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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
PC makers race to comply with China's Web filter Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Inc. and Taiwan's Acer Inc. — the top three global producers — are asking regulators for details of the order that takes effect July 1 to provide Green Dam Youth Escort...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Should every computer in China be installed with a filter software? The software was said to be able to identify and block pornographic or violent images and words on the Internet. China must have this software package pre-installed as of July 1.
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
On top of the ongoing recession, PC makers are now struggling to work out how to deal with a Chinese government mandate to include web-filtering software with new computers that will likely hit their bottom line even harder. From 1 July, computer...
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News Source: Merced Sun-Star
| 5 months ago
Global business groups have made an unusual direct appeal to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to scrap an order for personal computer makers to supply controversial Web filtering software, citing security and privacy concerns. Just days before the deadline...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Perhaps it's because centralized management isn't scaling to hundreds of millions of users...To read the coverage of China's Green Dam mandate would make it seem that the world was coming to an end and the Internet would be irrevocably changed...
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News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 5 months ago
The tension between Google and Beijing is more of a nuisance than a financial blow for now, but it's a taste of the challenges that lie ahead as the world's largest internet search engine strives to expand in China. On Thursday, a Chinese official...
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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: The Mercury News
| 5 months ago
Back then, Congress passed a law that would have made it a crime for Web operators to allow children to access online material known to be "indecent." The bill was signed by President Bill Clinton but challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union...
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News Source: International Business Times
| 5 months ago
At a meeting of the Technical Barriers to Trade committee, which assesses unfair hurdles for exporters, WTO members also took aim at Canada's anti-allergy food labelling and the European Union's treatment of imported chemicals. The complaints, if...
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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...