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Chinese Government To Mandate PC Censorware

Posted by timothy on from the top-downers-score-a-point dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Chinese government has sponsored the development of a censorware package called 'Green Dam Youth Escort'; basically a PC-resident IP blocker that gets regular updates of banned sites from a central government site. There are now plans afoot to mandate that all new PCs sold in China be shipped with this software. The rationale behind this is to 'stop the poisoning of children's minds.'"

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  1. Old news by should_be_linear · · Score: 3, Funny

    This was news back in 1984.

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  2. But does it run on Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...or that means Linux is officially banned in China

  3. Paedophiles and terrorists? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Do I need to say more? The sickos who object to this kind of responsible internets management should be thrown in jail

  4. Re:'stop the poisoning of children's minds' by Rogerborg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, it's their fault. If they'd just lend us more money, we could afford to "pay" them more for their products, and then they could spend "our" money on cleaning up their processes.

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  5. Re:AS IF!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You forgot the [CARRIER LOST]-joke ;-)

  6. Re:Nanny State Cat Accepts Nanny State by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This has been a public service announcement, paid for by ...

    Brought to you by Carls Jr.

    There it is, I bet that's what you were looking for.