ZitZot: Chinese government requires all new PCs to include censorship software
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered that all personal computers, whether made in China or imported from abroad, must include specific software to filter inappropriate information. Rebecca MacKinnon, assistant professor at the Journalism & Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong, has posted a copy of the Chinese government order on her Web site.
According to her translation, Web filtering software called Green Dam Youth Escort must be installed on all PCs sold in China as of July 1. The software also must be included on a hard-drive partition or on a CD included with the computer to allow for reinstallation.
Full article at ZitZot.com
Comments(82)
dam communist! Thank God I live in The USA!
To quote Liberty Prime, "Communism is the very Definition of Failure"
Thank God I'm not in China!
Now they can control every single person.
microsoft windows has something similar to this already, it secretly reports back all your online activity for the Big Brother USA Government.. the next China in the making.
Where to begin with.. oh, I dunno, how about format c and reinstall a pirated copy of XP? Or even better, Linux. Unless they install it on the ISP and apply it to the customers, this is going to fail big time
@6 i think they already have all the ISP's censored, this is just another step towards greater censorship
LOL CHINKS!!!!
already happens in uk as every internet activity is recorded and stored for a year. Applies to most of europe as well.
One of my predictions, and this will hold true as history always repeats itself, is that China will go through a great revolution. As the country becomes more prosperous and it's people become more educated their people will revolt. It happened in Russia. It happened in France. It happened in America. All for different reasons. China may not necessarily become a democracy, but I can promise you a violent revolution where millions will die.
One more note on democracy. There are many voices against democracy. The Taliban. Many Old Guard Russians. The Chinese. The Iranians. The Chinese. They believe it to be an American ideology that threatens the very fabric of their way of life. Let us not forget that true democracy was a Greek philosophy, an utopia. It symbolizes everyone having a voice that counts. The Western world does not practice democracy, but it's trying.
Eat your fiber and drink water when you do!!
Ciao.
oh boy, more copypaste from a site I'll never visit
lol racist twat
lmao chinks
Really ought to use http://torrentfreak.com/ for news…
Alot more informative than this crap, not too mention, who cares about their censorship in CHINA…???
These are the people that kill bhuddist's for fun lol
@10, i doubt there will be a violent revolution, maybe the people will demand change one day but China is trying to become a respected first world nation and the leading world power. the last thing they need is a violent revolution to destroy their country. Not to mention the fact that China is the second most power nation in the world (Who is also a Nuclear power and such destabilization could be dangerous for the Worlds Stability.
This has nothing to do with communism.
Draconian censorship is an integral part of 3rd world politics. Recently on request of the govt. MS India has banned searching the word "sex" from India in their new search engine "Bing". Anyone can go to Bing.com, change the country from the top-left corner to India and test it. And these curry muncher sandnigs call themselves "world's biggest democracy". More like world's biggest failure of democracy.
Hindoos, Pakis, Gulf, Afgan, NKoria, China – 90% of world's problems will be over if NATO wakes up and wipes off these savage primitive AZN nations of the face of earth. Asia is a curse upon civilization in the present era.
@16…I don't think NATO has the power to wipe out all the Asian nations.
that remind me a little bit of the processor " fritz " with all the spyware , develop by intel , microsoft etc… it's not only in china that censorship exist … be aware !
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Forget this News You should be printing this bigger news if we want to fight music companies ,video companies etc etc etc we should be all voting for this guys,helping pirate bay,etc by voting with our feet! i say get this party into every country in europe!
http://technologywebblog.com/2009/06/pirate-party-enters-the-european-parliament/
actuallay thay software is very good, complete protection system from malware/virus/whatever_harmfull .known in china by the name 365.
Well, there you have it, Poppa is the reason the America has to keep tabs on Americans.
Republican degradation of the education system (now the worst of developed nations) has successfully turned the American public into cattle…..I think it's too late for Obama to help.
It will not be very late till all of us will understand that China is the last hope against the Zionist NWO conspiracy.
When will China realize that we live in 21st century not in stone age. Their goverment is consisted of bunch of idiots.
Restricting porn is like restricting sexual intercourse. Humans are not amebas, humans do not reproduce by dividation.
@23, Ironic…..They do kind of restrict sexual intercourse with the 1 baby policy
@23 It is not very diff. than banning adult services ads in the craiglist. There are more idiots in the US senate who thinks they can end the world's oldest profession in that way.
China has the burden of world's largest population to bear on its shoulder. So if one generation thinks less about sex and more about nations progress, it will be much better for them.
people… you understand nothing…
It has to be the way it is… otherwise fragile balance could break…
There has to be restrictions… restrictions in one part of the world can't apply to other part of the world…
No restrictions = anarchy (not democracy)
Be great full for restrictions in China… imagine they would start reproducing in numbers… India? they do suppress sexuality to do the same thing… these are huge nations… there has to be communism and capitalism in the world to keep balance… Yin and yang if you want…
Leave it, be happy where you are, if don't like it, move somewhere else… stop complaining all the time… peace…
go and do something useful… Howgh
@1 lol yeah because Usa is so much better
China is communist? LOL!!
