CHINA-INTERNAL: INTERNET CENSORSHIP COMPANY 'BEYONDSOFT'

Beyondsoft' is a Beijing-based tech services company that, among other businesses, takes on the censorship burden for other companies. In addition it has offices in Chengdu and Xi'an and employs over 4,000 workers,  up from about 200 in 2016. Beyondsoft has a team of 160 people in Chengdu working four shifts a day to review potentially politically sensitive content on a news aggregating app. Beyondsoft has another team in Xi’an reviewing potentially vulgar or profane content. The workers are almost all college graduates in their 20s. They are often unaware of, or indifferent to, politics. Beyondsoft has developed an extensive database based on information on its “core competencies.” New employees study the database much like preparing for college entrance exams. After two weeks, they have to pass a test. Beyondsoft’s software trawls through web pages and marks potentially offensive words in different colors. According to Beyondsoft’s website, its content monitoring service, called Rainbow Shield, has compiled over 100,000 basic sensitive words and over three million derivative words. Average salary of workers is $350 to $500 a month, about average pay in Chengdu. 







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