China’s Internet Users Force Government to Back Down on Censorship


	China’s Internet Users Force Government to Back Down on Censorship

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e1a95faf-fee1-4bac-89fc-702f74487311/541F5CD9-7468-4BB6-99A9-58985C6E3BEC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/01/chinas-internet-users-force-government-to-back-down-on-censorship/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/01/chinas-internet-users-force-government-to-back-down-on-censorship/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/01/chinas-internet-users-force-government-to-back-down-on-censorship/">In a rare victory for freedom of information in <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/China/">China</A>, the government has abruptly reversed course on its mandate that <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/Internet/">Internet</A> filtering software be installed on every <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/computers/">computer</A> sold in China after July 1.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/01/chinas-internet-users-force-government-to-back-down-on-censorship/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovermagazine.com/img/E2F44824-2D64-4B05-AFE1-386ADC56775D" alt="Green Dam" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/01/chinas-internet-users-force-government-to-back-down-on-censorship/"><P>Yesterday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that mandatory installation of the software, called Green Dam Youth Escort, would be delayed indefinitely. The software <FONT color="#1c39bb">caused a torrent of protests from both Chinese computer users and global computer makers…. China has said the software is designed to filter out pornography and violence to protect minors, but many experts say it can also block any other content that the authorities deem subversive [<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/technology/01china.html?hp"><EM>The New York Times</EM></A>].</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/01/chinas-internet-users-force-government-to-back-down-on-censorship/">While some experts suggested that the Chinese government might be delaying the program’s roll-out simply to give computer makers more time to test the software and comply with the policy, others believe that the government was forced to bow to the pressure from outraged citizens.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/541F5CD9-7468-4BB6-99A9-58985C6E3BEC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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