Cyber-snitching.
To her fellow students at Shanghai Normal University, Hu Yingying appears to be just another typical undergraduate. And given the double life that she leads, coming across as ordinary is just fine. When she's not in crass or studying, Hu spends several hours a week helping to police her school's Internet forums See forum. . Guided by professors or order students, she introduces politically correct politically correct Politically sensitive adjective Referring to language reflecting awareness and sensitivity to another person's physical, mental, cultural, or other disadvantages or deviations from a norm; a person is not mentally retarded, but subjects for online discussion. Hu also reports anything she finds offensive to the Webmaster. China has tong had Internet police--up to 50,000 agents who troll the Web, block access to offending sites, and arrest people for what they consider anti-Communist views. But Hu, one of 500 students in the university's Internet-monitoring group, is part of a new, supposedly volunteer force that the government has mobilized to help censor censor (sĕn`sər), title of two magistrates of ancient Rome (from c.443 B.C. to the time of Domitian). They took the census (by which they assessed taxation, voting, and military service) and supervised public behavior. the Web. "We don't control things," Hu says, "but we really don't want bad or wrong things Wrong Things is a collaborative short-fiction collection by Poppy Z. Brite and Caitlin R. Kiernan, released by Subterranean Press in 2001. This short hardback includes one solo story by each author and one story written in collaboration, as well as an afterword by Kiernan. to appear on the Web sites."
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