China Ditches Compulsory Green Dam Plans

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 13, 2009 @03:33AM 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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Related to Iran's "filtering" successes by pearl298 · 2009-08-13 03:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

Am I just paranoid in thinking that this is related to Iran's and Australia's recent success at filtering "objectionable" content at the ISP level?
Certainly it is much easier to administer at that level with only a relatively few portals.
This sounds like it validates the work on Fastnet and TOR.