Posted on 01/23/2010 9:33:04 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China to scan text messages to spot `unhealthy content'
20 Jan 2010, 1840 hrs IST, New York Times
BEIJING: As the Chinese government expands what it calls a campaign against pornography, cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai have been told to suspend text services to cell phone users who are found to have sent messages with “illegal or unhealthy content,” state-run news media reported Tuesday.
China Mobile, one of the nation’s largest cellular providers, reported that text messages would automatically be scanned for “key words” provided by the police, according to China Daily, a state-controlled English-language newspaper. Messages will be deemed “unhealthy” if they violate undisclosed criteria established by the central government, the newspaper said.
The increased surveillance of text messages is the latest in a series of government efforts to severely tighten control of the Internet and other forms of communication.
Since late last year, China has closed hundreds of Web sites, including highly popular file-sharing sites, and limited its citizens’ ability to set up personal Web sites.
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I bet Obummer would like to do what China is doing!
Did the msg have a happy ending?
More of that hope and change Chairman Mao promised.
“I’ll meet with you tonight with nothing on, sweetheart..”
CHI-COM READ THEN APROVED TEXT:
“I will meet you tonight ..so we can do our taxes and make our government happy, my female comrade who I am attracted to but will only allow one child when we are married..”
happy ending with explicit content(too steamy)
—> disturbing public morals
unhappy ending with explicit content(violent expression)
—> disturbing public security
Either way, you are in trouble. Best to have boring love life in China.:-)
China is looney-toons... plain and simple...
But, that’s what Communists have always been, anyway.
The phrases they are looking for are “free Tibet”, “Tiananmen Square Massacre”, an “independent Taiwan”.
But but but ... don’t you understand???
Of course the government ALWAYS knows what is best for you,
just like here in the good ole USA.
So, criterion undisclosed, better not say anything too passionate or steamy or romantic - it’s against gov rules, maybe!!!
I heard that in China if you do a search for “democracy” or “freedom” or “liberty” that the screen answers “Stop typing dirty words”.
Isn’t totalitarianism great???
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