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China Begins Monitoring Billions of Text Messages

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-would-be-a-terrible-job dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Evil. by Jurily · · Score: 0, Troll

    Their government is Evil from my value system and I would love to see the Chinese people do something about that.

    Two words: Bush. Re-elected.