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Green Dam filtering software scorned by many Chinese

Some Chinese geeks have been playing with the new government-mandated Green Dam censorship software over the past couple days. People are reporting their findings on Twitter and on blogs. Eisen blog posted the screenshot above, taken after the software... ...full story at RConversation

from RConversation on Tue, Jun 09 2009

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