VIRTUAL POLICE PATROL CHINA WEB
Internet users will be reminded not to visit outlawed sites
Chinese authorities are to send two virtual police officers to patrol the internet, in a bid to combat "illicit activities", state media has reported.
The animated figures, a man and a woman, will appear on users' screens every 30 minutes "to remind them of internet security", China Daily said.
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The virtual officers will appear either on foot, on motorbikes or riding in a car.
They would "be on watch for websites that incite secession, promote superstition, gambling and fraud", the China Daily said, citing Beijing's Municipal Public Security Bureau.
"It is our duty to wipe out information that does public harm and disrupts social order," the newspaper quoted the bureau's deputy chief of Internet surveillance, Zhao Hongzhi, as saying.
He said the virtual police officers would protect "netizens" from harm.
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SERIOUSLY, WHO IS PROTECTING WHO?!
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