Is China’s porn filter ’spyware’ or ‘green dam’? – People’s Daily Online

Chinese officials rejected media reports on June 9 that claimed a kind of spy-ware will be installed on all computers to be sold in the country, in order to “manage and control” Internet users.

Pornography filtering software will be installed on all computers sold in China from July 1, the China Daily reported, but authorities in Beijing have promised the software is not complicated enough to act as spy-ware. [more>>]

["Green Dam-Youth Escort"]

The software, called “Green Dam-Youth Escort,” targets online porn by preventing computers from accessing sites with pornographic pictures or language, Zhang Chenmin, general manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co., told The Associated Press. Jinhui was compiling a database of the blocked sites.

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