Green Dam net filter 'hurts media like cancer'

techradar.com - 7/1/2009

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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 ...

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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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'Just a matter of time' for China's Green Dam filter

— techradar.com — PC companies shipping to China will still have to supply Green Dam software, despite news that the... web filtering plan has been shelved. In a bid to curb the amount of pornography and piracy that comes through the web, Green Dam-Youth Escort software was to be mandatory with every new PC as of ... (more) 'Just a matter of time' for China's Green Dam filter

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