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China Begins Monitoring Billions of Text Messages
eldavojohn writes "The Telegraph is reporting that China has begun monitoring 'billions of text messages' in order to increase censorship. However, a People's Daily article claims they only monitor users who have been reported, and only shut down their message service if the complaints are true. Anything considered pornographic will require the user to bring a letter of guarantee to the local public security bureau promising to never again send such messages before service can be reactivated."
"Evil" is highly subjective. Are they really that evil? They, as far as I can tell, are just not that sneaky about it. They don't seem as preoccupied with not getting caught as our politicos are. So they just do it and then put out the usual lines; "protecting the public" "morality of the people" "think of the children" etc etc. Pretty much the same reasons we get to hear whenever one of our governments do something.
I'm fairly sure we can see thru this bullsh*t just as the billion chinese can. What I find interesting tho is that our governments keep pointing the chinese for being "evil" as a sort of diversion tactic (as in BE HAPPY YOU DONT LIVE THERE! ... ). Perhaps they do the same, I never really bothered to check.