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Entries from Shanghaiist tagged with 'spam'

July 18, 2008

Tired of getting harassed via mobile phone? According to China Tech News, it's possible to end your misery today with a visit to wap.12321.cn to download new anti-spam software just launched by MIIT. We can't actually see exactly how this works, but we'll let you readers scope it out and report back.......

Continue Reading "No more spam texts!"

May 1, 2008

Search for Carrefour's Chinese name 家乐福 on Google.cn right now and you get a blank screen with a one-liner (screenshot on the right) telling you that you can't access the results for your search term, and please go back to Google.cn to search for something else. Funnily enough, the same search term on Google.com is not blocked within China and returns 6.2 million results. In related news, ISP's across China received orders last week to......

Continue Reading "China Tech News: Google.cn blocks "Carrefour", junk text messages, spam mail"

March 19, 2008

Too much spam on your mobile phone? You're not the only one being hit or getting angry. 30 NPC delegates are thinking of enacting a PRC Information Security Protection Law, which would provide a heavy deterrent to spammers. No details have been released regarding the law under discussion. However, Chinese law now officially forbids people from sending pornographic or "otherwise disturbing or irritating" messages via SMS text message. There have been cases where sexual harassment......

Continue Reading "China mulls Information Security Protection Law; Target: Spammers"

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