Silverbird
06-22-2009, 01:32 PM
The US has complained officially to China over its strict new internet censorship rules (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0e3755de-5443-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html) as tension builds over an issue causing consternation among international technology companies and Chinese internet users.
The development is a rare direct intervention by the US over internet freedom, which has steadily risen in importance as an issue between the two countries in recent years. US technology companies see it as a back-door way of keeping them out of the Chinese market.
China has ordered PC makers to load internet filtering software (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2c10632-5681-11de-9a1c-00144feabdc0.html) from a Chinese company, Green Dam, on all machines on sale from July 1. The order, officially directed at filtering pornography, could give officials far more power to block political content as well.....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/874ca00e-5e9e-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html
The development is a rare direct intervention by the US over internet freedom, which has steadily risen in importance as an issue between the two countries in recent years. US technology companies see it as a back-door way of keeping them out of the Chinese market.
China has ordered PC makers to load internet filtering software (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2c10632-5681-11de-9a1c-00144feabdc0.html) from a Chinese company, Green Dam, on all machines on sale from July 1. The order, officially directed at filtering pornography, could give officials far more power to block political content as well.....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/874ca00e-5e9e-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html