Skype, the fast growing internet(VoIP) communications company admitted that its partner in China has filtered text messages originated from that country.

Skype’s chief executive, responded to accusations that the company had censored text messages containing words like "Falun Gong" – a banned movement – and "Dalai Lama".
He said that Tom Online, its joint venture partner in China, was complying with local law.

He claimed that compliance with Chinese censorship was no different from obeying rules governing business in western countries. China, along with the US and Germany, is one of Skype’s three biggest markets in terms of active users of its free telephony service, which routes encrypted calls between computers via the internet.

source: FT


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