[governance] China backs down on filter?

[Joe Baptista]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to:
> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090630/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_china_internet
>
> "BEIJING - In a rare reversal, China's government gave in to domestic and
> international pressure and backed down Tuesday from a rule that would have
> required personal computers sold in the country to have Internet-filtering
> software."
>
> Does anyone have more news on this?


Yes I do.  This is not a rare reversal.  This is precedent setting.

But I have no doubt the Chinese have an alternate covert plan in the works.

cheers
joe baptista


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