Recent Results tagged “censorware”
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Dialogue of the Day: BBC grills Qin Gang
Quentin Sommerville, BBC News: Qin Gang, do you have children? [laughter] Qin Gang (秦刚), Foreign Ministry spokesman: [nods affirmative] Quentin Sommerville: I ask you because a few weeks ago, you asked my colleague whether he had children when he asked a question about Green Dam Youth Escort. And you said that the Green Dam Youth Escort is essential to protect the children of China, and my colleague would of course understand that if he...
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Dear China: Can we just drop this Green Dam business?
In a surprising twist to the Green Dam software controversy, a direct letter was submitted on Friday to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao asking the government to "reconsider implementing the Green Dam requirements". Signed by the heads of 22 international organizations, including the American Chamber of Commerce in China, the European-American Business Council, and the National Foreign Trade Council, the letter is a not often seen public confrontation of Chinese leadership. One official noted the...
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Green Dam software actually pirated?
So not only is the Green Dam firewall software filled with whopping security flaws, it now looks like it's not even original code. The Jinhui Computer System Engineering Company, creator of Green Dam, is now being accused of using stolen intellectual property from the American firm Solid Oak Software. The Green Dam software is meant to filter the web and mainly focuses on porn. According to Solid Oak, the Chinese company has taken substantial...
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The Green Dam that broke the GFW's back: grassroots backlash
Well, one can always hope. The debate is heating up. Yesterday, a Beijing based lawyer Li Fangping sent a request to the Ministry of Industry and Information asking for information about the Green Dam Youth Escort software: the reasons for its development, the legal basis for the order to have Green Dam and Youth Escort pre-installed in PCs, etc. As far as we know there is no Freedom of Information Act in China, or...
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I'm a Mac, you're a Green Dam infested PC*
Resistance is futile: they've already started installing Green Dam internet filtering software in schools. The censorware is, according to its proponents, help in the eternal battle against smut and other morally damaging materials. Although we have our doubts as to how many Chinese students really have the time to scour smut at school, we are old enough Some real Wolverines — at the University of Michigan — have just done a brief study of...
