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Verso Trials Skype Blocking in China
An anonymous reader writes to tell us MacWorld is reporting that Verso, a US company based in Atlanta, GA, has just begun a paid trial for 'NetSpective'. Verso hopes to use NetSpective, and M-Class filter to block VoIP calls made using Skype in China. From the article: "While Verso said in its release that the use of Skype is illegal in China, the situation is more nuanced. Chinese government officials have been generally tolerant of VoIP software, such as Skype, that is used to make calls from one PC to another. But the ability of Skype users to make calls to a phone via the SkypeOut service is more sensitive, because this directly affects the revenue that operators such as China Telecom earn from international phone calls." This seems to be just another in the continuing campaign of China vs VoIP.
Funny how people can scream and holler about the US involving themselves in the internal affairs of other countries and then pitch a hissy fit because we don't invade China.
The only difference is that liberals only get their panties in a knot when a country oppresses its own people. Except when it's Cuba, or the Soviet Union, or Afghanistan, or North Korea, or Iran. Organizing a world-wide economic attack on apartheid South Africa was ok, but sanctions against Iraq that included exceptions for civilian aid were responsible for killing hundreds of thousands.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, I guess.