China's Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the H... - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Jun 09
  

  Tod Baker

  A recent directive by the Chinese government requires the installation of a specific filtering software product, Green Dam, with the publicly stated intent of protecting children from harmful Internet content. The proposed implementation of software as reviewed in this report would in fact have an influence that extends beyond helping parents protect their children from age inappropriate material; the filtering options include blocking of political and religious content normally associated with the Great Firewall of China, China’s sophisticated national-level filtering system. If implemented as proposed, the effect would be to increase the reach of Internet censorship to the edges of the network, adding a new and powerful control mechanism to the existing filtering system.

  software censorship

• 12 Jun 09
  

  isaac Mao

  GreenDam

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