China Requires Pre-Installed Internet Filter on All New Computers (Updated)
From Xinhua:
China said Tuesday it would have all new computers in China pre-installed with a filter software, in a bid to protect minors from “unhealthy information” from the Internet.
All computers produced or sold in China after July 1 would be installed with such software, said th ...
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All business issues are related to political issues, and in the end, every important political and social issue has relevance to business!
In China, the CCP only knows how to maintain their authority by forbidding information… anything that opposes their rule gets banned!
The problem with that is this limits the development of the Chinese people, as if this wouldn’t cost China their economic future ahead?
CCP must go… it is the curse of world to remain in power! China will fail, because it cannot grow… it cannot develop when it serves the CCP….
China, a country where there is no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, no freedom to demonstrate, no freedom of association, and not even the freedoms of expression and religious belief.
CDT, your translation of the 5/19 MIIT announcement is inaccurate. Specifically page 2 Para 2) is missing a very important “or”, causing your translation to reflect a much more strict mandate. The correct translation is as follows:
二、“绿坝-花季护航”软件应预装在计算机硬盘或随机光盘内，且在恢复分区和恢复光盘中作为备份文件。
2, “Green Dam-Youth Chaperon” software should bundle on computer hard drive or in accompanying CD, as well as backups on recovery partition and recovery disk.
At no point was there any madate for end user to install or run this software, only for PC makers to make this software available.
Also, MIIT and the software maker have made the above point very clear, as early as 6/9, however our media seems to have choosen to focus on this manufactured “censorship” issue to denigrade China and its people:
http://www.taizhou.gov.cn/art/2009/6/10/art_76_36883.html
据新华社电 昨日，工信部有关负责人说…
According to Xinhua wire yesterday [6/10], relevant leader in MIIT said…
并可由用户自行选择安装与否，同时对用户上网行为不进行任何监控，也不搜集任何用户信息。
also allowing users to freely choose installation or not, at the same time user’s online activity will not be monitoryed, with no user data collected.
The “end user can freely choose to install or not” quote from MIIB offical shows they are asking for the install to be bundled.
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