China's control over the Internet is set to expand. In a bid to better police local websites, the country's security forces are establishing offices at the biggest online companies in the country.
The country's Ministry of Public Security announced the new measures on Tuesday, at a time when authorities have been increasingly concerned about cyberthreats.
Websites based in China already have to abide by strict provisions for online censorship and will often delete any content deemed offensive by government censors.
The ministry's plan, however, will place China's security forces at the offices of the country's major websites, so that they can quickly respond to suspected online crimes, it said in a statement.
"Cyber attacks, the online spread of terrorist information, Internet fraud, and the stealing of personal information," were among the biggest threats the ministry named. In addition, authorities want to crack down on online rumor mongering, pornography, gambling and drug-related Internet activities.
No specific companies were mentioned, but the country's biggest Internet firms include Alibaba Group, Baidu and Tencent.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2015, @03:36AM
Given that corporations gladly give tons of information about us over to the government, what would the point be? Also, with the government trying to push through nonsense like CISA, the problem will only get worse.