China to censor text messages

New regulations have been issued to allow mobile phone service providers to police and filter messages for pornographic or fraudulent content.


Read more at BBC News

July 2, 2004 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. rudimyers says:
    July 2, 2004 at 6:06 pm

    Scary
    First the news about the court allowing email interception. Now China is monitoring text messaging. The real purpose (according to us but probably true) is to monitor and arrest dissidents. So George Orwell wasn’t that far off was he?

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  2. dmossman says:
    July 2, 2004 at 8:22 pm

    Re:Scary
    If you read the text of the email case you will find that it is not that scary. The case is at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?c ourt=1st&navby=case&no=031383 A person at a company was searching through the emails on the email system that they had created. Although this is bad it is not the same as going out an intercepting emails from anywhere on the Internet. What this case shows is that you need an email provider you can trust. If you can trust no one you should consider encrypting your email. We are far from an Orwellian world.

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