Tag Archives: Green Dam

Has China Telecom been green damned?

Danwei commenter eric left a comment today to alert Danwei to the fact access to sites like CNN and Digg were blocked by a China Telecom-branded gopher.

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Danwei talks to Caijing about the public’s right to collect information

Caijing magazine has a formidable reputation in Chinese media circles. They reported straight away last night when the Green Dam “delay” notice came from Xinhua, and has held onto their reputation of hard, investigative reporting.

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Google says “Gao Ye” is a sensitive word in any form

Google now blocks searches for phrases containing 高也 (Gao Ye), the name of the CCTV intern who blasted it for providing porn.

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State media blames Google for porn

The latest development in the government’s Internet cleansing is a CCTV attack on Google China for pornographic content, which aired last night.

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Green Dam Girl

The latest onslaught on a government policy that everyone from nationalist Chinese netizens to foreign journalists derides as absurd.

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Oddities in the Green Dam filtered words list

Fang Zhouzi discovers that Green Dam filters anti-filth, anti-cult phrases. Also, the Green Dam Girl makes a splash on the Internet.

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Everyone loves content filters, Xinhua says

Xinhua blames the media for the Green Dam controversy.

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Is the Green Dam filter experimenting on computer users?

Today’s The Beijing News ran an op-ed piece by well-known Chinese commentator Hu Yong, a journalism professor at PKU, author of books about the digital age in China, blogger and oldhand journalist, about the topic of the “green dam”, which has been debated loudly on the Internet as well as offline media.

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Filtering software: parents worried about their children

Blogger Fei Dao sees another possible motive for the July 1 deadline for installing Green Dam filtering software.

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