Chinese Government To Mandate PC Censorware

Chinese Government To Mandate PC Censorware 189

Posted by timothy on Monday June 08, 2009 @08:13AM from the top-downers-score-a-point dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Chinese government has sponsored the development of a censorware package called 'Green Dam Youth Escort'; basically a PC-resident IP blocker that gets regular updates of banned sites from a central government site. There are now plans afoot to mandate that all new PCs sold in China be shipped with this software. The rationale behind this is to 'stop the poisoning of children's minds.'"

Chinese Government To Mandate PC Censorware

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Old news (Score:4, Funny)

by should_be_linear ( 779431 ) writes: on Monday June 08, 2009 @08:17AM (#28249503)

This was news back in 1984.

But does it run on Linux (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 08, 2009 @08:22AM (#28249545)

...or that means Linux is officially banned in China

Paedophiles and terrorists? (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 08, 2009 @08:47AM (#28249705)

Do I need to say more? The sickos who object to this kind of responsible internets management should be thrown in jail

Re:'stop the poisoning of children's minds' (Score:3, Funny)

by Rogerborg ( 306625 ) writes: on Monday June 08, 2009 @08:53AM (#28249771) Homepage

Well, it's their fault. If they'd just lend us more money, we could afford to "pay" them more for their products, and then they could spend "our" money on cleaning up their processes.

Re:AS IF!!!! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 08, 2009 @10:43AM (#28250979)

You forgot the [CARRIER LOST]-joke ;-)

Re:Nanny State Cat Accepts Nanny State (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 08, 2009 @01:09PM (#28252849)

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There it is, I bet that's what you were looking for.

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Old news (Score:4, Funny)

But does it run on Linux (Score:2, Funny)

Paedophiles and terrorists? (Score:0, Funny)

Re:'stop the poisoning of children's minds' (Score:3, Funny)

Re:AS IF!!!! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Nanny State Cat Accepts Nanny State (Score:1, Funny)

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