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July 4th, 2009

A new Tiananmen – but this time China’s rebels are online

A new Tiananmen – but this time China’s rebels are onlineThere has been a lot of talk about a dam bursting in China this week and it is being seen as a good thing. Only hours before the July 1 deadline that the Chinese Government had set for the mandatory installation of the ‘Green Dam Youth Escort’ software on every new computer sold in China, there was a rare and hasty retraction from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announcing that the initiative would be delayed.

(Via Tech and Web from Times Online.)

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