China and freedom

As if they hadn't limited the freedom of their people enough, you can now be arrested for sending text messages that 'spread rumors' in China. This is largely because people would use text messaging to spread word about demonstrations. I would like to know which phone companies are cooperating with their government on this, because those are the ones I will try to avoid even if they aren't doing it here.

China is always worried about how word spreads, and have cracked down on online communications as well. Of course in the case of online, this or things like this are great tools to get around pesky internet blocks and avoid detection by your government when organizing those protests.

So yes, at this point I have to admit that though it is bad, the US is not as bad as it could be. May it never be otherwise, but we still have a lot of catching up to do to make for our recent back-sliding.