{"id":37183,"date":"2021-09-22T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T04:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/lithuania-tells-citizens-to-throw-out-chinese-phones-over-censorship-concerns"},"modified":"2021-09-22T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T04:18:48","slug":"lithuania-tells-citizens-to-throw-out-chinese-phones-over-censorship-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37183","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania tells citizens to throw out Chinese phones over censorship concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministry says certain Xiaomi phones have built-in ability to censor sensitive phrases<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania\u2019s Defence Ministry has recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now, after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Flagship phones sold in Europe by China\u2019s smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as \u201cfree Tibet\u201d, \u201clong live Taiwan independence\u201d or \u201cdemocracy movement\u201d, Lithuania\u2019s state-run cybersecurity body said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/lithuania-tells-citizens-to-throw-out-chinese-phones-over-censorship-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministry says certain Xiaomi phones have built-in ability to censor sensitive phrasesLithuania\u2019s Defence Ministry has recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now, after a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,50,1034,1004,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-china","category-lithuania","category-mobile-phones","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37184,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37183\/revisions\/37184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}