Written by Hu Shuli, editor of Caijing Magazine, on China’s ‘Green Dam’ censorware: It has been odd from the start: the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued a directive on the...
Read MoreThe Green Dam filter that has caused much controversy over the last week may not be a “compulsory” addition for computers. Cui Jia of China Daily reports: The authorities are only requiring PC makers to include the...
Read MoreChina’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced earlier this month that all PCs sold inside China must come pre-installed with the Green Dam-Youth Escort Internet filtering software. This new...
Read MoreThe new Green-Dam Youth Escort allegedly contains stolen programming code. From AP: A California company claims that the Internet-filtering software China has mandated for all new personal computers sold there contains stolen...
Read MoreDanwei translates a Xinhua report defending the controversial Green Dam filtering software. From their introduction: Even setting aside concerns over privacy and free speech, the software is looking dodgier by the day. *...
Read MoreOn her blog, Rebecca MacKinnon summarizes the key stipulations of the government order requiring computer manufacturers to install filtering software on all computers made in or imported into China: 1. Domestic PC manufacturers...
Read MoreAt The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman reports the approval by Chinese environmental officials of a proposed 314-meter-tall dam despite fears about its effects on the ecology of Sichuan’s Dadu River, an indirect tributary of the...
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimtied: China will not agree any form of binding target to reduce its soaring greenhouse gas emissions as part of a new international deal on climate change, a senior official confirmed yesterday. Lu Xuedu, deputy director of the Chinese government’s office of global environmental affairs, said it “was not the time” for China […]
Read MoreFrom IPS (link): As the last loads of concrete are poured into the wall of the world’s largest dam and the waters behind rise, the long battle against the Three Gorges Dam — spanning generations of Chinese leaders — is considered lost. But green activists here say the completion of the huge reservoir is only […]
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Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese...
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