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.
China stringently polices the Internet for material and content that the ruling Communist Party finds politically or morally threatening. Despite the controls, nudity, profanity, illegal gambling and pirated music, books and film have proliferated on Chinese Internet servers.(via)
It sounds like a joke.Yes,China has the world's second-largest population of Internet users,but at the same time,China has the most freeless internet all round the world.We Chinese mainland internet user,can't visit Wikipedia,Google Page,Flickr,Blogger and many other wonderful but "sensitive" websites.Even from last night,feeds supportd by Feedburner.com were blocked.
Internet in China is really a huge net!
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