China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it w...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it will delay the mandatory installation of the “Green Dam” filtering software, the official Xinhua agency reported Tuesday. The government’s move toward PC filtering of pornographic, violent and other frowned-upon content…
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raised the hackles of the U.S. Trade Representative and Commerce Department, as well as Internet security researchers (WID June 25 p6). Computer makers conveyed that “such massive installation demanded extra time” before the Wednesday start date, though the software is already available for download and the government will go forward with school and Internet cafe installations, Xinhua said. “This shows that when U.S. trade officials get involved, they get results,” said President Ed Black of the Computer and Communications Industry Association in a written statement. But the group wants to see the U.S. “negotiate issues of Internet openness and freedom in a broad, systematic way as part of trade and other international agreements,” he said. Center for Democracy and Technology President Leslie Harris also credited “the open disapproval of Chinese users and the unambiguous, collaborative response from industry” for the delay.