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"All new computers are required to wear condoms...."

This is the opening menu for "Green Dam - Youth Escort": Here is a spoof uploaded by somebody to a forum on Mop.com, also courtesy of ChinaSmack: Domestic Chinese critiques of the Green Dam censorware continue unabated in the domestic media as well on... ...full story at RConversation

from RConversation on Thu, Jun 11 2009

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11 Jun 09		Green Dam: "all new computers are required to wear condoms" » Danwei ChinaSMACK translates more Internet reactions about the Green Dam project from forums, with an especially disturbing images distorted from the front page of the Green Dam download site. Separate Mop image here. Link picked by Danwei.org
01 Jul 09		Green Dam is breached...Now what? » RConversation As a number of China hands predicted, the Chinese government has postponed its mandate requiring that all computers sold in China must include the Green Dam -Youth Escort censorware by today. Yesterday after the news broke I told the Financial...
02 Jul 09		Green Dam protesters celebrate censorware twist » Shanghaiist Photo of Ai Weiwei's Party by Shasha Liu The planned protests against the Green Dam Youth Escort turned into celebrations on Wednesday, when Chinese authorities suddenly postponed their order of the infamous censorware program. In turn, Lots of young...
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