How is internet censorship in China implemented?
Amnesty International Australia estimates that approximately 30,000 people, including Chinese authorities and internet service providers, are involved in reading private emails, monitoring chat rooms and deleting blogs. Internet cafés across China ask for full identification from their customers and conduct random surveillance checks. Afraid of losing their businesses, some cafés have even installed their own surveillance software. Self-censorship has increased as people are unsure of what can and cannot be written or accessed over the internet. According to the Shanghai Daily (January 2006), Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! have signed an agreement complying with the censorship rules outlined by the Chinese Government in exchange for access to the Chinese market. Chinese news websites such as People.com.cn and Chinanews.com, as well as some Chinese search engines such as Alibaba and Baidu are also operating under the government’s censorship regulations. If you enter a blacklisted term in
