The Chinese government appears to have backed down in the face of public opposition to its plans for mandatory installation of Green Dam Youth Escort on all new computers. The software restricting access to pornography and politically sensitive websites was due to be compulsorily incorporated in the hard drives of all new machines sold after 1 July, but state-run media has announced that it will instead be an optional package.
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China has defended the use of new screening software that has to be installed on all computers saying its purpose is to filter out pornographic and violent material. Read more here
China plans to enforce that all personal computers sold in the country as of 1 July have “Green Dam-Youth Escort” software designed to censor and block certain websites. Read more here
Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft is varying search results of the term “sex” dependent on the country. The UK, US and all European countries produce long lists of results but Arabian countries, China, India and several others produce no results leading to accusations of censorship. Read more here