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China Ditches Compulsory Green Dam Plans

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-something-then dept.

scrubl writes "China has ditched plans to force foreign and domestic computer manufacturers to install internet filtering technology in computers sold inside its borders. The Chinese government paid $5.85m to develop the software called Green Dam and claimed it was being installed to stop access to porn on computers and protect children. China's industry and information technology minister Li Yizhong said that manufacturers, Internet users, and organisations opposed to the plans had received the wrong message from his department and that installation was never planned to be compulsory."

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  1. Re:Received the wrong message by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What we really need is an open source project to create a newer, better filter so that China can protect its children from porn and smut. If everyone in the open source community worked together I bet we could come up with a much better product that is more cross platform than the over-priced crap they tried to implement.

  2. what impresses me most about this news by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is that someone got paid $5.85 million by the chinese govt for copying and pasting cybersitter's source code:

    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/1422235/Chinas-Green-Dam-No-Longer-Compulsory-May-Have-Lifted-Code

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