China Cyber-Police Blocked iPod Sweatshop Stories
10.11.07 - 03:14pm
The report that first came out in 2006 detailing the appalling working conditions of Chinese laborers working for Foxconn and by default Apple to produce iPods, was a story that was quickly shutdown. Word has now come out of China from undercover reporters of why and how.
China has longed suppressed all information coming into the country controlling the news, media and print with zeal. When the internet first came into play, information began to filter through to the Chinese people. In order to combat this crack in the Chinese wall on information, before it could break through and become a flood, China set up cyber-police to monitor all activity of internet users.
In the 17-page report just released by the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, allegations are made that there are tens of thousands of these Chinese cyber-police who often send text messages dictating to writers what they can, and what they can not write about.
