China begins monitoring billions of text messages as censorship increases
Customers of China’s two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risqué messages, the state media claims. The disclosure comes as the country is embroiled in a dispute with Google. On Tuesday the internet giant said it could quit China because of concerns over censorship. The Global Times, a government-run newspaper, said: “Everyone seems to be under watch.” Bad as this is, let's remember that the US/Israel, Britain, Australia and New Zealand do this too ("Echelon"). They all need to be exposed and stopped from doing this.