Comments on: Report: Skype service in China recording, censoring messages

Researchers at University of Toronto say they've uncovered "targeted surveillance" of TOM-Skype users in China and that text chats are recorded and blocked if they contain certain words.

[MickBurke]

Um, is this a shock? They murdered thousands of their own citizens in Tienanmen Square, and didn't let the ugly kid sing (publicly) at the olympics. They convince otherwise respectable companies (i.e. google and yahoo) to be complicit in the imprisonment of dissidents.

If you people want to look the other way so you can get cheap crap from them, and sell tons of expensive crap to them, then do what you do, but don't pretend that it is surprising, or even that you care, when they continue to be the most reprehensible and murderous government on the face of the earth.

[Laserdisc]

What you say is very true, but China is not the most reprehensible and murderous government on the face of the Earth. There are plenty of other governments around the world that would make the Chinese government seem humanitarian.

[frasercrane]

I agree w laserdisc when s/he implies there is little political insight in this post because it almost sounds like it would have been understandable if they murdered thousands of "other" citizens, and not their own.

[Travis Ernst]

Just another round of Hoover wiretaps only this time it's based off US soil so we don't have control of it.

Web "turf" has always been questionable. If the physical location of the server is not on domestic soil, and on a country that allows this sort of intrusion, there is nothing we can do. It all boils down to the location of the server/hub/router for who has legal control.

Don't forget Uncle Sam and their non court issued wire taps claiming it's for "the safety of the country".

They (US gov) can go about it legally in the US (FISA) and then it's only a SEALED order that you can't see why or who or who what reason it was issued.

[KingSlav]

Duh! This is news?

[sanenazok]

Exactly...government spies on its citizens...what's next...top news Russia uses petrodollars to pressure neighbors...