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Symantec Anti-Virus Supresses Privacy Tool

Posted by timothy on from the could-be-an-unfortunate-mistake dept.

salimfadhley writes "Symantec's 'Norton Antivirus' now attempts to remove Freegate, a program designed to help Chinese internet users view websites blocked by the government firewalls. Symantec offered no reason why the program (which is not spyware) was marked as a 'trojan' in Chinese versions of the software, however even an unattuned conspiracy theorist will guess that this was done at the request of the Chinese government. "

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  1. Unexplained Pregnancies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    from the conspiracy theorist link:
    "Twila Peters lives with her father, 3 teenage brothers. in a modest 2 bedroom mobile home 956 feet from the tower. Though only 13 at the time the tower was built, Twila learned that she was pregnant just 1 week after the tower's completion. Since that baby's birth she has become pregnant 3 more times, and each of her 4 children exhibits some form of mental or physical disability."

    which can be probably be explained by this