Chinese porn blocker killed off
THE INTERNET CENSORSHIP SYSTEM that the Chinese government decreed should be installed on every computer distributed within its borders has been permanently cancelled.
It's not certain whether the Middle Kingdom's U-turn was brought about by public pressure (incredibly unlikely), security fears (significantly more likely) or the impending threat of legal action over copyright infringement (ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!), but it seems that Green Dam will no longer be forcefully installed on every single computer manufactured in or imported to China.
The software - Green Dam Youth Escort by its full name - as well as acting as an Internet filter to protect kiddies from porn, was also capable of spying on users and reporting on undesirable activities as well as blocking political sites perceived as unfriendly to the Communist regime, like the BBC.
A number of OEMs, including Acer, Lenovo, Sony and Asus, had already begun shipping boxes with the software pre-installed in anticipation that the government mandate would become permanent policy, but the mandate was indefinitely postponed just hours before it would have gone into effect.
We can only hope there are highly embarrassed execs staring at their shoes in boardrooms all over the world, mumbling something about having done it 'cos a big boy told them to.
The official line was that the postponement was put in place to give box builders more time to get with the programme, but a new deadline was never announced.
California insecurity company Solid Oak also threw a spanner into the works when it threatened to take legal action over code included in the Green Dam application, which it claimed had been stolen.
International pressure was also levelled against the Chinese authorities, with trade groups from all over the world writing indignant letters of protest about issues of security, privacy and system reliability. That must have really put some fear into those Chinese bureaucrats.
The final straw on the Green Dam camel's back could well have been that it didn't support 64-bit operating systems.
Now the only people who seem to be mourning the demise of Green Dam are Chinese hackers who were looking forward to seeing how long it would take them to hack into the software and take it over. µ
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...that you call the BBC a political site. It's true, of course, and the BBC would heartily deny it - but it's nice to see you saying it like it is.
...for next weeks episode of "Those crazy commies", up next, six hours of infomercials.
Yes, the BBC is an organ of the fascist state but, for that matter, so is the mis-named ITV. Example: in the week immediately preceding the recent increased British military involvement in Afghanistan, BBC and ITV blitzed us with saturation coverage of the really good job that our lads are doing out there (do you remember half-hour news programmes given over almost exclusively to that coverage for an entire week: that was propaganda, brothers).
We live in a totalitarian dictatorship. We are kept in line by the illusion of freedom of choice once every four or five years. Remember the change promised by Obama? It hasn't happened and it won't happen because, just like the U.K., it's the establishment that runs the show. It's no different in China or Russia or most anywhere.
So any government that uses propaganda is a totalitarian dictatorship? Wow, someone needs to pay more attention in history class. Or at least watch some old movies.
It's pretty bad when a free society is poising it's extremes at worst than a communists society.
With the policies on sex around the world which is at very odds with each other is totally incompatible with ALL freedoms in the first place, I applaud China for recognizing this while the democracies are foolishly trying to please everybody where the noise makers are riding on others backs. When someone gets hurt, your told to suck it up and move on. Hey one noise maker deserves another, So I say no to porn and rape!
Isn't there a law in democratic countries that if a freedom encroaches on another person, it is nullified? So watch out porn pushers!!!
Porn is abusive in several levels, the personal kind, the acquaintance kind, and mostly it abuses the planet.
"Let me take my only-remaining-hand off the mouse and say, Phil I love you... Would you like to go somewhere private now?"
Dave xxx
:-p
"Abuses the planet"... Wow man, you have some high targets... I'll just stick to abusing this apple pie.
Personally I cannot wait for the day porn be eradicated from the face of the net.
"Personally I cannot wait for the day porn be eradicated from the face of the net"
Are you crazy?
Any healthy, normal human being (nee once teenage boys) would be insane and in total denial, or some other cult-religous brain washing affair, to absolutely jump at seeing the 'whole enchilada'?
When I was a kid, there were only some damp old magazines thrown out of the car windows by some other 'normal' human beings trying to get rid of this filth; before a load of 'closet-cases', like you lot, start to burn crosses on their lawns!
Enough, I say..... Be gone with you...
Give me my pron! (eh?)
Let me be the judge of my own moral convictions (see below disclaimer)
DISCLAIMER:
I read The SUN newspaper and I love page 3, or is it page 5? Either way, it helps me get through the day on a building site. In the site office, we've even got a naughty calenders on the wall, from one of those men's magaizes; with twelve months of surprises. Man, I've only got to August and I can't take it anymore!!
Let's all get real, baby...
Love,
David The Rave xxx
... and applaud Phil for being the only eunuch who dared to demonstrate his lack of comprehension here. The filter is there because the kiddies may 'stumble' upon a porn site by mistake *cough* *bullshit* *cough*.
Let's face it, most Chinese kids will have to face sex at some point in their lives, otherwise tomorrow's China will be inherited by creatures hiding underneath rocks.
BTW, those who PUSH porn on the streets are called SPAMMERS, idiot.
Targets? No, I wouldn't even dream of having my hands dirty in actual policing porn, High Morals, yes! my comment is just that a comment, but the reactions here indicate it did hit a nerve.
What you porn pedallers fail to see, it you are just as guilty as China in trampling on people that want a high moral standard and you are leaving the authorities to clean up after the mess over a "freedom" that just keeps lowering the bars on morality. The health and police filtering [child porn] costs like the smoking issue, keeps on degrading and promote the spread of diseases. I guess its a bad case of evolution where I want what the monkeys have! As in Animals have all kinds of weird sex and where HIV came from.
Oh yeah the more this happens, they also hate more and more the high moral people because of the gulf that keeps on growing between.
Remember what has happen to smoking and the smoking industry?
As far as I'm concern, the whole porn industry and those who love it can keep on rotting [look into cannibalism & living dead] to oblivion. I'll keep my incinerator and disinfectant close by. YUCK!!
Phil, Is it you dont like porn or you dont like WOMAN on porn? You can get gay pron you know....
You will never take pron off the internet, the internet is for porn, they even did a song about it.
So grab your dick and double click for porn porn porn...
Scotty
People just don't get it, women are fine sex is fine, transforming yourself in a depraved sex zombie! WRONG! Two people here say that I'm a homosexual because I avoid porn? Weird! PORN has a knack to push people to homo tendencies in the first place!!! Stupid people still think a catch twenty two is a great defence.
I'll just go back in my focus of real individuality instead of listening to rubbish like "I'm not an individual since I'm not with the crowd." About catch twenty two's, God is in recycling also, when we act dirty the result is death and we get converted back to dust.
Anyhow nuff said here!
Do you know why sex slavery has risen since internet porn?
And why sexual bullying in school has shown up on the map of time after porn?
Yes, it because crimminal gangs in the former soviet block have found new methods to earn money, and because its the only way for poor women (and by that i mean unemployed) from Africa and East Europe to earn money. It has nothing to do with internet porn.
Would any of the porn hater like to show us one scientific report that states that porn is bad for you?
Futher more. In a true democracy ppl should be able to do what bloody damn they please with their own body. Christian fundamentalist can crawl back to the second century and stay put.
No doubt they can make some quick cash by selling the software to Australia for their internet censorship scheme.
"It has nothing to do with internet porn." Are you serious? Sex slavery and internet porn are very much linked. I think you are being very naive. Not every girl in porn is some empowered feminist type who loves having sex for money. There is a significant percentage of women in porn who are there because of sex slavery.