CIA Views China's "Student Informant System"

JayATL

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 4, 2011
Messages
1,775
Likes
190
The Chinese Communist Party employs a growing network of student informants who monitor political expression on university campuses and denounce professors and students for politically subversive or unconventional views, according to a recent report (pdf) from the Central Intelligence Agency.

Established in 1989 after the Tienanmen Square protests, "the principal objective of the Student Informant System [SIS] is to ensure campus stability and to control the debate and discussion of politically sensitive issues," the CIA report said. "Students have had their scholarships revoked and their academic records penalized because of information provided by student informants that is sometimes highly subjective, such as facial expressions."

"The SIS employs traditional political spying and denunciation techniques, seeking to create a 'white terror' (bai se kong bu) environment on campus — in which students and teachers fear surveillance more than arrest — to achieve and maintain influence and control."

The SIS has been met with both scholarly criticism and popular resistance, the CIA report said. A leading academic journal contended last year that "The information reported by student informants is neither accurate nor objective" and that "promoting a culture of denunciation may become an obstacle to learning." Meanwhile, "some Chinese students are resisting government efforts at political spying and rejecting the culture of denunciation. Netizens are publishing rosters of student informants online, resulting in the student informants being denounced by peers." Yet "the government appears determined to continue to use the SIS as a tool to ensure political stability on Chinese campuses."

A copy of the CIA report was obtained by Secrecy News. See "China: Student Informant System to Expand, Limiting School Autonomy, Free Expression," CIA Open Source Works, November 23, 2010.


CIA PDF HERE- http://www.fas.org/irp/world/china/docs/cia-sis.pdf
 

JayATL

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 4, 2011
Messages
1,775
Likes
190
this is exactly like the movie minority report, where the cameras watch for every expression , every move, and computers keeps large databases of everything you write and discuss. as sick and oppressive this is- it's impressive that they have such a technology. and maybe the CIA wants to know more :)
 

The Messiah

Bow Before Me!
Senior Member
Joined
Aug 25, 2010
Messages
10,809
Likes
4,619
this is exactly like the movie minority report, where the cameras watch for every expression , every move, and computers keeps large databases of everything you write and discuss. as sick and oppressive this is- it's impressive that they have such a technology. and maybe the CIA wants to know more :)
thats not what happens in the movie!

In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand.
 

JayATL

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 4, 2011
Messages
1,775
Likes
190
every place tom cruise walks his eye are scanned and its records his movements... unless that was another movie
 

Latest Replies

Global Defence

New threads

Articles

Top