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Xiaomi – smartphones with a Chinese censorship program

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hardware and soft January 10, 2022, 15:35 According to the Taiwan Communications Commission (NCC), Xiaomi smartphones use a program that blocks certain political content. Xiaomi denies the allegations and NCC announces further investigation. Taiwan Communications Commission (NCC) will receive informationthat the Xiaomi Mi 10T 5G smartphones sold in Taiwan have an application that censors about 2,000 words with a political twist. In a press release published on January 6, NCC stated that a program called MiAdBlacklisConfigur could be downloaded from Xiaomi’s servers by seven applications already installed on the smartphone. The software is designed to detect politically motivated words and…

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