{"id":205359,"date":"2010-01-20T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100120\/0037167827.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-20T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:40:00","slug":"china-plans-to-scan-text-messages-for-unhealthy-content-five-years-after-announcing-the-same-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/205359","title":{"rendered":"China Plans To Scan Text Messages For Unhealthy Content… Five Years After Announcing The Same Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, it’s time for reruns. The NY Times is reporting that China is now planning to start scanning text messages for “unhealthy content,”<\/a> which is defined as including any of various (secret) keywords supplied by the police. Now, given the recent ramp up in attention paid to China’s censorship efforts, this might be interesting… if it hadn’t been announced five years ago<\/a>. This is what the NY Times wants us to pay for<\/a>? I guess if they block off their content behind a paywall, no one would be able to search the archives of the NY Times to find out that that great paper had covered the story five years ago<\/a> itself (though, a couple months after we wrote about it).<\/p>\n

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Apparently, it’s time for reruns. The NY Times is reporting that China is now planning to start scanning text messages for “unhealthy content,” which is defined as including any of various (secret) keywords supplied by the police. Now, given the recent ramp up in attention paid to China’s censorship efforts, this might be interesting… if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}