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Green Dam Youth Escort software gets booted from last 3 stranglers
by Mike
Posted September 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am

In what was one of the worst ideas yet in regards to censorship and "safety", the forced install of the Green Dam Youth Escort software that was mandated to be installed on every PC in China has been dealt another and potentially fatal blow. The last three major manufacturers whom also started shipping or installing the software from the factory are now backing down as well. Lenovo no longer installs the software from the factory, though, they will provide an install CD if asked. Acer annou...

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China delays Green Dam rollout indefinitely
by Mike
Posted June 30th, 2009 at 9:35 am

Count this as a small victory for computer users everywhere, especially those residing in China. Announcing via Xinhua, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that a mere 1 day before the July 1st deadline was to go into effect, they have decided to hold off on any mandatory install deadline indefinitely as to give "computer producers more time to put the order into effect". Which...loosely translated and stripping out the PR BS means "there was so much public outrage ...

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