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SMS, SARS, And Censorship

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 17, 2003 @11:37PM from the beware-the-email-centralizers dept.

angkor writes with a link to this article about "How SMS messaging in China forced the government to acknowledge the 'fatal flu in Guangdong.' And the steps the Chinese government is taking to make sure it does not happen again."

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and SMS is bad because??? by eclasssystems · 2003-06-17 23:47 · Score: 0, Redundant

God forbid that a countries government actually listens to its citizens. This just boggles the mind to think that there would be an outcry from this. Granted my neighbors car kills more ppl per year than SARS does but if there were a life threatening disease down the road from my house I'd like to know about it.