China makes Skype illegal
Dec 30, 2010, 8:16 am
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China makes Skype illegal
China on Thursday announced that it had made illegal the use of Skype, the popular internet telephony service, as the country continues to shut itself off from the rest of the world.
In the latest move dashing Western internet company hopes of breaking into China, it was announced that all internet phone calls were to be banned apart from those made over two state-owned networks, China Unicom and China Telecom.
"[This] is expected to make services like Skype unavailable in the country," reported the People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Communist party.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...e-illegal.html
In the latest move dashing Western internet company hopes of breaking into China, it was announced that all internet phone calls were to be banned apart from those made over two state-owned networks, China Unicom and China Telecom.
"[This] is expected to make services like Skype unavailable in the country," reported the People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Communist party.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...e-illegal.html
Dec 30, 2010, 6:50 pm
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Would this affect VOIP telephone calls? Skype Out calls?
Not that I use skype out to my Chinese friends, we all use skype to skype, icq to icq etc but this is still very troubling.
Not that I use skype out to my Chinese friends, we all use skype to skype, icq to icq etc but this is still very troubling.
Dec 30, 2010, 10:39 pm
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Two points.
1. Impossible to realistically block all Skype calls in a huge country like China.
2. Western media has never understood China and pretty much all the sensationalist reporting from them is wrong. Especially from UK papers like this one.
1. Impossible to realistically block all Skype calls in a huge country like China.
2. Western media has never understood China and pretty much all the sensationalist reporting from them is wrong. Especially from UK papers like this one.
Dec 31, 2010, 11:17 am
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Wow, that is pretty huge. If they make it illegal that probably means they can enforce some form of punishment, which is the last thing anyone wants while in china.
Jan 1, 2011, 3:55 pm
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Complete BS by drunken Britts
Complete BS by drunken Britts
Jan 1, 2011, 4:01 pm
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Where do people get this stuff?
Jan 1, 2011, 4:25 pm
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(Reality: I was using a forum that wasn't on the banned list--but every page pulled three ads off a banned site.)
Jan 1, 2011, 7:12 pm
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http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/na...government.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...crackdown.html
*although this is a Reuters story in the CP