China Plans To Scan Text Messages For Unhealthy Content… Five Years After Announcing The Same Thing
from the it's-winter-reruns-everyone... dept
Apparently, it’s time for reruns. The NY Times is reporting that China is now planning to start scanning text messages for “unhealthy content,” which is defined as including any of various (secret) keywords supplied by the police. Now, given the recent ramp up in attention paid to China’s censorship efforts, this might be interesting… if it hadn’t been announced five years ago. This is what the NY Times wants us to pay for? I guess if they block off their content behind a paywall, no one would be able to search the archives of the NY Times to find out that that great paper had covered the story five years ago itself (though, a couple months after we wrote about it).
Filed Under: china, paywalls, reporting, scanning, text messages
Comments on “China Plans To Scan Text Messages For Unhealthy Content… Five Years After Announcing The Same Thing”
Of course, if they participated in the online community and provided links to their sources, we might be able to figure out why this story came to their attention twice and if there is in fact any new information here…
introducing the text message wash and dry
yes folks for a paltry sum of 9.99 you too can get it wiped and cleaned making sure it passes the overlords sniff and healthy test.
Make sure it never offends, never is unhealthy and never worry again
[small print here u never understand but is really more ways to rip you off and censor you ]
Re: introducing the text message wash and dry
I get that this is satire, I’m just not sure what of…
Re: Re: introducing the text message wash and dry
“I get that this is satire, I’m just not sure what of…”
I’m going to go with Coherent Commenting….
Re: Re: Re: introducing the text message wash and dry
DH, that might have been your best ever
what a bunch of control freaks…
poor darkhelmet
its a play on bettlejeuce
where he says welcome kmart shoppers
i guess if you have no sence a haha you never understand it
Text Message Screening
It’s crazy how used I have gotten to having my smartphone and having the ability to send thousand of text messages every day. I even get text message notifications from my community church organization.
Having Text message service is something that I take for granted–just another thing I have to be thankful for.