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China’s Green Dam Filter and Threat of Rising Global Censorship
Technology Liberation Front —
Rebecca MacKinnon has an important piece in the Wall Street Journal today about China’s “Green Dam Youth Escort” filtering mandate and the danger of this model catching on with other governments. “More and more governments — including democracies like Britain, Australia and Germany — are trying to control public behavior online, especially by exerting pressure on Internet service providers,” she notes. “Green Dam has only exposed the next frontier in these efforts: the personal computer.” ...
China’s Green Dam Filter and the Threat of Rising Global Censorship
Technology Liberation Front —
Rebecca MacKinnon has an important piece in the Wall Street Journal today about China’s “Green Dam Youth Escort” filtering mandate and the danger of this model catching on with other governments. “More and more governments — including democracies like Britain, Australia and Germany — are trying to control public behavior online, especially by exerting pressure on Internet service providers,” she notes. “Green Dam has only exposed the next frontier in these efforts: the personal computer.” ...
China's Green Dam Filter and the Threat of Rising Global Censorship
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog —
Rebecca MacKinnon has an important piece in the Wall Street Journal today about China's "Green Dam Youth Escort" filtering mandate and the danger of this model catching on with other governments. "More and more governments -- including democracies like Britain, Australia and Germany -- are trying to control public behavior online, especially by exerting pressure on Internet service providers," she notes. "Green Dam has only exposed the next frontier in these efforts: the personal computer."
She's right, and that's cause for serious ...
China: Scrapping "Green Dam" Doesn't Mean The End of Censorware
Boing Boing —
... to take censorship to a whole new level. A report by the Open Net Initiative, an academic consortium dedicated to the study of censorship and surveillance, finds the Chinese government's mandate of censoring software at the PC-level "unprecedented." Companies installing the software risk becoming part of the existing opaque extension of regime power, at the other end of the chain that already includes Internet service providers, Web hosts and Web content companies.
The Green Dam Phenomenon: Governments everywhere are treading on Web freedom (Wall Street ...
