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Internet filter plan 'wasting time, money'
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had originally hoped to have the results of the filtering trials by the beginning of the year. The Opposition's communications spokesman, Nick Minchin, says the Government should abandon its plans for a mandatory...
Tags: Stephen Conroy, Nick Minchin, communications minister, internet filtering, minister stephen
China drops Green Dam web filtering system
Beijing :: China | 3 months ago
Credibility The industry and information technology minister, Li Yizhong, said today that the notion that the Green Dam programme would be required on every new computer was "a misunderstanding" spawned by poorly written regulations. He said all public computers...
Tags: China Economic Review, Green Dam Youth Escort, Li Yizhong, Beijing, technology minister, filtering software, filtration software, internet filtering
Malaysia s proposed Internet filter prompts criticism
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 4 months ago
Credibility Malaysia's information minister said on Friday a proposed Internet filter similar to China's "Green Dam" software" was aimed at stopping Pornography. Critics say, however, it could also be used to clamp down on the opposition and may hurt investment.
Malaysia denies internet filter will curb dissent
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 4 months ago
Credibility Malaysia denied on Friday that a proposed internet filter would be used to police blogs and websites, saying it would be used only to block pornography. The denial comes after news that the Southeast Asian country was considering setting up an Internet...
China delays mandatory Internet filter software
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's climbdown on the mandatory installation of the "Green Dam Youth Escort" filter comes just a day before the order was due to come into effect. The software was designed to block objectionable material...
Tags: China, Green Dam Youth Escort, computers makers, information technology, Beijing, web sites, internet filtering, computers sold
Companies ask China to drop internet filtering software
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility ET The Associated Press In this Feb. 15, 2006 file photo Chinese internet surfers play online games at an Internet cafe in Beijing, China. PC makers were given orders in May 2009 to implement new software by July that will block out violent and obscene...
Tags: China, filtering software, Green Dam Web, internet filtering, Beijing
Trade groups appeal against Web-filter rule
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility 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 report...
Tags: China Blocks Google, Wen Jiabao, internet filtering, Chinese, filtering software, personal computers, web filtering, trade group, premier wen, Beijing
cut the porn!
Everyone knows that China's censorship is having a meltdown trying to stop pornography on internet sites. Not only is their government selling newer PCs that will be packaged with surveillance and filtering software, but Google says it will take "all...
Tags: pornography, porn, internet sites, google, china, country, censorship, pc, computer, government, internet filtering, surveillance
Boycott the web, Chinese activist says
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility In a country where protests are not allowed, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is counseling a safe and novel way for "netizens" to register their opposition to the government's latest attempt to censor the Internet: boycott the World Wide Web on July 1. "What...
Tags: China Economic Review, Google Bends, Ai Weiwei, search results, internet filtering, Beijing
China says unpopular filtering software optional
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility A Ministry of Industry and Information Technology official reached by telephone told The Associated Press that use of the "Green Dam Youth Escort" software is "not compulsory." He would not give his name as is customary with Chinese officials. The apparent...
Tags: China Daily, Trade Groups Ask China, China Economic Review, filtering software, internet filtering, Chinese, censorship software, computers makers, computers sold
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