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Chinese Soldiers Are Prohibited From Internet Use
03 June 2011
The Chinese army has recently made it more difficult for its bachelors to find a date. One of the world’s biggest standing army has been taken out of social networking and matchmaking websites in the world’s biggest Internet community with approximately 500 million Chinese net users including over 100 million bloggers.
The restrictions, introduced during a crackdown on dissent and spreading firewalls, disallows soldiers from viewing or hearing to political programmes of foreign media, showing political details online or starting their own websites and blogs. The army people are prohibited from using the Internet outside the army offices without approval.
The orders were sent off to prohibit soldiers from disclosing army secrets, as stated in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily. The report, which demand soldiers to develop ‘self-discipline’ was distributed from the general staff headquarters and the general political department of the PLA to the military and armed forces. The state media reported Chinese soldiers had disclosed Internet surfing model primarily to click on social networking websites, matchmaking websites, blogs and WAP websites for cell phones.
According to the Global Times article published on Wednesday, “Since social networking and matchmaking websites usually require users to submit personal information such as occupation, address and contact details, soldiers risk revealing locations of military camps and their contacts when communicating online.’’ The records says there were cases where army officers have disclosed ‘military secrets’ by uploading pictures in uniform or during army training that can be utilized by "enemy agents" to collect information.
The army officers who are about to retired are being warned not to submit resumes online.