Green Dam, the Nanny filter software that all PC manufacturers in China are required, by July 1, to install on all PCs they sell, has been widely criticized and mocked in the Chinese and foreign media and on the Internet.
The latest onslaught on a government policy that everyone from nationalist Chinese netizens to foreign journalists derides as absurd is a series of images featuring
Green Dam Girl (绿坝娘).
Chinese blogger Hecaitou has compiled a selection of the images, linked earlier on Danwei in a post titled Oddities in the Green Dam filtered words list.
According to Hecaitou, the images show the creativity of the post 80s generation (i.e. those born after 1980). The Green Dam Girl character carries a rabbit (the Green Dam software’s mascot), wears a River Crab badge (a pun about ‘harmonious society that Chinese netizens use to mock Internet censorship), and holds a bucket of paint (or soy sauce) to wipe out online filth.
Grass Mud Horse: I’m just an alpaca
- Hecaitou’s blog (Chinese): Post 80s counterattack: Green Dam Discipline
- Danwei; the origin of the Grass Mud Horse: Hoax dictionary entries about legendary obscene beasts
- Danwei: Find harmony by owning your own grass-mud horse
- Danwei: Dirty words in the mainstream media
- China Geeks: Ai Weiwei: “All that’s left is a Grass Mud Horse”