The Chinese government has decided to delay the requirement that computer manufacturers install their Green Dam filtering software.
BEIJING - China postponed a plan to require
personal computer makers to supply Internet-filtering software Tuesday,
retreating in the face of protests by Washington and Chinese Web
surfers just hours before it was due to take effect.
The
rule would have required manufacturers to include filtering software
known as Green Dam with every computer produced for sale in China
starting Wednesday.
A
two-sentence announcement by the government's Xinhua News Agency said
regulators "will delay" the plan but gave no indication whether it
might take effect later. It gave no other details.
And it's all thanks to the drubbing they took from the cranky geeks of post-gazette.com's TechTalk. Or so they'd like to think.
Posted
Jun 30 2009, 10:25 AM
by
Jody Farr