China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile phone company, said it was complying with demands from the police to report “illegal” text messages that included pornography, violence, fraud, suggestions of terrorism, instigations to crime and gambling. It said a mobile phone would be blocked if a message breached any of its filters.

It has more than 508 million customers and its network handles 1.7 billion text messages a day.

Last year, the government pledged to suppress pornography on the internet and now appears to have extended its campaign to mobile phones.

Source:C114