Wonder how their surveillance infrastructure works. Do they duplicate all data and pipe it into some government datacenter? Or do they have some surveillance boxes installed on-site that just scan the data for certain keywords (like the NSA supposedly often did it)? Maybe the latter seems more likely since filtering the data first makes the overhead more manageable.
> Do they duplicate all data and pipe it into some government datacenter
All chat content in clear text, friend timelines, group chats, are piped into a gov't blackbox in datacenter.
There are dozens of cases when a guy complains about parking tickets in his private timeline then got detained for 3-7 days.
Recent hot buzz is a guy in private group chat joked about a new guy's bin laden avatar "are we gunna join ISIS" then got 9 months jail time[1] for "soliciting terrorism".
(On a side note, the tabloid, GlobalTimes once reported that whether ISIS is a terrorism organization is questionable.[2])
It is worse in that any random local official has full access. There was a huge scandal a while back where a Hainan local official was paid off to make negative comments go away for a bunch of private businesses.
