Chinese Police Psyops

Interesting article about Chinese police efforts to combat all those advertisement fliers we see stuck all over phone poles and traffic signs:

Authorities in China are turning to technology to nab vandals--they use a computer program that spams the wrongdoers' mobile phones until they turn themselves in.

Officials in Hangzhou, the capital of China's Zhejiang province, have developed a system which bombards mobile phones with pre-recorded voice messages, according to the official newspaper, the People's Daily.

Businessmen who put up illegal advertisements which contain mobile numbers have become the target of the computerized phone-spammer.

The message (received at 20-second intervals) tells the target how to turn themselves in for punishment.