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Green Damned

Chinese netizens are certainly having fun mocking the government's mandate for PC manufacurers to install the Green Dam-Youth Escort software. Danwei posted some great pictures of cartoon "green dam girls," greated in the style of Japanese porno manga.... ...full story at RConversation

from RConversation on Tue, Jun 16 2009

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18 Aug 08 visit Green Olympics, Green Long March  »  YouTube videoWhat's next for a greener China after the games? Ask China's youth.
08 Jun 09 visit Original government document ordering "Green Dam" software installation  »  RConversation An anonymous source has sent me a scan of this "notification" from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology requiring that PC manufacturers install the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software in all PC's manufactured in China or imported...
16 Jun 09 visit Green Dam: Chinese Neitzens Are All “Children”  »  CN Reviews A review of what many Chinese bloggers are saying about the recent "Green Dam Youth Escort" mandatory filtering software debacle: Flawed, dangerous, wasteful...Post from: CN Reviews Watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with CNR & chinaSMACK! Green...
08 Jun 09 visit China's "Green Dam Youth Escort" software  »  RConversation Today's Wall Street Journal has a provocative story headlined China Squeezes PC Makers: Beijing Is Set to Require Web Filter That Would Block Government-Censored Sites. The picture above comes from the official website for "Green Dam Youth Escort," the...
09 Jun 09 visit The Great Firewall in the real world: the Green Dam Youth Escort  »  Shanghaiist Yesterday, an MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) directive was leaked to Rebecca MacKinnon of Rconversations that stated that as of 1 July, all computers for distribution in China must have the net nanny software "Green Dam - Youth...
12 Jun 09 visit Breaching China’s Green Dam  »  China Journal Chinese authorities are having to grapple with more bad publicity for the "Green Dam-Youth Escort" software that Beijing wants to see included with all PCs sold in China from July 1.

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