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Friday, July 3, 2009

Censorship software already installed in more than 500,000 Chinese computers

Tuesday evening, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Internet technologies, issued a brief statement to indefinitely delay a plan to dam Green binding on all computers sold in the continent. It comes into force on Wednesday.

The government retreated from the plan after fierce opposition from PC manufacturers, the U.S. government and the Chinese Internet users.

Chinese Internet users flooded cafe in Beijing in honor of the climb-down. Dressed in matching T-shirts facetious program, about 200 people cheered unlikely triumph. "This is a very rare example of the government to repel an unexpectedly important decision the night before she was due to raztochva," he said Weiwei, an artist who organized a rally.

Some computer manufacturers have started to ship computers with green Sunday, despite last-minute decision by the Chinese government to postpone its introduction.

According to the Chinese Government, Green dam was removed three times by one million by the end of March and is installed on your computer 518,000. Nearly 7,000 websites in China have also installed the software.

Green when the barrier is installed on your computer at home, connecting to a central database and automatically filter all pornography and politically sensitive content. A spokesman for the U.S. embassy said it welcomed the government decision to shelve the project.

According to researchers from the University of Michigan, the installation of computers razzelenili dam more vulnerable to hacking.

It may also be able to report a person on the Internet use in the Chinese authorities.



Neither Sony or Lenovo are available for comment yesterday. Chinese producers and Inspur by Hedy also agreed to use the green lake.

Meanwhile, HP and Dell have sent cease and desist letter from a U.S. software company warned them not to ship computers with green Sunday for allegedly violating U.S. copyright.

Internet activists have urged Barack Obama to make illegal technology companies to authoritarian governments censor the Internet.

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