China Requiring Filters on PCs

[exfileme]

According to the New York Times, China will soon require PC manufacturers to provide machines with pre-installed "Green Dam" software that "blocks" harmful websites.

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[mitzz]

Awesome another form of control against their people. This makes me wished I lived in china...... Not.

 

[Ciuy]

LOL China is flucked !!! Wouldnt want to be in China after July 1. No more porn for China , omg wont that bankrupt the porn industry???

 

[Tindytim]

Currently the government-funded Green Dam software is available as a free download from the official website

Awesome!

I'm gonna get me a copy!

 

[tenor77]

You know those people that are so flawed it's impossible to pick out their worst quality? I feel that way about China's government.
History- lost
Human rights-violated
I should go on, but you get the point

 

[Guest]

They will just go back to shagging there kids and leaving the girls in dying rooms.

 

[lahire149]

uhh... just install Linux?

It's not like this software won't have a ton of loopholes for even the not so tech savy to easily bypass

 

[IzzyCraft]

How is this news...

 

[snowysoul]

China control is way to strict and lying all the time about what their intentions are. Any news about China is most often about them doing something to gain more control over their citizens and control the flow of information.

 

[gorehound]

i love their movies, food, and the people i have met.
to bad about their repressive goverment.i think they are in need of a new revolution as their goverment is probably worse than the one it originallly overthrew.

 

[v1ze]

How isn't this news...

 

[v1ze]

[citation][nom]gorehound[/nom]i love their movies, food, and the people i have met.to bad about their repressive goverment.i think they are in need of a new revolution as their goverment is probably worse than the one it originallly overthrew.[/citation]

Hopefully they don't start "filtering" out people with "bad" information.

 

[jhansonxi]

Just use Linux with a nice little VM for your Green Damned environment. It's like having a little pet spyware in it's own little box.

 

[Guest]

It's worth noting that Microsoft "complies with the local laws in the countries it does business in..." Which means that in China MS enables the gov't to spy on it's citizens and censor content, whereas in the US, it just means spy on citizens and leave 1,000,000 backdoors to the system. Linux shows us just how easy it is not to allow remote execution of code, period, end of discussion, either Microsoft is incompetent, or it "complies with US laws"...

 

[Hitokage]

It's a free download to restrict yourself from the Internet, allow the government to watch what you do and keep records on it?

Wow, that's next on my list of things to do when I want to kill myself.

 

[the_one111]

[citation][nom]Hitokage[/nom]It's a free download to restrict yourself from the Internet, allow the government to watch what you do and keep records on it?Wow, that's next on my list of things to do when I want to kill myself.[/citation]
Heheh I agree, when I slash my wrists I am so going to go download Green dam and itunes and maybe some britney spears songs. Might as well go out with your ears bleeding your mind reeling and your computer dying.

 

[anamaniac]

Just do a fresh install of a real OS copy.
Nothing better to get rid of all that bloatware preinstalled.
"I swear, the only reason I got rid of your monitoring was because I ran out of ram!"

 

[mdillenbeck]

[citation][nom]IzzyCraft[/nom]How is this news...[/citation]
...are you serious?!?

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The general reaction is "how evil and oppresive", and I agree.

However, would you say that blocking a child's access to porn is the wrong thing to do? Do you believe that the USA doesn't have its own set of legal code that deals with what is considered moral and decent, making other things illegal (especially for children)? Finally, do you think the US government doesn't keep tabs on its citizens more carefully since 9/11?

My point isn't to say the USA does questionable actions and thus we should let China do it also - my point is sometimes we need to stand up for rights in our home countries as well as put the light of injustice on foriegn nations.

I do wonder if the proxy services that let people get around the Chinese firewall has anything to do with their targeting the physical systems of users.

Of course, manufacturers will easily fold on this issue and install the software. Economies of scale - when there are two nations that are an order of magnitude bigger than most other foriegn markets and their economies are rapidly growing, you can't affort to ignore them. After all, a company's first responsibility is to earn a profit for shareholders, not base decisions on something as "silly" as ethics or morality.

 

[stumpystumped]

Most countries in the world are just as guilty as China or any other country when coming to monitoring their citizens. Falun Gong is classified as some sort of a terrorist organisation in China much the same as Al Qaeda in US. I live in Australia and I have a Muslim looking friend who gets search left right and centre every time he leaves or enters Australia. Where's the fairness in that? You can't carry metal butter knife onto a plane but u can with lights so you can smoke as soon as you get off the plane? China should do whatever they do, in the end, if too many people disagree, the government will get overthrown.

 

[marcusmiller360]

This is why the Chinese are not officially human: they deny that they have free will. In my mind, chinese are dogs and nothing more.