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CHINESE AUTHORITIES REPORTEDLY WILL SCREEN TEXT MESSAGES.(News)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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July 3, 2004
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Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES
SHANGHAI, China -- Chinese authorities plan to use new technology to improve surveillance of mobile phone text messages amid efforts to intensify policing of private communications, reports said yesterday.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the campaign was aimed at cleaning up "pornographic, obscene and fraudulent" text messages that have "infiltrated short messaging content."
According to the Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders, the campaign also aims to widen surveillance of political dissent.
Beijing already screens e-mail, censors Internet chat rooms and blocks access to foreign Web sites considered subversive.
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