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Green Dam Youth Escort

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Name: Green Dam Youth Escort
First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
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United Nations
At a UN-sponsored event today in Egypt, UN officials demanded the removal of a poster that alluded to the issue of Internet restrictions in China.The poster was an advertisement for Access Controlled, an MIT publication about the so-called Great Firewall ... [TechNews.AM - 11/16/2009]
First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 4 Documents (in Internet & IT)
New Delhi: China has banned 1,414 works of online literature on the grounds that it was of a pornographic nature in a nationwide campaign to eradicate lewd contents from the Internet. The move is the latest in a string of drives to crack down on pornographic ... [DNA India - 10/28/2009]
Entities: Pornography, China, Lewd
First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
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MySpace.com
At first blush, it seems like Song Li is one of those stereotypical Chinese Web entrepreneurs. The kind who rips off successful US sites and hopes operating in the world’s largest consumer Internet market will magically create a successful company. After ... [TechNews.AM - 10/28/2009]
First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Last week, I wrote about the Malaysian government’s decision to not filter or censor the Internet.It was earlier reported that the government was considering the Green Dam program from China that would be installed in all computers, so that certain types ... [Malaysia Edge - 10/28/2009]
First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
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Twitter Inc
By NBC News' Ed Flanagan BEIJING – Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China. The so-called Great Firewall of China, the online filtering and surveillance program run by the communist ... [World Blog - 11/09/2009]
First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
In China, Google is forced to censor its search engine, Facebook and Twitter are blocked, U.S. news agencies are barred from selling their services freely, and foreign investment in the media industry is closely watched. Yet when President Obama visits ... [PBS - 11/10/2009]
First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
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Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission
For some, Malaysia’s position on Internet censorship appears unclear, despite a law against such meddling.“As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.” — Jeremy Bentham (1748 ... [Malaysian Bar - 11/12/2009]
First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
In this world of cyber-technology, we can do almost everything we want through current technologies. Thanks to the Internet, now we can acquire information on many things in just a split second. People can become famous in hours or collapse in seconds. ... [Malaysiakini - 10/26/2009]
First Reported 09/15/2009 - Updated 09/15/2009 - 4 Documents (in Internet & IT)
BEIJING - Schools in Beijing are quietly removing the Green Dam filter, which was required for all school computers in July, due to complaints over problems with the software.China last month formally backed down on a plan to preinstall the Internet filter ... [PC Magazine - 09/15/2009]
First Reported 08/13/2009 - Updated 08/14/2009 - 8 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Government drops plan to install controversial software on all country's computers after outcry over censorshipChinese officials appear to have retreated from their controversial plan to install an internet filtering system on computers in the countr ... [Guardian Unlimited - 08/14/2009]
First Reported 10/07/2009 - Updated 10/08/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)
said late Wednesday that the company has filed suit against CBS Interactive and its ZDNet China unit for copyright infringement, as a result of providing the controversial 'Green Dam' software for download.Solid Oak is asking for about $1.24 million, ... [PC Magazine - 10/08/2009]
First Reported 08/14/2009 - Updated 08/15/2009 - 2 Documents
In a rare retreat, it now looks like the Chinese government has given up on Green Dam-Youth Escort.The New York Times reports that the information technology and industry minister, Li Yizhong, said the idea that the program would be required to be installed ... [ZDNet - 08/15/2009]

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...censorship of Internet access, we alerted readers to the fact that every new computer sold after July 1, 2009 would be equipped with software "intended to block pornography and possibly filter politically disruptive material, all while quietly gathering private user data." This "Green Dam Youth Escort" software is closely related, both ideologically and politically, to the "Golden Shield Project," China's national firewall...
Congress has taken notice of China's stepped-up efforts to control the web. In June, Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) introduced a resolution "expressing grave concerns about the sweeping censorship, privacy, and cyber-security implications of China's Green Dam filtering software, and urging U S high-tech companies to promote the Internet as a tool for transparency, freedom of expression, and citizen empowerment around the world."
...The censorship during the Uighur riots caused such consternation online, it sparked one bitter Chinese Twitter user to mournfully tweet that day, "Today, two ‘140s’ were killed in China – 140 people in Xinjiang and 140 character micro-blogging service Twitter." It is perhaps fitting then that the Great Firewall should find its opposition in another online medium: Twitter. ...( read more )
...China's government was "in general very supportive of the game industry, providing tax breaks and such" said Wei, the analyst

