China's Internet Meddling Intensifies....

This story is interesting in that China is hiring internet commentators to monitor chat room and other online forums and inject a pro-China opinion into the discourse. This deviates from previous Maoist/Stalinist attempts to crush dissent

Beijing has created a special Internet police force believed responsible for shutting down domestic sites posting politically unacceptable content, blocking some foreign news sites and jailing several people for their online postings.

In March, bulletin boards operated by the country's most prominent universities were blocked to off-campus Internet users as part of the campaign to strengthen ideological education of college students.

by closing internet cafes, closing sites inside China and eliminating access to those sites outside China with potentially anti-government commentary and arresting those people that have written published online material that the communists consider anti-government.

China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday.

China has struggled to gain control over the Internet as more and more people gain access to obtain information beyond official sources.

As far as I am concerned, there is better way to reduce dissent and this is to listen to what people really want and need. The Chinese communists will eventually lose the long-term battle that they are waging with their own populace and this will effect us all.