KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s government appeared on Friday to back off plans to censor the Internet after an outcry from opposition groups and complaints from the industry that it would hit investment. On Thursday, details emerged of a tender issued by the country’s information and communications ministry that sources who had seen the documents [...]
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China clarifies web filter plans
June 18th, 2009
nrmodh The cartoon Green Dam Girl has been used to mock the filtering plan. Protests have forced China to clarify whether net-filtering software has to be used on every new PC. From July, every PC sold in China was supposed to be supplied with the Green Dam Youth Escort software. The software was created to stop [...]



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