China has tightened its grip over the country\u2019s 650m internet users by announcing moves to station police officers inside large internet companies in an effort to heighten censorship and prevent subversion, according to a senior security official.
\nThe move follows a spate of recent efforts to tighten the screws on social media users, as well as a draft cyber security law that will grant authorities broad new powers to control the internet in the country and force web companies to share more data with the government.<\/p>\n
Chen Zhimin, the deputy minister of public security, revealed a plan to set up \u201cnetwork security offices\u201d\u009d in major internet companies \u201d\u201d such as Tencent and Alibaba \u201d\u201d \u201cin order to be able to find out about illegal internet activity more quickly\u201d\u009d, although he did not specify how the initiative would work.<\/p>\n