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China’s New Required PC Filtering Software – The Official Notice

The Chinese government’s official notice requiring PC makers to include filtering software with new computers, which the Journal first wrote about on Monday, has now been posted in several places ...full story at China Journal

from China Journal on Tue, Jun 09 2009

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