China Using Students to Help Govern the Internet

[DudeAsInCool]

SHANGHAI, May 8 — To her fellow students, Hu Yingying appears to be a typical undergraduate, plain of dress, quick with a smile and perhaps possessed with a little extra spring in her step, but otherwise decidedly ordinary.

And for Ms. Hu, a sophomore at Shanghai Normal University, coming across as ordinary is just fine, given the parallel life she leads. For several hours each week she repairs to a little-known on-campus office crammed with computers, where she logs in unsuspected by other students to help police her school's Internet forums.

Once online, following suggestions from professors or older students, she introduces politically correct or innocuous themes for discussion. Recently, she says, she started a discussion of what celebrities make the best role models, a topic suggested by a professor as appropriate.

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The NY Times

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The Chinese government would probably be better off hiring our administrators, mods and members in this arena. We advise members on the correct way to fileshare--the proper way to rap-- safe sex with animals advise to older members like Red--safe alcahol and drug recreation via Slum Goddess--and we also publish thoughtful editorials on supporting the Bush war effort, how to vote properly in Ohio and Texas...and how to be good Patriotic citizens in general--hell, the Americans here also preach how to be tolerant of our foreign brethren and act as great role models for them.

I wonder if Ms. Hu can offer all that to her peers??

[method77]

love the last part

yet some people still don't get it

[Wolfie]

how to be good Patriotic citizens in general