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Article: Sensing a threat, China censors text messages
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- International Herald Tribune
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- July 3, 2004
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Joseph Kahn
International Herald Tribune
07-03-2004
China has begun censoring billions of telephone text messages to ensure that people do not use the popular communication tool to undermine one-party rule.The campaign, announced Friday by the Xinhua official news agency, comes after text messages sent between China's nearly 300 million mobile phone users helped expose the national cover-up of the SARS epidemic last year and generated popular outrage about corruption and abuse cases that had received little attention in the state-controlled media.The move is the latest sign that while China has embraced Internet and mobile phone technology, the government has also substantially increased ...