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UN Officials Censoring Chinese Firewall Protest? [TechNews.AM - 11/16/2009]
Question of Internet 'filtering' still unresolved [Malaysian Bar - 11/12/2009]
President Obama Must Press China on Web Censorship [PBS - 11/10/2009]
Bureaucratic war over Warcraft heats up [IOL - 11/04/2009]
China bureaucratic war over online Warcraft hea... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/04/2009]
Bureaucratic war over Warcraft heats up [IOL Technology - 11/04/2009]
China bureaucratic war over online Warcraft hea... [Yahoo! News - 11/04/2009]
The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win [TechNews.AM - 10/28/2009]
China gives up on Green Dam [Malaysia Edge - 10/28/2009]
China bans 1,414 works of online literature for... [DNA India - 10/28/2009]
China bans 1,414 works of online literature for... [Yahoo! India - 10/28/2009]
China Mobile settles monopoly case [South China Morning Post - 10/28/2009]
China purges porn works on Internet [CHINAdaily - 10/27/2009]
China bans "pornographic" literature ... [Xinhua News Agency - 10/27/2009]
Protect our children from media, Internet [Malaysiakini - 10/26/2009]
Bleeding Biotech [American.com - 10/24/2009]
China Information Technology Report Q4 2009 [Mindbranch - 10/23/2009]
Online censorship - Spiders lurking in the web [Ethical Corporation Online - 10/22/2009]
News to know: Oracle; Sidekick; Win7 party; Goo... [ZDNet - 10/12/2009]
News to know: Sidekick; Win7 party; Google; Yah... [ZDNet - 10/12/2009]
China: Media Summit Participants Should Push fo... [World Press Review - 10/09/2009]
CBS hit for $1.2m over Chinese censorware [The Register - 10/08/2009]
ZDNet Parent Sued for Distributing 'Green Dam' [PC Magazine - 10/08/2009]
CBS Interactive Sued For Distributing Green Dam [Slashdot - 10/07/2009]
Dam Burst Tool Disables China's Green Dam Censo... [Slashdot - 09/30/2009]
News to know: Win7, Google Wave, Palm WebOS, Ap... [ZDNet - 09/30/2009]
Beijing’s credibility crisis, Li Datong [open Democracy News Analysis - - 09/25/2009]
Blue Shield provokes fresh China censorware row [The Register - 09/21/2009]
Lenovo, Acer and Sony dump Green Dam [PC Advisor - 09/21/2009]
Chinese Schools Ax Green Dam Censorship Software [Slashdot - 09/15/2009]
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Elizabeth Lynch: Obama's Town Hall in Shanghai ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/18/2009]
Beijing, China - With scripted questions from the audience and a speech lacking particulars, President Barack Obama's Shanghai town hall on Monday likely ...
UN Officials Censoring Chinese Firewall Protest? [ReadWriteWeb - 11/16/2009]
At a UN-sponsored event today in Egypt, UN officials demanded the removal of a poster that alluded to the issue of Internet restrictions in China. The poster ...
In China, battles over a new wall [World Blog - 11/09/2009]
By NBC News' Ed Flanagan BEIJING – Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China. The so-called ...
China: Bridging the gap? Interviewing bridge bl... [Global Voices Online - 10/30/2009]
The Chinese blogosphere, as we all know, is booming. As one of the largest on the planet, it is constantly evolving and simultaneously being set back by the all-too-famous ...
ZDNet China, Green Dam and lawsuits [ZDNet Blogs - 10/08/2009]
We've received a few inquiries about Solid Oak Software's lawsuit against ZDNet China and CBS Interactive for distributing Green Dam filtering software on its download ...
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Green Dam will not be mandatory, China says [IT News Podcast's blog - 08/14/2009]
China awaits Internet filter [Reuters Video: Top News - 06/30/2009]
China awaits Internet filter [Reuters Video: Technology - 06/30/2009]
MarketWatch's Take On Tech For June 24 [Marketwatch Take On Tech - 06/24/2009]
China stands firm on Green Dam deadline [IT News Podcast's blog - 06/23/2009]
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