Mustafa Akyol / New York Times:
China's Gulag for Muslims
Li Yuan / New York Times:
Inside Beijing-based Beyondsoft and its “censorship factories”, with 4,000+ staff monitoring online content for media companies eager to please China's censors — Thousands of low-wage workers in “censorship factories” trawl the online world for forbidden content …Sui-Lee Wee / @suilee: So many great details in this @LiYuan6 piece on a censorship farm in China but this is my favorite. “The screen saver on each computer is the same: photos and names of current and past members of the Politburo Standing Committee.” https://nyti.ms/2RtIarXJohn Zhu / @jzheel: “New hires start with weeklong “theory” training, during which senior employees teach them the sensitive information that they didn't know before.” - so they can censor that info from the public https://www.nytimes.com/...Eric Berlin / @puzzlereric: “References to George Orwell's novel ‘1984’ are also forbidden.” Gosh, I wonder why. This story is incredible and frightening. If the United States abandons its position as a global leader for basic human rights, we will not like the results one bit. https://www.nytimes.com/...Brandon Sims / @b_p_sims: It would be fascinating to know whether being exposed to the forbidden content would radicalize any of the workers to support change, or whether being part of the censorship would discourage workers from wanting change (due to cognitive dissonance, etc.) https://nyti.ms/2RtIarXJohn Zhu / @jzheel: Also: “Once circumspect about its controls, China now preaches a vision of a government-supervised internet that has surprising resonance in other countries.” Wonder if this bothers our free press at all as they serve as some of the loudest drum bangers for this.Eric Fish / @ericfish85: “The workers are almost all young college graduates in their 20s.” Amid massive unemployment for Chinese college grads, at least the booming censorship industry is giving them some relief. https://www.nytimes.com/...Kevin Kelly / @kevin2kelly: As we collectively decide what we should be allowed to say, or not say, on social media, read this account of the people who enforce those restrictions in China. https://www.nytimes.com/...Craig Hollenbeck / @ephs_apcp: This is a super interesting article on how low-wage Chinese workers engage in Internet censorship. Many had previously never heard of the Tiananmen Square massacre or Liu Xiaobo. Give it a read. https://nyti.ms/2RtIarXSusan / @susanmaret: “Workers are briefed at the beginning of their shift on the newest censoring instructions sent by clients, which the clients themselves receive from government censors. Workers then must answer about 10 questions designed to test their memory.” #censorship https://www.nytimes.com/...more at Techmeme »
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