[governance] China backs down on filter?

[Fouad Bajwa]

Well its far from openness. Just to help you all understand that what
really happens there:
http://chinayouren.com/eng/2009/01/chinese-internet-censorship-explained/

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:34 AM, 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?
>
>
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