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No net chatting for PLA soldiers
2011-06-01
Making online mates could play into the hands of the "enemy" Making online buddies could play into the hands of the "enemy", according to China's Peoples's Liberation military, that has asserted its approximately 2.3 million infantrymen will get banned from utilizing social media. The planet's biggest army force has told soldiers and girls that it'll exactly impose the ban to "safeguard army strategies and the pureness and solidarity" of the PLA, state media recounted this week. The Peoples's Liberation Daily, the armed forces' official paper, expounded passing on personal information like a soldier's address, commitments or contact data could risk divulging the positioning of army bases. It added that risks exist in users posting footage of themselves ,eg during coaching, which could reveal army capacities and apparatus. The ban was included in laws articulated last year that forbidden squaddies from launching sites or writing blogs, the paper added. However in a hint that the ban was seemingly being ignored in a land where social media are amazingly popular, the army brass has taken the step of re-emphasising the limitation, alert of a "grim struggle" on the web. Officials and squaddies must be made to grasp the "real dangers" of making pals online and to "strengthen their awareness of the enemy situation," it revealed, without complicating. China has just about half a bln online users, according to officially recognized figures, and Chinese-language social media sites like Facebook and Twitter which are blocked by the states's censors count many millions of users. The paper last week recounted China's army has set up an elect Web security task force tasked with warding off cyberattacks, while denying that the drive is structured to form a "hacker army". The US, Australia, Germany and other Western states have long claimed that hackers within China are carrying out a good range of cyberattacks on executive and company PC systems internationally.
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