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Green Dam still tipped in software package

By Cui Jia (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-06-19 22:54

A source from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) clarified on Friday that all personal computers sold in China are still required to have the government-mandated porn filtering software included with their PC packages as of July 1.

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Several legal and technical experts had predicted that the government may have to revise or even scrap its directive that by July 1, all PCs sold in China must include the Green Dam porn filtering software, but the source said Friday that these predictions are untrue. Experts have been predicting trouble regarding the directive since the developers of the software might face a copyright suit, and since severe security vulnerabilities had been discovered in the software as well.