Chinese internet censors really enjoy the work / Boing Boing: Chinese social media platforms allow state internet censors to directly suppress individual posts as well as keywords, and an army of young, cool internet censors labor in a swanky office in the Wisdom Mountain Twin Towers in the eastern city of Tianjin to prevent discussions of Tiananmen Square, the missteps of party members, or gaps between the doctrines of the Communist Party and the day-to-day life in China.
The workforce in Wisdom Mountain Twin Towers show up for work in business-casual, manage their shifts on iPads, get a free daily afternoon tea break and enjoy a "horizontal" organizational structure that lets them communicate directly with the CEO about their ideas for improving their workplace. They're part of a workforce of Chinese internet censors that was measured at 2,000,000 people in 2013 and has grown sharply since then.
Many of these censors work for private companies that contract with the Chinese government, like Toutiao, which just raised at least $2B in the capital markets.
The workforce in Wisdom Mountain Twin Towers show up for work in business-casual, manage their shifts on iPads, get a free daily afternoon tea break and enjoy a "horizontal" organizational structure that lets them communicate directly with the CEO about their ideas for improving their workplace. They're part of a workforce of Chinese internet censors that was measured at 2,000,000 people in 2013 and has grown sharply since then.
Many of these censors work for private companies that contract with the Chinese government, like Toutiao, which just raised at least $2B in the capital markets.