Lithuania asks users to drop Chinese smartphone over ‘built-in censorship tool’ Image for Representation. LITHUANIA: After finding an inbuilt censorship tool in the Chinese-manufactured phone, the Lithuanian government has urged owners of the phones to replace them. This comes after a report from the country’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said that a popular Chinese-manufactured phone has a built-in censorship tool that can blacklist search terms on the web. “It is very, very worrying that there is a built-in censorship tool and of keywords, which filters or could filter your search on the web,” Lithuanian Vice Defense Minister Margiris Abukevicius...