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China Delays "Green Dam" Internet Filter

Posted by kdawson on from the step-too-far dept.

SailorSpork sends in a BBC report that "China is delaying a controversial plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with an Internet filtering software, state media says. The filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was to have been required from Wednesday, but the ministry of industry said computer makers needed more time." The submitter adds: "Except of course for Sony, who as reported earlier lacked the moral fiber to hold off installing the spyware, which reportedly is ridden with security holes and uses stolen code. Sony actually managed to ship ahead of the schedule."

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  1. Dear Xiam: by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Green Dam",
    Total sham.
    Real security:
    Green eggs and ham.
    Burma Shave

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. Good work Sony by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, Sony finally manages to get SOMETHING out on time. Too bad God of War 3 wasn't requested by an evil totalitarian regime to oppress its people.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  3. Nothing new about Sony shipping harmful software by DamnStupidElf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone remember the CD rootkits?

  4. Re:A Sony-free life is hard, but not undoable. by Kamokazi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I loathe Sony as much as the next informed geek, but I just limit it to not buying anything with a Sony name.

    Think of it this way...you're causing yourself much more trouble by doing all that research than you are causing Sony by not buying their crap. You're effectively letting Sony make your life more difficult. They don't deserve that.

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