Opinion: Despite Chinese protestations that its controversial Green Dam Youth Escort porn filter will still be mandated on new machines sold in the country, the whole concept is fatally flawed because there isn't a version for non-Windows machines.

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China has backed down on the deadline it imposed for PC makers to ship the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort web filtering software.

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Worldwide trade bodies have sent a letter to the Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao begging him to suspend plans to bundle Internet filtering software with PCs, according to the IDG news service.

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As we are hearing more and more stories about flaws in “Green Dam” censorware, a software that is required to be installed on all computers sold in China beginning July 1, it is reported that Sony is already shipped PCs with the software, which is designed to filter “unhealthy” content.

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With all the furore over China and Iran's censorship of Internet sites, it's gone largely unnoticed that the UK censors web sites too.

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The US is stepping up pressure on China to scrap its plan to put Green Dam net-filtering software on all its computers, saying the plan would violate World Trade Organisation free trade agreements.

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