On January 2, the image of the Shenzhen Internet Police, presented by Shenzhen Public Security Bureau's Internet Surveillance Division, officially went online for the first time in China.

Now, whenever netizens visit Shenzhen's websites and online forums, they will see these two cartoon police figures floating on their screen.

Apart from a managing function, the online police duo, which is soundly
equipped with a blog, a photo album, and an interactive section, also feature a
great helping hand to mass netizens.

Through the outlet, netizens have access to systematic Internet-related laws
and legal regulations, which are routinely updated with the latest net policies
and warnings of typical online crimes. At the same time, the two cartoon images
can also answer questions from netizens.

Hmm.. Maybe for April 1st, we should have the CryptoKids from the NSA's kids website bounce around MemeStreams using some highly annoying Javascript thing. Every so often, one of them says "Don't mind me, I'm just looking for terrorists!"

Na.. Too much work. There are other things we need to do that are more important. Not to mention, it would be a trademark violation. I can just imagine the phone call from Decius telling me we got a C&D from the NSA for Trademark misappropriation... "We just have to argue fair use. Its parody. Its fair comment. We are not profiting. Its not creating customer confusion. . ." [cuts me off] "NICK, LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY.. IT'S THE FUCKING NSA! THE N-S-A!"