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Fedex, DHL and UPS complicit in state censorship?Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, February 22, 2006 9:54 PM
Ada Shen is a film producer in China who has experienced the difficulties of getting audiovisual materials in and out of China by non-electronic means. She emailed Danwei to propose the following dilemma, related to the American congressional hearings about Google et al. in China: Should the new laws extend to mail companies like Fedex, DHL and UPS? UPDATE: This response comes from reader Sascha Matuszak: For a brief period last year -- till November maybe, UPS was actually a Chinese company with the license (Yue Zhong) to use the UPS logo and such here in Chengdu -- at that time, "censorship" was lax and most anything made its way through -- convenient considering DHL's earlier entry into the market. DHL, almost from the beginning, has sent all packages through a strict customs search -- packages were siezed, returned, opened, employees were eager to check the contents of any and all packages ... |
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