Skype and other American Internet companies selling out to China
It’s well known that China and the Internet don’t really play nicely with each other . . .
Further, many American companies, whether they like it or not, are facilitating Internet censorship and surveillance in China . . .
But Wednesday, a new study from Nart Villeneuve and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab made a stunning revelation that the U.S.-owned and Estonia-based VoIP company Skype appears to be colluding with the Chinese government to monitor chat messages sent on the Chinese version of Skype, known as Tom-Skype.