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China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages
maggeth writes "Early reports on the AP (via Yahoo) indicate that China will begin monitoring and censoring SMS communications in real time. China's 'great firewall' is infamous, but the move to censoring SMS has been slow due to technological roadblocks. Algorithms are used to identify key words and combinations of words that might be associated with 'political rumors and "reactionary remarks,"' and the system automatically notifies local police. Something to think about on your Fourth of July weekend!" Reader ackthpt adds links to coverage at the BBC and The Register, asking "What next, a massive government database system to track every message and contacts between people?"
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The US already collects China's SMS data. It's called Echelon--maybe the US could just sell access to it's database to the Chinese?
All your SMS are belong to U.S.
The MPAA would like to take a moment to congratulate the Chinese government on their forwarding looking actions. The ability to maintain order in these uncertain times by thwarting the propagation of negative reviews of new movies as well as old regimes.
Please forward any MS Word templates for the secret laws you passed to put this in place so we can send them to our employees in State and Federal legislative offices.
Sincerely, Domo iragato, and sorry about Lost in Translation,
The MPAA and our new figurehead.
In Soviet Russia, we.. um.. think this is a damn good idea.
Apple has never claimed not to be evil, they're just very stylish about it.
That's two stories in a row about the SMS.
In case you're wondering, the parent poster (OverlordQ) is a confirmed troll who accidentally revealed his identity in a recent page-widening post. Not only that, but when confronted with the evidence, he didn't even have the stones to admit he'd been caught red-handed. So sad.
He already does, he lives in the US
I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path