Also censorship isn't limited to 3rd world countries (china isn't 3rd world btw, they are wealthier and far more technologically advanced than many western countries) – we are all massively censored.
Also Anarchy isn't democracy? What on earth are you talking about? Anarchy is Direct (true) democracy. What most countries have (representative democracy) is a farce.
@26 democracy has nothing to do with restrictions that a small group of people decide for the majority, thats more like oligarchy or tyranny.
And, no, there are no country exceptions.
Human rights are world wide standards
releaselog has censorship also.
the same laws are being in the usa too but you all are asleep. they have started taking down stuff but you dont see it, so you concentrate on an outside boogeyman.
australia already has many sites censored and banned. canada too, usa too, uk and germany too. but you wont post anything about that of course
racist hidden agendas are funny. i mean, i cant use insulting words about homos, jews etc without getting an ip ban here but "chinks" is ok suddenly?
fuk 0ff idiot.
Delete filter, no problems. I'd like to see if they have door to door computer officers to make sure it's installed?? Lol.
Yeah, keep worrying with China's censorship and forget North Korea. That's exactly what they want!
Another 4.7 earthquake hit northern North Korea? Oh.. a nuclear test… that's ok, then!
Ever try to search for the word 'torrents' these days?
A quick search on Amazon for (legal) products that have “torrent” in the URL results in yet another list on accessible pages.
* The LEGO toy of the Torrent spaceship from Star Wars.
* A backpack named “High Sierra Torrent 70 Hydration Pack.”
* Book author “Ann Torrent” wont sell anything through Panera Bread.
* And a whole list of book titles that include the word “torrent.”
What's next…?
"Thank God I live in The USA!"
do you ignore your own laws ?
what a wonderful world!
@31 there is a difference, in those countries people can speak and demand their privacy back, not vote same government to the next elections and vote for parties like pirate party.
Any kind of action same like those in China would put people in real danger
dark times for freedom…
I just tried to type the address of another internet site which provides scene release information here and rlslog cencored me and stopped me from posting… so isn't this site a little hypocritical posting this rubbish from its rubbish sister site, when it won't even let its users inform other users of useful information in relation to the scene?
Yes, They'll do this for everyday people.. But they won't dare do it for the higher up's.
torrent pls, where can I download this xD
Unbelievable
@10 thats the dumbest thing I've read, its never gonna happen, China will move towards openess slowly, its just natural as their society becomes more affluent and educated, but don't expect some kind of great uprising, its not in the chinese peoples nature, they are extremely patriotic historically. The bigger concern should be the US and the UK sleepwalking into a fascist dictatorship, its happening and you know it. Every country should adopt China's one child policy, there's too many people on this planet and its impossible to sustain this growth, where a condom for chrissake.
lol quit tryen to say we have so much censorship in america yet we dont see it lol. Thats a joke, and for the idiot who said u cant find torrent sites etc by searching , thats because nobody uses torrents anymore , least its not the latest way to download. Its now the outdated way lol. Mass storage sites made http the warez spot again like rapidshare and megaupload.
to all you manic optimists. how can you actually see a positive pattern in the world? look at what's happening in all the rich countries in the world. look at all the abuse of integrity. especially france and great britain. i have no idea how they can accept their sick new laws, like hadopi. and the french who normally riots for anything seems to accept it like nothing has happened. the world sucks and i would never even think about reproducing my species.
According to common logic it will take an avg 12sec for anyone in to crack it
funny u quote zitzot as the source of this article… while it s from an other website, show some respect…
@10 what is democracy?
it's just illusion that you can controll something..
Yeah sure you can vote and choose somebody who will get paid, but you can not vote where the highways will be build, or how much taxes goes up…etc etc…
It's just illusion that you can controll things
The US, UK and most European countries have been using Echelon for years developed by the NSA, China just caught up.
You're living in a dream world if you think you aren't being spied on by your Governments
@1 ROTFL This I call a great joke.
lol chinkies, they love their country for it. thats the funny thing.
LOL yankees, they also love their country for it. That's even funnier.
this goes hand in hand with them requiring real names online at all time,,and if u say thank god i live in the US or Canada be PREPARED because this style censorship is comming our way next
VOTE PIRATE PARTY! FOR FREEDOM! of Consumerism,and i bet whole lot more,china is censored yes,But the bloody truth of it is …WE ARE TOO WAKE UP!,hell we cant even protest these days in the west
,pirate party is not just about torrents its about all this crap!
LOL @ people comparing freedoms in USA and in China… please get a clue.
And I'm not even American
PS.Torrent please someone needs to crack the software for fun to mess up nwo plans for control of the world,many thanks in advance!
As far as im concerned you Americans are no better than china or any other country for that matter………..Just a bunch of patriotic w@nkers! (This only applies to the patriotic americans.)
Oh and before one of your own try to defend your f@ckin country and reply to this message THINK TWICE coz i wont be back to read it so you'd be just wasting your time.
