OVERSATISFYING BEIJING Still, there was outrage at the extent of a cooperation that many saw as another example of once-admired Western Internet giants bending their principles in order to do business in China. The problem with Skype is that they did more than what people expected. They over-satisfied the government, said Isaac Mao, one of China’s earliest and best known bloggers. Yahoo Inc.
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A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.’s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including democracy. The revelation is not only of interest to rights groups that monitor Internet censorship. The discovery also likely intrigues law enforcement and intelligence agencies in other countries, because they have been bothered by the growing use of Skype, which claims 338 million users across the world.