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Dirty Little Secrets
The Chinese Cell Phone Rebels
by James Dunnigan
May 1, 2005
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
China has the world's largest cell phone market, with over 340 million users.
The number of Internet users is growing fast, and is currently about 100
million. The largest Internet user base is in the United States, where there are
200 million Internet users. China's biggest security problem is its inability to
control the flow of information via cell phone and Internet. China is the
largest user of cell phone and Internet monitoring software and hardware in the
world. But Chinese users come up with ways to evade the monitors, and news
spreads quickly anyway. The government was very upset with how news of the
anti-Japanese demonstrations spread, and how quickly unauthorized demonstrations
were organized. The government could always try to pull the plug on the cell
phone networks, but the government is also dependent on this technology, and
there is no central location to shut down all cell phone use. There are many
cell phone service providers all over the country. The Internet would be easier
to shut down, but could not be completely shut off and, of course, the
government is also dependent on the Internet to operate.
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