The screen saver on each computer is the same: photos and names of current and past members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the Communist Party’s top leadership. Workers must memorize those faces: Only government-owned websites and specially approved political blogs — a group on what’s called a whitelist — are allowed to post photos of top leaders.
Chinese companies are outsourcing the censorship activity to third parties — those who work at these censorship factories have to learn about China’s forbidden history and spend their days taking content down.