission by the government.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Californian software company, Solid Oak, claims the software infringes its intellectual property rights.<\/p>\n<p>Solid Oak chief executive, Brian Milburn, said: \u201cIf our code is being used to censor a country, we stand up to things like that,\u201d he said. His company was considering whether such action was feasible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can\u2019t stop HP and Dell from shipping, I guess the only way to resolve this would be an interim licensing agreement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese groups opposed to Beijing\u2019s move had offered assistance in taking legal action in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese media are refusing to give the issue the\u00a0coverage it deserves, instead following\u00a0instructions by officials to concentrate on \u201cpositive reporting&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RINF NEWS Beijing authorities are\u00a0set to ramp up monitoring of Internet usage as the city plans to hire at least 10,000\u00a0censors to\u00a0keep an\u00a0eye out for\u00a0\u201charmful\u201d websites and content. The Chinese Government\u00a0are also attempting to ensure that every new PC sold contains web filtering software that can block political websites and blogs. From 1st July 2009 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}