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News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 5 months ago
A group of foreign business associations submitted a letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urging the government to scrap a requirement that personal computers come with Internet-filtering software. The rule has already drawn criticism from the U.S.
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News Source: International Business Times
| 5 months ago
On May 19, China said all personal computers sold in the country must have the "Green Dam" internet filter installed from July 1, a move it says is to protect Chinese youth from pornography, but critics say is a form of censorship. Sources at PC...
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News Source: News 24
| 5 months ago
The European Union (EU) accused China of "unacceptable" internet censorship on Friday, as Brussels rejected Beijing's claim that an internet filter due to be introduced is instead aimed at blocking pornography. "The aim of this internet filter,...
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News Source: MarketWatch
| 5 months ago
Foreign trade groups Friday appealed directly to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to suspend a requirement that all personal computers in China be shipped with Web-filtering software called Green Dam Youth Escort from next month, according to a media...
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News Source: EU Observer
| 5 months ago
The European commission added its voice to growing condemnation of Chinese plans to enforce the use of its 'Green Dam' filtering software on Thursday (25 June) and urged the country's authorities to postpone the decision. Chinese officials say the...
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News Source: Money Morning
| 5 months ago
Wednesday night when Chinese users were blocked from Google’s global Web site for a period of at least two hours. For weeks China has been chastising Google for disseminating “huge amounts of porn and lewd information.” The company has made a...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
China has been receiving enormous amounts of negative press lately for its so-called “Green Dam” content filtering and increasingly stringent requirements for Google to limit access to pornography via its searches. According to the Times article,...
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News Source: The Mercury News
| 5 months ago
The Chinese government is pressuring Google to move its servers, now located outside the country, into China to give it more control over the company, she added. "What most people are most worried about is Google — Google is crucially important to...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
The Obama administration has lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government over its plan to require that all computers sold in China after July 1 come with software that blocks access to certain Internet websites. U.S. officials say the...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 5 months ago
The United States still hopes it can persuade China to abandon, or at least delay, its plan to require controversial filtering software on new computers, despite growing trade friction over the issue, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday. "The U.S.