In Mao-like move, Xi recruits 10 million Internet youth ‘warriors’, rattles Hong Kong

Special to WorldTribune.com

By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com

A leaked internal document of the Communist Youth League (CYL) – the youth wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – has exposed plans by Chinese authorities to recruit more than 10 million “volunteers” to sensitize the country’s information superhighways.

Like Mao, Xi believes students should be mobilized to tackle whatever crisis that the CCP faces. / Reuters
Like Mao, Xi believes students should be mobilized to tackle whatever crisis that the CCP faces. / Reuters

The document, which was reported in the Hong Kong media on April 8 noted that the CYL had set quotas for universities nationwide to recruit 10.5 million “Young volunteers for upholding Internet culture.”

The job of these new-generation Net nannies is to ensure that only politically correct materials will show up on Chinese websites as well as the social media. A standard strategy is that if a liberal intellectual were to post something detrimental to the image of the CCP in the Chinese equivalents of Facebook and Twitter, the “volunteers” would immediately pounce on the “unpatriotic” party critic.

The party-sponsored Internet warriors are also responsible for tipping off the police if they come across cases of “Internet rumor-mongering,”

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