Garm
July 1st, 2009, 01:18 AM
Following the block of Twitter / Flickr / Live / Bing / Hotmail and “the Chinese Website Maintenance Day”, Chinese government has ordered that every PC sold in Mainland China should be shipped with built-in censoring technology.
Called Green Dam Youth Escort Software | 绿坝-花季护航软件, it’s designed to block access to certain Web sites including pornography, illicit, and any “harmful” content. The official notice about the requirement by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology says it is aimed at “constructing a green, healthy, and harmonious Internet environment, and preventing harmful information on the Internet from influencing and poisoning young people.”
China’s existing, and extensive, Internet censor system (a.k.a Great Firewall), blocks access to a range of content at the network level, “and many users circumvent it,” the WSJ notes, stating the new method could give the government a way to tighten its control.
http://in2marcom.com/2009/06/the-chinese-green-dam-youth-escort-censorship-software/
Here the infamous "Green Dam B-----" (http://in2marcom.com/2009/06/the-green-dam-bitch-netizens-spoof-the-censorship-software/) is leading the some unlucky Grass Mud Horse (http://in2marcom.com/2009/03/grass-mud-horse-is-reported-by-new-york-times/)
Warning: some very coarse Chinese slang words are being discussed in the second of those links
Called Green Dam Youth Escort Software | 绿坝-花季护航软件, it’s designed to block access to certain Web sites including pornography, illicit, and any “harmful” content. The official notice about the requirement by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology says it is aimed at “constructing a green, healthy, and harmonious Internet environment, and preventing harmful information on the Internet from influencing and poisoning young people.”
China’s existing, and extensive, Internet censor system (a.k.a Great Firewall), blocks access to a range of content at the network level, “and many users circumvent it,” the WSJ notes, stating the new method could give the government a way to tighten its control.
http://in2marcom.com/2009/06/the-chinese-green-dam-youth-escort-censorship-software/
Here the infamous "Green Dam B-----" (http://in2marcom.com/2009/06/the-green-dam-bitch-netizens-spoof-the-censorship-software/) is leading the some unlucky Grass Mud Horse (http://in2marcom.com/2009/03/grass-mud-horse-is-reported-by-new-york-times/)
Warning: some very coarse Chinese slang words are being discussed in the second of those links