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China Backs Down from Green Dam Filtering, Citizens Throw Parties
Daily Tech ^ | July 1, 2009 9:44 AM | Jason Mick (Blog)

Posted on 07/01/2009 10:04:45 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

China's Green Dam Youth Escort plans have been shelved

In June news broke of an ambitious new campaign in China to filter it citizen's computers.  Titled the Green Dam Youth Escort, it required all new computers to come with filtering software.  While China claimed the move was to protect against pornography, many citizens feared further government monitoring and computer manufacturers didn't enjoy being forced to include the new software.


Now China's government-run Xinhua news agency has announced that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology would "delay the mandatory installation of the controversial 'Green Dam-Youth Escort' filtering software on new computers."

Wen Yunchao, an editor at the popular Chinese website Netease cheered the mood, stating, "This was the result of combined pressure from domestic Internet users and an array of forces at home and abroad...  No matter what, for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to make this last-minute decision was a small victory for the forces of justice."


Across the nation the mood was similarly festive.  In Beijing, a planned protest party at an internet cafe became a daylong celebration instead.  The 200 attendees, dressed in shirts mocking the Green Dam, enjoyed a traditional Chinese breakfast than spent the remainder of the day talking, drinking, and surfing the net.


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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: china; greendam; internet

1 posted on 07/01/2009 10:04:45 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: ShadowAce

fyi


2 posted on 07/01/2009 10:05:39 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...

3 posted on 07/01/2009 10:52:33 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
In June news broke of an ambitious new campaign in China to filter it citizen's computers. Titled the Green Dam Youth Escort

Funny, I thought it was called, "Google."

4 posted on 07/01/2009 10:55:34 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
and surfing the internet
Filtered internet, mind you... On the bright side, it's one less Chinese bot net that we have to worry about.
5 posted on 07/01/2009 11:30:42 AM PDT by aetheraddict
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

the inability of the mullahs to control Twitter feeds coming out of Iran has to have party members soiling their diapers


6 posted on 07/01/2009 11:51:30 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yeah...thats what they’re tellin ya now....


7 posted on 07/01/2009 7:36:03 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: All
More on Green Dam:

Tiny software firm adds to Green Dam mess

8 posted on 07/01/2009 11:49:53 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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