Our favorite official news agency emXinhua/em reports that the Chinese government is a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/30/content_11628335.htm"delaying/a the implementation of its "Green Dam Youth Escort" nannyware:br /blockquoteChina will delay the mandatory installation of the controversial "Green Dam-Youth Escort" filtering software on new computers, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said here Tuesday. The pre-installation was delayed as some computer producers said such massive installation demanded extra time, said the ministry.br /br /All computers produced or sold in China were scheduled to be installed withbr /such software after July 1, according to MIIT's previous announcement. Thebr /ministry would continue to provide a free download of the software and equipbr /school and Internet bar computers with it after July 1, said a spokesman withbr /MIIT. The ministry would also keep on soliciting opinions to perfect thebr /pre-installation plan, he said. The software is designed to block violencebr /and pornographic contents on the Internet to protect minors. It could also helpbr /parents control how much time their children spent online.br //blockquoteI do not think we have heard the last of this nannyware. Dramas abound over it containing a href="http://ipezone.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-industrial-espionage-meets-prc.html"stolen code/a as well as American manufacturers a href="http://ipezone.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-google-and-prc-censorship-of.html"pressing/a the US to kill it off. I believe the Chinese government is using this delay to ensure that (a) whatever it will eventually force manufacturers to install will not contain any hint of pirated code; (b) the software is less intrusive on basic computer operation; and (c) foreign firms are given more time to install future versions.br /br /If and when those objections are removed, it would become a more unobjectionable piece of software even if it is, at heart, a fairly brazen attack on personal privacy.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9031925921218676704-3939383964858493230?l=ipezone.blogspot.com'//div
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
***damn Green Dam PRC Nannyware Postponed
Our favorite official news agency emXinhua/em reports that the Chinese government is a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/30/content_11628335.htm"delaying/a the implementation of its "Green Dam Youth Escort" nannyware:br /blockquoteChina will delay the mandatory installation of the controversial "Green Dam-Youth Escort" filtering software on new computers, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said here Tuesday. The pre-installation was delayed as some computer producers said such massive installation demanded extra time, said the ministry.br /br /All computers produced or sold in China were scheduled to be installed withbr /such software after July 1, according to MIIT's previous announcement. Thebr /ministry would continue to provide a free download of the software and equipbr /school and Internet bar computers with it after July 1, said a spokesman withbr /MIIT. The ministry would also keep on soliciting opinions to perfect thebr /pre-installation plan, he said. The software is designed to block violencebr /and pornographic contents on the Internet to protect minors. It could also helpbr /parents control how much time their children spent online.br //blockquoteI do not think we have heard the last of this nannyware. Dramas abound over it containing a href="http://ipezone.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-industrial-espionage-meets-prc.html"stolen code/a as well as American manufacturers a href="http://ipezone.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-google-and-prc-censorship-of.html"pressing/a the US to kill it off. I believe the Chinese government is using this delay to ensure that (a) whatever it will eventually force manufacturers to install will not contain any hint of pirated code; (b) the software is less intrusive on basic computer operation; and (c) foreign firms are given more time to install future versions.br /br /If and when those objections are removed, it would become a more unobjectionable piece of software even if it is, at heart, a fairly brazen attack on personal privacy.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9031925921218676704-3939383964858493230?l=ipezone.blogspot.com'//div
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