Jail for spreading SARS rumor by SMS

Authorities have arrested 13 people in southern China for spreading rumours about the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic by text messages, per a posting in Smart Mobs reflecting on an article published in The Australian.

On April 26 alone, some 2.13 million such messages were sent, claiming that SARS cases in China reached 10,000 (each recipient was told to resend the messages to another 10 people).

There is another SARS related posting today in sister blog "picturephoning", entitled Why not camera/video phones for hospitals with "no visitor" rule.

For previous SARS and SMS stories, check out textually's new category SMS and SARS.

emily | 12:18 AM | SMS and SARS |
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