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Filtering software: parents worried about their children

Unhealthy Information! Filtered! The new government requirement that Green Dam-Youth Escort web filtering software be installed on all new PCs sold in China starting July 1 made newspapers today on the mainland after, and has continued to generate... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Jun 10 2009

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