China has announced it will extend its recent crackdown on online smut (which saw search engines like *Google* and *Baidu* criticized) to mobile phones. “We will incorporate ‘lewd’ messages spread via mobile phones into the crackdown,” the report quoted a joint notice from the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Culture and five other government offices saying, according to Reuters.
It doesn’t say how the messages will be discovered — whether during transmission or by searching handsets — or precisely what the definition of “lewd” will be between married couples. Juniper Research recently predicted that the global adult content market would grow from $2.2 billion in 2008 to $4.9 billion by 2013, with China & Far East remaining the second biggest market with revenues predicted to grow to about a billion dollars.
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