Chinese stop building Green Dam
THE GLORIOUS PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC of China has apparently listened to the voice of its workers and decided to rethink its cunning plan to impose censorship on PCs.
The regime has announced it will delay the requirement that all computers sold in the country carry a specific software application known as "Green Dam Youth Escort".
The Green Dam software works like an Internet filter and spyware and is said to be capable of blocking access to any sites or information that the Chinese government doesn't like.
However the move has been about as popular in China as forgiving the late Japanese Emperor for war crimes. There were considerable objections voiced to the Chinese government by manufacturers and internal groups.
Part of the problem might have been that the software did not actually work all that well, and the part that did was nicked from a US company.
This reduced its ability to be spun to the public as a national effort to protect China's children and workers.
Acer, Lenovo, Sony and Asus have already started shipping computers with the pre-installed Green Dam monitoring software as requested by the Chinese regime.
According to the English version of the state-run China Daily , Wu Shaodong, a sales representative in Beijing for Acer, said that the Green Dam monitoring software will be pre-installed on all PCs participating in their August promotion targeting students and their parents.
Lenovo said it will obey the law, but if China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology sends it a note it will drop the software like a hot potato.
Sony said it has already stopped installing Green Dam. HP and Dell have not put Green Dam on PCs. µ
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Well, you see? It really *is* the People's *Democratic* Republic of China!
What US company was the software borrowed from? Why wouldn't they file a copyright violation? ohhhh China right.
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Wow. Some lame guy sees Democratic in it, and takes a shot.
It also has republic in it
People in it
Of in it
But somehow the guy thinks, it's only the *democratic* part which is so obvious
With low intelligence like that, no wonder they're basically the whig party at this point. Take something that means nothing, and take a shot at democrats, (and look very stupid while doing that).
It really IS 'Sad'. When you learn ANYTHING about government. ANYTHING, then start talking about politics. Until then you seem like the 2 year old trying to drive a car. Let the real problems be handles by the adults.
J: I was trying to be ironic. The Chinese gov't responding to popular pressure is so unlikely. My post had no intention of referencing USA Republican/Democratic duopoly.
The USA does not have a monopoly on those two words, nor indeed did it invent either concept.
Whenever you see someone type 'democrat(ic)' or 'republic(an)', it is not axiomatic that a comment is being made about the USA, and in my case such a comment was certainly not being made.
It's to much trouble to filter each PC, so much easier to filter the Internet.
From: http://mashable.com/2009/06/02/china-blocks-twitter-and-almost-everything-else/
"It seems that as of today, the Chinese authorities have blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr (Flickr), Bing (bing), Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites. Wordpress (WordPress), YouTube (YouTube), Blogger (blogger) are also blocked."
and - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China