Beijing police launch virtual Web patrol

[POLiSH]

Thought you might find this intresting:

BEIJING - Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.

Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 of China's top portals, including Sohu and Sina, and by the end of the year will appear on all Web sites registered with Beijing servers, the Beijing Public Security Ministry said in a statement.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_hi_te/china_web_police

 

[Gerry]

Thought you might find this intresting:

BEIJING - Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.

Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 of China's top portals, including Sohu and Sina, and by the end of the year will appear on all Web sites registered with Beijing servers, the Beijing Public Security Ministry said in a statement.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_hi_te/china_web_police

I had seen this earlier.

And NPR did a piece on this earlier. It had to do with what is called the Great Fire Wall.

The ironic part of your piece is it is provided by Yahoo.

The irony is Yahoo turned over to the Chinese authorities names and IP addresses of a couple of rouge bloggers that they could not locate. Those bloggers have since been arrested and imprisoned. Now the family members and Amnesty International have gotten involved and law suits have been filed against Yahoo.

This story broke on NPR last week and I have tried to locate the link on their archives to post but have been unable to locate this.

Yahoo says it did nothing wrong and is complying with the agreement signed to conduct business in China. Now many nations are getting together and trying to make providing such action a crime.

This will definitely be interesting to see how this plays out.