P.S
Suck sh@!t China lol!!!!
pretty soon in america there will be INTERNET2 and you will only be able to visit sites that are authorized and all content on these sites will have to be authorized. there goes your rights.
wake up…
http://www.infowars.com
http://www.prisonplanet.tv
Thanks GOD i'm not from limited bandwidth USA sh@!t either from communist CHINA sh@!t
@58
How about YOU think twice next time you type something – that was the most idiotic statement I've read here in quite a while.
I know us Americans have are problems but I must say the Chinese government is f ucked up……….
is all about the chinks now. we are going to take over the world very soon!!!
^ lol stupid sh*thead #63
anyway nobody wants this on their computer, so what this does is it will create a demand for clean PCs on the gray market
This some ol' BS.
lmfao @16 raging over asian population. 75% of the products you use are asian so wiping them out would only make you more butthurt.
@ 45 – unkewl:
Hard to argue with you:
http://thepiratebay.org/top/all
And since Rlslog also references out to NewTorrents, you would think you would sort'a think about your statement.
Rapidcrap sucks, unless you want to pay for something already stolen, whereas, torrents still remain completely free and most cases, 100X faster (my last uncapped DL clocked in at over 13MBps – good luck getting even CLOSE to that with a premmie account from RS…).
Torrents are fighting the battle for us all in the scene, and if the attention shifts from torrents to RS, MU, MS servers, warez boards and info sites such as this one are all at risk. There's buzz all over the scene about it. Save the torrents, save your net. Just my opinion really
well.. i'm in china..
but i'm worried..
i dont think it's gonna be a big deal…
well.. i'm in china..
but i'm NOT worried..
i dont think it's gonna be a big deal…
just DIY a computer, it'll be just fine…
even if you dont, only a software add-on?!.. how bad can it be..just deletes the mother-f**ker.
@10 so if what you say is true…when will america become intelligent enough to revolt.
@56
br0ski
June 9th, 2009 | 17:55
"LOL @ people comparing freedoms in USA and in China… please get a clue.
And I'm not even American"
Exactly. At least China is less meddlesome and does not go halfway across the globe to invade another country under false pretext in order to rob them of their resources. And they are least interested to thrust their POV on other countries about how their nation should be ruled.
@66 Butthurt
Now that we have enough coolies in here filling up our streets, and trusting those filthy vermin's incredibly high rate of reproduction, I am pretty sure we will never miss a thing.
All this anti-China propaganda is nothing more than the West projecting all its own faults onto China and hoping nobody realises what kind of a fascist and Nazi world they're living in.
At least the Chinese are honest about what they are. The Western world is the most hypocritical block in the world. They claim to give people freedom of speech, while arresting and, purposefully, disrupting peaceful demonstrations and then locking people up without trial for years.
Tell China to abide by the Geneva convention all you want but they haven't invaded countless countries, bombed them, annihilated entire villages and towns and then claimed to have the (dead) peoples interest at heart.
But fear not sheeple, there is always someone to blame for your own wrongdoings.
It's like:
"Look they are not like us. They want to stay diff. from us. Let's harass them, ridicule them, attack them; And let's tell them how they should be. If they cannot be like us they have no right to exist. Because after all we are the picture of perfection. Our politicians tell us so, so we have to be, right?"
LOL at democracy.
The fall of Soviet teaches us that no regime, no matter how mighty it may think it is, cannot continue ti exist a single day if the people of the nation does not want it to. that's lesson for the US and it's allies to learn from that incident. Chinese commie Govt. is still is power because it is needed to stay that way for the time being. And that need is felt by Chinese people – and at the end of the day that's what matters most.
Sif this is anything different to what the West is doing. In London the average person gets photographed over 250 times a day.
In America, huge databases keep track of everyone's details and allow on-the-fly cross referencing of credit card purchasing, traffic tickets, even library loans.
China is not the first country to try and censor, it will be the first country to openly put it into law however.
Only launghing a lot. As the chinese crackers will not find an way to bypass it…
"Republican degradation of the education system (now the worst of developed nations) has successfully turned the American public into cattle…..I think it's too late for Obama to help."
Obama won't help. Those people are his primary supporters.
If anyone wants to see a similar thing, just look at how Big-Government supporters have driven California and Detroit into the ground, and to a lesser extent, New York. Yeah, most of the country is in bad shape, but those are off-the-map bad.
Tax-and-Spend Big-Government idealists' work can be seen in all its glory. The non-cattle have moved from those places or are considering moving. And then when they leave, who will be left to be taxed and pay for Big Government and all its "great" ideas? No one.
The average house price in Detroit is like $3000. They drove all the non-cattle away, and now Detroit reaps what it sowed after years and years of Big Government "utopian" ideas.
If anyone has a hard time figuring out who is the cattle and who is not, here's a quick test: if you look to government to solve your problems, you're probably the cattle.
@ Poppa! Start taking Chinese classes in the weekends. Soon the Chinese will own your country and they like it more when you will call them 'master' in Chinese.
wow. listening to ignorant, prejudice, racist kids talk about politics is EXtremely funny.
You are all idiots and should be castrated so you can not breed.
Why don't you enlighten us then you Mr know-it-all moran?
@Johney666 STFU you chinky monkey.