{"id":209,"date":"2006-04-19T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/04\/19\/skype-says-texts-are-censored-by-china\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T09:12:06","slug":"skype-says-texts-are-censored-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/04\/19\/skype-says-texts-are-censored-by-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype says texts are censored by China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Skype,<\/strong> the fast-growing internet communications company that belongs to <strong>Ebay<\/strong>, has admitted that its <strong>partner <\/strong>in <strong>China <\/strong>has filtered text messages, defending this compliance with censorship laws as the only way to do business in the country. <\/p>\n<p>In a Financial Times interview, <strong>Niklas Zennstr\u00c3\u00b6m<\/strong>, Skype\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive, responded to accusations that the company had censored text messages containing words like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Falun Gong\u00e2\u20ac? \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a banned movement \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dalai Lama\u00e2\u20ac?. He said that Tom Online, its joint venture partner in China, was complying with local law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/875630d4-cef9-11da-925d-0000779e2340.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype, the fast-growing internet communications company that belongs to Ebay, has admitted that its partner in China has filtered text messages, defending this compliance with censorship laws as the only way to do business in the country. In a Financial Times interview, Niklas Zennstr\u00c3\u00b6m, Skype\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive, responded to accusations that the company had censored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}