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Volunteers help Beijing control Internet

WATCHFUL EYES China's Internet police may strike some as a sinister Orwellian army. But much of the monitoring is done by normal students like Hu Yingying

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , SHANGHAI

Nevertheless, school officials were not eager to talk about the program. "Our system is not very mature, and since we've just started operating it there's not much to say about it" said Li Ximeng, deputy director of the school's propaganda department. "Our system is not open for media, and we don't want to have it appear in the news or be publicized."

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For her part, Hu beams with pride over her contribution toward building a "harmonious society."

"We don't control things, but we really don't want bad or wrong things to appear on the Web sites," she said. "According to our social and educational systems, we should judge what is right and wrong. And as I'm a student cadre, I need to play a pioneer role among other students, to express my opinion, to make stronger my belief in communism."

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