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China bans lewd text messages
China's communist authorities already screen email messages and online chat rooms, as well as block access to a large numbers of foreign websites which they consider subversive. But so far, text messaging has not been submitted to rigourous control -- though authorities arrested 13 people in southern China for spreading of SARS rumors by SMS --. But this is all changing. Phone users in Liaoning who send "insulting, sexual or fabricated" information could face criminal charges, the state-run Beijing Morning Post newspaper said on Monday reports the BBC. An estimated 10 million text messages are sent every day in Liaoning. |
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