From InformationWeek: Solid Oak Software, the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based maker of Internet filter CYBERsitter, on Monday filed a $1.2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against CBS Interactive. The lawsuit alleges that CBS...
Read MoreDanwei’s Alice Xin Liu opines in the Guardian about the government backing down over the Green Dam filtering software and what it means for Internet activism in China: The decision is momentous and the government’s...
Read MoreDespite the blocking of Twitter, Chinese politically-active tweeters are still tweeting away. Some hot keywords from the last week? Tan Zuoren, Xu Zhiyong, Twitter and Green Dam. Here are selected tweets on these topics,...
Read MoreJournalist Li Datong writes for China Dialogue about the emerging online civil society movement that scored an important victory with its opposition to the Green Dam filtering software: Opposition took a range of forms. Some...
Read MoreWritten by Willy Lam, Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, from China Brief: Celebrations that Beijing has bowed to global pressure and scrapped an order to use filtering software in all personal computers have turned out...
Read MoreFrom the Chosun Ilbo: Many Internet users in China are celebrating after Beijing delayed implementing its order that Internet-blocking software be installed in all new computers. News of the delay turned a scheduled Internet...
Read MoreYang Guobin, associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures of Barnard College writes on the Columbia University blog: The Green Dam policy indicates that there is still a surprising degree of bluntness in the exercise...
Read MoreFrom rte.ie: China is to delay the launch of a controversial policy to force manufacturers to install mandatory filtering software on new computers. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s climbdown on the...
Read MoreRebecca MacKinnon has posted documents relating to the controversy of the mandated Green Dam filtering software, including a disclaimer included with the software in new Sony Vaio computers. She continues: I have also received...
Read More22 business organizations have sent a letter to Premier Wen Jiabao, appealing to the Chinese government to drop the requirement that every PC sold inside China come pre-installed with the Green Dam-Youth Escort Internet filter...
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