Mobile phones used to get past China's Internet censors

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Source: CNN

Beijing, China (CNN) -- The mobile web in China has loopholes where content could go under the radar of government censors, analysts say.

"It could be anything else the government normally frowns upon or does not consider healthy, which could be political content to pornographic content," said Mark Natkin, managing director of Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting, a market research and strategy consultant firm.

Mobile phones in China have not escaped government control. Last December, nine Chinese ministries initiated a campaign, which ended in March, to crackdown on pornography transmitted via mobile networks.

Mobile carriers also began monitoring text messages for pornographic and other "illegal" content, blocking phone services to subscribers found to have sent such messages, state media reported in January.

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