Green Dam has detected something that is not harmonious! Would you like to…

• Be publicly humiliated?

• Voluntarily sign up for re-education?

• Admit to other traitorous acts against your comrades?

There has been a lot of talk about the Green Dam filtering software that was commissioned by the Chinese government to be installed on all new PCs in China. Intended to protect children from pornography and other dangerous material, many Chinese believe it will be used in other ways like blocking out content deemed inappropriate by the government. Privacy advocates both in and outside China criticized it immensely, and after its numerous flaws have been exposed it seems the government is de-emphasizing its importance and it is no longer a mandatory install.

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