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rconversation.blogs.com - 6/29/2009

Some more Green Dam documents...

— rconversation.blogs.com — (more) Some more Green Dam documents...

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chinadaily.com.cn - 7/2/2009

Plug not pulled on Green Dam

— chinadaily.com.cn — Despite a last-minute delay in implementing Green Dam internet-filtering software, China's authorities and its PC manufacturers said... Wednesday they expect the tool will end up on new computers. One day after the Ministry of Industry and Information ... (more) Plug not pulled on Green Dam

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techradar.com - 7/1/2009

Green Dam net filter 'hurts media like cancer'

— techradar.com — Chinese bloggers and netizens are celebrating the tactical withdrawal of the controversial filtering software 'Green Dam' in... Communist-run China. 'Green dam hurts media like cancer' according to one anonymous Chinese blogger, quoted on Radio 4's Today programme. The same journalist decreed that ... (more) Green Dam net filter 'hurts media like cancer'

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Web Forces Push Back on Government Censors
Internet Evolution: — ... that it only sold Iran standard voice-monitoring software, not anything that provides Deep Packet Inspection capabilities or Internet monitoring. While the situation in Iran remains unclear, the postponing and potential cancellation of China's Green Dam project shows -- as Rebecca MacKinnon of Global Voices notes -- that if companies and organizations and foreign governments stand together, it is possible to get even the most intractable of governments to bend. — Mathew Ingram, technology writer for The Globe and Mail in Canada ...

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TechWeb — ... of the past few weeks as a sign that both industry and individuals can influence Chinese government policy, particularly on matters of information and technology that affect people across the country. "The Green Dam episode proves yet again that when companies respond to critics by saying things like: 'it's beyond our control if we want to do business in China' or 'there's nothing we can do or we will get kicked out,' that is a huge pile of, well, equine excrement," she said in a blog post on Thursday. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, among other technology companies, have ...