monitor lizards

There have been rumours of this sort of thing going on in Dongying. This is hardly a confirmation of their substance, but it does make me nervous.

International > Asia Pacific > Chinese Censors and Web Users Match Wits"

The New York Times > International > Asia Pacific > Chinese Censors and Web Users Match Wits.

Already the most sophisticated in the world, China's Internet controls are stout even in the absence of crucial political events. In the last year or so, experts say the country has gone from so-called dumb Internet controls, which involve techniques like the outright blocking of foreign sites containing delicate or critical information and the monitoring of specific e-mail addresses to far more sophisticated measures.
Newer technologies allow the authorities to search e-mail messages in real time, trawling through the body of a message for sensitive material and instantaneously blocking delivery or pinpointing the offender. Other technologies sometimes redirect Internet searches from companies like Google to copycat sites operated by the government, serving up sanitized search results.