Chinese Government to Disconnect Sexters
Jan 21, 2010 phones, retweet, twitter
I guesswork since the Chinese governing is on a cast with these privateness violations, they’ve decided to get service providers to cut off any client who use certain offensive keywords in textual matter messages, all in the epithet of cutting down feather on mobile pornography. This sort of censoring is par for course, considering PRC already blocks adult subject via the web, but there’s the literary argument that SMS messages sent from one human to another is entirely buck private and doesn’t constitute pornography. Besides that, the whole thing honor slant could just as easily be a roundabout way of getting approach to people’s textual matter messages and scanning for other criteria, such as political volatility – but we’ll never really know since the specific criteria for surveillance ar undisclosed. Bum trade boilersuit, but the real victims here ar the saucy Chinese schoolgirls who could get busted for naughty texts. Fight on, you brave, giggly, barely-legal warriors. Fight on.*
[via NYT]
*I’m totally not condoning underage sexting, there just happens to be a pretty high instance of high gear schoolers doing that sort of thing.
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