The Chinese government has increased pressure on telcos to prevent mobile spam…”messages containing text or pictures with pornographic or superstitious content such as fortune telling and sex chat are frequently sent to mobile phone users en masse…This is in breach of national regulations that ban the production and spreading of such content, which has “polluted the society and spread very bad influence,” said the Ministry Of Information Industry on its website.
The ministry will check telecom companies for compliance with the laws throughout October, and will prosecute those that breach the rules. While the Chinese government seems to be mostly concerned with the messages undermining society and spreading information outside of the official media it is also an indication of what could happen in other countries if the self-regulation efforts by the industry don’t succeed…
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