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China's Web Crackdown Gives Mobile Chat a Boost
2013-09-20 17:52:20| TechNewsWorld
Tencent Holdings' WeChat mobile messaging service stands to gain more users as China makes it more and more risky to vent opinions online. Long a hotbed for censorship, China has been turning up the heat even further on netizens believed to be spreading "rumors." China's Supreme Court recently ruled that jail was in the cards for anyone who posted a rumor that is viewed 5,000 times or re-posted 500 times.
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