Bruce Sterling writes,
Jinging and Chacha are Chinese Internet cops. These fetching
Sino-anime cartoons were recently placed on servers in Shenzhen
so as to establish an atmosphere of deterrence among Chinese
websurfers tempted to get up to mischief on the global Internet.These two digitized chip-surfing cream-puffs may have a job of work on their hands — not with China's online dissidents, but with its globally-minded bankers. It would seem that about 4,000 Chinese bankers have filled their pockets with fifty billion dollars of embezzled Chinese money and absconded overseas. Who wants to bet they booked those trips by Internet? (…)
The name 'ChaCha' probably isn't that funny when you're down at the Shenzhen station house with the rubber hoses.
Link to Bruce's post, and Link to IHT article, "Global hunt highlights scale of graft in China." BoingBoing's Mark Frauenfelder posted earlier about JingJing and Chacha, right here: Link
