Taphonomic Hyperthymesia

But Skype president Josh Silverman said China’s monitoring was “common knowledge” and that Tom Online, had “established procedures to meet local laws and regulations”. “These regulations include the requirement to monitor and block instant messages containing certain words deemed offensive by the Chinese authorities,” he said.
Mr Silverman said that it had been Tom Online’s policy to block certain messages and then delete them and he would be investigating why the policy had changed to allow the company to upload and store those messages.