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China Ditches Compulsory Green Dam Plans
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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It was never compulsory, just required, mandatory, obligatory...
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I had a feeling those Dam plans were going to be trouble.
Why this sudden change in policy. Obviously, their claim of a misunderstanding is unbelievable, but what did make them change their mind about Green Dam? Does it have anything to do with the recent WTO ruling on easing the controls of media imports? Was it because it was too faulty? Too difficult to implement? Or is there something even more sinister at work, like a decision to install such software at the provider level instead of the individual level?
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Sure it's not compulsory, but if you don't install it the government will break your knees.
That's awfully expensive to "develop" when they stole filtering code from an internet filter company, as reported on slashdot.
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Just to save yourself time and stress, go ahead and wipe your drive now before the FBI shows up to investigate your porn choices.
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How convenient... We just misunderstood. This had nothing to do with any public outcries whatsoever!
I don't think it would have done much good though- Kids tend to be more tech-savvy than the previous generation... and if my school's filter, and students/friends were anything to go by, it will be a minor annoyance for any kid that wants to access a blocked site.
You simply cannot win the censorship war.
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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.
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.
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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I wouldn't mod as troll. Just as off topic.
I don't like corn subsidies, but I don't expect if I posted my views to a random article that someone would suddenly be inspired and rush to help spread my views.
I figure they would see me as a disruptive twat with no clear understanding of how this site works.
Of course, I wouldn't hide under AC either. But that's just me.
What we really need as a deterrent is open education for the kids about porn. When they hit 6th grade (or whatever age they teach birds-and-bees over there), have an afternoon dedicated to Pornography Education. Explain what it is and show it to them (of course with a parents consent). Bring out a computer and a big screen and throw up lemonparty, goatse, 2girls1cup, the BME pain olympics, and whatever is on the front page of efukt that day. Explain that they've just seen the best that pornography has to offer and that the government is trying to protect them from that.
(Also, maybe check the guys for pitched tents afterword. If anybody's sporting wood, they're obviously a threat to a healthy society and need some time in 're-education camp'.)
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
> You simply cannot win the censorship war.
I dunno about that. The Chinese government has won the censorship war for most of the last twenty years. If people are scared enough that they self censor, the government wins. Of course this is not something you can do technologically - you pretty much need to run people over with tanks, ship them off to camps and the like. But it's sadly it is naive to say that government can't win if they are ruthless enought.
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