China to Clamp-Down on “lewd” Text Messages January 23, 2009
Posted by aikservices in Asia, China, Mobile, SMS, Telecom, Text Message, Wireless.Tags: Asia, China, Mobile, SMS, Telecom, Text Message, Wireless
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The Chinese government has extend its ongoing anti-porn project to mobile phone messages after shutting down 1,250 websites, it said on Monday.We will incorporate ‘lewd’ messages spread via mobile phones into the crackdown, said seven government departments including the State Council’s Information Office, Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Culture who jointly launched the campaign at a meeting, aiming to outline future tasks of the move.As part of the anti-porn campaign authorities have shut down 1,250 websites and deleted more than 3.2 million items of online information alleged to contain porn and vulgar content since the begining of the year in a sudden crackdown which had no warning.
Qatar to Deport Sender of Indecent Text Messages December 9, 2008
Posted by aikservices in Egypt, Middle East, Mobile, Q-Tel, Qatar, SMS, Telecom, Text Message, Wireless.Tags: Egypt, Middle East, Mobile, Q-Tel, Qatar, SMS, Telecom, Wireless
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An appeals court in Qatar has upheld a lower court ruling that an Egyptian should be deported after being convicted of sending indecent SMSs to a female compatriot. An additional fine of QR3,000 (US$825) was also upheld by the upper court. The man bombarded the woman with suggestive text messages, which included – rather unfortunately for him – one which arrived while the woman was in the police station filing her complaint.
With the assistance of the mobile network, Qtel the police were able to track down the owner of the phone – a 32-year-old man who had arrived in the country in May 2005.The Egyptian claimed that the phone sending the messages had been stolen about a month earlier, but the court decided that his failure to report the theft made this unlikely.
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