The Lady Doth Protest. Click. Oh I forgot, Chinese Censors don't allow words

As one of my colleagues posted earlier, a more complete list of words and phrases that the Chinese government is banning from public vocabulary, the word protest to me seems funny when you take it out of the political light. All these words aren't just the loaded political or social jargon for modern phenomenon but rather hold a lot of cultural weight in their own right. As one man quoting Shakespeare to a woman on the phone found out the hard way. now not only was he using a lame way to flirt with her but she will also think that he hung up on her.

"China is tightening up its online censorship even more, the Times reports.
The story recounts an eye-opening anecdote: a Chinese entrepreneur was on the phone with his girlfriend, and quipped, quoting Shakespeare: "The lady doth protest too much." Upon the word "protest," the phone call cut off. He was speaking in English, but this has also happened to people speaking in Mandarin, so it's not just a one-off."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-censorship-2011-3#ixzz1HxRyhrcM

 

Now we all know that China has invested heavily into Telecommunications both domestically and abroad and has long standing military ties with one of the largest Telecommunication (including mobile telephony). Does this indicate that consumers of Chinese-made and operated mobile telephony in the developing world could be monitored in a similar way and perhaps, because unlike many Western companies interested in profit- these ventures are heavily invested for diplomatic influence, China will similarly run a software that monitors the use of certain words or phrases in many languages to both albeit other Authoritarian states and to spy on them?

 

The more I read about the big telecom exporters of China, their links to the Chinese state and military become hard to ignore.