A greater proportion (than in the West) of Chinese
users get online via Internet cafes
or from work. China's Internet
environment is much different than the American one. The Chinese Internet is
heavily policed, with over 30,000 cyber cops blocking content that is
considered hostile to the communist dictatorship that has run the country for
the last 60 years. Chinese who say the wrong thing on message boards, chat
rooms or email, are subject to detection and punishment. Not so much for cyber
criminals. Some 52 percent of the Internet based criminality can be traced to
China (versus 21 percent to the United States). It is believed that the Chinese
government tolerates the cyber criminals, as long as these black hat geeks do
espionage, and Cyber War tasks for the government.
Anne Bubnic on 28 Aug 08Parents who worry that their children watch too much television can take heart: a bigger concern may be children spending too much time online. For children ages 10 to 14 who use the Internet, the computer is a bigger draw than the TV set, according to a study recently released by DoubleClick Performics, a search marketing company. The study found that 83 percent of Internet users in that age bracket spent an hour or more online a day, but only 68 percent devoted that much time to television.
