Headline Nov. 30/ ''' INTERNET Q.E.D. INFERENCE '''

''' INTERNET Q.E.D. INFERENCE '''

THE WORLD STUDENTS : the most democratic organization mankind ever conceived, is in total respect of every law, liberty and enthrall-

The World Student Society comes in peace. As a matter of policy it has no bias, no hidden agendas, no scores to settle, no crowbars to use, and no claims to make. 

The World Students Society understands that all the governments of the world, all tech companies of the world, don't have, and probably will never have, the Students best interest at heart. And did they ever?

Late last month, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a brief post on Facebook at the conclusion of Yom Kippur, asking his friends for forgiveness not just for his personal failures but also for his professional ones. especially:

*''The ways my work was used to divide people rather than bringing us together.''*

He was heeding the call of the Jewish Day of Atonement to take stock of the year just passed as he pledged that he would ''work to do better''.

And then-

*CHINA FEELS VINDICATED in its control over internet : In short, Beijing sees an affirmation of its censorship as U.S. struggles with Fake News.*

IN THE United States, some of the world's most powerful technology companies face rising pressure to do more to fight false information and stop foreign infiltration.

China, however has watch dogs like Zhao Jinzu.

From his small town on the windswept grasslands of Inner Mongolia region of China, Mr. Zhao, 27 scours the internet for calls to violence, fake news and pornography. 

He is one of a battalion of online  ''supervisors'' whom Weibo, one of China's biggest social media platforms, announced last month it would hire to help enforce China's stringent limits on online content.

For years the United States and others saw this sort of heavy-handed censorship as a sign of political vulnerability and barrier to China's economic development. 

But as countries in the West discuss potential internet restrictions and wring their hands over fake news, hacking and foreign meddling, some in China see a powerful affirmation of the country's vision for the internet.

''This kind of thing would not happen here,'' Mr. Zhao said of the controversy over Russia's influence in the American presidential elections last year. 

Besides Communist Party loyalists, few would argue that China's internet control serves as a model  for democratic societies. China squelches online dissent and imprisons many of those who practice it. 

It blocks foreign news and information, including the website of The New York Times, and promotes homegrown technology companies while banning services like  Facebook and Twitter.

At the same time, China anticipated many of the questions now flummoxing governments from the  United States to Germany to Indonesia. Where the Russians have turned the internet into a political weapon. 

China has used it as a shield.

In fact, when it comes to technology, China has prospered. It has a booming technology culture. Its internet companies rival facebook and Amazon in heft.

To other countries, China may offer an enticing top-down model that suggests that technology can thrive even under the government's thumb.

''It doesn't matter how efficient the internet is, said Zhu Wei, the deputy director of the  Communications Law Research Center at the China University of Political Science and Law, which advises the government on internet laws.

''It won't work without security.''

China is not resting on its laurels. In the weeks leading up to the major party congress, the country's internet regulators, the Cyberspace Administration of China, issued new regulations.

One, which took effect recently, holds the creators of online forums or group chats responsible for their users' comments.

Other bans anonymous users, a blow at the bots and deceptive accounts  -like those on Facebook and Twitter-  that distributed false stories aimed at American voters.

''If our party cannot traverse the hurdle presented by the internet, it cannot traverse the hurdle of remaining in power,'' a department of the Cyberspace Administration wrote in a top party journal last month.

The article was in keeping with President Xi Jinping's early recognition of the power of the internet. 

Mr Xi created and empowered the Cyberspace Administration, which has subsumed many of the overlapping agencies that once governed content in cyberspace.

The administration is now seen as an institution as important as the Ministry of Defense. 

Since last year, it has been led by Xu Lin, 54, a party technocrat and former propaganda official, who, like other influential officials who previously worked beside Mr. Xi in Shanghai, has soared through the ranks.

Samm Sacks, a senior fellow with the  Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the Cyberspace Administration was a core part of Mr. Xi's vow to make China a cyberspace superpower, on par with the United States.

''There's a recognition that technology has advanced more quickly than the government's ability to control it,'' Ms. Sacks said.

Russia's interference with Facebook, to cite only one example, was ''justification for exactly what they are doing here.''

The Honor and Serving of the  latest ''Operational Research and Thinking'' on Technology and the state of the world, continues. And The World students Society thanks authors Steven Lee Myers and Sui-Lee Wee.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all registered on !WOW! -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011.

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